On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 11:01 AM, Edward K. Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kent and I spent three happy hours on Sunday discussing new directions
It was fun indeed. Another item discussed, changing the terminology for nodes which also exist on the filesystem from 'derived files' to 'external files' 'derived' implies the disk version is secondary to the node contents, for a newbie to Leo, 'external' probably is a more expected term. > for Leo. There is good stuff coming. > > Programming as an "adventure" (as in the old adventure game) > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KentTenney The 'programming as an "adventure" ' metaphor doesn't resonate with me, I never played the old adventure game, but the page Edward linked to is my very crude proof of concept of what I'm currently calling 'spatialization'. I think there's potential to improve the effectiveness of explanations by arranging components spatially. The figure linked to intends to be an alternative to the linear narrative which would typically describe how to write an Inkscape extension in Python. The example is more confusing than helpful, but I think much of the confusion can go away with refinement of tools to author this kind of figure, so I'm focusing on the tools instead of improving the sample. > > sphinx and a new rst importer for Leo: > http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ I think there could be a lot of interest in Leo as an rst editor if it could import rst files and nodify according to the section structure, write back out char-for-char. Currently Leo is powerful in creating rst, sounds like it soon will be as powerful in working with existing rst. The Sphinx project is getting a lot of traction, lots of trees of rst files needing editing and managing. > > Using bzr's api as another way of representing Leo outlines: > http://starship.python.net/crew/mwh/bzrlibapi/bzrlib.html > The bzrlib API is quite something, an embarrassment of riches. Seems like it could maybe do heavy lifting for @shadow, as well as integrate time travel into Leo outlines. Thanks, Kent > Kent please chime in here when you're ready. > > Edward > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
