On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 12:00 PM, Don Dwiggins <[email protected]>wrote:
> David, > >> >> PS I just used Leo to construct a long university essay. Wonderful it was >> to have the various pieces sitting in nodes where I could see the >> high-level structure and freely rearrange at will. Just another way that >> Leo has helped me massively over the last decade! :) >> > > What was the final delivery format of the essay? Did you turn the Leo > "tree" into, say, a .doc file by some means? > I tangled out to a text file, loaded it into LibreOffice, applied the needed formatting (eg cover page, headers/footers, APA reference list), then saved as (ugh) .doc. > I'm asking because it triggered a thought: I've been a generally satisfied > user of Open/LibreOffice Writer for many years. One weakness it has, > especially compared to MS Word, is a weak outlining capability. There's > been a ticket open on this for several years now, with no indication that > it'll ever be acted on. > Outlining is one of the most sorely needed features for the document power-user. It's an absolute anomaly that a well resourced open source software team would refuse for years to implement it. I just wonder if Microsoft might be waving the threat of a patent lawsuit. So, could a Leo "hyperdocument" be constructed in such a way that it could > be mapped into a .odt file, with minimal post-editing to make it ready for > publishing? Even if it could, there'd be a price to pay for a Writer user, > in the form of the Leo learning curve. On the other hand, the power of Leo > would likely leave Word's outliner in the dust. (Full disclosure: I'm not > very familiar with the latter.) > It would be a medium-effort project to write a converter which reads in a .leo file, extracts essay-related nodes, and (using the Open/LibreOffice Python API) writes out a .odt document. Maybe a great SoC project for a fresh-minded developer ! Cheers David > > FWIW, > Don Dwiggins > Emacs user looking to transition to Leo... > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "leo-editor" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > leo-editor+unsubscribe@**googlegroups.com<leo-editor%[email protected]> > . > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/leo-editor?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en> > . > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/**groups/opt_out<https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
