Short-n-sweet

[M.P. Rommedahl]

Hi all
Sorry for suddenly bumping an old subject - I was cleaning out my inbox, and
wondered if there has been any work done on this? If this Expandable-thing
is a good solution, then a clear cut between GUI and CLI would definitely be
a must!

mp

2007/10/26, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
>
> Hi Matthew,
>
>
> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:09 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > > What are the pros-n-cons of folding/hiding/suppressing/visually
> > > segregating the GUI from the CLI instructions?  I realize it adds a
> > > level of complexity to the docs, but it might be worth it.
> > > ...
> >
> > That would be nifty. Microsoft uses expandable sections heavily in
> > their help pages. <http://urlx.org/microsoft.com/44836>
> >
> > I don't know how we'd go about getting it implemented in either Yelp or
> > MoinMoin, though.
>
>
> It wouldn't be too difficult to implement in MoinMoin. All it would
> require is a new macro which dumps a bit of JavaScript into the page and
> some more JavaScript in the wiki page header. You could define
> expandable sections like so:
>
> [[Expandable(Name of this section)]]
>
> Some text...
>
> [[Expandable(end)]]
>
> This should be possible with Yelp too, but I'm not sure if there's an
> appropriate DocBook element which we could use to define an expandable
> section.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
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