Even rougher second draft:
Special headlines can be used to designated parts of Leo outlines that
correspond to external text
files. Such headlines can have files generated from their subtrees by
template(s) contained in body text. These templates determine how the file
will be assembled from the descendent nodes. Alternatively, other forms of
these headlines can read in entire files and dissect them into outlines.
One of the big ideas of Leo is that the body text in nodes is data, an
analogy can be made to the cells in spreadsheets, here the data is not in a
grid, but held in graphs, each node having a parent, possible siblings, and
descendents. Leo has a dead simple DOM held in the python data structures
that is easily interacted with via python. All sorts of transforms,
summarizing, and synthesizing are doable via python.
More than just text can be held in a node, Leo has a way to add whatever
you like via, what are called, "unknown attributes", or uA's. These are
unknown in the sense that Leo is set up to deal with text, but through
through detectors uA's are found, made to persist, and, via custom or
plug-in coding dealt with.
1. There is a two-way correspondence between external files and Leo
outlines.
2. uA's extend what each node may contain.
3. Leo's dead-simple Python DOM: iterators, p.b, p.h, p.v and p.v.u.
4. @button provide clickable, entered on the fly, scripts that takes you
far beyond any macro language
5. plugins provide a way to add any functionality you like:
examples include ReST viewers
On Sunday, May 27, 2012 9:35:43 AM UTC-4, tfer wrote:
>
> No I can revise the abstract until the first of June, I like all this
> comments and will incorporate them. Looking at what I have make it seem
> like more of the actual talk and less of an abstract.
>
> Tom
>
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