OT: best FOSS wiki for this classroom scenario?

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 at 14:40, Phil Dobbin <bukowskiscat at gmail.com> wrote:
 > 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.

Thanks for the link!

Yes, I know of it and have tried it briefly. It's what Wikipedia calls
an "extrinsic" or 2-pane outliner.

I suppose to non-outliner-users, the difference sounds trivial but
it's not -- it's a totally different type of tool.

Here are some screenshots:
https://leoeditor.com/screen-shots.html

On the left, there is a tree structure of lots of separate little
documents. On the right, you can see the contents of the one that is
currently selected on the left.

Compare with  Word XP's version as shown here:
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/anatomy-of-word-use-the-outline-view-to-build-complete-and-persuasive-documents/

Figures A & C show the combination of headings and body text in the
same document. Figs B & I show the sub-levels collapsed, so you have
an overview of just the structure without the body text.

Perhaps because the whole category of tool is obscure and little-known
these days, they both are called "outliners", but they're profoundly
different types of tool.

Oddly, and I don't know why, I've found multiple FOSS 2-pane or
extrinsic outliners:
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