On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:56 AM, Davy Cottet <[email protected]> wrote:
>
My idea
[is] to turn Leo complexity to the most simple but complete Sphinx editor.
That's a great idea. Leo's rst commands do indeed have way too many hidden
features. Maybe the set of features used by all of Leo's features is a
largish subset of those features, but if we can do without them so much the
better!
>
it could be possible to build a kind of Leo-Sphinx-template.leo containing
all the needs of a sphinx project, without even modifying Leo's code and
writing a new plugin.
Interesting idea. At present, Leo's core rst related code is, of course,
based on reStructuredText, not sphinx. I have no real opinion about
whether using sphinx as a foundation would simplify things.
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1 - First thing would be to give this template all the file/folder
structure required by Shinx (build,sources, statics, templates, setup.py,
Makefile...).
2 - Perhaps use attrib-edit-py to graphically configure conf.py
parameters... otherwise, maybe just link to edit conf.py or maybe a new
directive for every parameter (probably useless...)
3 - Make new menus by introducing right @settings and @commands (and even
delete some default scary ones for newbies and useless for basic Sphinx
use).
For example I though about this kind of simple structure for this
"sphinx-template.leo:
@settings
@menus
@menu Sphinx
@item Configure (gui edit for conf.py ?) or @item Edit conf.py
and @item Edit conf.py
@item -
@menu make
@item ReST
[snip]
@item html
@item epub
...
@menu Open
@item html
@item pdf
@item epub
That seems really easy to call make html or other make commands since it's
always from the root folder.
[snip]
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Seems reasonable.
>
So, I wonder if I'm right thinking of customization with this kind of
sphinx-template.leo (eg not using myLeoSettings.leo and not using plugin
system).
The best, most stable code is code that doesn't need to be written. So
I'm all for it :-)
>
Does Leo users use to share this kind of personal customized .leo file (I'm
aware about security problem...). Are there a lot of Sphinx/Leo users ?
It's hard to say anything for sure about Leo users because we don't know
what percentage of them contribute to this group. All I can say is that it
is not common *here* to share .leo files. However, it would clearly be
possible to add entries to leoSettings.leo, or to put a sphinx-template
file into the leo/config folder. It would then be conceivable to add
support for a my-sphinx-template file...
>
Do you think it would be a good idea to build this kind of templates for
vari
o
us basic needs (we could think about other static blog
g
ing tools like Pelican and this type of editing usages...), I mean
different set of menus for different use ?
Personally I think that could be a good way to make the power of Leo to
really help people without programming skills.
Yes, I think it would be a great idea.
>
Anyway, I'm beginning scripting around Leo An enjoy it. Thanks to the devs
for offering that great tool to us python hackers
:)
You're welcome.
Just so the NSA understands (yes, they *are* monitoring this conversation),
I assume that you are using the word "hacker" in the sense that it first
had about 40 years ago, namely a person who like to mess around with the
internals of systems in order to understand it. Since then, the word
"hacker" has acquired much darker meanings :-)
Edward
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