> > Couple of admin things first: should I put generated content in
> STEP-Hist or do we want to start a new box for this?
> I reckon we should try and create a new box, but I don't really mind, as
> long as it's easy to find. From my point of view, it would be nice to
> have an "input" folder, where the timelines + all other data would live
> before it gets loaded up into the step database.
This is going to happen anyway. One of my next tasks is to write
something that quickly hacks together everything we've got into very
basic HTML, just so you can get a feel for what's there, and it also
ensures the data is parseable easily. (Much like the existing timeline
stuff.) This will need the timeline, dictionary and bible ref stuff to
be in consistent places relative to each other..
> > Articles and links
> Sorry I realise this is coming late, but if the articles refer to events
> and so on, could we use hyperlinks instead, and then we can have as many
> links as we like as they're are not constrained by space. If they are
> not in the text, maybe a section at the bottom of the article or the
> side, somewhere, "See also:" Best not to set limitations yet, right? But
> I realise that may need quite a lot of work... Again, perhaps we can do
> something to automatically highlight and link words in articles.
Yes, this is already the plan. My current plan is to use wiki-style
links to indicate the hyperlinks, so "Saul tried to kill [[David]]"
would be a link to the David article. "In [[Revelation 12:13|Rev.12.13]]
displays the former text and links to the latter. These can be added in
pre-processing (then checked) so we don't need to do searching at
runtime - picking up the Bible references reliably is a bit of a pain.
Colin
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