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Re: Lout website


From: Sébastien Pierre
Subject: Re: Lout website
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 11:47:16 +0200


Le lundi, 28 juil 2003, à 23:35 Europe/Paris, Jeff Kingston a écrit :

Looks great.  They changed the name of my department, so I am
now at the School of Information Technologies, University of
Sydney, Australia, rather than Basser Department of Computer
Science.  And also I think that means that "Basser Lout"
should become just "Lout", unless there are people out there
who still see a reason to distinguish between the language
and its sole implementation (are there any?)

Ok, I did not remember the exact reason for having Basser Lout instead of Lout, I now use "Lout" only.

As I understand it I should be able to put in these edits
myself, but the Edit Page button did nothing on my browser.

This is fixed, as I explained I had troubles with the Wiki customisation, which prevented me to make the Wiki actions work.

No animations please! but a bit more colour
would be nice.

I don't think adding more colours would be good, because it would render the pages less readable. OTOH, I think having a colourful logo and some illustrations would be a good idea. I will try to do one, but proposals are more than welcome :)

It strikes me that you don't need a whole
extra column for the wiki options, they could go at the
bottom of the left column unless there is going to be a
lot more of them.

I wanted to try this three-columns layout, and see the reactions. I seems like a more traditional two-columns layout would be better, I will make the modification, and let all of us choose the preferred one.

Rather than "Adding new languages is
easy" it might be better to say "Adding new left-to-right
languages is easy."  Alos you sort of say PDF is available
and then later that it isn't.  The true state is there on
the page but expressed in parts in different places, it
needs to be brought together into one place in a statement
such as

   "Although a PDF backend is available, it supports only
    a subset of the Lout functionality and is not currently
    supported.  The most reliable way to generate PDF from
    Lout is to distil it from PostScript output."

I actually copied-pasted from Uwe's Lout page, but I am planning to completely rewrite and restructure all the website, to be clearer and simpler. Please be patient ;)

On behalf of everyone, thanks for doing this.

Thank you for doing Lout (and Nonpareil ;)

 -- Sébastien

--
«La plupart des journaux ou des émissions d'actualité sont
conçus pour donner au spectateur l'impression d'être un mouton
bien protégé qui ne peut que souffrir s'il s'écarte du troupeau»
<http://www.type-z.org> -- Poppy Z.Brite, La poésie de la violence




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