I am confused, please forgive me for being a novice.

On 1 November 2012 20:01, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 1, 2012 at 2:45 PM, jan iversen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > HELP !!!
> >
> > Ariel created very nice mdtext files to help me, which I wanted to use
> but
> > when I follow Rob´s introduction (youtube) on how to use CMS I am
> presented
> > with HTML....what am I doing wrong ????
> >
>
> If the original file checked in is HTML, I'm not sure the CMS Web
> interface will allow you to rename it to a .mdtext file.  I'd just add
> a new index.mdtext or whatever.  If the file is mdtext then the CMS
> web interface will give you an mdtext-specific UI with a preview.
>
I can see that Ariel committed the mdtext in SVN, and looking at l10n-new I
can see that she published it...

So I would have expected cms to show me mdtext ???? otherwise I do not
understand how we work with cms and mdtext.


>
> > Is it correct to assume that if I want to use mdtext I can forget CMS and
> > do it in SVN directly ???
> >
>
> The CMS is a shortcut to making simple changes to HTML or Mdtext or
> any other text-based files on the website.  Behind the scenes it uses
> SVN to check in the files.   You can always do everything in SVN if
> you want.
>
> > Sorry for asking, but this does not seem to be obvious for
> non-documentary
> > programmers :-)
> > Jan I.
> >
> >
> > On 1 November 2012 18:57, jan iversen <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> >> See below please.
> >>
> >>
> >> On 1 November 2012 18:45, Ariel Constenla-Haile <[email protected]
> >wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 06:25:12PM +0100, jan iversen wrote:
> >>> > Did you have an opinion on my request for a change of the site
> >>> template, to
> >>> > include context-specific menus ?
> >>>
> >>> Dynamic menus are not possible. What we already have is a sort of
> >>> context-specific menu, did you take a look at topnav.mdtext? You can
> >>> change the top navigation bar to whatever you want. The same is true
> for
> >>> the left and right bars.
> >>>
> >> Now  I really feel like a "noise provoker", NO I did not see
> topnav.mdtext
> >> correctly.
> >>
> >> With that you have solved all my problems, THANKS you !!!
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Note that website threads, even related to l10n, are better posted on
> >>> ooo-dev, with a proper [www] tag; we should try to keep this mailing
> >>> list with the low traffic, if possible; beside there you can get
> answers
> >>> from the CMS experts ;)
> >>>
> >> I agree, this thread was just started due to an announcement by Rob,
> and I
> >> am at the moment very cautious not to start new threads unless
> absolutely
> >> unavoidable due to a reminder on the dev list.
> >>
> >> Thanks again for taking the time to help me, now I can change l10n and
> >> still be with the scope of the standard, which is important to me.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Regards
> >>> --
> >>> Ariel Constenla-Haile
> >>> La Plata, Argentina
> >>>
> >>
> >>
>

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