On Sun, 7 Jan 2018 05:51:32 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 6, 2018 at 4:07 PM, Terry Brown <terrynbr...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It's more a question of BLOB management than visualization. Leo lets > > you manage hundreds or thousands of little bits of text. That's > > impressive. So can that same management extend to keeping track of > > binary formats. > > Would supporting binary file types in the recursive import script > help? I don't think so - I don't think the goal is to shadow or mirror the full file system, just to manage some BLOBs with Leo's multiple views of information capability. Thought is that if you're using Leo you're probably leaning towards the "everything should be a text file" philosophy. A document is done with markdown or LaTeX or whatever. An analysis is done in a script, not some spreadsheet where there's no record of manipulations and mistakes may be invisible. But you can't escape BLOBs entirely. Things like SVG and PDF have their uses. So I see BLOBs in Leo as the occasional exception to the generally text based workflow. For example writing a paper with a figure - the figure may be inserted with the relevant markdown syntax, but the SVG will be edited with Inkscape - it would be nice if that BLOB could be associated with the markdown node that uses it and an edit / update cycle for the figure triggered from the node without having to go to the file system in a shell or whatever. Cheers -Terry > Rather than adding special cases to the existing > RecursiveImportController class, a new > BinaryRecursiveImportController class would likely be best. > Vitalize's generator-based code > <https://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/i6LQdY69SwQ/LB2HJsK0BAAJ> > could be used. The code would just generate nodes containing > references of various kinds. > > 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 leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
