The enthought Tools Suite has some apps among which an reStructuredText editor with live preview. It runs on my Debian squeeze/sid but not flawlessly. Handling parser errors is broken. It also does not include files listed the toctree directive, in contrast the Sphinx builder does fine there. Didn’t try the include directive, guess that could nevertheless. But I already miss vim.
Sphinx btw, is a cool example of Docutils/rSt can do. I’m not sure about this file-based hypertext though. The problem with hypertext is imo, that by and large it is not interactive in a mutating way. I can’t branch from a document and have the server adjust or create the hyper structures follow me. Cannot compare chuncks I choose to frame, and not by whatever happens to be the section or an inherited file-boundary. What does web ‘page’ stil mean anyway.
Even now, I’m typing not only text into a what presumably is a text-field, but also links and paragraph structure. And I better draft or copy-paste-and-save it, cause my browser will obediently ditch everything if I or some bit goes wrong. One could see that as inherent to RESTfull document protocol, but I have no issues with that architectural design. Perhaps I don’t like HTML. Or I wish HTTP-range was better supported, but then that protocol layer sits below HTML, so how could that hand out chunks of HTML.. nah, still dreaming of Xanadu.
Document 3 contains several editions of the Declaration of independence.
Actually the grey areas are most interesting, and might be coloured red or orange in the first version on the left, for it was deleted or left out of the later edition on the right, in which the grey areas represent new text, which might be coloured green or yellow. Appearently these are the parts that have been under discussion during these drafts, while the coloured pieces here are rearranged and intersected chunks of preserved text.
The screenshot shows Pyxi’s compare view (main window, ALT-P), colours emphasize the continuation of ranges within the text across 3 versions. Pyxi is a front-end written in Python for Udanax Green (Xu88.1) and supports editing plain text with transclusion and two-way links.
Blurry analog photography and little-light accidents taking out the film… still like the way they turned out. Some are a little old, perhaps almost a decade, but the film makes em even look older.
Scanning negatives with a 49 EUR film scanner.
Curious little fellow, totally not scared. I could have picked it up had I not remembered rodents can be fierce biters if they want to. Found it beside the road, riding back from Emmen per bicycle.
Never thought I actually would try to solder that someday.
I broke my SimPad today by trying to “upgrade” its RAM. An old projector lens helps inspecting the connections.
Circumventing the network bug in Udanax Green. Screenshot shows the Pyxi demo frontend running on orb, talking with an Xu88.1 backend at iris.
