It may be worth looking at the leoOPML plugin which allows Leo to read and write OPML files.
On Friday, May 17, 2024 at 1:52:25 PM UTC+10 [email protected] wrote: > 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/f2b1cea9-e64e-4704-b405-5a2492642731n%40googlegroups.com.
