[pmwiki-users] PmWiki/DocumentationIndex

[Bronwyn Boltwood]

On 6/18/05, Hans <design at flutesong.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> Saturday, June 18, 2005, 4:58:38 PM, Bronwyn wrote:
> > To make finding information more manageable, try doing what I've done
> > here:
> > http://arndis.godsong.org/testing/PmWiki/BetterTextFormattingRules.
> >  It lets people jump to the correct section.
> 
> That is working well. Could one add (:back:) markups  so one could
> click a link named "back2 or  a little image, which takes one back to
> where one jumped from? Usually this is Top of the page, but I mean
> back as the Browser's back button. I know the browser's back button is
> working very well in this regard, but I also know many users who are
> not aware of this and start mousing on the scrollbar instead.

Yes, one could, simply by adding another anchor and links from each
section -- I just haven't bothered, especially since the skin has a
back to top link at its bottom.

Here's a reorganized Documentation Index:
http://arndis.godsong.org/testing/PmWiki/BetterDocIndex

And here's a broken-up version of the even-more-reorganized index:
http://arndis.godsong.org/testing/PmWiki/BetterDocClustered

If people like them, feel free to snarf copies.  I put them up on my
testbed because pmwiki.org is hideously slow right now.

> > Alternately, the page could be broken up into smaller pages.  The
> > section links would then, instead of going to a page anchor, would go
> > to another page.
> 
> I would love to see that done to the Cookbook page, which has become
> a monster. I would even do it :)

Well, I just handled this one, so how about you do the Cookbook? :)

Bronwyn