On Thursday, May 16, 2024 at 11:04:15 PM UTC-4 andyjim wrote: one more question and I'll try to leave you alone: I use Bike, an outlining editor. The file extension is .bike Can I represent an external Bike file in a Leo outline and from that Leo outline can I open the external file in the Bike application?
I don't know anything about a Bile file. In general, if you can run Bike and get it to pen a file from the command line, we can easily issue that command from within Leo. I see that a Bike outline is an html file. I don't know where they keep their images, etc, but it's not hard to display an html file in Leo. Editing it is something else, though. I see that Bike also has an OPML format too. OPML is a XML file but has a bad design for interchanging anything complicated. In theory, an XSLT transformation could be written to convert it into a Leo file. It's been so long since I worked on XSLT transformations (about 20 years) that I'm awfully rusty. There's also said to be a text format for Bike but I don't know anything about that. So the answer might be that it can probably be done, but you might not be able to do the kind of editing of rich text that you can apparently do in Bike. OTOH, Leo could be made to use a rich text editor instead of the plain text-based one it normally uses. There's at least one plugin that does that, though I don't know if it still works. Anyway, the answer to the question of representing an external Bike file in Leo is "probably yes, depending on what you want to do with it in Leo". Reading a little more (Bike: An Elegant Outliner For Mac-Focused Workflows <https://www.macstories.net/reviews/bike-an-elegant-outliner-for-mac-focused-workflows/>), it looks like it's an elegant riff off of Dave Winer's MORE outliner. Surprise, so is Leo! Dave strikes again. And OPML is a data format from ... Dave. Or it could be more reminiscent of Radio Userland <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_UserLand>, another Dave Winer project. Anyone else remember Radio Userland? -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/2c2d9547-e6c4-4627-81e1-b8045af83b3dn%40googlegroups.com.
