Hi Peter and Doru,
On Feb 21, 2016, at 12:55 AM, Peter Uhnák <i.uh...@gmail.com> wrote:
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Well the idea is rather simple. Imagine that instead of having a website or a
book or a pdf somewhere you would have a more live version directly in the
image that you could interact with.
The idea of grafoscopio's[1] interactive notebook is precisely that one.
Documents are trees, but instead of being represented in HTML or XML or
LaTeX, they live directly inside the image and nodes in that tree have
two main forms: text and code. Textual node are edited in a light markup
language (pandoc's markdown) and can include references to another media
(images, html embed snippets and so on) and code nodes are interactive
playgrounds with all their benefits. The tree can be used to structure
the writing by imposing/emerging hierarchy on it: chapters, examples,
main ideas inside a text, and so on, with the use of tags that tell the
tree how each node will be treated. Trees can be exported to several
formats, including markdown, LaTeX, HTML and pdf (vía LaTeX).
[1] http://mutabit.com/grafoscopio/index.en.html
Because grafoscopio is also a self-learning exercise, is full of rookie
code and incomplete functionality, but hopefully it will get better with
my upcoming internship. It's taught and evolved mainly in a community
event called data week and the next week we will start our third edition
[2], so I hope also to get some boots in functionality soon and share it
back with the community.
[2] http://mutabit.com/dataweek/
On 21/02/16 02:28, Tudor Girba wrote:
Hi,
Ok. Indeed, what you are describing is what we call Snippets. We would like the
Playground to be formed of Snippets, where each Snippet can be of different
types (one of them is a picture). We had indeed a prototype that was demoed at
ESUG. This will have to be redone once Bloc becomes more stable. This will not
be immediate, but this is an important goal for us.
Nice to know! There is some intended date for this?
Cheers,
Offray
