[Pmwiki-users] Custom Help Files

[Christian Ridderström]

On Thu, 8 Jan 2004, Patrick R. Michaud wrote:

> There's several ways to address this:
> 
> First, the edit form's quick reference is in fact a wiki page.
> Just edit PmWiki.EditQuickReference on your clients' sites and add 
> whatever additional help information you want.

This is what I did, but I settled for just adding a link to a page called 
Site/LocalMarkup, see here for what it looks like:
	http://wiki.lyx.org/pmwiki.php/Playground/WikiSandbox?action=edit

/Christian


> 
> If you want to keep the additional information separate, you can 
> edit PmWiki.EditQuickReference to have [[include:SomeOtherHelpPage]]
> on it.
> 
> If that's not good enough, you can change $HandleEditFmt to
> include some other page(s) or text as well.  By default $HandleEditFmt is
> defined as 
> 
> $HandleEditFmt = array(&$HTMLStartFmt,&$PageEditFmt,
>   "wiki:$[PmWiki.EditQuickReference]",&$PagePreviewFmt,&$HTMLEndFmt);
> 
> ...just add the additional text or link to a wiki page in the appropriate
> spot in this array.
> 
> If none of those work, we need to talk.  :-)
> 
> Pm
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:01:02PM -0600, Dawn Green wrote:
> > Since we create many sites using PmWiki for our clients, we have attempted
> > to streamline a lot of our work both from programming and user perspectives.
> > One standard we have adopted is using help files.  For example, we will
> > create a CSS file that uses different styles for the same InLineReplacement
> > or DoubleBrackets functions such as markup sequences for =title or =heading.
> > That way, we only have to copy our help file documentation from client to
> > client with examples of each markup with the accompanying displayed examples
> > per the customizaion written in the CSS file for that site.
> > 
> > We would like to make it even easier for our clients to access this
> > customized help file by including it beneath the Edit form's "Quick
> > Reference".  Does there exist some call to include this in the current
> > PmWiki version?  If not, are there others that would find this useful enough
> > for Patrick to put on his possible additions?
> > 
> > Thanks again,
> > Dawn
> > 
> > 
> > 
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