[Dev] Re: Named Includes (SECTION) now works

[Don Dwiggins]

Ducky Sherwood writes:
> Jurgen has installed the Named Includes patch on the twiki, so 
> now you can designate multiple pieces of a wiki page to be 
> included.  This is very powerful; you should now never need to 
> maintain the same source on two different wiki pages. 

This facility reminds me of the Transclusion feature of BlueOxen's 
PurpleWiki (see 
http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?TransClusion), 
which uses ideas from Doug Engelbart (unobtrusive numeric 
"anchors" automatically attached to each paragraph) and Ted Nelson 
(dynamic inclusion by reference from a piece of one text into 
another).

It's less general than Named Includes, in that you can only 
transclude paragraphs; on the other hand, the author of the 
original text doesn't have to anticipate what pieces folks might 
want to transclude.
--

Don Dwiggins
d.l.dwiggins at computer.org
 Man ascends through the discovery of the fullness of his own gifts.
 What he creates along the way are monuments to the stages of his
 understanding of nature and of self.
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