Hi Rich,> * I can''t find any way in Textile to specify a page title > one way and have its link display in another. That is, > something analogous to > > "Hobix":http://hobix.com/ > > but with the second part being a page title instead of > an external link.You can actually use textile like this with just the page name, e.g.: "See main page":HomePage But the more conventional way is to use aliased links, e.g.: [[HomePage|See main page]]> * I''d like to be able to edit pages in one window and have > a preview appear (and update itself) in a companion window. > Jumping back and forth (and trying to remember what was on > the other page) is a drag. Does this sound hard?Probably not terribly hard to have a preview section, but not as necessary as you may think. Instiki has the concept of ''continuous revision'' - if the same author make a change less than 30 minutes from his last edit, this is considered one revision. This takes care of minor edits etc, and can be comparable to a quick preview. Cheers, Assaph
At 8:15 PM +1000 9/29/05, Assaph Mehr wrote:>But the more conventional way is to use aliased links, e.g.: > [[HomePage|See main page]]That''s what I wanted. I don''t see it in the "Textile Quick Reference".>Probably not terribly hard to have a preview section, but not as >necessary as you may think. Instiki has the concept of ''continuous >revision'' - if the same author make a change less than 30 minutes from >his last edit, this is considered one revision. This takes care of >minor edits etc, and can be comparable to a quick preview.Perhaps I was unclear. I want to be able to look at the formatted text of the page (in one window) as I make revisions (in another). This keeps me from having to remember how the page looks as I make changes to the source code. I can do this now, but it is quite awkward: * Bring up two "show" windows (A, B) * In A, do an Edit Page, make edits, and hit Submit. * In B, hit refresh. * In A, do an Edit Page, ... What I''d like to be able to do is leave A as an edit window and have B refresh itself automagically whenever I hit "Preview" (or whatever). -r -- email: rdm at cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com - Canta Forda Computer Laboratory http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc.
On Thursday 29 September 2005 01:13 pm, Rich Morin wrote:> Perhaps I was unclear. I want to be able to look at the formatted > text of the page (in one window) as I make revisions (in another). > This keeps me from having to remember how the page looks as I make > changes to the source code.Me, too! Except my wiki of choice is TWiki. I''m trying to work on an application to do this (separate from the wiki). Wanna help? Randy Kramer
> Perhaps I was unclear. I want to be able to look at the formatted > text of the page (in one window) as I make revisions (in another). > This keeps me from having to remember how the page looks as I make > changes to the source code.Well, it all needs to go through the server anyway to render the pages (the content is relative to the web as a whole). This can be done using Ajax (monitoring the textarea and updating the preview section every few seconds). It can''t (to my knowledge) be in a different window - only is a different area on the same page. It might place an extra load on the server (rendering the new content every few seconds), but that is probably not an issue for anything but a really large wiki. The question is that of cost-benefit. Will the benefit of such a feature outweigh the cost of implementing it (time to develop, screen clutter, extra complexity)? That''s for Alexey to decide if it goes in (I don''t mind developing it as an exercise in Ajax for myself, but I have no control on Instiki). Cheers, Assaph