On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 12:07 PM, taa, Leo Newbie <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks, Edward, for all the time you are continuing to invest in > creating tutorials for us newbies.
You're welcome. This is, for me, an interesting an exciting project. > I think we all pretty quickly get a feel for the strength of various tools. > And right now S5 feels feeble. This is not at just a matter of "feelings". The fundamental units of work in S5 are css and the corresponding individual elements of web pages. That's way too low a level. In contrast, the fundamental units of work in sphinx are entire web pages, tables of contents and make files. In practice, the difference is extreme. Yesterday I got to know a really cool tool: firebug. Debugging web pages feels exactly the same as debugging assembly language programs. No matter how good the tool, it can not disguise the extremely low level of the work. >From another point of view, s5 is trying to do too much, namely to create a set of slides from a single html page. Alas, the tools at hand for s5 are inadequate. No matter how good web standards are, they can not disguise the fact that different browsers work differently. Image where we would be if we all had to code to the lowest common denominator of 5 or 10 implementations of Python. We would be nowhere. Leo outlines allow us to work at a much higher level. The forthcoming create-slides command will raise the level of sphinx by creating entire slideshows as an "object". To do this, create-slides may have to create "support structures" such as tables of contents, make files, conf.py and (maybe) directories on the file system. This "extra" work will be true value added. The combination of Leo and Sphinx may well turn out to be the premier tool for authoring slides. Edward ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Edward K. Ream email: [email protected] Leo: http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
