It seems, from the previous posts, that we should not hold our breath waiting for rich text in Leo.
Now the question is: how to make the most of Leo's current features in order to approximate a rich text experience? I am asking this question from the perspective of someone who would use Leo mostly as a PIM (storing data, reorganizing it, writing research based on that data). For me the biggest advantages of rich text, in this context, would have been: text colorization, text highlighting, different fonts, strikethrough. Of these, only text colorization seems to be currently supported by Leo's features, although it is not yet clear to me how exactly to achieve this; the easiest way, I guess, would be to select the text and then to press a user-defined key shortcut, corresponding to the specific color one want to give to that text. Is there any plugin already that allows me to do that? As for something resembling the other features mentioned above, I am clueless on how it could be done. Different fonts in plain text? Well, then it would not be plain text any longer. Text highlighting? Text color reverse (as used in old computing and still on some terminals)? Is any of these doable within the current plain text-only framework? If so, are there plugins implementing them already? I wouldn't want to use two panes, one with markdown code and the other for view rendering, as has been suggested. I am afraid it would make my workflow sort of schizophrenic. I believe the simplest thing would be using only one pane, and implementing all the needed features (whatever can be done) within that pane. As for strikethrough, a bizarre idea came to my mind: if we really cannot implement it via rich text, could we use a font that has both a letter and its strikethroughed equivalent. This way, we could select some text, and format it with strikethrough; each character would be substituted with its strikethroughed equivalent. It's just a bizarre idea, which may not work. Please comment. What other solutions would you propose to implement workarounds that at least approximate the desired features? Any suggestions greatly appreciated. Thanks Dufriz -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
