Hi Jed - thanks for the feedback We actually tried doing that with Spiritual Quest eBook and rounded up some ( novices to TW5 ) and gave them chapters done as slideshows. displaying one page at a time - just clicking the series of small icons atop that tiddler
there were a few that liked it - but the vast majority found : - the icons too small on mobile devices to navigate successfully ( the "all-thumbs" response ) - the pages then too many ( which is almost the same experience as ePub ) except ePub benefits from finger-slide page turns AND auto-flowing of fluid text - --- We questioned which felt better ePub or TWebook and TW was categorically favoured - mainly because it LOOKED better overall. The problem with slides is that you'd need a version for mobile, one for tablet and one for desktop in separating tiddlers...... TW5 already has inbuilt flowable text - DOWN the page - seemlessly. Whilst that initially confused the throng of test bunnies we threw these to, they warmed to it - especially when the ability to have IMAGES appear where they should be was evident. what is more natural on a TECH DEVICE ? It has to be more comfortable that the weird mobile phone attachment that allows you to hear the other talked when you put you finger in your ear !!! (SGNL - https://youtu.be/Yh1M5kVlNOw ) On Monday, November 21, 2016 at 11:25:52 PM UTC+11, Jed Carty wrote: > > I think that with what we have right now you could just split your text > into different tiddlers for each section, where sections are either > paragraphs or something longer, and have them display in order with a theme > that doesn't show tiddler boundaries. It would be pretty simple to have > something analogous to a page be a few paragraphs long and have buttons > that will close the tiddlers currently displayed and open the set for the > next or previous page. Then bookmarks could be to a page in the same way > you would with epubs. > > The slide show plugins people have made already do pretty much this same > thing, it would just be a different display of the same thing. The most > difficult parts would probably be making tools to automatically split the > paragraphs into pages. It would be easy to just say that a page is equal to > 5 paragraphs, but if you have very long or very short paragraphs in some > part of the book than you would have inconsistently sized pages and you may > have some pages running off the screen. That could be a problem on some > readers, but the rest wouldn't be too hard. > -- 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/b21d5bd6-7b6a-4dfe-9131-2688042f0d5a%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
