I'm sorry I didn't make myself clear. The document is text AND screenshots. I'm only mentioning them, because I have to deal with them, and like you mentioned, I don't want them to bog down the TW. The pics are stored on the network drive in a sub-folder. My concern is how to organize the content for the best use of the users.
On Sat, Apr 28, 2012 at 9:41 AM, twgrp <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi bluespire > > First off, you ask for "best practice" in the headline but I'd > guess(!) there is none because TW is such a general tool that what you > describe has probably not been done by many. > > That said, I would say that this would be a LOT easier to do if you > deal with text instead of pictures. Perhaps you've taken screendumps > on a pdf? Did you know that you can actually select text in a pdf doc > to copy paste into a text editor? (select by left click and dragging > mouse). > > An idea to actually get it into tiddlers in TW is to put this text > into a spreadsheet(!)! This way you could relatively easy move > sections under one another vertically and add your desired tags next > to each. Export as CSV into eg. Notepad and then copy-pase into > tiddlytools CreateTiddlersFromCSV [1] that takes an actual CSV text > and converts it into tiddlers! > > You will (for sure) have to experiment a bit with a smaller experiment > to get the details right. > > If you do intend to use the picture version anyway, you may wish to > follow one of the current discussions here on how to display pictures > from a Picasa album [2] or possibly other storage. (Interestingly, at > least IMO, I just last night posted that perhaps it could be > generalized into a more general file handling system.) > This does not quite address your issues but if(!) it were to develop > into something where individual items in a gallery display can be > tagged then it could probably work. > > Note: generally, you should only show pictures in TW via links. > Storing actual pictures in TW makes it very big and slow, but links > are smooth. > > <:-) > > [1] http://tiddlytools.com/#CreateTiddlersFromCSV > [2] > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki/browse_thread/thread/b85ca91c8bb092e3 > > > On Apr 28, 10:35 am, bluespire <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm translating a large number of telecom troubleshooting documents into > an > > MPTW. The most complicated once I have thus far is 43 pages including > > screenshots with multiple chapters and sub-chapters. My question is what > > would be the "best practice" in inputting these types of documents? > > > > Here are my thoughts thus far: > > > > - Store each image/figure as individual jpegs. > > - Break each section into its own tiddler > > - Tag each section with its respective chapter > > - Tag each chapter with the document name > > > > My thinking is this: breaking the whole thing up into small chunks of > data > > will make searching easier, rather than pulling up a monolithic document > on > > one search. It will also help cut down on loading times, since each > > sections has 1 or 2 screenshots (53 total). Maybe I can make the document > > tiddler have an option to transclude all the sub-tiddlers? I don't know > how > > to do this, however. Thoughts? > > > > I have another problem, as well. the TW is stored on network storage. As > > such, anyone that opens it is opening as a local file, and will be able > to > > edit it. Is there anyway to make editing impossible on a local file > without > > some kind of key? > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TiddlyWiki" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
