Hmmm, no-one has any thoughts here ... and I'm on ma' own reinventing the wheel? Surely tehre's a canonical way to provide help on Django website . I'm leaning toward simple flatpages app with a tinymce editor for them for the admin.
On Tuesday, 19 February 2019 16:26:57 UTC+11, Bernd Wechner wrote: > > I'm at the point of wanting to write some help for a website, the standard > helpfile sort of scenario ;-). If that means little to you, just a > hierarchy of pages that document things and can be linked. > > I wrote page one with the Django flatpages app: > > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/ref/contrib/flatpages/ > > But it's not real comfy in terms of editing and maintaining. So I looked > on-line for solutions and of course nothing with "help" in the search terms > is going anywhere fast (finds me a lot of help about Django ;-). so better > keywordss needed but I have found a pile of maybe options and am suddenly > bamboozled by what is vogue, current, maintained, has a lasting future etc. > > https://github.com/klen/django_markdown > > Untouched in 4 years with 22 open issues Hmm. > > And this looks nice: > > https://github.com/mjr27/django-flatpages-tinymce > > but untouched in 7 years and 4 open issues. > > Now untouched doesn't mean bad, could just be mature, stable and works > perfectly, already fro 7 years. These are the things it's hard to gauge. > But if I'm looking at TinyMCE how about: > > https://github.com/aljosa/django-tinymce > > on which it depends. NO bad, updated a month ago to make it work with > Django 2.1 so seems alive! But my site is math heavy so I want equation > ease so how about: > > And this looks good: > > https://www.codecogs.com/latex/integration/tinymce_v3/install.php > > This looks maybe: > > https://github.com/iCAPLyon1/tinymce-formula > > This looks unconvincing: > > https://github.com/foraker/tinymce_equation_editor > > and do we want this: > > https://github.com/Tivix/django-flatpages-nav > > or this as well: > > Or hang on why do this piecemeal why not use Wagtail from the word go: > > http://docs.wagtail.io/en/v2.4/index.html > > Or would wagtail introduce too much coordination trouble between its > templates and my sites ... etc. etc. I'm full of questions and really just > wondering, is there a canonical solution to a site documentation page > hierarchy and managing it nicely? > > Regards, > > Bernd. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/750a97d8-87f9-42f4-997e-5810e1a5c48a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
