André wrote: > Version 0.8 of Crunchy has been released. It is available on > http://code.google.com/p/crunchy/ > > Crunchy, the Interactive Python Tutorial Maker, is an application that > transforms an ordinary html-based Python tutorial into an interactive > session within a web browser. Currently, only Firefox is supported. > Crunchy is developed and tested on Windows XP and Ubuntu Dapper Drake, > but should work on any suitable windows or UNIX system. > > Three major improvements have been made since version 0.7 had been > released. > > 1. New editor > > Instead of a simple html textarea, Crunchy now gives the option of > using a "real" editor, namely EditArea > (http://www.cdolivet.net/editarea/). EditArea support syntax coloring > and allows loading and saving local Python files among other features. > Within Crunchy, it is set up so that the tab key is translated into 4 > spaces. > > 2. Language support > > Crunchy now supports English and French, through the use of ".po" > files. When running Python code, some error messages have been > adapted/translated. EditArea itself support more languages > (currently: Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, > Polish, Portuguese). > > 3. Graphical tutorial converter. > > Crunchy uses some supplementary markup to transform html files into > interactive tutorials. Whereas previous versions required a tutorial > maker to edit an html file "by hand", version 0.8 includes a tutorial > editor: with a few clicks, you can easily add to an html file the > chosen interactive elements and options for Crunchy. > > In addition to the above major improvements, the code has been > refactored significantly and a number of small bug fixes have been > made. Crunchy will be demonstrated at the upcoming Pycon 2007. > > André Roberge and Johannes Woolard. > Very nice indeed, and a significant advance over 0.7 - I'll be trying to write Crunchy presentations myself (though possibly not as soon as PyCon).
I found it a little strange that the top-level directory in the distribution is called "andre" rather than "crunchy", but that's a very minor point. regards Steve -- Steve Holden +44 150 684 7255 +1 800 494 3119 Holden Web LLC/Ltd http://www.holdenweb.com Skype: holdenweb http://del.icio.us/steve.holden Blog of Note: http://holdenweb.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
