On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Edward K. Ream <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 9:27 AM, HansBKK <[email protected]> wrote: >> This got me quite excited > > Imo, if people aren't excited by this Aha, then they don't get it ;-)
I don't get it. :-] I have trouble following the explanation: my fault. I did wonder if there is overlap with past discussions of generalising Leo structure via 'nodes' and 'edges' where an edge is a first class participant, instead of a pointer. That is the model in the graph db world. I have a mental picture of that, but not yet of the current aha. Thanks, Kent > >> Let's say I've got the complete works of Carl Jung in plain text format, and >> I want to create a self-contained hypertext "study guide" with several "axes >> of access" for organizing in-depth textual analysis: > > [snip] > >> Think of what Leo now offers in the navigation outline as **the** >> "canonical" ToC outline for the original work. > > [snip] > >> UI issues aside, my point is that each of these "alternative tables of >> contents" can each stand on their own and present their own subset of the >> content, re-sequenced and interleaved between different works from different >> authors. > > Exactly. I've often said that there is no one "right" view of data, > but unless we can define *fully co-equal* outline views, the > "canonical" outline view is "more right" than any other outline view. > > At present in Leo, each node has only one "right" set of children! > Your example shows why this is not optimal. > >> Bottom line is - empower the user to create multiple "parallel universes" of >> meta-trees to navigate the same super-set of data. > > Yes. "Parallel universes" refer to different structure (sets of links) > on the same "data", that is, the v.b, v.h and v.ua parts of vnodes. > > 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. > -- 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.
