On Wed, 23 May 2018 at 16:44, Dan Allen <[email protected]> wrote:

> Love the font, Lex. So stylish ;)

> -Dan


Hi Dan,

Interesting, it doesn't show as comic sans here, but then serves you right
for reading HTML mail, you should read the plaintext, HTML mail is evil. :)

Not sure but it appears gmail may have lost the ability to send just plain
text, will investigate.

Cheers
Lex




> 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).



>>> 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.



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