Having taken the time to compose and post a longer piece using Drummer (my first) about People of Canyon De Chelly (immediately below) I record here a few Lessons Learned:#
It took a little restructuring of the outline to get the feel of a coherent piece with HTML tags to achieve bold headers. Now I know.#
I erred in my assumptions about how the "#" links work, thinking I could link to specific subsections. Rather they position position the particular outline item (a paragraph in this case) at the top of the page, but the full article (one day) is fully rendered. (Example.)#
It was easiest to include images as "inlineImage" header attributes for an outline item with a caption. This worked very well. Previously, I have had to put in quite a bit of time attempting to compose images within the flow of text using HTML tags. This can be a little tedious. (Example.)#
Also, Ken Smith's posting about longer articles reminded me of a structured writing method i used to use that worked very well for longer technical articles. I plan to redeploy this method on my next effort, likely using both an OPML file written to disk (and a Pages document) before including it in a daily post.#
I am using Pages for longer pieces because I benefit from getting away from the piece for a few days, printing it out, scratching it up with a pen- and then massivly redoing it as my thinking/emotions evolve. I find it to be very different than a shorter post. #
My coding experience is very limited, but I may yet need to dig into scripting as i would like to know how to gather up various sections of outlines and string them together into an even longer post. Maybe this is naive. Any suggestions/tips about what I am missing are welcome.#
HTH. It is challenging to write clearly about the particulars of using software. Cheers.#
Having taken the time to compose and post a longer piece using Drummer (my first) about People of Canyon De Chelly (immediately below) I record here a few Lessons Learned:#
It took a little restructuring of the outline to get the feel of a coherent piece with HTML tags to achieve bold headers. Now I know.#
I erred in my assumptions about how the "#" links work, thinking I could link to specific subsections. Rather they position position the particular outline item (a paragraph in this case) at the top of the page, but the full article (one day) is fully rendered. (Example.)#
It was easiest to include images as "inlineImage" header attributes for an outline item with a caption. This worked very well. Previously, I have had to put in quite a bit of time attempting to compose images within the flow of text using HTML tags. This can be a little tedious. (Example.)#
Also, Ken Smith's posting about longer articles reminded me of a structured writing method i used to use that worked very well for longer technical articles. I plan to redeploy this method on my next effort, likely using both an OPML file written to disk (and a Pages document) before including it in a daily post.#
I am using Pages for longer pieces because I benefit from getting away from the piece for a few days, printing it out, scratching it up with a pen- and then massivly redoing it as my thinking/emotions evolve. I find it to be very different than a shorter post. #
My coding experience is very limited, but I may yet need to dig into scripting as i would like to know how to gather up various sections of outlines and string them together into an even longer post. Maybe this is naive. Any suggestions/tips about what I am missing are welcome.#
HTH. It is challenging to write clearly about the particulars of using software. Cheers.#