Use report from 5 min experimenting

[Anna-Katharina Jung]

• I didn't found it to be intuitive to click again the 'Publish' icon to get back to the editor, when you are 'done' with exporting. Is 'New', 'Save', 'Publish' designed as tabs? If yes, ... it is not apparent, especially with 'Publish' being on the right far far ways from the other two tabs. Further, when I have Substance window open and want to start a new document, a new instance of Substance opens, meh. Is the fixed text width arbitrary? Or is it this fixed width to fit printing onto A4 letter size ... when there is no print function. But if you want ur product (Substance) to focus on web publishing, then just cancel it out. 
• Otherwise, I really like the publishing options, now everyone can publish content that is simple - clean - distraction free ala paulgraham's essays.
• Not able to resize picture, not able to make a picture a hyperlink/clickable. Not able to insert video (vimeo, yt, etc.)
• For the 'code block' formatting, could you make the box indented and fill it with a very light grey and different font style?
• I have the ability to make lists, but not numbered lists?

It's (for me) not really apparent what you will focus/target on with the editor. Academic web publishing? Just web publishing? Publisher alternative for people that don't want to install a wordpress blog on their site but still be able to publish any form of long or short-form text on their website? #productfocus

[Michael Aufreiter]

Hi Anna-Katharina!

Thans for your feedback. Answers are inline.

On Wednesday 30 April 2014 at 06:15, Anna-Katharina Jung wrote:

• I didn't found it to be intuitive to click again the 'Publish' icon to get back to the editor, when you are 'done' with exporting. Is 'New', 'Save', 'Publish' designed as tabs? If yes, ... it is not apparent, especially with 'Publish' being on the right far far ways from the other two tabs. Further, when I have Substance window open and want to start a new document, a new instance of Substance opens, meh.

I’m aware of the inconsistencies here. New and Save are actions, while publish should be a tab. In the upcoming Beta 3 version this is already fixed. You can explicitly switch between an Edit and Publish tab. We decided that new should bring up a new window so we do not interfere with the existing document (which may have unsaved changes).

 

• Is the fixed text width arbitrary? Or is it this fixed width to fit printing onto A4 letter size ... when there is no print function. But if you want ur product (Substance) to focus on web publishing, then just cancel it out.  

The text flow is left to the browser, and adapts dynamically. Try resizing the window and you’ll see the text reflow. Printing is something we’ll address one day but it doesn’t have priority atm.

• Otherwise, I really like the publishing options, now everyone can publish content that is simple - clean - distraction free ala paulgraham's essays.

Thank you! :) That describes exactly our current goal with the Composer.

• Not able to resize picture, not able to make a picture a hyperlink/clickable. Not able to insert video (vimeo, yt, etc.)

We haven’t agreed on how we handle this yet. For now people have to prepare images in external tools. I’m not sure about wrapping images in hyper links. I usually use explicit links in the caption instead. But not 100% sure.  Regarding Vimeo: As of beta 3 we have support for HTML5 video and audio, which will be self-contained in the article so you do not have to use external services like youtube etc. However there is support for HTML pages, which allow you to do embeds like youtube etc. But that’s more for technically experienced users.

• For the 'code block' formatting, could you make the box indented and fill it with a very light grey and different font style?
• I have the ability to make lists, but not numbered lists?

It's (for me) not really apparent what you will focus/target on with the editor. Academic web publishing? Just web publishing? Publisher alternative for people that don't want to install a wordpress blog on their site but still be able to publish any form of long or short-form text on their website? #productfocus

The latter. We want to cover the general purpose use-case first. Unlike blogs we focus on article-centric publishing (essays, reports, interviews). There’s no concept of collections of documents yet. The advantage of that approach is that articles are self-contained and can be moved around (e.g. to a different server or viewed locally).

The more specific use-cases need some extra attention and I think it’s a good idea to develop separate editors for each group. We do not have concrete requests yet, but if there’s enough interest and financial support we’d be very interested in developing a Substance Journalist or Substance Scientist app.

If you are running a Mac, can you have a look at our beta 3 pre-release too? :) That be very helpful as we’re going to release it this week. Here’s the download link:

https://github.com/substance/composer/releases/download/v1.0.0-beta3-preview/composer-beta-3-preview-osx.zip

Thank you!

Michael

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Michael Aufreiter

Substance | http://substance.io

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