Progress Update - Saturday, 22, 2015
This is a quick update, as I should be writing more pages in the book.
Currently, Iām digging through the āInspector: Typographyā section. I was wondering if I was being too detailed about fonts, but apparently itās importantā¦
It seems that missing Fonts could be the problem there. To start off the Typography section, I compared modern web development with my prepress experience. Missing fonts were trouble back then. Now that the web has modernized, apparently itās a problem here too. So, maybe some story telling is OK. Iām concerned that the book is a little too technical. Many some real world experiences can lighten it up a bit.
Also while working on the Typography section, I thought it would be cake to describe the Alignment buttons. HA, apparently not. It felt a little too short, so I did some digging about hyphenation. I usually use left-justify because the browsers canāt handle Justify too well. I havenāt checked to see if thereās been improvement since then. There has been, but itās still a bit fragmented.
@Daniel & @jonathan ā Supposedly, hyphenation improves when the language is specified. This is done in the section of the code, but that canāt be edited through Hype. Perhaps this is something that should be added to the āInspector: Documentā sectionā¦ a dropdown to specify the document language.
Since the book is for beginners-to-advanced levels, I feel itās necessary to include the āHype Manualā text. Tumult did a good job with basic instructions, so Iām trying not to duplicate what they did. Iām trying to create something a little bit more expanded. Itās taking longer than I thought it would.
This makes me happyā¦
Thereās an āextremely highā like-to-post ratio on this thread. Thatās because of the 19 people that liked the first post in this thread so far. This is encouraging. While I have been having fun on this project, there were some dark moments where I was wondering if itās too much work. For much of today, I just slept ā a lot!
Iām still aiming for an October-ish launch.