TINDERBOX: Playing with Prototypes and Agents
An image of the updated file “Literary Endeavors” (previous post image):
With the generous assistance of Steve Ersinghaus, I finally was able to figure out exactly how to make use of the Tinderbox features of using prototypes and particularly, the agents. This was vital to this project as the different types of works wanted to also be separated for easy identification of word count and eventually, published, in submission process, etc.
Once I learned what to put in the query strings and where to put them into the agent note, I can take it further on my own into the specific areas for whatever purpose I need. I also learned that the prototypes must be specific and no note can serve two masters/prototypes so that if I want a group to follow a chocolate/blue dress (example only) standard, I need to make that a single prototype rather than two; likewise, chocolate/pink dress would be a different prototype entirely.
I’ve made a lot of progress on this particular project, and also can apply that knowledge learned last night into the 100 Hypertext project that I’d started late last year.
Now, I’m having fun.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology
February 7th, 2010 at 6:06 am
hmm…i like this. how can i learn? the tutorial miraculously stops short of many of the wonderful properties of tinderbox…