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Consult the documentation listed below, or find a topic in the table of contents. You may send comments and support questions to noteshare.io@gmail.com

Guides, Tutorials, Handbook

Comprehensive information

Noteshare Handbook

Buttons

Menu bar

earth-black

Go to the Noteshare home page.

home_black

Go to your home page.

site_black

Go to previous site

Home page

new_document

New notebook.

new_group

Manage your groups

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Help, info


Editor Buttons

Table 1. Notebook

new

New section: text or attach PDF

gears

Notebook settings

download

Export notebook (as download)

toc

Edit or re-order table of contents

question

Explain what each button does

Table 2. Section of Notebook

comment

Comment

trash

Delete section

tag

Section tags, summary, other settings

image

Upload image

edit

Edit

Table 3. View

double-arrow2

Collapse or expand the table of contents

look

View pdf file in browser

Table 4. Sharing

checkout

Check section in/out

toggle_inclusion

Forbid/Allow inclusion

publish

Publish/unpublish section (1)

unlock

Publish/unpublish document (2)

share

Share current section

(1,2) Green if published, otherwise unpublished (private)


Notes
Downloading an archive

See this Noteshare blog article for more details.

Check-in, checkout

If you are part of a group, your collaborators can still read this section, but they can’t edit it until you check it back in. When you check out a section, the button turns red. If you press it when it is red, it turns blue — you have checked it back in.

Inclusion

See the Noteshare newswletter article on Snippets for more information.

Menus

Table 5. View menu

Standard

three-column view with table of contents

Simple

a view with out the editing tools

Source

source text on left, rendered text on right

Sec/print

a printable view of the current section

Whole doc

a printable view of the whole document

LaTeX

convert the current section to LaTeX (experimental)

Keyboard shortcuts

ctrl = Control Key
alt = Alt or Option Key

Main page

ctrl-B — Browse
ctrl-R — Read
ctrl-W — Write
ctrl-M — Media

ctrl-P — Print — show printable version of page

ctrl-N — New section
ctrl-E — Edit current section
ctrl-A — Edit aside for current section

Editor

ctrl-U — Update: save source text and refresh rendered text
ctrk-Y — "Yoke:" scroll source and rendered text together
crtl-I — Scroll source and rendered text independently
ctrl-X — Exit editor without saving

Barebones searching is available to everyone. The advanced searches described below are avaialble only to logged-in users.

Searching Noteshare

Barebones searching

Put a single word in the search box at the top of the page. Noteshare will match it to the titles and tags (keywords) of all the public notebooks on the site, plus those you or members of your group have written. If you didn’t find what you were looking for, try putting the code s: in front of your search terms. Read the next item might explain why this helps.

Search by section

Put s: atom in the search box to find sections of documents having to do with atoms.

Search by author

Put a: beta123 in the search box to find articles by the user with screen name beta123.

Searching inside a notebook

As your notebooks get bigger, it gets harder to find things inside them. Fortunately you can search inside a notebook. Here is how you wold sarch for atoms: Type i: atoms. Likewise, to search for potatoes, you woud type i: potatoes. You can put more than one keyword in your search — Noteshare will look for sections of your notebook that coontain all the keywords that you type/ Just remember — to search inside, type i: first.

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Search for images and other media

Type m: bird to search the media database for the keyword "bird". We found one that we particularly like. It has ID number 460, and we inserted it like this:

IMAGE::460[width=250, float=right]
Searching for your own work

Sometines — often — you want to search your own library of notebooks. Where on earth is my report on chromium bromate, or my poem "Ode to laziness"? Well, use the option --mine. The search chem --mine will give a list of your notebooks in which the word "chem" appears (in the title, tags, or description). The search m: bird --mine will find your bird photos and no others. Importantly, s: atom --mine retrieves a list of sections of your notebooks that match. And if you really can’t find it, try the full text search t: atom --mine.

Search by domain

Use d: lit to search for notebooks in the subdomains containing lit, e.g., lit.noteshare.io, literature.noteshare.io, etc.

Full text search

The search t: atom will give you a list of sections of notebooks in which the word "atom" appears anywhere in the text. Because this is a full text search, it is slower, but wiill find more than, say, a search by section (s: and ms:) . Often it will find too much.

Cross References

For now I am just going to record some info on cross-referneces to other sections while it is fresh in my mind.

Link to the heading of another section

Let’s make a link to the section on searching in his notebook. Go to that section now and look at the ower right-hand corner of the screen. You will see hte umbers 395:1610. The second is the one we are looking for. It is the ID number of the section, It is like your Social Security number. No two people have the same Social Security Number, and no two sections, even in different notebooks have the smae ID numbers. There are enough for everybody. To refer to the section in question, you type this:

XLINK::1610[How To Search].

And this is what you get:

Link to a specific part inside another section

Let’s make a cross-reference to the part about searching inside a notebook Here is what you write:

XLINK::1610#searching-inside[How To Search Inside a Notebook].

And this is what you get:

It seems like magic, but there is a trick. In the section on searching, we wrote this:

[#searching-inside]
Searching inside a notebook

You did not see the text [#searching-inside], but is is there. It is a kind of label that Noteshare can use to find things.[1] that finds them. Asciidoctor is the text processing engine that makes Noteshare what it is.] When you are wriing something, you can put labels like this wherever you want. There is more to making and using labels, but this is enough for now.

Compiling/exporting your notebook

Compiling your notebook means assembling it into single, possibly very long web page. Kind of like a book, or a scroll. Here is one example.

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Figure 1. Editor tools panel

To compile, first edit your Notebook Setttings using the gears tool. The settings should include the [doc.header] section like the one below — author’s name, date, and, optionally, two strings which determine whether document is numbered, whether it has a table of contents, and (optionally) the ID of the title page image.

You should also have a [doc.options] section that includes one of these lines:

  compile-sections=all
  compile-sections=public
  compile-sections=none

There are other options settings, but this is the one relevant to compiling your notebook. See notebook settings for more information. Notice that the options and the header sections have different formats.

Example
[doc.header]
--
Jeremy Foobar
11-20-2014
:numbered:
:toc2:
:titlepage-image: 194
--

[doc.options]
--
compile-sections=public
--

Notebook settings

To change the settings of a notebook, click on gears . Settings are optional, but they affect the notebook’s appearance and behavior. Below is an example, and below the example are notes on what the various settings do.

Each group of settings is optional and independent of the others. For example, you may have a [doc.header] section but none of the others. The [doc.texmacros] section is for those who use Asciidoctor-LaTeX.

If a section contains more than one paragraph, fence it off with -- as in the case of [doc.texmacros]. The [doc.header] section should always consist of a single paragraph.

[doc.header]
Phineas Fogg
November, 1803
:toc2:
:numbered:
:titlepage-image: 816

[doc.options]
compile-sections=all
essays.noteshare.io=can-publish

[doc.description]
A concise guide to getting
started with Noteshare.

[doc.texmacros]
--
\def\AA{\mathbb{A}}
\def\BB{\mathbb{B}}

\newcommand{\set}[1]{ \{\,#1\,  \} }
\def\dim{\mathop{dim}}
--
[doc.header]
  • The first two lines should contain the author’s name and the date

  • :toc2: —  place the table of contents on the side in the compiled version.

  • :numbered:: — number sections automatically,

  • :titlepage-image: 816 — use the image with ID 816 for the title page of the notebook.

[doc.options]
  • compile-sections=all — include all sections when compiling a notebook. You can also say compile-sections=public or compile-sections=none. in the compiled version.

    The compiled version is what you get when you choose Show Doc from the View menu.

  • essays.noteshare.io=can-publish — Permit cross-publication of your notebook by essays.noteshare.io.

  • show-source=yes — Allow others to view source and rendered text side by side (without the ability to edit the source).

[doc.description]

Set the text which appears as the "blurb" in the right-hand column of the title page.

Asciidoctor-LaTeX

The main reference is the Asciidoctor-LaTeX Manual.

Macro definitions

Put macro defnitions in the attributes field of your notebook to make them accessible to all sections. Press NA to view or modify the notebook attributes field. Then imitate this example:

[doc.texmacros]
--
   \def\AA{\mathbb{A}}
   \def\BB{\mathbb{B}}
--

Macro definitions can also be placed directly in a document as follows

[env:texmacro]
--
   \def\AA{\mathbb{A}}
   \def\BB{\mathbb{B}}
--

Note the "s" in the first construct — The tex macros for the document versus the texmacro environment.

Cross references (equations)

If you label an equation like this,

  [env.equation#pyth]

then you you can refer to it like this <<pyth>> to get a hyperlink reference that looks like (12). If, on the other hand, you label it like

  [env.equation#eq-pyth]

then the reference <<eq-pyth>> will be a hyperlink like Equation 12.

Customizing your home page

To customize your home page, select Edit site from the earth-black menu. Then edit the text in the "Customize site" box. That text consists of three possible sections:

  • Settings

  • Right-hand content

  • Right-hand links

These are illustrated below. If you need more than one paragraph in a section, fence it off with a pair of -- marks, as illustrated under "Content". The Customize site box can be empty or can contain one or more of the three sections discussed below.

The customized home page is the version the public sees, e.g., epsilon.my.noteshare.io/public. You can see this version by selecting Public from your home menu: home_black.

Site settings
[site.settings]
display_rh_links=yes
display_rh_content=yes
rh_link_heading=Links
Content
[site.rh_content]
--
!!IMAGE::681[align=center]  ## Images OK here
_Nautilus shell_          ## Markup OK also

The Nautilus is an amazing creature
--
Links
[site.rh_links]
Hacker News::https://news.ycombinator.com/

Managing groups

Command examples
add user fred55
delete user fred55

set owner fred55 -- only for admin

add notebook 5
delete notebook 5

edit notebook 4 readable=true
edit notebook 4 commentable=true

add notebook 5 readable=true writeable=true

Index


1. Actually, it is http:asciidoctor.org[Asciidoctor