Thanks for the scenario. You might find the approach of using <<named sections>> usable. The best intro at the moment seems to be http://leoeditor.com/tutorial-programming.html
Also see recent related discussion at https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/109 Matt On Wed, Dec 10, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Joon Ro <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Wednesday, December 10, 2014 3:44:49 PM UTC-6, Matt Wilkie wrote: >> >> >> Sometimes this can be worked around a little more smoothly by creating a >> temporary organizer node and putting all the children-to-remain-clones in >> that before copy org-node and-paste-as-clone. So, 2 or 3 steps instead of >> n*n steps. >> >> > Thanks! This is pretty much what I ended up doing. > > >> I'm curious about what produces the want to copy-but-not-clone only the >> parent in the first place. I don't think I've had encountered that yet. >> What are you doing that makes this desirable? >> >> > This would be helpful when one wants to have a templete node for multiple > documents that share majority of contents. > > For example, let's say I'm making syllabuses for multiple sections of the > same course. Then they will share majority of contents, but there will be > differences such as class information, class meeting time and exam > schedules, etc. > > With this particular functionality, I can make a templete, with nodes for > both common and non-common contents, and then make the nodes for the common > contents clones. > For each class, I can just make a deep copy of the template, and edit > non-common nodes. > > But it seems currently I cannot do this. So I ended up puttting the common > contents into one parent node as you said, and manually generate other > nodes. Which is not ideal because 1) you have to do quite a few > reorganization of the nodes if you did not plan the structure beforehand, > and 2) you still have to manually generate non-clone nodes. > > -Joon > > > -- > 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/d/optout. > -- 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/d/optout.
