The wiki has been around for 5 years and has >1000 pages. All built by simple volunteer effort, no money at all. Thanks for volunteering to convert everything to WordPress! We expect it all up and running by tonight, of course, as there are folk going to use the instructions tomorrow in Iroquois. Beyond the tongue in cheek, the present issue arose because people who are not computer folk are interested in sharing information. They understand Wikipedia, so know how to "use" the resource, and now are wanting to contribute. Starting over, I would do things differently, but the present structure is, I am told, working quite well, so it's now a matter of making it easier for users. JN On 10/07/2011 02:08 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > Not sure I'd want them in a wiki then personally. > > I bet you'd get better mileage out of wordpress. > > There is probably a plugin where they could highlight text and mark it for pre formatting. > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:01 PM, John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>> > wrote: > > HTML is a 4 letter word for my users. And I try to avoid mixing HTML with the Mediawiki > formatting. These are folk dancers, and computers are VERY foreign to them. But they can > understand the way typewriters work -- some of them still have typewriters! > > JN > > > On 10/07/2011 01:55 PM, Darcy Whyte wrote: > > html pre? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 1:19 PM, John C Nash <nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca > <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca> <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca <mailto:nashjc [ at ] uottawa [ dot ] ca>>> > > wrote: > > > > I have a wiki that has instructions for several hundreds of folk dances. The > simplest way > > for folk to put these in is as plain text, then use the "grey box" wiki feature to > > maintain a monospaced font, as it helps to give the A, B and C parts of the > music and the > > bar counts for each figure -- a very crude tabular format. For those not > familiar, putting > > 2 spaces (some specs say 1 is enough) creates a typewriter like text box on > Mediawiki > > (Wikipedia software). > > > > On my own machines, I have a command line tool in Perl that does this job to all > lines of > > a file. However, for my wiki users, it would be nice to have a link on the wiki > that opens > > a new tab with a text box and a button that will add the spaces to the text in > the box. > > Then the material can be copied and used in the wiki page. I'm sure someone must > have done > > this before, but finding such a beast (or even thinking of the right search > terms) is > > non-trivial. I'd welcome pointers or some prototype HTML/Javascript or whatever. > I'm sure > > it is not that difficult, but though I've done some php, I've no expertise in > Javascript. > > > > Best, JN > > _______________________________________________ > > Linux mailing list > > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca>> > > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca <mailto:Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca> > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > >