Thank you everyone for your thoughtful responses. I'll try out the suggestions and follow up later.
best, -matt On Monday, 1 October 2012 21:09:25 UTC-7, Jon wrote: > > > > SE has shown me that while the visuals are important > > it's the actual writing experience which carries the day.... > > Are there any efforts afoot to bring that kind of editing > > experience to TW? > > If you're using Firefox, you might be interested in trying ShortcutPlugin > and ShortcutKeysPlugin, which together give the ability to define keyboard > shortcuts that function within the TW editor. By default, bold, italic, > underline, greek letters, images, links, etc. have shortcuts, but you can > edit it to insert whatever text you want: > > http://twkeys.tiddlyspace.com > > Some discussion here: > https://groups.google.com/d/topic/tiddlywiki/a30QPy9Lj40/discussion > > I like your idea of the "writing experience" and agree that it's an > important part of any software that does text editing, simple or complex. > Over time, I've personally become quite comfortable writing significant > amounts of text in TW--from using it to create course Web sites, I've moved > to including heavily formatted text such as problem sets, answer keys, > syllabi and even in one case a lab manual within the course TW. But one of > the barriers of creating something useful (and this applies to any Wiki) is > that others who might benefit from it have to be willing to tackle the > syntax. > > WYSIWYG or rich text possibilities for TW thus far have not been very > successful. I guess it's not a trivial problem - note how a company with > the resources of Google has produced a very serviceable all-Web spreadsheet > and even a somewhat decent imitation of PowerPoint, yet the word processor > component of Google Docs remains very primitive. But in the meantime, I > agree that some simple shortcuts and editing features (I second Eric's > recommendation of the QuickEdit plugin) go a long way toward making it > comfortable to write and format larger amounts of text. > > --Jon > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/-/DSiLynFvSRQJ. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
