[pmwiki-users] [O-T] Re: Blog proposal

[chr at home.se]

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> > I wonder if it might not be a good idea to let authors easily add the
> > current page a trail page in general? I've structured the wiki.lyx.org
> > so that I've got pages called 'PageList' in each group, so that there
> > is a documenation trail for people to follow.
> > 
> > One problem is that it's not so easy for infrequent authors to know
> > about this when creating a new page... so something like this might
> > help. OTOH, how would they know about writing the equivalent of (:blog
> > ...:).
> > 
> > So what if we could have a field in the edit page (perhaps only when
> > creating the page the first time), which let's the author either fill
> > in the name of the trail page, or simply check a box to have it added
> > to the default trail page? (The name of that trail page would need to
> > be shown).
> 
> Ick.  Better is to have an option that causes a page containing trail
> markup to be automatically added to the trail.  :-)

I've already got the trail markup in GroupHeader... 

Why do you say 'ick'?  I wonder if you understand what I'm thinking of
here... For wiki.lyx.org I have a feeling that a checkbox would be very
useful for infrequent authors?  For that matter, I'd probably find it
convenient myself.

/Christian

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