From: Jesper Skov (jskov@zoftcorp.dk)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 02:18:10 EDT
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 22:46, Randy Kramer wrote:
> Question: Is it your intent that people use this in the "wiki way" --
> that is people interspersing comments in each other's remarks, or even
> refactoring them? If so, do you think you should provide some pointers
> to some words about the "wiki way"?
Yes, wiki way for sure. Please feel free to add something about it. I'll
be working on AWN today and probably won't get to do wiki stuff.
> The layout looks good, but I use an 800x600 screen layout, and cannot
> see the entire width of the TWiki "frame" since you've added the frame
> on the left -- is there anything you can do about that?
OK, I removed the navigation bar, but kept the logo.
> I've also noticed that in a few cases, the text looks strange because
> it's justified. See for example the second line of the second paragraph
> on the page
> http://www.abisource.com/twiki/bin/view/Abiword/AbiWordForWindows. I
> haven't noticed that elsewhere on a TWiki before now -- do you know why
> it looks like that? In the following, I've added spaces to simulate
> what I see on that line:
>
> <quote>
> DLL is a Windows library AbiWord needs to run. Some older versions of
> Windows did not have this library. You can get
> it free from Microsoft at
> http://www.microsoft.com/msdownload/ieplatform/ie/comctrlx86.asp.
> </quote>
>
> The above is exxagerated if it is displayed in a fixed width font (as it
> is in my mail client).
I don't see the above problem. Maybe you fixed it? The text was copied
from the old FAQ where it looked funny, come to think of it. It's
probably just because the browser tries to align the text to the page,
and the long URL causing a big gap on one of the lines.
> I don't have any philosophical problem with moving some of my stuff to
> the AbiWord TWiki, or using it as sort of a "mirror", but I feel much of
> my material is outclassed by what I see there already. If there are
Nonsense!
> specific pages or portions of pages that you feel would be useful, feel
> free to mention them to me (so I can move them), or simply copy them,
> leaving my name as a "contributor". I'll pay attention to your site,
> and start adding / moving stuff there as I add new stuff on WikiLearn.
Just move as much across as you care to do. I feel it'd be a shame for
AbiWord users who naturally go to www.abisource.com to miss the stuff
you put at WikiLearn.
> If I add FAQs, I'd plan to do it like I've done it on my site -- with a
> "title" and summary on a main page, the detailed answer for each
> question on a separate page, and those pages named with a prefix like
> "AbiWordFaq" (or just "Faq", or maybe something to categorize further,
> like FaqWindows, FaqFonts, etc.) -- see
> http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Wikilearn/AbiWord#FAQs.
I did consider doing that. But TBH I was nearing burnout Friday night
and wanted to have something there, so I just slapped it in as you see
it now.
I'd be interested to rename the subjects with a FAQ prefix, and also add
a "See Also" section to inter-connect related help sections. On the
other hand, having to label a specific subject as a FAQ is superfluous -
let the user decide what he wants to read or not, and how the stuff is
found.
I'd say, just let it grow. Let's see where it takes us.
Jesper
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