[Axiom-developer] Re: Hints

[Bill Page]

Hello Alfredo,

Just recently (last month) I re-implemented this kind of "mathaction
assistant" for the 'edit' form on axiom-wiki. Because of the changes
in ZWiki, this customization was a little difficult. At the same time
I also re-implemented the preview button for comments, but I did not
add the assistant because no one had asked for it and I was also a
little worried about the total number of bytes that it adds to each
page. Larger pages size mean that they are slower to load and add a
bit more overhead to the server. I wasn't sure that it was worth it,
but if you think it would be a good thing, I could easily include the
same assistant at the bottom of the comments. Just let me know what
you think.

One problem I have now is that I seem to get very little feedback from users of

http://axiom-wiki.newsynthesis.org

although access rates are still quite high. It seems I little awkward
to always cc the 3 Axiom-related developer email list just for things
like this (but in this case I'll do it anyway :). If you have any
ideas about how to improve this, I would be very interested.

BTW, I am in Austria all this weeking attending ISSAC and Axiom/Aldor
workshop. If you have any "Axiom" questions you would like to ask, now
is a good time to bring them up!

Regards,
Bill Page.

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Alfredo Portes  wrote:
> Hi Bill,
>
> In the old Wiki, there were some hints at the moment
> of adding a comment to a page, for example:
>
> \begin{axiom}
> ...
> \end{axiom}
>
> if the user wanted to add a command. I do not see this
> anymore. I do not if it would be hard to implement this again.
> I see the last edit to the Wiki, it seems the user had a problem
> because of this.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Alfredo
>