Thanks so much! I'll be incorporating these tomorrow. I also see I
missed an instance of @path "appending" - @path "prepends", or,
probably better, "prefixes".
- Stephen
On Jul 20, 9:22 pm, tfer <[email protected]> wrote:
> Here are some notes for part of chapter 4
>
> Overview: creating and using external files -
> You create and use external files using @<file> directives.
> Most of these directives may only appear in headlines.
> Here are all the ways of creating external files:
> Perhaps:
> You create and use external files by @<file> directives.
> Most of these directives may only appear in headlines.
> They consist of one of the directives below, a space, and
> a path and file name, or a filename resolvable via a
> @path directive in an ancestor node.
>
> Note that for all these directives, (except @root), only body
> text occurring in the directive's subtree can end up in the file
> written, (neglecting sentinel text).
>
> Here are all the ways of creating external files:
>
> ...
>
> The choice between CWEB and noweb is independent of the directive is
> used to create external files.
> Perhaps:
> The choice between CWEB and noweb is independent of which directive is
> used to create external files.
> or:
> The choice between CWEB and noweb is independent of whatever directive
> is used to create external files.
>
> Overview: summary of directives -
> - *...@auto**
> Imports the external file every time Leo reads the outline.
> The read-at-auto-nodes and write-at-auto-nodes commands can
> be used to read and write and @auto nodes.
> To:
> - *...@auto**
> Imports the external file every time Leo reads the outline.
> Leo determines what computer language that file is written in
> from its extension, and uses a set of rules defined for that
> language
> to create an outline for that file "auto"-maticaly. If no rules
> exist for that language, the file is first put in a single node,
> the same as @edit.
> The read-at-auto-nodes command does the same thing as opening up an
> outline
> with an @auto node does. The write-at-auto-nodes command will do
> the same
> thing as a save, that is, write out the @auto nodes.
>
> - *...@ignore**
> Causes Leo to ignore all or part of an external file.
> Hmm, that does not seem quite right, isn't it something closer to:
> - *...@ignore**
> Causes Leo to ignore this node and its descendants when writing out
> an external file.
>
> - *...@lineending**
> Sets the line ending to be used in external files.
> Additionally:
> - *...@lineending**
> Sets the line ending to be used in external files.
> Note that Leo uses newlines in its internal buffers,
> this directive only controls what line ending will
> be used in the file(s) it writes out.
>
> - *...@pagewidth**
> Sets the page width used to break doc parts into lines.
> Additionally:
> - *...@pagewidth**
> Sets the page width used to break doc parts into lines.
> In Leo, doc parts are comments that can be written as paragraphs,
> letting Leo wrap them to fit in the body pane. This directive
> tells what column to wrap them at when writing them to an external
> file.
>
> - *...@path**
> Set the path to be appended to filenames.
> Additionally:
> - *...@path**
> Sets the path to be appended to the filenames following any @<file>
> directive. This only affects descendant @<file> nodes.
>
> - *...@verbose**, *...@terse**, *...@quiet** and *...@silent**
> Set the verbosity of sentinels in external files from @root.
> Perhaps:
> - *...@verbose**, *...@terse**, *...@quiet** and *...@silent**
> Set the verbosity of sentinels in external files generated from an
> @root.
>
> Tom
>
> On Jul 17, 2:02 pm, thyrsus <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Proofreading much appreciated!
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