Love the font, Lex. So stylish ;) -Dan
On Tue, May 22, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, its good that you like Asciidoctor so much, but this is the ML for > Asciidoc Python, probably better to ask at http://discuss.asciidoctor.org/ > > Cheers > Lex > > On 23 May 2018 at 07:08, Fernando Basso <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> I have been using Asciidoctor for for some years now, for taking notes, >> making >> summaries of programming, ideas, insights, etc. and I love it. I love the >> TOC >> with links, the default HTML/CSS theme, etc. Too many things I like about >> Asciidoctor to list here, actually. (I am even attempting to write a vim >> plugin >> do some handling of todo lists more or less following the way Org-mode >> works >> when handling "checkboxes".) >> >> It so happens that I recently started using Zim Desktop Wiki. Two things >> I most >> like about Zim is the "searchability" and the tree structure of the files >> in >> the wiki as well as the table of contents for each file that happen to be >> viewing/editing. Those features make Zim extremely navigable (and easily >> navigable). >> >> >> <https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-APGR1aJjROo/WwSGp1zyNJI/AAAAAAAAC4g/yukzZ70hdx8EFpMkb4YCy5ui4LBAPiNggCLcBGAs/s1600/zim-navigability.png> >> >> >> I don't like its Dokuwiki syntax though for a few reasons that I don't >> think >> would matter matter here. >> >> And with that, came the idea of making a Zim Wiki clone using Asciidoctor >> as >> the underlying markup. That means files would not only be useful for this >> Wiki >> of mine, but would also be ready to use in external places, like README >> files >> in Github or Gitlab, for blogging with Jekyll and whatnot and perhaps >> other >> things. >> >> One goal would be to implement the _in place_, wysiwyg style of editing >> like >> Zim does. >> >> Easier said than done :) >> >> For me at least, editing text in such a manner (and resorting to the >> source only >> on some specific cases) lessens cognitive burden during the writing. >> Also, I tried >> live previews, epiphany's automatic reload, etc. and although they help, >> it is >> a bit of a nuisance having to switch back and forth between windows or >> even >> finding what I just wrote in source code on the split pane of Atom, for >> instance. >> It is still a bit burdensome to me. >> >> And then, why did nobody (to my knowledge) have done something like this >> _in place_ editing for Asciidoctor yet? Perhaps it is next to impossible? >> >> If I even attempted such a thing, I would perhaps use Electron and >> Asciidoctor.js. >> >> I don't believe I would succeed, but would like to hear some commentary >> about >> this. >> >> Thanks in advance. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "asciidoc" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "asciidoc" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Dan Allen | @mojavelinux | https://twitter.com/mojavelinux -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
