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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 07:10:44PM +0100, Javier Arantegui wrote:
> El Jueves, 1 de Diciembre de 2005 14:40, Luca escribió:
> > I have some problems in reading the text.
> 
> I think that I have solved this problem. Use the following link to watch 
> the 
> tutorial:
> 
> http://web.udl.es/usuaris/w3511782/howto_article.htm
> 
> I didn't realise that Wink generates a webpage to load the flash file.

Yes this is definitely better.

Let us now discuss further details. First of all, I think that
it is good to cut the demos in flash files which are not too long,
i.e. more or less of the length of your demo. We might than
have a general index like:

1) Generalities
   - First steps: starting, saving (explain browser), language, style,
       preview, printing, closing
   - Interface: menus, icons, shortcuts, LaTeX commands,
       context, status bar
   - Keyboard: keyboard modifiers, accents, special characters,
       cursor movement
   - etc.?

2) Writing an article (see also tutorial by Andreas Seidl)
   - Frontmatter: save, article style, title, author, address, abstract
   - Sections and environments: sections, itemize, enumerate, theorems
   - Mathematics: math mode, symbols, scripts, fractions, large brackets
   - Tables: matrix, new rows/columns, alignment of row/column,
       selecting subblock, background color, copy subblock
   - Figures: enter a figure, difference linked/inline figure,
       resizing figure.
   - Numbering and labels: displayed equations and eqnarrays,
       toggle number, label, reference (tab-completion),
       label sections, theorems, etc. (note: placement label).
   - Automatically generated material: table of contents,
       bibliography, update
   - Submit: preview, print to postscript/pdf, convert to LaTeX,
       finetuning the export

3, ...)
  Structured editing, writing style files, presentation mode,
  graphics mode, etc.

Each "-" would correspond to one flash file.
Please let me know what you think about this global organization.
Don't hesitate to be slightly redundant (the explanation of
the blue environment box, status bar, etc. can be done several times).
For the moment, I think that 1) and 2) would already be a good start.
We'll see for the rest later. We'll discuss the individual demos
in more detail as you make progress.

Remarks on your first demo:
1) After selecting article style, you may say that it appears
   at the bottom left of the status line.
2) TeXmacs is not just what-you-see-is-what-you-mean (like LyX),
   but even what-you-see-is-what-you-want (that is: semantic markup +
   wysiwyg + professional typesetting quality).
3) [?] Subtitle rarely used.
4) [?] Notice that author and adress can be entered by pressing
   return in title resp. author.
5) Before quitting the title environment, show the blue bounding box
   with the pointer, and explain that this indicates that we are
   still inside the title. Maybe recall status bar.
6) [?] Save document at the very start.

Thanks again for your great work, Joris