Rant Re Rev Documentation

Dan Shafer revdan at danshafer.com
Mon Jul 25 11:29:30 EDT 2005


Bill..........

That tidbit is not in the current draft. I did look into it but as  
far as I can tell, it's not possible to do this. At least if it is,  
documentation for how to do it is definitely buried or missing.

Dan

On Jul 25, 2005, at 5:42 AM, Bill wrote:

> Will your ebook on printing talk about how to feed information  
> (such as
> number of pages to print) to printing dialogues?
>
>
> On 7/25/05 1:17 AM, "Dan Shafer" <revdan at danshafer.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Not too far off the mark, Timothy, but a little.
>>
>> When I started my Rev book "series" the idea was that i would simply
>> "port" my HT book to Rev and be done with it. A number of users on
>> the list at that time ensured me that if I did that, I'd be doing the
>> community a huge service. It seemed like a pretty simple undertaking
>> so I jumped in.
>>
>> Boy, was I wrong. Not only would a port have been impossible (thanks
>> in large part to the vastly richer vocabulary and power of Rev) and
>> unhelpful, it would have been counter-productive. I couldn't bring
>> myself to do that. So I ended up with a HUGE project and what I felt
>> was a public commitment to produce it. I dug in and did the best I
>> could under the circumstances. A lot of folks have kindly said good
>> things about what I did produce and I'm continuing to add to the
>> repertoire but it'll never be what's really needed.
>>
>> As I look back, I think the better course would have been to write an
>> intro to Rev and Transcript. As it is, my book is ONLY about
>> Transcript, not really about how to build things in Rev. That's a big
>> missing piece. I could write it but I just don't know if there's a
>> market for it. Frankly, total demand for the first volume was
>> surprisingly small (to me, not to Rev, but then they knew the numbers
>> and I had to guess).
>>
>> Maybe what's needed now is a comprehensive dictionary of Transcript
>> in hypertext form from the perspective of a developer, but I'm not
>> even sure how to start building something like that and feel pretty
>> sure I'd end up getting slammed for "regurgitating the docs" if I  
>> did.
>>
>> I'm just about to release my eBooklet on printing. What other
>> subjects do people want? Is a thorough overview of the IDE really
>> needed at this point? I gave one at RevCon West (well, not thorough;
>> not enough time) but not a lot of people seem interested.
>>
>> Sorry for the ramble/rant. Just trying to figure out what's most
>> important to do next, if anything. There are days I think I should
>> just shut up and go back to coding.
>>
>>
>> On Jul 24, 2005, at 7:22 PM, Timothy Miller wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I sometimes wonder why Dan didn't start by writing a comprehensive
>>> reference. As I think about it, that's probably a no-win
>>> proposition for an author, because Rev's free onboard documentation
>>> would be a hard act to follow, even if it's not that good. And as
>>> soon as Rev improved its onboard documentation, the book would stop
>>> selling. I'd guess that's Dan's reasoning, but it's only a guess.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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