> > http://www.telescopictext.com/ >
@Richard - thanks for the links! Yes, similar concept but/and with a few interesting differences that I'll reflect on for anyone who is interested in the concept; In creating StretchText I wanted it to be very simple to use but this typically comes at the expense of flexibility of course. My first attempt was to merely make the label expand directly. But, as I mention in my creation, this made the remaining right part of the original sentence hang like an appendix at the end. It seems to me that telescopic text does not deal with this, even if they've polished their sample texts so it's not obvious. If you try to actually compose text like this it is immediately clear it is totally unpractical. ...*or* just maybe their version allows to completely *exchange* the label word/s for the content, I can't tell. The telescopic text does also show before the original label text, so that's an indication. With complete exchange, you could make the whole sentence be the label so this is exchanged, which seems useful and solves the appendix problem. In StretchText I wanted the syntax to follow the actual sentence, so you basically just insert the macro brackets and parameter quotation marks. Complete exchange might be better though. ...but I do miss a reverse/back toggle in their version. StretchText obviously leaves the button for toggling. There is also difference in visual guidance as to *what part* is the appearing text - both for the actual appearance and what it was that was added. Telescopictext takes the easy route in just having it appear in a blink. I found this too twitchy for StretchText (interestingly it doesn't appear *quite* as twitchy in telescopic text. Not sure why.) I made early attempts to make the content text visually "feed out" (by animating font-size, line-height etc) but this was not good because all text occurring in the rest of the document was then pushed visually, including the repositioning of the line breaks etc, making for an unappealing visual rattling. I ended up with a compromise; the content "space" does appear in a blink but there is a (quick) fade in for the actual content. Their decision to leave the text as a completely integrated part, contrary to my outlining border, might be a good idea for readability though. I'm thinking I should change it so the border fades away. Interesting stuff. <:-) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" 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 https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/7a0ad5e3-da0e-40bd-b0cb-e31acfaf4b31%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
