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Re: Documentation and Topic++ [message #16666 is a reply to message #16661] Sun, 06 July 2008 20:06 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
mirek is currently offline  mirek
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Mindtraveller wrote on Sun, 06 July 2008 03:45

luzr wrote on Wed, 18 June 2008 19:43

Anyway, if you are about to write those tutorial/conceptual docs, I think there is nothing to prevent you doing so now.
Actually there is. For now it is quite slow and complicated process imo. It is funny that the functionality itself is enough, what we need now is a little "service" items for our help engine. They are small and simple but save a lot of time to docs developers.

a)While editing help docs we need additional toolbar with predefined styles like "common text", "comment", "important", "code", etc.
b) Newly created article must be created from template with all main items ("heading", "see also", etc). This is base help page template, which would be much easier to edit than creating new standard page each time from the start.
c) Better links support. For now creating new link is rather complicated process. Ideally this operation should take 2-3 mouse clicks and no more.
d) Adding new article shouldn`t be a nightmare. 1 click to articles tree (newly creating article root item), then 1 click to "Add new article" button from toolbar. This should generate new article with predefined text (see (b)) and predefined name (just "New article"). That`s it.


Add c). I believe it actaully IS 2-3 mouse clicks now.

Add d). Do not forget that topics are still bound to packages. Creating new article is IMO quite simple from package. In other words, I believe you are gona spend much more time writing the article than creating it either way...

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