Dear Mr.
Long document are difficult to edit or update using a single post. That increases the risk of errors and minimize the visibility into drupal form. Thus other cms (e.g. tikiwiki, phpwebsite) or the majority of wiki use a post per section basis to publish a whole page. Furthermore, creating a hierarchical menu for each submitting post gives an over fragmented book (as Drupal ones) that limit accessibility of information.
This feature could greatly improve the functionality of the book module. Does the code of "comment module" could be used to implement such feature? Up and Down sections of a page could be an advantage, but not an absolute necessity.
Comments
Comment #1
puregin CreditAttribution: puregin commentedThe basic design of book module associates a collection of nodes into a hierarchy.
You can put as much (or as little) content into a node as you like; similarly, how you choose to structure content inside of a node is up to you - this is a matter of your information architecture, style guides, and document policy.
If you choose to put a lot of content into each node, or specify that nodes may contain subsections, you may find the web forms interface awkward. I'd suggest using one of the WYSIWYG editors (e.g. FCKEditor), or editing your content offline and pasting it in. But if you really need one long page, why use book module at all?
That having been said, no doubt there is much to be done to improve the book editing and navigation interface. (not to mention re-organizing Drupal.org Handbooks content). Please keep the ideas coming!
Comment #2
puregin CreditAttribution: puregin commentedChanging the version to CVS, since this is a feature request.
One possible approach to this is to use flexinode, or better yet, the new CCK stuff to put structured nodes into a book hierarchy.
This also relates to the discussions around structured blogging and
microformats.
Comment #3
ricabrantes CreditAttribution: ricabrantes commentedThis is active??
Comment #4
ScoutBaker CreditAttribution: ScoutBaker commentedFeature requests go to dev. Moving to 7.x-dev.
Comment #5
marcingy CreditAttribution: marcingy commented