Dear David, dear Joshua, thanks for your responses. So far so good. My timescales are actually quite decent. I need to have this done in 1.5 years from now. I am thus able to wait for TW5 to come out of beta before filling the wiki with content. However, I will have to have produced a major report in 4 months time and was considering doing this is TW as well. I would be able to copy parts of that into a final TW. Not sure whether or not to start doing this in the beta version. The reason I am thinking about this now is that the writing style will have to be very different. In the linear format we know what someone has read before coming to a certain section; this has of course implications for the way information is presented. I am trying to get my hand on writing syle guides/advice/etc. for this sort of wiki writing. Any ideas? I will also have to think about how to use tiddlers (sections and sub-sections or more fragmented parts of text/paragraphs?). Is there any guidance in the community about what delmits a tiddler? Paragraphs are usually delimited by being distinct ideas and I like, for example, how medium <https://medium.com/p/9ffabb1f9dcb> allows you to comment on paragraphs/ideas. However, Tiddlers always have titles and not every paragraph deserves a title. So I think it will be some sort of half way solution between actual sections and paragraphs... I will have to see how this plays out in terms of readablitiy in the linear display of the argument. Regarding printing, is there a way to print an entire TW in a linear format without the formatting of the wiki and as a rather normal linear presentation instead? I know that these are somehow weird question (considering that TW is a tool that really tries to get away from some of this) but for this purpose are just quite necessary. I need to walk a thin line between traditional methods (and their advantages and disadvantages) and hyperlinked methods (and their advantages and disadvantages). The response I got to confronting people with this TW<http://thesis.tiddlyspace.com/>is that simply pointing out that hyperlinked text/learning is the way to go nowadays is not enough so I will have to make rather strong case for this being a good thing to do. Thanks for you help. Best wishes, Philipp
On Wednesday, February 12, 2014 3:00:52 PM UTC, Joshua wrote: > I have not heard of such an implementation using TW5. I have been thinking > for a while that one way to show off the capabilities of TW5 would be to > take a classic text of some sort and create scripts that could import the > text into TiddlyWiki5. Classic texts would work well because there are > plenty of marked up versions on the Web and tagging/linking could be used > in TW5 to enrich a flat text. Maybe something by Shakespeare, or the > Odyssey, or the whole Bible for a very linkable text. I don't have the text > processing expertise or TW5 knowledge but I might be able to look at it > when summer arrives, which I'm sure is too late for you Philipp :-(. > > Joshua > > On Tuesday, February 11, 2014 3:10:24 AM UTC-6, Philipp G wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> I have been reading the conversations on this forum with great interest. >> >> I have considered using TiddlyWiki for all sorts of things over the last >> 3 years since I saw someone using it in a presentation instead of ppt. >> However, I have never actually used it for a project. >> >> Now, I am determined to use it for my dissertation. Not to gather my >> notes, sources, etc. but actually presenting my thesis in a html file >> rather than printing and binding a script. The main reason is that I would >> like someone to read the argument as I structured it AND to be able to >> explore the topic of my PhD in the order they find makes most sense. >> I thought I could arrange tiddlers (like sections in a thesis) in a >> linear form but ALSO use hyperlinks, tags, different indexes etc, for >> people to find their way around the information themselves. >> >> I started the process of getting my supervisors and the University to see >> the benefits of this idea and hope that they will agree for me to be able >> to do this. The current problem I face is that they struggle to get their >> head around how this would look in the end. >> Would anyone be able to suggest TWs that can illustrate what I am trying >> to do? Is anyone aware of this having been done before? Are there any good >> examples of TW in use that I could show to other people so they get an idea >> about how this will look in the end? >> >> Has TW been used as a replacement for documents of 150 pages and is it >> stable? >> When do you think TW5 will leave beta? >> >> Anything that you think could help me to illustrate the power of TW >> compared to linear presentations in word files would be beneficial as well. >> >> Thanks a lot in advance. >> Best wishes, >> Philipp >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
