Hi Mat, My big idea is to use TW as a platform for remixing the content. There's lots of great stuff already out there - basically the whole of high school maths is available for free - but schools need something that matches their specified curriculum exactly.
I want to create an ecosystem of content that people can use to construct unique editions of textbooks and to which everyone can contribute. I figured a good way to start would be to show that I could build a full, useful book in TW. I chose Active Calculus because it is a clever, modern book and because I like Prof. Boelkin's comments in the introduction as to his reasons for writing it. All I've done at the moment is pull it apart and rather crudely stuff it back together. My next goal is to optimise the experience of using the book on a tablet and then adding some web-goodies. Then I suppose it could be packaged as an app, which would be pretty neat in itself. Ripping the book apart was fairly quick but with lots of trial and error in writing scripts to break the original latex files up into tiddlers. Stuffing it back together in the right order was also fairly quick with some kludging. Polishing it up so that everything rendered neatly and adding tags etc. took a long time and was pretty tedious. I suspect that someone cleverer than me might be able to do a better job of the former and save time on the latter. Thanks for looking at it, I really appreciate it. Regards, Richard On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:13:25 PM UTC+11, Mat wrote: > > Hi again, > > Yeah, such a sucky thing to bring up. I have kept the tab to take a closer > look. It's from "https: // www . igame . com / [etc]". The "etc" shows it's > language specified. But my guess is it's part of some affiliate network as > usual. What is weird is that I had not recently opened any other site or > tab at that time and, as mentioned, it appeared just parallel in the tab > tree structure. > > But, more importantly, opening your TW agian I don't get the popup. And, > since nobody else seems to get anything I'll assume it was something else > triggering it. > > Anyway, what an ambitious project. How long did it take you to finish it? > And what are your plans for it - how come you made it in the first place? > > Thanks ang, again, wonderful job! > > <:-) > > > On Monday, January 19, 2015 at 8:17:56 AM UTC+1, Richard Smith wrote: >> >> Hi Mat, >> >> >>> One side-question that pops up (literally) is the automatic opening of a >>> parallel tab in my browser after a while, showing spam. Could this somehow >>> be from your wiki or dropbox??? >>> >> >> I have no idea, I'm afraid. I don't seem to be able to replicate it. Is >> it dropbox-related spam? I obviously don't want it to do that to other >> people, so thanks for letting me know. Could you give an indication of the >> content (screenshot or view source perhaps?). >> >> And thanks for your kind words. >> >> Regards, >> Richard >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
