If you can say in a few sentences in your own words what's so cool about Leo, and then you can add to that a simple set of points reflecting the tutorial outline (like: "And Leo makes all this cool stuff possible by letting you manipulate an outline, including information in external files, using clones to put information in as many places as you want in the outline. It lets you manage personal information and produce documents, and lets programmers maintain code in a fully programmable programming environment") (and literally state those things, don't leave it implicit through the tutorial outline) -- then you'd have a jazzy, powerful introduction that hooks right onto the tutorial.
Whatever you think is so special. example: Leo is just crazy great. I write pizza recipes with it! I keep my pizza recipes in it and in separate recipe files. I can mix and match ingredients so easily it makes me convulse with joy. I take orders with it, print receipts with it, and control my homemade pizza robot! + And Leo makes all this possible by letting me manipulate outlines with pizza details, including information in external files, using clones to put information in as many places as I need to in the outline. It lets me manage personal information like brainstormed pizza concoctions and incoming pizza orders and produce documents like order receipts, and it lets me maintain my pizza machine's code the same way, in a fully programmable programming environment. + The following tutorial will acquaint you with Leo in one or two hours, covering the above key features. Or: Leo makes me cry it's so exciting. It's a swiss army knife of blissful creativity enhancement. I love to give pretentious TED talks about genius and sustainable strategies for invention and feeding the world. It's a tool for brainstorming, creative writing, giving and receiving wonder and joy and saving the whales! + And Leo makes all this cool stuff possible by letting you manipulate outlines full of insufferably precious ideas, including information in external files full of techniques for producing wonder and delight, using clones to reuse inspiration in as many ways as you please. It lets you manage personal information like all the names and addresses of groupies who throw themselves at your feet and produce documents like "How My Mother's Good Luck Talisman Saved Me from a Crocodile Attack in the Amazon -- And What I Learned From the Experience," and lets me write the code that controls the drones I use to deliver rice and vegetables to starving children throughout the world, in a fully programmable programming environment. + The following tutorial will acquaint you with Leo in one or two hours, covering the above key features. Hope you get the point from the above. Seth On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 6:33 PM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > I am starting to wonder whether we need a section called something like "How > Leo is different and why Leo is Important". This might be part of the > tutorial, or somewhere else. > > This question is nowhere asked (or answered) on Leo's web site, except with > a few fairly cryptic words on the home page. > > You might think this would be a great thing to have, but I have my doubts: > > - Any additional words add to the already-too-long tutorial. > > - Could newbies really understand the section without having read the > tutorial? > > For years I have tried (and pretty much failed) to answer this question. > Still, the new tutorial style *might* make a difference. I'm going to > review the old words to see if they can be strengthened by making them more > pithy. > > Edward > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
