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Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
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Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:09:42 GMT
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"Sproaticus" <jsproat@io.com> wrote in message news:Gr99Iy.2DF@lugnet.com...

> Here's my wish list for tutorial categorization:
> 
> 1.  Each tutorial should get its own directory.  This prevents everyone
> clashing namespaces and working with ungainly filenames -- and also makes
> future reorganizations an order of magnitude less messy.

Good idea!  I already felt the need for it with the few tutorials up there.

> 2.  Allow tutorials to be submitted in HTML format.

I agree.  I am going to write a guide to the LDraw.org HTML format, citing
certain tags that are useable and others that we ask not be used.

> This reduces work for
> the LDraw org site maintainers, and reduces future maintenance work for both
> the site maintainers and the tutorial authors.  Certainly the HTML should be
> a restricted subset -- no Javascript for example, *perhaps* no tables -- but
> some HTML elements are too useful to ignore:
>   <H1> ... <H6> (though <H1> itself may be reserved for the LDraw.org headers
>   <PRE>
>   <TT>
>   <P>, <IMG>, <BR>, <UL>, etc.

I agree here - except I have not defined any classes for <h1 - 6> yet, so for
now they are not to be used on the site.  Once I've gotten the mountain of pages
in my inbox formatted, I'll revisit that.

> Easy installation is the key here.  When a LDraw.org site maintainer
> installs a new tutorial on the site, it should be as easy as creating a
> header/footer from a template, copying the files over, and linking to it
> from another page.  Heck, you could even include the tutorial pages into
> canned header/footer pages via SSI.

SSI is how its set up now.  I can rearrange this per some suggestions of Steve's
to make managing the Tutorials section (and any other section we are likely to
have a lot of outside submissions for) easier.

> 3.  While restricting some HTML elements, allow authors to use classes
> defined in the LDraw.org CSS files.

Yes.

> 4.  Anyone want to write a tutorial on writing an LDraw.org tutorial?  A
> writer's guide or perhaps a style guide?

That would be me.

-Tim



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  Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
 
(...) ... (...) Giving each tutorial its own directory fits in well here, I think. Mostly for the reasons Sproat gives, but also for easy SSI-ness. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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  Re: LDraw.org Tutorials - Categorization, Storage, Indexing, etc...
 
Okay, responding to my own post here... AND quite late, to boot... Here's my wish list for tutorial categorization: 1. Each tutorial should get its own directory. This prevents everyone clashing namespaces and working with ungainly filenames -- and (...) (25 years ago, 9-Feb-02, to lugnet.cad.dev.org.ldraw)

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