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    • Outlining in TikiWiki

    Posted by gregbd

    I was wondering if it is possible to use an Outline format in the Wiki?

    So I can organize my Wiki in a legal style outline format?

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    Posted by colorado

    > I was wondering if it is possible to use an Outline format in the Wiki?

    Try the STRUCTURES feature - dig into that, it might just meet your needs. See StructureDoc and StructureDev for info on Structures.

    > Also, where can I find plugins for tikiwiki?

    Besides the standard Wiki Plugins (located in your site's lib/wiki_plugins folder, you can also check out my new site, TikiMODS.comQuestion.

    Colorado


    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    > I was wondering if it is possible to use an Outline format in the Wiki?
    >
    > So I can organize my Wiki in a legal style outline format?

    Can you give an example of this format? What kind of indentation, item styling, etc.? Text can't be indented "manually" on a wiki page, but Tiki can do normal HTML list styles. And other tags or plugins could probably be used to cover layout that Tiki doesn't do normally. Apart from using a section-numbering system, I'm not sure what legal formatting involves, though, so more details would be helpful.

    -- Gary

    Posted by gregbd

    Hi Gary:

    Truth be told I prefer the style of Wikipedia. Where they use an outline format... for example:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndustryQuestion

    Contents

    1 List of industries and prominent companies
    1.1 Information (51)
    1.1.1 >Telecommunications
    1.2 Finance and Insurance (52)
    1.3 Health Care and Social Assistance (62)
    1.3.1 >Pharmaceuticals
    1.4 Manufacturing (31-33)
    1.4.1 >Chemical production
    1.4.2 >Steel production
    2 Marxism and industry
    3 See also
    4 External links

    Does that help?

    Also, where can I find plugins for tikiwiki? I Googled but found nothing satisfactory.


    > > I was wondering if it is possible to use an Outline format in the Wiki?
    > >
    > > So I can organize my Wiki in a legal style outline format?
    >
    > Can you give an example of this format? What kind of indentation, item styling, etc.? Text can't be indented "manually" on a wiki page, but Tiki can do normal HTML list styles. And other tags or plugins could probably be used to cover layout that Tiki doesn't do normally. Apart from using a section-numbering system, I'm not sure what legal formatting involves, though, so more details would be helpful.
    >
    > — Gary

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    > Hi Gary:
    >
    > Truth be told I prefer the style of Wikipedia. Where they use an outline format... for example:
    >
    > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IndustryQuestion
    >
    > Contents
    >
    > 1 List of industries and prominent companies
    > 1.1 Information (51)
    > 1.1.1 >Telecommunications
    > 1.2 Finance and Insurance (52)
    > 1.3 Health Care and Social Assistance (62)
    > 1.3.1 >Pharmaceuticals
    > 1.4 Manufacturing (31-33)
    > 1.4.1 >Chemical production
    > 1.4.2 >Steel production
    > 2 Marxism and industry
    > 3 See also
    > 4 External links
    >
    > Does that help?

    Using the {maketoc} tag and normal headline tags produces this:

    1 List of industries and prominent companies

    1.1 Information (51)

    1.1.1 >Telecommunications

    1.2 Finance and Insurance (52)

    1.3 Health Care and Social Assistance (62)

    1.3.1 >Pharmaceuticals

    1.4 Manufacturing (31-33)

    1.4.1 >Chemical production

    1.4.2 >Steel production

    2 Marxism and industry

    3 See also

    4 External links


    A little too big and bold for my taste, but can be adjusted with the stylesheet for the theme. {maketoc} generates the page contents list automatically, and the headline sizes you would indicate as you enter your text, using the wiki headline syntax.

    > Also, where can I find plugins for tikiwiki? I Googled but found nothing satisfactory.

    Most plugins are in the Tikiwiki archive that you download, either in the lib/wiki-plugins directory (which are automatically activated) or in lib/wiki-plugins-dist, which is for plugins that have one issue or another, like maybe should only be used in secure intranets, etc. To see what is available at your site, edit a new wiki page and put {PLUGINMANAGER()}{PLUGINMANAGER} in it.

    -- Gary

    Posted by kwow

    Hi Gary,

    I find that after creation of the toc, the main text is very cluttered between the 2 headings and its sub-headings. Is there any way to make a line break between heading 1 amd 1.1 or between 2 and 3??

    --kwow

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    > Hi Gary,
    >
    > I find that after creation of the toc, the main text is very cluttered between the 2 headings and its sub-headings. Is there any way to make a line break between heading 1 amd 1.1 or between 2 and 3??

    The easiest way to increase that space is probably to specify a line-height for header styles in the theme's stylesheet (e.g., styles/tikineat.css). Something like:

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    h2 {
	font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;
	font-size: 20px;
	line-height: 40px; /* line height added. */ 
}

    About twice the font size seems like a good place to start. Note that some styles may have .wikitext h1, h2, h3, h4 selectors in addition to the basic h1, h2, h3, h4 ones. If so, they are the ones to edit.

    -- Gary


    Posted by gregbd

    Ok, I found the structures...

    The current documentation does not do a great job of explaining how to use the Interface controls, I am confused. If you can see the attached image, how would I use the controls to indent item 2 under item 1 so that it becomes 1.1?

    I am a newbie and appreciate your help.

    Picture 1.png (41.74 Kb)

    Posted by gregbd

    Hi Gary:

    Thanks for the info, I think that would work great. If it is not too much trouble, can you show me the code that was used in your example?

    Thanks again.

    Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee

    > Hi Gary:
    >
    > Thanks for the info, I think that would work great. If it is not too much trouble, can you show me the code that was used in your example?

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    {maketoc}
!!1 List of industries and prominent companies
!!!1.1 Information (51)
!!!!1.1.1 >Telecommunications
!!1.2 Finance and Insurance (52)
!!1.3 Health Care and Social Assistance (62)
!!!1.3.1 >Pharmaceuticals
!!1.4 Manufacturing (31-33)
!!!!1.4.1 >Chemical production
!!!!1.4.2 >Steel production
!!2 Marxism and industry
!!3 See also
!!4 External links


    This is just the standard wiki syntax for headings of different levels that you'd use for your outline headings, and a {maketoc} tag at the top to make the table of contents for the page. The layout of the table of contents depends on the levels of the headings used. Normally Tiki style sheets define h1 to h4. You could add h5 and h6 if you needed to, following the pattern in the style sheet. If a theme is rendering the headings too large for your taste, you could edit its style sheet.

    -- Gary