OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Phil Dobbin]

On 26/02/2020 09:47, Liam Proven wrote:

Hi Liam.

> On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 at 22:30, H <agents at meddatainc.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> I have been looking for an outlier as well for quite some time for exactly the same reasons as you. Further, I would want it to be keyboard-driven rather than relying on a mouse which is way too slow and cumbersome. I do remember PC Outline with much fondness...
>>
>> I would also like it to be able to read/write in markdown format, perhaps using that as its native format. In addition, it should read/write files in OO format as well as in HTML.
>>
>> I have been resorting to using Impress as an outlier but it is a very poor substitute...
> 
> :-) I feel your pain!
> 
> PC-Outline is still around on the abandonware sites, and works under
> DOSemu. It's very clunky today, though.
> 
> The Folding Text add-on for Atom is pretty good.
> 
> I run MS Word 97 under WINE on Ubuntu. It works flawlessly, it writes
> files that LibreOffice opens directly, and it can access the Linux
> filesystem easily. Cut-and-paste works. You can install it alone from
> MS Office 97, although I also have a standalone copy of just Word. You
> can also install all the MS Service Releases to bring it to as
> up-to-date as a 23-year-old piece of software can be.
> 
> The only things it _can't_ do are:
> • it doesn't work with Linux compose keys, such as compose-full
> stop-equals which I just used for the bullet point at the start of
> this line
> • I found it didn't work with an external Displayport portrait
> monitor; it could only be resized to VGA/SVGA resolutions, not
> something like 1080×2560. I am not sure if it was the resolution or
> the portrait orientation.
> 
> I have also tried some earlier & later versions of Word.
> • Word 95 works but has a different file format, less well-understood now
> • Word 6 for NT (the 32-bit version) would not install properly
> • Word 2000 installs and runs but can't be updated
> • I don't have Office XP so didn't try that
> • Word 2003 can't install under ordinary free WINE but works perfectly
> with CrossOver Office.
> I have not tried later versions, as I hate the Ribbon interface.

I happened to come across an outliner/text/etc on GitHub this morning
:
<https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor>

I've no idea if it would work for you but it's FOSS as far as I can see.

Cheers,

  Phil.


-- 
 “All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability
 to sit quietly in his room.”
        Blaise Pascal, Pensées

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