Thanks Edward - I hadn't used @clean before and that seems to work just 
fine. 

Is it possible to undertake the next step and send commands to the OS 
command line - I think this is how AucTex works in Emacs - so I can send 
'pdflatex currentfile.tex' to the windows command line so that the file can 
be processed and a pdf produced?  If so this is going to be much easier 
than Scrivener compiling.

Is it possible to view a pdf from within Leo? I use Sumatra which is cool 
but thought I better check while on the subject?

Thanks again for all Leo efforts, much appreciated.

IH


On Saturday, 3 March 2018 12:50:31 UTC, Israel Hands wrote:
>
> Disclaimer - I understand that nothing breaks software like trying to 
> satisfy the demands of disparate individual users. I do realise that so 
> this is observation not really requests and certainly not criticism!
> Leo is wonderful. 
>
> When I read the group postings I often don't feel at all like the target 
> audience. Now that of course is probably because I'm not the target 
> audience, my programming skills are just no where near good enough!
> What do I use Leo for then?
>
> Content - for me content is king. Manipulate it - tag it - filter it - 
> anything you like but it's about content.
>
> So my first use of Leo is as a free form database for notes, minutes, 
> agendas,passwords, journal type stuff. Leo is a tremendously effective 
> bucket for information - and the ability to link to external files adds to 
> this capability.
> I have written simple Python scripts.  
> So I am by no means a heavy duty user in terms of features but Leo is open 
> on my computers Win10 and OSX all the time. 
>
> However there are things (and these I'm sure are very particular to me) 
> that make me look elsewhere for tools that I probably could and should use 
> Leo for that I don't.
>
> I'm a writer and generally my output is PDFs via Latex. I have looked at 
> the info on a workflow from Leo and just not found the energy to tackle it.
>
> So I use Scrivener - which is tree based - looks great and has a 
> relatively simple 'compile' mode to Latex.  Now any attempt to turn Leo 
> into Scrivener would be madness, but if someone wrote a Latex plugin that
> simple folk like me could use that would be great. However I hear the 
> argument 'there are plenty of text to Latex tools why should Leo be 
> another?' Well Leo has the tremendous advantage of not having to 'contain' 
> all the files
> within itself - it can just reference them. So in Scrivener when I output 
>  the document.tex file and then I want to make edits then I have go round 
> the whole edit in scrivener, compile, TexStudio routine. Whereas in Leo I 
> could just reference the 
> document.tex file and edit it directly from within Leo or just make the 
> final edits in TexStudio know that Leo will be able to reflect those edits 
> in the referenced file. 
>
> Secondly I use org-mode - nothing sophisticated - not even as a todo list 
> - but as my daily agenda and reminder - I need a lot of reminding.  Org's 
> capture and schedule tools are second to none. And with the addition of 
> Beorg on iOS 
> Org is surely going from strength to strength.  Seeing my Org Mode Agenda 
> in Leo would be lovely - having that agenda fire reminders from Leo would 
> be even better. 
>
> I wonder if I am alone on this island or are there other Leo users who 
> step away to do Scrivener and Org type things? 
>
> Notwithstanding these minor niggles it would be churlish not to thank 
> everyone for their efforts especially EKR so THANKS!
>
>
> IH
>
>

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