A Windoze tool chain for YML
Because my students are using Windows, I had a look on how to use the YML tool chain in a good way on this platform.
I did a test. I'm recommending:
- Of course, you'll need Python and lxml. I'm working with version 2.6.
- Notepad++ seems to be a good text editor for Windows for the people who for whatever reason don't like vim ;-) Best save your files as "UTF-8 (without BOM)".
- Because for User defined in-text Operators it is
very convenient to work with special characters, and the Windows keyboard layouts usually
are insufficient (to say the least), AutoHotkey is a very
useful tool (and not only for the YML tool chain). Escpecially
^!y::Send «and^!x::Send »will help with YSLT ;-) - At last, CMD.EXE is an imposition. But Microsoft did recognize that after some decades, and added Windows Powershell at last.
With this set of tools, YML seems to be very usable on Windows, too.
publiziert Thu, 12 Mar 2009 12:57:17 +0100