Hi, @Iohannes, I can give some suggestions for some of your questions. You could use them as starting points.
On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 12:20:48 AM UTC-4, Iohannes wrote: > > Hi, a beginner here again. > > I would appreciate some advice on how to se tup Leo. I am no professional > programmer. I am doing research in humanities but I like to do some little > stuff here and there. > > Some of my current problems: > - How to nicely import html files (and whole projects)? If I import them, > they are creating an (almost) endless tree. > I would start out with a single file (not a whole project), and get some practice in structuring a file and working with it. You could do this for each of the major file type you want to work on. And you may want to start from scratch rather than import a file to start off with. That's just so you don't get stuck with Leo's standard structuring when it imports a file. OTOH, the standard structure can always be changed, and it may give you some ideas. If you want to start working on a particular existing file and don't want to import it, you could create a new node in the outline for it and just paste the text of the file into it. You could name that node @file test1.html, or something similar. When saved, the file would be created in the same directory as your outline. I suggest starting off with the @file type because leo includes all its information about the file right in the file. If you need to share the file with other (non-Leo) users, then @clean would probably be better since there would be no Leo-specific lines in the file. Since there is no Leo-specific data in the @clean file, When Leo reloads the file, it has to match up the file contents against the organizing data it has stored. That works well even when the file has been edited outside of Leo, but if there are too many or too radical changes, Leo might have trouble figuring it out the structure. - Should I manually rename @auto to @clean when importing files? I do, though I usually change to @file instead. That's mostly because I've never been clear on what @auto does that @file does not. Someone else will be able to say. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/ee10b903-8cb0-41c4-a81a-cf029f4e3bf8%40googlegroups.com.
