make some templates--cv, stories with beginnings, middles, and ends, a place for class and name according to school rules, etcPuppyt wrote:Darren P. Dogfellow,
I have lurked on your multiple threads from time to time, I admit that I have been overawed with all your content to try anything seriously. So many bright and shiny toys on offer - where does anyone start? I am strongly reminded of "Hunt the WUMPUS" from both your thread title and the maze of information and links you provide... as I work through it I get "Zap - Superbat snatched" and lose the wood for the trees. You are learning as you go too - thanks for all your updates and your enthusiasm for your projects. Keep it going! Anyway I have a little time to kill, and found that your initial impetus for your wordprocessor was from Nooby - so in my books that is a Good Thing. So I want in.
excellent on both counts
Just experimenting with bwp1.5 now, just picking any of your projects at random. Oooooh, I am having a bit of fun *trying* to break things and explore intuitively, but pleasantly surprised with what I can do here.
you mean it's not self explanatoryAppreciate your gifs, but pretty-please could you post a video about cranking up and using the key features of your wordprocessor (and assorted JWM tweaks) ? Cheers Smile
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on a more serious note, what do you feel needs video clarification (i'm not adverse to the idea, just would have to figure out what to shoot that can't be "giffed" (i've been meaning to get some screen shots up for a while now--then thought maybe a pdf of gifs and info made by it to show some of what it can do--do i show my mouse cursor clicking the file and print menus?...), and what software to use and which machine to do it on).
as far as features for a nooby (and if by "i want in" you mean contribute, posting templates you've made as attachments to this thread may be the simplest way, but if you can hack the browser gui...that's be cool, too ) that are somewhat not word processor specific--i'm about to make a specific version of the keys for this word processor (bwp1.5 or any of those that type directly into a browser tab) for the make concurrent copies thread--i'd have to go hunt for code if not for "sehd" (sed help) in the launcher).
i'm glad there's enough there for you to "explore intuitively," and it should stand up to all manner of abuse (or repair itself by remaking itself), and i agree with your post in scsijon's Storywriting program for teenagers--it is potentially useful there. i see it as something you don't really need computer experience to use (no more fumbling around with this than menus and buttons of a new interface--people get to use a relatively familiar interface (their choice of browser, or at least the one they've seen before on the computer a relative, caregiver, or teacher is trying to get them to use--and all word processors should allow a tabbed interface, though lack of ability to key in a tab is somewhat of an annoyance (but less so if you haven't yet been conditioned to use it, i suppose)), but if you have some, you can somewhat painlessly gain a little more (page break code spit out from launcher in html (geany/leafpad/box1-2) view ("paw," which stands for pagebreak above whitetext(though blank)) is much faster than finding the page break spot to copy off of Styles2, copying it, and pasting into your document--it will get its own key in the mcc version, too (i was sort of building it up as a microcosm of this mess of a thread to serve as a almost brief explanation ).
anyway, i'll have some time coming up to do the visuals in a bit, but a quick tip i've picked up is that pasting in formatting for text (color, font, size) doesn't seem to rely on line breaks being copied, but paragraph formatting often does. sometimes it appears necessary to make room for the paste in by adding carriage returns to the target (pressing enter about where you want to new formatting to go before you paste), and sometimes it doesn't, so your own templates seem to be the best way to go about organizing things. pointing your browser at the directory that holds the templates (bwpt in a terminal will give you a set in any given directory, minus the big styles and info sheets and boxes--the box2 and 1.1 files can make more styles sheets) gives you a set of documents you can launch at a click. advantages over most other word processors is speed and multiview (same document viewed from many browsers or windows or tabs or text editors at once to keep many versions alive and your wake safe (so long as your machine doesn't crash, which leads to the next strength, robustness--any modern browser or text editor should work, and pdf and html are universal formats from what i can tell. you shouldn't lose your ability to view or work on your work no matter what OS you use.
it's fast and light on resources. templates load instantly and most have the browser running anyway, so it's almost invisible in that regard (not that it's not impossible to choke the machine with heaps of browsers running at once, each with multiple tabs and instances--it inspires that kind of abuse, whereas i remember lighting candles before using Word).
anyway, that's my sales pitch.
the jwm stuff (and the aemenu stuff that mirrors it) is the same idea as the custom keys and layers--make it easier to work on your documents--resize things, split the screens, --i use the lpx notepad everyday set at autostart--i don't notice it as a feature but i suppose "lpx" in the launcher is a key feature and organizational tool...
it's supposed to be easy to swap out the useless and annoying stuff for stuff that specifically fits your needs, whether we're talking wp or uup (word processor or ultimatesque utilities pack).
to get back to concerns mentioned in scsijon's thread--autoindentation is something html can do from what i've read, but i've failed at it on two for two templates so far. as far as autocapitalization of the first word in each sentence, libre office has "sentence case"; i thought that was a property of geany, but it can probably approximate it with a find and replace of some kind.
hth
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