For Dummies, eh? Therefore some dumm questions What is a data dictionary? What is json? What is a macro? What is a widget? What's this "$"sign for Pete's sake? What is a state tiddler? What is a temp tiddler?
There should be a part of the book that explains things like that before people must make the jump to the substiting text, listing etc. In the list here I find this kind of chapter missing. Take e.g. "widget" Say a dummy is researching tiddlywiki.com and looking for a definition of the word "widget". He finds: "TiddlyWiki's display is driven by an underlying collection of widgets. These are organised into a tree structure: each widget has a parent widget and zero or more child widgets. TiddlyWiki generates this widget tree by parsing the WikiText <http://tiddlywiki.com/#WikiText> of tiddlers. Each component of the WikiText <http://tiddlywiki.com/#WikiText> syntax, including even the trivial case of ordinary text, generates a corresponding widget. The widget tree is an intermediate representation that is subsequently rendered into the actual display. Widgets are analogous to elements in an HTML document. Indeed, HTML tags in WikiText <http://tiddlywiki.com/#WikiText> generate dedicated element widgets." Yeah, right. Is this helpful? Another problem is writing. A great programmer is not necessarily a great writer of manuals. How many people suffered [ 8-((( ] trying to understand the text in the manual of their videorecorder. If all that kind of people gave me a nickel I could live like a king into at least my next reïncarnation. Salut! Ed. Op maandag 6 juni 2016 16:39:12 UTC+2 schreef madscijr: > > Just sayin'. I would find it useful, if only the way the Dummies books > are structured. > Maybe dedicate half the book to TW Classic and half to TW 5? > > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/898177c7-0c34-4cab-8d27-515b8cc39250%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
