The picture seems not to display, so I'll have to truncate it and try
again...
On Friday, January 23, 2015 at 4:12:27 PM UTC-5, Nicholas Spies wrote:
>
> To better learn TiddlyWiki, I have reformatted the TiddlyWiki/Dev document
> (I'm always inclined to call them "stacks" because I had a lot of
> experience with HyperCard, and in some ways I think the analogy is apt).
>
> This might be easier to follow and compare, if you look at the
> Introduction tiddler in the original, rather than my including it here.
>
> I have made a long picture of the tidder the way I have changed it:
>
> It is now indented so as to put the original text into what you might call
> and "outline" form, the way you might take notes in university.
>
> In addition, I have tried to take every opportunity to given a
> mini-tutorial about how the Dev Documentation document is itself
> constructed, which makes the explanations of filters, etc somewhat more
> concrete than they are in the text of the document.
>
> For instance, I put my first explanation (always starting with a <hr> NB:)
> above the *Section Overview:* header, which is the last thing that
> appears on the Introduction tiddler. It just explains that the text
> following the header is transcluded from other tiddlers.
> The explanation shows the {{Section Overview}} transclusion markup
> between two <hr> rules, and then explains what it means. All my comments
> end with <hr><hr>
>
> My next explanation begins at the top of the transcluded tiddler, Section
> Overview, starting with <hr>NB: and goes on to explain that the rest of the
> (apparent) page, four headings, each with text is in fact produced by a
> filter shown in red between two <hr> rules, followed by an explanation of
> how I think it works, terminated with <hr><hr>, after which the page
> continues... (with somewhat abbreviated text, if I recall--I don't have the
> original at hand).
>
> What follows is one loooong picture of the entire tidder with my
> explanations in the middle.
>
> I should put this up onto Git, which I would do if I could find it there,
> or shove it up to Git if I knew if I was doing. Eventually this will
> happen, so this is just a heads-up to gain some feedback, hopefully not of
> the "shock and awe" variety.
>
> I think this sort of thing could be done largely by a program, or plugin.
> which might find use for other purposes--after all, outlines were invented
> for a reason, so they must be useful for something.
>
> This raises the question also whether it might be useful to be able to
> suppress the dingbats while retaining the indentation, which would probably
> make it look a lot less pedantic, less like a "Power Point" presentation.
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