On Oct 11, 1:41 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 2. A good screenplay is another essential "tool". The essence of a Leo screenplay is that *somebody does something*. This gets immediately converted into *a Leo outline changes*. This is the heart of the matter. The changes tell the story. Or rather, the changes *are* the story. So the screenplay is a description of how an outline changes, combined with commentary. For example, here is a screenplay of an introductory slideshow: [Starts] - Start with new Leo file. - Explain Leo workbook.leo - (Maybe) Explain @chapter. Better yet, get rid of @chapter :-) - Save the file. Show the new filename in the window. - Create a new headline. Explain the keys involved and their effect. - Add some body text. Explain the keys involved. - Create more outlines. Show how to create children. - (Maybe) Sort nodes. - Show how to expand and contract nodes. [Ends] This is too much work to do with @slide nodes. Furthermore, it can't be done naturally with the screenshots plugin! Indeed, @screenshot trees use screenshot-setup.leo. We could use @pause to open a new window from screenshot-setup.leo, but that's very unnatural. It's basically wrong: the @screenshot tree doesn't specify what is to be shown. Thus, using Wink seems required for long slide shows, especially shows that can't be described by @screenshot trees. I've been playing around with Wink. It was tempting to use input- driven capture, but this generates a huge number of slides. Deleting those slides is actually more work than taking slides manually with Alt-Pause. Because of the large numbers of slides involved, I am focusing on the following goals: 1. Avoid repeating work. Detailed screenplays are the essential too. 2. Avoid doing repetitive work by hand. An "import" script will be essential. This will do the following: - Copy Wink screenshots into the slideshow directory. - Rename slides to follow the conventions expected by screenshots plugin. - Create an @slideshow tree consisting of one @slide node per Wink screenshot, and the appropriate children (@screenshot and @url nodes). Edward -- 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.
