On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:21 AM, tfer <[email protected]> wrote: > The people at Next Day Video uploaded a bunch of videos of the talks at this > year's PyOhio conference, many thanks to them, they do a great job and just > did this as a service to the python community. The video turned out pretty > good, although I'm sure my former english teachers would be cringing with > the amount of "ah's" that crept in during the first part of the > presentation.
Many thanks for your presentation. No one knows better than I how difficult it is to present the Leo Aha. I particularly liked two of your comments. First, that files are the smallest unit programmers work with. Second, that Leo generates files from what is, in effect, a template language. Both give, simple, clear pictures to people. The Leo Aha isn't in the details! I'm in the midst of many things at present, but you have inspired me to see if Leo itself might be improved a bit more to show people what Leo is about. The proper starting point, as in your talk, is likely to be quickstart.leo. Hmm. Suppose we could define a slide show as a "trail". Think of a trail as a series a series of actions. An action is anything that Leo can do: select a node, a pane, alter text, etc. A create-trail command, that would follow what we do. The command would place a text representation of actions into an @trail node. We activate the recording button, mess around with Leo and then edit the @trail node. We can then replay the @trail node to see if it does what we want. The next-in-trail and prev-in-trail commands would replay the trail in an @trail node. When giving a talk with Leo the presenter would do bind keys to these commands and then just hit the next-in-trail key repeatedly. The big advantage of this is that it creates a canned experience that can be replayed during talks, or just videotaped as the basis, say, of a u-tube video. In effect, the @trail node creates a dynamic script of what we want to show Leo doing. The big question is whether it would be easy enough to create and edit the @trail node. But assuming that we have done the (possibly large) amount of work required, we are left with a very useful tools for presenters. Furthermore, it would be easy enough to tell newbies how to follow a trail. Once started on the trail, the newbie would be lead onwards to all of Leo's glories :-) My hope is that this way would be *much* easier than taking and editing dozens or hundreds of screen shots. Experience shows that screenshots are way too clumsy. 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.
