Eric, You make some good points, so I’ll try to be specific on my needs. I think that social calc shows some good promise, However I can’t (easily) understand what information is available. What I hope to see is a step by step or detailed guide to using rather than programing social calc.
> On Jul 23, 2016, at 10:36 AM, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Saturday, July 23, 2016 at 5:30:54 AM UTC-7, Thomas Schulte wrote: > I guess that’s why there is a specialty of document writer. One who can bring > what the programmer knows down to the user who doesn’t and can’t explain why. > I must say the latest incarnation of Tiddlywiki5 sure has an easy to > understand method of adding table of contents, where earlier editions were > beyond me. > > Thomas, > > Unlike some other open source projects that have funding to support an > entrenched hierarchy of full-time assigned roles, TiddlyWiki uses a much > broader, egalitarian approach where the entire community is encouraged to > support and help each other find practical solutions for specific problems. > > If you ask *specific* questions, especially ones for which you have an actual > use-case in mind, you are likely to get much more helpful and informative > responses from the TiddlyWiki community. > > In that regard, your extremely terse initial question was simply: > Where is the social calc docs the link on the developer's site don't work > > In response, Jeremy provided links to the *available* documentation: > http://rboue.tiddlyspot.com/#SocialCalc%2Fintroduction > <http://rboue.tiddlyspot.com/#SocialCalc%2Fintroduction> > https://www.socialtext.net/open/socialcalc > <https://www.socialtext.net/open/socialcalc> > > Note that you did *not* indicate that you were seeking "non-programmer" > documentation. You even referenced the "developer's site" in your initial > question, giving a further impression that you were looking for technical > implementation details, rather than information for end-users. > > Unfortunately, rather than expand on your initial question in hopes of > getting a better (more useful) response for your needs, you simply complained > about the quality of the existing documentation... to which Jeremy correctly > responded, asking you to clarify what kind of information you are actually > seeking. > > Your follow-up response was a similar lament about needing a "document > writer" specialist in order to provide simplified end-user instructions... > for one specific TiddlyWiki application... that was first implemented many, > many years ago... using TiddlyWiki Classic. > > Then... you inexplicably abandoned further inquiry about SocialCalc (I guess > you weren't really that interested in it?) to toss out a compliment about the > "easy to understand" (but entirely unrelated) Table of Contents features of > TiddlyWiki5. > > This community is remarkably eager to help each other if you give it even > half a chance. So... at this point, Jeremy's question remains: "What were > you after?" > > respectfully, > > -e > > Eric Shulman > TiddlyTools / ELS Design Studios > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to a topic in the Google > Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. > To unsubscribe from this topic, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/rl0QT7dSoQU/unsubscribe > <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/rl0QT7dSoQU/unsubscribe>. > To unsubscribe from this group and all its topics, send an email to > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki > <https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0e3a3b16-04ba-4768-b342-0191c82a2a23%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/0e3a3b16-04ba-4768-b342-0191c82a2a23%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- 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/0911FFEE-DF5C-48FD-BDB8-D5BD9294AD61%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
