I wrote a TiddlyWiki book in TiddlyWiki, and people have liked the design: https://groktiddlywiki.com
I think this design badly fails your "should not present a TiddlyWikish face" criterion though. On Thursday, June 10, 2021 at 8:17:41 PM UTC-5 Télumire wrote: > I'm not a dev by any means so I probably can't help you much, but I think > these links may help you : > > In this thread, people have successfully managed to use tiddlywiki for > book publishing, with great results : > https://groups.google.com/g/tiddlywiki/c/_VLufc4Svp8/m/jALzYZ09BAAJ > You can see a sample here : > https://tw5.immateriel.fr/wiki/7switch/book/aHR0cHM6Ly9jYXRhbG9ndWUuaW1tYXRlcmllbC5mci9yZXNvdXJjZXMvYTYvMTIvMDcyMDhkOTdhZjdmYWZkMjkyNzRhN2MwNDU1YS5lcHVi > or make your own book from an epub : https://tw5.immateriel.fr/wiki > > It's possible to use TW as a blog platform : > https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Blog%2520Edition.html > > So it seems that it's possible. I'm guessing it will not be simple tho.. > maybe wordpress would be easier. > Le jeudi 10 juin 2021 à 22:28:54 UTC+2, Kosmaton a écrit : > >> Hello Tiddly people, >> >> I'm meaning to create a new website, and I'd like to ask your opinion >> whether TiddlyWiki is the right tool (or one of the tools) for it. >> >> I used to have a pre-TW5 site on TiddlySpace back in the day. I'm >> semi-programming-and-webdesign-literate, in an ad hoc and rusty way. No >> experience with databases unfortunately, which may be relevant. >> >> The website I have in mind would be a combination of a non-fiction book >> (already written, but expandable/changeable), and an associated blog. The >> book is organized as a big tree of numbered paragraphs/sections: 1, 1.1, >> 1.1.1, 1.2, 2, 2.1 etc. These sections frequently refer to one another; >> it's a hypertext in itself. >> >> * The site would mainly need to have: >> >> 1) a page that displays the book, with a Table of Contents. >> - The TOC should be hideable as a whole. >> - The branches of the TOC should be collapsible, i.e. click on 1 to >> show 1.1 and 1.2, click again to hide them, etc. >> - It may be excessive to load all the text of the book (all the >> sections) into the viewport (some 70,000 words). But it would be nice if >> the reader saw a bit more than just the section they're currently reading. >> Basically a pdf-reader-like experience would be good. >> - optional: Sections of the book may get revisions, and the visitor >> should be able to see the revisions. (This would probably get a lot more >> complicated if I want to allow for reordering, deletion and creation of >> sections...) >> - The book currently exists as a LibreOffice Writer .odt file, with >> sections actually organized as headings. Ideally I'd like to automate the >> process of getting them into the TiddlyWiki. >> >> 2) a blog/news page >> - Blog posts are expected to regularly contain links to book sections, >> or entire transcluded sections. >> - Posts must be able to acommodate audio files; a regular HTML <audio >> controls> seems sufficient. >> >> 3) a Home page that could e.g. display >> - the most recent blog post (truncated if necessary) >> - a sort of carousel widget with single sections from the book, with >> arrows left and right to flip through them. These sections could be either >> randomly taken from the whole book, or from a hand-picked subset of >> sections (which I should be able to adjust). >> >> * The thing really ought to be 'responsive', i.e. look fine on small >> screens too. This might not be obvious for something like the TOC. >> >> * Towards the visitor it should not present a very TiddlyWikish face. I'm >> keen to acknowledge/praise/recommend TW in the About page; but the casual >> visitor should not focus on the underlying tech. >> >> * I don't intend to have a server of my own. The free webhost I've >> happily used before allows for up to 2 databases, with a choice between >> "5.7-MySQL . 10.5-MariaDB . 13.2-PgSQL". >> >> So: >> >> Does this sound feasible with TW5 as a base? (Or would you suggest some >> other framework? If it's /challenging/ with TW, but /easy&fun/ with XYZ, >> I'd like to hear about XYZ too! :) >> >> How would I set this up as far as server / databases etc. go? >> >> If I go ahead with this, there's bound to be more detailed questions >> regarding the functionalities mentioned above; but if you already see any >> immediate solutions (plugins, say) please shout. >> >> Apologies for the length of this post. I don't expect anyone to figure >> all this out for me, but any thoughts are very welcome. Many thanks in >> advance! >> >> K. >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/93ca90c2-1680-43d8-a358-6d12c9023c6en%40googlegroups.com.
