Re: yet more suggestions for .73...

On Mon, 12 May 2003, Joe Stewart wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 01:13:31PM -0700, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> >
>
> <snip!>
> > Can you try to make a new story with this text and post it (without a
> > preview) as exttrans?
> >
>
> Actually the form says "New Story Options:" to indicate they apply
> only to new stories.  It's just a way of being cowardly and avoiding
> screwed up articles with no undo function.  It can easily be changed
> to apply to both new and edited articles.
>

Heh :)  That's what I get for not reading it right!  This works for some
case but not all (eg: exttrans -> html -> extrans ) conversion would get
weird quick.

> This might be a good time to talk about extending this to a plugin
> system to allow other text manipulation.  Things like wiki style,
> BBcode, link annotation, glossary links, etc.
>

backEnd recently got a WikiText and a few other nice things like that.  we
should look and see if we can steal that ;-)

> The story options already allows extensions like this for the
> display side I think.  But nothing as far as text conversion when
> saving.
>

It could be messy.  I don't think there's anythign wrong with with the way
it works, other than a lack of a warning in the Modify Story menu.  One
thing I;d like to do is go through the interface and add additional help
text/hints/explinations for various features.  things are better now, but
still could use some work.  This might be better with a simple system
that opens a popup window containing help text for the page..

eg: www.foo.com/phpslash/help.php?modifyStory would open up a simple no
decorations window and pull some descriptive text either from a file (like
the phpslash SGML manual) or database... I think a small script that opens
up the manaual and jumps to the correct anchor would be the neatest thing
as the script could know where in the manaual we need to go, and all the
docs remain int he same place.

-n

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