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On "clean" vs "dirty" code, this is very much a matter of opinion, so it depends on the person reading the code. |
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Actually, I've been thinking about this problem on and off and to me it seems like the whole concept of WYSWYG editors is flawed. Instead I've been thinking about a side-by-side editor.
The editor will allow you to edit txt files in a simple lightweight markup language like rest or markdown (it will have GUI controls to make it easy, rather like the editor we use to make posts to mobileread). As you make changes the result will be automatically updated and displayed in a pane to the side of the editor pane. So editing books will be about as hard as making posts on mobileread. |
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![]() But I get your idea. It sounds nice. It possibly has a few problems... for instance, you're display the same text twice on the screen. Seems more than a bit redundant. And if you make the display or markup view collapsible, you get a WYSIWYG editor again. |
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Naturally, one would want to provide advanced options for advanced users, but the more options you provide, the higher the chances of someone screwing up their options that end up making epubs that work for them and not for anyone else. I'm thinking of the mobileread community here, and the upload forum. But the advanced options should be there for those who want them... just tucked away a bit. |
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But you should be able to turn off the code view and work in design view exclusively. I don't need to see all of the text duplicated on the screen all of the time. Last edited by Valloric; 01-23-2009 at 03:16 PM. Reason: whoops |
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it occurs to me that not everybody on this forum is a native english speaker and maybe some of them aren't familiar with some tech jargon, so for the sake of clarity (just in case anybody doesn't know) :
WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get it means an interface which allows you to click on a button marked "B" (like in the MR reply box) and shows you the result this way : Quote:
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And I would urge you to consider makeing the panes vertical since most ebook readers are vertically oriented and in any case most people prefer to read text in narrow columns |
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I've yet to work with a tool that worked well when the user was allowed to modify the source as well as work in a WYSIWYG environment. Either the user is forced to work with both modes or has to choose one view. In other words most of these editors tend to favor one style of edition or implement both poorly.
When I created the BookCreator tool I wanted to be able to use a really good editor and not have to worry about HTML, format shift issues. I just wanted to edit the book how I wanted it to look. Kovid, calibre does a fantastic job format shifting HTML to LRF/ePUB/LIT/ and more to come. Right now the direct of this thread is geared towards format shifters not editors or writers. But the demand for a good editing en ePublishing tool is there I’ve had serveal athuors. conatct me thanking me for the BookCreator tool and how it facilitates their eBook creation process withouth having to get down and dirty in the code. If the developers on this group would really like to build an end all ePublishing tool I'd like to see us create a Plugin around Open Office, an excellent Word Processing tool. Going this route we would build a house on a solid Word Procesing foundation and can easily extend the UI to include other ePublishing features. Such as a GUI TOC builder, format(HTML/LIT/ePUB…) imports, etc.. Just my 2cents =X= |
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![]() ![]() When I do proofreading, I prefer to have the window panes side by side Last edited by mtravellerh; 01-23-2009 at 03:40 PM. |
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![]() RegExes are important and should be included. I'm not sure if they'll make it to the first release (which is probably a few months off), but they're something that is definitely on the list. |
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