Hunter Peress wrote
"Please remove timelines from the cvs until it is simplified to work with wiki-tables."
Hunter, so far you've been the only one who dislikes the current concept,
most reactions were favourable or even highly so.
At least five people gave it a try on de: in the past three days and produced workable timelines
with some help of mine.
The syntax is not that difficult to understand.
The length of the document has mainly to do with the number of options that need to be described.
As always flexibility comes at a price: higher complexity.
One has to invest some time to master the finer details, but I believe most people
used an existing example as a template and got away with it.
I'm working on making the syntax as straightforward as possible.
This week I will release an update that will save quite a few lines on some of the existing scripts.
It will never become a no-brainer to produce a fancy new layout,
and finetuning text positions in a crowded chart is a bit of a hassle,
but after my next release (with auto bar positioning and auto image sizing)
adding or correcting an existing chart is certainly within reach of the average editor,
without studying the syntax first.
If someone produces a better solution, (you Hunter ?), I'll be happy to assist in writing a conversion script.
Maybe your only point is that the current syntax stands apart from other wiki syntax?
In that case, I'm afraid I don't think wiki table layout will do much good, as it will just add an extra level of
complexity. But prove me wrong, I'd surely like to test any alternative.
I hope in a years time we can have a fairly complete set of timelines for all major episodes in history.
Without EasyTimeline we would probably have none that could be edited online.
Erik Zachte
