Features / Usability

Posted by Gary Cunningham-Lee 16 Aug 2005 12:47 GMT-0000 posts: 4656

> Hi Gary:
>
> Truth be told I prefer the style of Wikipedia. Where they use an outline format... for example:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry
>
> 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