Eric Shulman wrote:
> Scott Sauyet wrote:
>> using TW5 for something that might be slightly off the beaten path 
>> for TiddlyWiki.
> There is no "beaten path" for TiddlyWiki5... there's a lot of power 
> and potential in the new architecture, and the ability to create a 
> highly customized presentation and user interaction has always been a 
> key feature of TiddlyWiki.

That's what I was seeing.  I'm glad to hear that it doesn't seem
out-of-bounds to use it the way I'm suggesting.

>> [ ... ]
>>     <http://ramdajs.com/tw/tiddly.html> 
>> 
>> There's still plenty to do, of course. But I would like some feedback 
>> about both the feasibility and the rationality of the approach before I 
>> put too much more into it.

> Without even looking at your proof-of-concept... I can easily say that 
> TiddlyWiki lends itself very nicely to documentation projects... 
> especially those with very formalized structures, such as API 
> references, code samples, etc.

Perfect!

>> [... questions about read-only API ... ]

> TiddlyWiki has long been used to provide "read-only" presentations.  
> Because the interface is intended to be customized to your specific 
> use-case(s), it is relatively easy to hide the editing features, 
> while retaining the full TWCore functionality 'behind the scenes'.  

That's what I was hoping.  It seemed to be the case, but I wasn't
certain, as I've never tried to use it that way.

> Read-only TiddlyWiki5 documents can be served locally via nodeJS, or 
> written to a single-file, stand-alone HTML document for easy sharing.
> You can also use TiddlyWiki5 to generate static output for each 
> tiddler, allowing you to publish a set of simple HTML files for 
> online reading, without *any* underlying code at all.

That might also be useful to us.


>> If doing that seems reasonable, then I would like to know if there are 
>> decent references around to show me how to turn a TW into this read-only 
>> mode. (What I saw about `zzConfig` or some such I think had something to 
>> do with older versions; at least it didn't work when I tried it; perhaps 
>> the old `systemConfig` is no longer very useful.) 

> Indeed, 'zzConfig' and 'systemConfig' tags are part of TiddlyWiki 
> *Classic*.

I suspected as much, and I think I've already started to see some of
the replacement, but I haven't gotten my head wrapped around it yet.


> Plugins and configuration work somewhat differently in TiddlyWiki5.

Is there any documentation yet?  Or should I just plan on poking around
and asking questions when I get stuck?


> Although documentation for TiddlyWiki5 is still fairly sparse, there's
> a very active group participation here.  You've provided quite a bit of 
> detail in your "brief" outline of goals you are trying to achieve, so 
> I'm sure people will be able to address your specific issues and ideas
> in follow-up responses.

Is there a central location for whatever documentation does exist?  I 
did see some very good high-level architectural documents, but that 
doesn't help with the day-to-day stuff.

Thank you very much for your help.

  -- Scott

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