Dear Edward, if you want to increase the user base, there are 2 user groups I could think of:
the ones using all these different editors will be often also people using LaTeX, and so far I find TeX support is a bit weak. I wish TeX support would be similar to ReST support, although there is an added complexity when implementing @auto for TeX, because LaTeX users tend to split up the source code into muliple files using \input, and that would somehow need to be mapped sensibly to the representation in Leo (probably using <<inputfile>> or so). If I ever find the time I will work on this, but I am too busy to promise anything. The second group are those who are using lots of non-text files, e.g. MS Office or similar, CAD tools, etc. These would benefit of a good integration of binary files. For example, when dragging a binary file to Leo, it should not attempt to create an @edit or @auto node, but an @mime node (needs the mime plugin). Alteratively an @url node would work. Note: I think this should result in a RELATIVE link. In my opinion, Leo should provide a way to specify what is a binary file and what is not, as this would be more portable, and also because I can immediately think of files which I want my system to treat differently as Leo does: TaskJuggler project files for example. I want Leo to open these as text (@edit or @file), but the OS should open these with the TaskJuggler program. The same should also work for the active_path plugin, which currently allows to specify only one type of default file directive, but it would be better to be able to specify the file directive per file type. Btw: I have just used Leo as a project management tool, handling a couple of hundred LaTeX, TaskJuggler, Excel, JPEG, PDF files and (ad hoc) Python scripts to generate with a team of 5-6 people a 600 page proposal. I could not have done it without Leo. - Josef -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en.
