On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:19 PM, Norbert <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a question concerning chapters : What is their purpose ? Can
> someone give me an example ?

Chapters create an illusion of having a separate Leo document, while
you are operating on a segment of a bigger document instead (with
ability to clone, etc).

Fictional example:

Let's say you have a big "workbook.leo", and you have to give 2
presentations coming up.

Your workbook.leo contains confidential stuff.

You create 2 chapters, presentation-a and presentation-b. You clone
various interesting (non-confidential) nodes to those chapters.

When the presentation starts, you can open presentation-a. This
immediately hides all the stuff you deem too sensitive for that
audience. When the second presentation is up, you open presentation-b.

Two weeks pass, and you edit workbook.leo, fixing inaccuracies as you
go. You have to give both presentations again, and you still have both
of those chapters around, with improved content. If you had created 2
separate leo documents, they wouldn't have been updated. Also, if you
were sharing nodes between presentation a and b, you would have THREE
copies of the same nodes (workbook.leo, a, b), instead of just one.

Less fictional example:

I have a chapter "gtd" for "gettings things done". When I come to a
node that is an "action point" for me, I clone it under "inbox" in the
gtd chapter. The chapter also has "now", "later", "done", "deferred"
nodes to manage tasks.

Having this stuff in separate chapter helps you focus because you are
not staring at tons of nodes at the same time.

-- 
Ville M. Vainio @@ Forum Nokia

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