On 07/30/12 21:11, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > the ability for multiple people to work on the same document at > the same time is really important. Can't do that with Word or > Libre office. revision tracking in traditional word processors > are unpleasant to work with especially if your hands are broken.
If you're developing, I might recommend using text-based storage and actual revision-control software. Hosting HTML (or Restructured Text, or plain-text, or LaTeX) documents on a shared repository such as GitHub or Bitbucket provides nicely for accessible documentation as well as much more powerful revision control. > It would please me greatly if you would be willing to try an > experiment. live my life for a while. Sit in a chair and tell > somebody what to type and where to move the mouse without moving > your hands. keep your hands gripping the arms or the sides of > the chair. The rule is you can't touch the keyboard you can't > touch the mice, you can't point at the screen. I suspect you > would have a hard time surviving half a day with these > limitations. no embarrassment in that, most people wouldn't make > it as far as a half a day. I've tried a similar experiment and am curious on your input device. Eye-tracking/dwell-clicking? A sip/puff joystick? Of the various input methods I tried, I found that Dasher[1] was the most intuitive, had a fairly high input rate and accuracy (both initially, and in terms of correcting mistakes I'd made). It also had the ability to generate dictionaries/vocabularies that made more appropriate/weighted suggestions which might help in certain contexts (e.g. pre-load a Python grammar allowing for choosing full atoms in a given context). -tkc [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasher http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/dasher/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
