Re-centralised

I’m not going to get into the wild world of Minimal Word Processing right now, but I did want to quickly outline how I got pyRoom to run for me on my XP machine.

Notes

- I was having a bear of a time installing it on XP64 / ActivePython

- My Xp machine is running XP Pro 32 Bit.

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1. Install Python. download here

2. Install GTk for Windows – download here

2. Install pyCairo – download here

3. Install pygObject – download here

4. Install pyGTK – download here

5. Download the Windows Version of pyRoom – @launchpad – or here if your having problems (Like, getting the windows version from bzr, errors trying to extract (identical file/folder names causing it to grok on pyroom / pyroom (folder) among other things…)).

6. Double click on pyroom.py – if everything went OK it should start right up.

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You should be done!

The big question I’m sure your asking is “Why? Why bother downloading 30 odd MB of random things to make a 50k app run – especially when I could use something like DarkRoom, JDarkRoom, q10, etc…?”.

It is a very good question. See This thread for more of an idea of where I’m going with this. In the thread ref’d above – someone wants to be able to put small elements of markup in – to make either the export or import into another app more painless. To keep the formatting. the solution proposed is to run it through an external converter. Rather then tack on processors for txt’s, with pyRoom, you should be able to integrate a good way to dump that minimal markup into a format other applications can read and use easier – in my case yWriter…but more on that later.

Oh.

And yes, you could use word.

(Quick Tutorial)

1. Open Word

2. Press Alt. Then press V. Then press N.

3. Press Alt. Then press O. Then press K.

4. Select the color black

5. Press Alt. Then press O. Then press F.

6. Press Alt + C at the same time.

7. Select the color green.

8. Press Alt. Then press V. Then press U.

(and yes, I know its not all perfectly centered and everything like the others )

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Key Bindings for pyRoom

(from the wiki)

There are a few keys allowing you to perform a few useful commands:

*Control-H: Show help in a new buffer

*Control-I: Show buffer information

*Control-L: Toggle line number

*Control-N: Create a new buffer

*Control-O: Open a file in a new buffer

*Control-Q: Quit

*Control-S: Save current buffer

*Control-Shift-S: Save current buffer as

*Control-W: Close buffer and exit if it was the last buffer

*Control-Y: Redo last typing

*Control-Z: Undo last typing

*Control-Page Up: Switch to previous buffer

*Control-Page Down: Switch to next buffer

*Control-Plus: Increases font size

*Control-Minus: Decreases font size