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[Alessandro Magni <magni@xxxxxxxx>]

 On 09/22/2010 12:31 PM, Jaap Karssenberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Alessandro Magni<magni@xxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> >   REALLY???
> > wow, I'm very sorry you spent time for a misunderstanding of mine... but I
> > never saw around any zim hierarchical notebook. Did I miss it in the wiki?
> > I will check ASAP - if it is as I seem to understand from your help, I guess
> > it should solve many problems ...
> No problem, maybe I should dedicate a section in the manual to
> explaining the directory structure.
>
> You are not the first to miss that zim can do hierarchies. Do you have
> suggestions how to make this feature more "discoverable" ? Where would
> you typically look for something like that?
>
> Regards,
>
> Jaap
A straightfoward way would be to include in the TAR file of the install 
a "demo" directory with nested folders where a demo notebook would reside.
I rechecked and saw that in fact the manual itself is a hierarchical 
zim-file. So you could simply point the user to this fact, something 
like "just check where this manual is saved, how easy it is to have a 
hierarchical wiki!"

Damn, after playing a bit with it, I fear I'll be unable to use this 
feature for my use (self-documenting directories).
The reason is that Zim takes control of any .txt file it finds, 
inserting its own header at the beginning. In many places around my 
filesystem I cannot allow it to do it, there are txt files that must not 
be changed (lucky me that I tested it in a small subfolder first!)

alessandro


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