From: Kai D. <ma...@cl...> - 2011-05-06 21:26:06
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Hi all, as wiki2beamer strives to be user-friendly (and we're getting a lot more users through debian/ubuntu), I think we should switch the autotemplate feature on by default so first-time users are less confused and can start even faster. What do you all think? Any dissenting opinions? Given we can agree on that, we have to answer a new question: How do we switch it off in case it's getting in the way? ATM the most practicable way for me seems to be a commandline switch --no-autotemplate. Again, what's your opinion on this? regards Kai |
From: Valentin H. <val...@gm...> - 2011-05-06 21:43:49
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Hi, just my 2 cents. * Kai Dietrich <ma...@cl...> [110506]: > as wiki2beamer strives to be user-friendly (and we're getting a lot more > users through debian/ubuntu), Nice! > I think we should switch the autotemplate feature on by default so > first-time users are less confused and can start even faster. What do > you all think? Any dissenting opinions? In fact i recently read a blog-post where someone wrote that, in order to use w2b, one would have to create a tex template with the preamble: http://rnhrd.at/2010/latex-beamer-einfach-gemacht-wiki2beamer Although i think its from the time before autotemplate was introduced. not sure. Perhaps i should comment on the post, and say something about autotemplate. The thing i am worried about is that, switching this on by default, may break backwards compatability. Existing talks that people have would have to be upgraded... But it might be worth it, since autotemplate accelerates a workflow. > Given we can agree on that, we have to answer a new question: > How do we switch it off in case it's getting in the way? > ATM the most practicable way for me seems to be a commandline switch > --no-autotemplate. Again, what's your opinion on this? Yeah, that would be a suitable approach. What would the short option be? '-a' or '-n'? V- |
From: Kai D. <ma...@cl...> - 2011-05-07 08:03:43
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On 05/06/2011 11:43 PM, Valentin Haenel wrote: >> I think we should switch the autotemplate feature on by default so >> first-time users are less confused and can start even faster. What do >> you all think? Any dissenting opinions? > > In fact i recently read a blog-post where someone wrote that, in > order to use w2b, one would have to create a tex template with the > preamble: > > http://rnhrd.at/2010/latex-beamer-einfach-gemacht-wiki2beamer > > Although i think its from the time before autotemplate was introduced. > not sure. Perhaps i should comment on the post, and say something about > autotemplate. I just did that :) > The thing i am worried about is that, switching this on by default, may > break backwards compatability. Existing talks that people have would > have to be upgraded... But it might be worth it, since autotemplate > accelerates a workflow. We could relax the problem by naming the new version 1.0.0 ... >> Given we can agree on that, we have to answer a new question: >> How do we switch it off in case it's getting in the way? >> ATM the most practicable way for me seems to be a commandline switch >> --no-autotemplate. Again, what's your opinion on this? > > Yeah, that would be a suitable approach. What would the short option be? > '-a' or '-n'? -a seems like a good choice because -n is most often associated with some kind of repetition or a following value ( -n 5 ) |
From: Valentin H. <val...@gm...> - 2011-05-08 21:00:39
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* Kai Dietrich <ma...@cl...> [110507]: > On 05/06/2011 11:43 PM, Valentin Haenel wrote: > >> I think we should switch the autotemplate feature on by default so > >> first-time users are less confused and can start even faster. What do > >> you all think? Any dissenting opinions? > > > > In fact i recently read a blog-post where someone wrote that, in > > order to use w2b, one would have to create a tex template with the > > preamble: > > > > http://rnhrd.at/2010/latex-beamer-einfach-gemacht-wiki2beamer > > > > Although i think its from the time before autotemplate was introduced. > > not sure. Perhaps i should comment on the post, and say something about > > autotemplate. > > I just did that :) I did it too, friday night. Lets see who's comments appear first. :D > > The thing i am worried about is that, switching this on by default, may > > break backwards compatability. Existing talks that people have would > > have to be upgraded... But it might be worth it, since autotemplate > > accelerates a workflow. > > We could relax the problem by naming the new version 1.0.0 ... YAY! feature release! All for it! Do we want to make a TODO list of shiny new stuff we want for the feature release? Like the py3k support, which sounds awesome btw.! What sort of time frame did you have in mind? Do you perhaps wanna make a Release-Candidate, or is that over-engineered? > >> Given we can agree on that, we have to answer a new question: > >> How do we switch it off in case it's getting in the way? > >> ATM the most practicable way for me seems to be a commandline switch > >> --no-autotemplate. Again, what's your opinion on this? > > > > Yeah, that would be a suitable approach. What would the short option be? > > '-a' or '-n'? > > -a seems like a good choice because -n is most often associated with > some kind of repetition or a following value ( -n 5 ) :-/ '-a' sounds more like you are 'a'ctivating it -- but I guess there isn't a better option. The only other one can think of right now is '-d' and '--disable-autotemplate'. I agree that '-n' is inferior to '-a' though. V- |