On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 4:51 AM, Fidel N <[email protected]> wrote:
When I say Learn Leo, I don't mean Learn or understand the code, I mean > learn what you can do with it. > .. > > My (again, personal) feeling is that the current policy right now is: Let > him read the code to understand how it works. So only the users willing to > go through the (1) Learn the physics then (2) develop your own way to > develop "information cities" can actually use leo and use its potential. > I've spent a lot of time on tutorials, slideshows, etc. However, in light of your first sentence quoted above, it does seem like I have neglected to show what people can really do with Leo, at least in the tutorial docs. > With Leo, you first have to study and understand what are directives, how > do they work, how everything interacts in the tree, etc. It takes more than > two hours. I would say that it can be measured in weeks or months until you > really know what you are doing. > Maybe, but there is a tantalizing possibility. I prototyped Leo in about two hours, using the MORE outliner as a prototype, and inventing @others in the process. (I was already deeply involved with sections and section references.) So for *me*, the Leo aha was almost instantaneous, once I had an outliner to prototype my thoughts. Since then, things have become more "voluminous", yet Leo's DOM is so much simpler and more powerful than it was in the early days. Do these improvement make Leo *more* difficult to learn? It's hard to believe so, but then nobody is closer to Leo than I. > > And here is where the "information cities" come again. > If Leo were provided with an interactive Leo file, which would guide you > ... > The idea of putting a cheat sheet into the default workbook.leo is a great one. There will be a default_workbook.leo in leo/docs, and the code that creates ~/workbook.leo will make a copy of the default file. This will allow continuous improvement on default_workbook.leo. Edward -- 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.
