Sharing a WikiPack page and a collapsible menu

[Wordius]

I have an instance where I would like to create and share a WikiPack page, giving access to specific users. The material is not sensitive, so I guess it could just be a public web page. Users would be able to view and search the document, but not edit it.

What I had in mind was a copyeditor's stylesheet, which I produce and maintain for a publisher. Currently I send out updated PDFs by email to the copyeditors. But WikiPack's functionality seems to offer a better solution, if only I could make the page public.

Collapsible menu 

It's a separate topic, I know, but, in the case of this stylesheet, it would be useful if the current sidebar menu was collapsible, as the stylesheet menu is likely to run to multiple screen depths.

WikiPack is a great idea, and one I appreciate having had the opportunity to try.

[Mark Beattie]

Hi, thanks for posting! Glad you're finding WikiPack useful.

Publishing pages is definitely on the cards for a future update. There
are a few implementation details I've been considering:

* WikiWord links within the page - should only be displayed as a link
if the destination page is also public
* Layout - would be better completely un-branded, with no UI chrome.
That would completely remove the sidebar when viewing the public page,
but it would still need _some_ styling. Could start with a default
CSS, but maybe allow it to be customisable? A global static CSS file
for all public pages would be easy to implement and might be a good
start, but serving up dynamic CSS for each account would require some
deeper engineering.
* SEO - could generate the page title from the first top-level heading
on the page, and use the first paragraph of text for the meta
description? i don't like the idea of having to enter meta data for
public pages. Could maybe integrate the page title into the URL, like
beet.wikipackit.com/pages/Recipes-My-page-of-meaty-recipes-for-meat-
lovers
* URL - could just use subdomain.wikipackit.com/pages/wikiword, but
that's bit long, so I was thinking of getting a more concise top-level
domain name to use for public page URLs. Something like
subdomain.wp.it/wikiword. Could implement tiny URLs for posting to
social networks/email like subdomain.wp.it/123

i could go on, but I'd love to hear more of other people's ideas on
how to implement public pages. Thanks again for starting the thread!

mark

On Apr 13, 4:36 pm, Wordius <jeffp.por...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have an instance where I would like to create and share a WikiPack page,
> giving access to specific users. The material is not sensitive, so I guess
> it could just be a public web page. Users would be able to view and search
> the document, but not edit it.
>
> What I had in mind was a copyeditor's stylesheet, which I produce and
> maintain for a publisher. Currently I send out updated PDFs by email to the
> copyeditors. But WikiPack's functionality seems to offer a better solution,
> if only I could make the page public.
>

> *Collapsible menu *

[Gregor McNish]

Why not just render the markdown as HTML into the users public Dropbox folder, maybe with some choice of theme? Then e Dropbox public URL should work fine.

[Mark Beattie]

That's a great idea, I was thinking about hosting the pages on WikiPack, and may still pursue that, but exporting the rendered HTML into the Dropbox public folder would be a great way to quickly share a page.

Thanks for the suggestion!

mark