Hey folks--

I'm trying to develop a website with campaign info for my own group and hopefully the DSF community at large. Similar to a Wiki, people will be able to post Screamsheets and current affairs, but not delete content.

The section that I'm having trouble with, is I want to enable a commenting syntax where comments can be placed in-line with the articles similar to shadowtalk in the books. Sadly, I only know how to amend comments at the bottom or top of the article, I can't mix them in.

Any help would be appreciated even if it's just a pointer to a different site or a book.

You can do it on Shadowland (www.shadowland.org), but I'm not entirely sure of the mechanics that were involved in making that work.

Talk with DV8 from wiredreflexes.com
He manage to put comments into Dunkie's Will afair.

on shadowland, you can only place comments where the page author says you can place comments. the page author has to create a special object in the page's tree.

Right. That's what I meant. DV8 doesn't even have that (just end comments). From a user POV, it's a simple process of creating a marker name and placing it in the body text.

Once the markers are set up (to reflect a sourcebook, you'd want one after every paragraph) you just select the marker when you're adding a comment and that is where the post is added. It's pretty simple to use.

It's the behind the scenes mechanics I couldn't begin to explain, and so outside of the site it's a crap-shoot as to whether you can find out how to code it.

It's possible, but it'll be wonky. You can simply have each paragraph be, basically, its own mini-article and have each article link to the rest of itself at the end of each section. It'd take a lot of calling pages, but it'd work then.

Shadowland as we know it in SR is difficult to pull off with what we have today.

Are you writing the devloping the framework yourself or are your using something off the shelf or downloaded?

If you are writing things yourself, just have another database table for comments and pull out the related comments. Do you have something we can take a look at to help with? Are you willing to get dirty with the code?