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BackTalk (0.3)
by
Ihor Berehulyak
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last modified
2009-01-08
Released on 2002-08-07 by Zope Corporation, Chris McDonough for Zope 2 under Public Domain available for All platforms.
Software development stage: development
- See demo of BackTalk: http://zope.org/Documentation/Books/ZopeBook/current
- BackTalk download link: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/backtalk/BackTalk-0.3.tar.gz?download
- Homepage of BackTalk: http://backtalk.sourceforge.net/
BackTalk is a document editing, commenting, and publication system for book-like content.
- Content is authorable via Structured Text. Structured Text is plaintext that is provided with structure via the use of indentation and simple inline symbology. For instance, to embolden a phrase, you surround the phrase with **double asterisks**, to make something show in a "literal" sort of font (e.g. code), you surround it with 'single quotes', etc.
- Content is organized inside a container named a "Book" while the logical chapters of the book are created in "Documents". You may change the ordering of the documents in a book and of course insert new documents into a book structure, etc. Most of this management is done via the Zope Management interface.
- Documents are individually editable via FTP and WebDAV.
- The web view of a Book will automatically provide a hyperlinked table of contents and simple "back-forward-up-next" navigation between documents in a Book.
- A Document is a collection of paragrahs (as decided by structured text).
- Each paragraph in each Document supports the addition of comments through a web interface as well as through direct text entry in the Structured Text source.
- A Book supports a printable rendering to PDF with or without the inclusion of comments.
