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
>
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