Re: Amaya

On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:42:52 +0100, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis  
<bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com> wrote:

> 2011/12/22 Dominique Meeùs <dominique@d-meeus.be>:
>> I am afraid the problems of Amaya are more serious than donate, or host  
>> it at SourceForge or elsewhere.
>
> I agree.

Yeah, probably. :(

> It would be interesting to know what you and other users find it does
> _well_. Even if the Amaya project itself dies, it would be worth
> recording its successes in the hopes that other projects might
> incorporate them.

Indeed.

1. Make decent clean code without having to look at it (I remember when it  
didn't *have* a source code viewer - that wasn't such a problem)

2. Editing styles by example, and then making them into rules

3. Have enough browsing ability to make links by point and click

4. Have a transformations capability for making macros (table of contents,  
convert element X to element Y, ...)

There are a few other neat tricks it has. Although I have switched to  
BlueGriffon for HTML5 editing, (it also works for XHTML but I still use  
both it and Amaya), it would be nice to see the Amaya project continue. It  
did some very smart things with intuitive editing of structured formats...

cheers

Chaals

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