On 17 Mar 2005 09:42:33 -0800,
divirtual@netscape.net (David Ing) posted:
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> After 10 days, there haven't been any responses on my Amaya question.
> (The responses were more about the XHTML script than the particular
> question about "make book").[/color]
Didn't seem that way to me. I had a look, but I couldn't really work out
exactly what you were wanting to do, and the Amaya documentation was even
more unclear.
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> I'm beginning to wonder if anyone uses Amaya. I'm now starting to see
> some pragmatic issues about adhering to w3 standards. In particular
> standard characters (i.e. ← and →) don't show up properly in
> IE.[/color]
I've used Amaya occasionally. But like any attempt as WYSIWYG authoring,
they all have their foibles. I've generally only used it as a quick way to
type up a very plain HTML document, which I was then going to spruce up by
hand. It saves me typing in various elements when I just want to type as
if I were at a typewriter.
Those characters do show up on my MSIE. I suppose it depends on which
version of MSIE is installed, and whether any installed fonts are suitable
for drawing those glyphs.
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> I've managed to use OpenOffice Draw to create some SVG graphics,
> which show up properly in a standalone browser window, but the "embed"
> choice doesn't seem to bring up a resizable image under either IE or
> Firefox. (The SVG actually doesn't show up correctly in Amaya).[/color]
You'll find SVG support quite poor in various browsers, and requiring
manual installation of plug-ins. I'd probably only use it if I had to, and
in a controlled enviroment, at this stage. For instance, if you were
writing a document using diagrams for a physics department, you might need
it's abilities, and everyone else might have it already installed because
they need it all the time, too.
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Does anyone use Amaya? [was: Amaya Make Book sample or example?] 
