Re: [Zim-wiki] Unable to enable Insert Diagram plugin

2014-03-28 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
James:

Make sure the path to dot.exe is on your path, something like:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Graphviz2.36\bin\

Then in Zim under Edit - Preferences - Plugins

Insert Diagram should show the GraphViz dependency as OK

Make sure to enable the plugin with the checkbox.

You should be ready to use the insert diagram menu item

- Kurt


On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:33 AM, James Yu cyu...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,

 I have already installed Graphviz2.37 on my Windows7 machine, and I can
 render table successfully with Graphviz.  However, when I tried to enable
 Insert Diagram plugin in Zim, I got dependency fail due to cannot find
 Graphviz.

 I put my Graphviz path into my PATH variable, but no luck.
 How can I enable Insert Diagram plugin in Zim ???

 This is a UTF-8 formatted mail
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Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim project status

2013-11-01 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Jaap,

I want to echo Marco's sentiment: You have done a great job with Zim. It's
an incredibly useful tool with capabilities that I have yet to find in any
other application.

I appreciate your steady improvements over the years.  Many applications
that I have found promising in the past seem to get abandoned when the
developer loses interest shortly after release.  Your time investment over
the long haul is appreciated.

- Kurt

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:40 PM, Jaap Karssenberg 
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:

 Dear all,

 Since it has been more than half a year since I made a release and there
 is a long list of unanswered bug reports and patches in my mail box, I
 would like to give a short update on the project status.

 The short summary is that most bug reports and patches send after April
 are still in my Inbox. I did not forget about them, but simply have been
 lacking free time to work on them. At various points I promised people to
 look at them real soon now. At this point I will stop saying that and
 instead say that it will probably take another few months before I can work
 on that backlog.

 That does not mean that the project is abandoned - for from it - although
 it may seem so if you look at the bug tracker. I still fully expect to
 produce new releases in the coming years.

 In the mean time I did look into why the community wiki on the website
 stopped working. Turns out the php install of my hosting provider is no
 longer compatible with the dokuwiki install. As an experiment I moved the
 main content (*) to a github wiki.

 So the community documentation can now be found here:
 https://github.com/jaap-karssenberg/zim-wiki/wiki

 Feel free to contribute and document any hacks there as well.

 If this works I also want to publish the manual as a github wiki, to make
 it really easy to have more people editing the manual as well.

 Regards,

 Jaap


 *) I did not move the development planning pages - looking for a different
 solution for those - will update when I sorted that out

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.58 Released

2012-12-28 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Adam,

Did you see the calendar options under the Journal plugin config?

- Kurt

On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 12:07 AM, Adam Porter a...@alphapapa.net wrote:
 Jaap,

 I just upgraded to 0.58, and something is wrong with the Calendar
 plugin.  It's still available in the menu, and Alt+D works, but it's
 not listed in the Plugins tab in Preferences anymore, so I can't
 configure it.

 Thanks,
 Adam

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Zim 0.58 Released

2012-12-16 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Beautiful - Thanks Jaap.  First time trying the distraction-free mode:
like it very much.  Been using uberwriter under debian and writemonkey
on windows.  Nice to have somewhat of a similar mode for zim.

- Kurt

On Sat, Dec 15, 2012 at 1:17 PM, Jaap Karssenberg
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 I just uploaded zim 0.58 to the website. This release is first of all
 a bug fix release, with a critical fix for a bug preventing zim to
 start after a crash. Other important fixes included are that exporting
 latex equations and interwiki links work again. New features include a
 new plugin for a distraction free full screen mode and more options
 to configure the tasklist plugin.

 Cheers!

 Jaap

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Opening attached PDFs on certain pages

2012-11-23 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
John,

Not sure if you are using Linux, but I played around on my Mint netbook and
found somewhat of a workaround for you.

I placed a single line .sh file in my attachment folder that contains the
shell command to open the pdf to a specific page, then created a link to it
in the wiki.

Name the .sh something useful like document_page30.sh and put into the
file something like:

/usr/bin/evince /full/path/to/document -p 30

Probably will have to set the permissions to make the file executable

I have the Attachment Browser plugin enabled. In the browser, right click
the .sh and customize the Open With to /bin/sh (Before, my default open
with would just open the .sh in the editor and not execute the command -
see the Zim help pages for Default Applications if you want some
background).

Then in your wiki you can create your file link to your .sh file with
something more descriptive as the text using link markup or Insert - Links
(Ctrl-L) - or drag/drop from the attachment folder and edit the link text.

You are set - close the Attachment Browser if you want to, then in your
wiki, click on your descriptive link and your pdf will open to the correct
page.

This may seek like a lot of hassle - but honestly once you have the open
with set, and one executable .sh file, it's really easy to duplicate the
.sh to another directory (or replicate it in the current directory if you
want) and do the quick path/page_number edits - then drag into your wiki
text.  I was hoping that I could just use a ./file reference in the
command since the .sh is usually in the same attachment directory as the
.pdf, but it's not too big a deal to enter the full path.

Not elegant, but it works (until something better comes along).

- Kurt


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 10:42 PM, John Geoffrey gmke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hello,

 I was just wondering again about something that I thought might be useful:
 sometimes when I attach PDFs to zim pages it is specific pages/articles in
 this pdf I really need. This question might be in the wrong place, because
 pdfs are opened by an external program, but does anyone know a way to link
 to the attachments (or external documents at all) in this case so they will
 open on specific pages?
 So basically it would look something like this: I have a zim page A which
 has an attachment B. B is a book of quite some size with different articles
 in it. During writing page A I decide it is needed to link to article C in
 book B. Now if I link to the attachment it will open the document at the
 beginning or, depending on the program, at the last point I used it.

 Thanks


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Re: [Zim-wiki] flowchart designer

2012-11-20 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
(snip)

...is that the charts wont be able to be changed dynamically by the user
embedding a static image, doesn't provide any ability to
update/correct/alter the content of the chart, from within the wiki, which
is what wikis are for.

(snip)

Not sure that I agree with the ...from within the wiki, which is what
wikis are for. statement.

As a desktop wiki platform, Zim does a beautiful job of providing a way to
enter marked-up text, define inter-page linking to capture associations,
and link to files generated/maintained in other applications that are
associated with the topic of the page.  I use these features (and others:
tagging, tasks, etc...) daily as a central part of my work-flow within my
wikis.  Probably many other users do too.

I view dynamically editing embedded content within the wiki page as nice
to have but not essential.  Dynamically editing textual content is what is
essential to me.  Apologies if I misunderstood the point, but to me it
implied that Zim was missing the fundamental purpose of wiki's, and I
respectfully disagree: I think Zim is just about perfect...

Keep up the good work, Jaap.

- Kurt


On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 5:28 AM, Jaap Karssenberg 
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:25 AM, chembio...@yahoo.com 
 chembio...@yahoo.com wrote:

  the problem with what you suggest, is that the charts wont be able to be
 changed dynamically by the user
 embedding a static image, doesnt provide any ability to
 update/correct/alter the content of the chart, from within the wiki, which
 is what wikis are for

 is there anything i can do now, to be able to design/create and edit
 flowcharts inside zim ?


 I think the previous mails cover all things you can do to make this
 possible in the future. But don't expect any solution that will  work right
 now. You ask for something new, new things take time and effort.

 Regards,

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Bounty for folding

2012-11-14 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Big interest on my part - but I'm pretty useless when it comes to
programing anything more complicated than Hello world. Maybe I can scare
up a little cash to help to sweeten the bounty. (emphasis on little - I
have two daughters heading into college and another not far behind.)

-Kurt
On Nov 14, 2012 5:02 AM, jayseye jays...@users.sourceforge.net wrote:

 In-reply-to: 
 ca+tmwmfgktmjyb2y2-hog_nmmtcs6z5acipzrr1d6rc2ep2...@mail.gmail.com


 Hello Jaap, and J.A. de Vries -

 I'd like to follow up on adding folding to Zim. Have yet to find this
 listed on the Wiki, as mentioned below.

 Has there been any progress, and/or is there still interest in this
 feature?

 Thanks!
 Marc Paul Rubin
 (jayseye)

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 From: J.A. de Vries hdv.jadev@x
 Date: Thu, 24 May 2012 14:10:59 +0200

 Hi Jaap,

  Maybe you could set up a small page on the dev wiki here:
  http://www.zim-wiki.org/wiki/doku.php . Please specify criteria that
  the plugin needs fulfill in order to claim the bounty, and how to
  contact you to claim it etc.

 Will do that. Might take a couple of days due to work.

  I can link the wiki page from the main website.
 
  To give a first shot on the technical impact: looks like gtksourceview
  can support marks in the window margin, which could be used to trigger
  fold/unfold. Also it looks like next release of gtksourceview will
  have a special API for folding.

 That would be great. It should make things a whole lot easier to
 implement and maintain.

  So either we need to make zim's editor inherit from gtksourceview and
  build on that API, or emulate the relevant code to enable similar
  features in zim.

 I don't know the inner workings of zim too well, but if the first option
 could provide the functionality I need, then I'd suggest the first
 alternative. The more generic the code the better in my experience.

  Main challenge is to get the folding marks (icons) in the marging and
  keep them uptodate. The hiding of a piece of text is almost trivial.
  Adding some widget / keybinding to fold/unfold all up to a certain
  level needs some design but is probably easy to implement as well.

 Glad to hear that!

 I'll try to make some time this weekend to write down the specs for what
 I would like to have.

 P.S. I am willing to sponsor other bounties as well, if you want me to.
 Just contact me if I can help.

 Grx HdV


 References

 Bounty for folding
 From: J.A. de Vries, 2012-05-19
 Re: Bounty for folding
 From: Jaap Karssenberg, 2012-05-22

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Firefox add-on: zim-clip 0.3

2012-08-17 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Rui,

Just installed zim-clip FF add-on on my Linux Mint netbook - works
beautifully.  Thanks for your contribution - I'll be using this often.

- Kurt

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 4:37 AM, Rui Nibau rui.ni...@omacronides.com wrote:
 Hi all.

 Just to inform that a new version of the firefox add-on zim-clip has
 been released: http://omacronides.com/projets/ff-zim-clip/

 changelog:
 - HTML to wiki conversion improved.
 - Possibility to run Zim from source.

 Zim-clip can now import selected images, thanks to Jaap who add a new
 argument to the quick note plugin. Pay attention that this
 fonctionnality only works with the developpement version of Zim
 (revision 576 and above) ; it will be released with Zim 0.57.

 next to come:
 - Windows support.

 You can have the xpi here :
 http://omacronides.com/lab/ff-zim-clip/zim-clip-0.3.xpi

 Comments and feedback are welcomed.

 Best regards.

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Re: [Zim-wiki] zim can't delete anything

2012-04-11 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Balcal,

(Jaap, please correct this if I'm off base).

When you manually delete the notes folder, the Zim cache (in .zim
directory where your wiki was stored and/or the $Home/.cache/zim
directory would not have been updated.  So when you started Zim back
up, Zim would not have reflected the deletion.

Try deleting the contents of the .zim directory and/or the contents of
the $HOME/.cache/zim directory and restart.

After that, I'd suggest that, in general, you add/delete pages within
Zim so that it can update the cache on-the-fly to reflect to mods.

- Kurt

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 7:10 AM, baicai 1527597...@qq.com wrote:
 hello everyone,i have something about zim.I use archlinux and install
 zim by `pacman -S zim`.then run it.First ,i create a Notes and and write
 on it.today i delete this Note by  `rm Notes folder` ,but when i restart
 zim ,this Notes still exists ,but have no content .so i delete by right-
 click-delete page,a dialog box jump out and said

 This is zim 0.56
 Python version is sys.version_info(major=2, minor=7, micro=2,
 releaselevel='final', serial=0)
 Gtk version is (2, 24, 10)
 Pygtk version is (2, 24, 0)
 Platform is posix
 Zim revision is:
  branch: pyzim-trunk
  revision: 533
 jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com-20120402200722-gdcw1ef3icbs49qe
  date: 2012-04-02 22:07:22 +0200

 === Traceback ===
  File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py, line 826,
 in _action_handler
    method(*arg)
  File /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/gui/__init__.py, line
 1669, in delete_page
    update_links =
 self.preferences['GtkInterface']['remove_links_on_delete']
 KeyError: 'remove_links_on_delete'

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Re: [Zim-wiki] zim can't delete anything

2012-04-11 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Thanks for straightening me out, Jaap

- Kurt

On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 9:24 AM, Jaap Karssenberg
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM, kwood...@gmail.com kwood...@gmail.com 
 wrote:
 Balcal,

 (Jaap, please correct this if I'm off base).

 When you manually delete the notes folder, the Zim cache (in .zim
 directory where your wiki was stored and/or the $Home/.cache/zim
 directory would not have been updated.  So when you started Zim back
 up, Zim would not have reflected the deletion.

 But zim should detect it anyway. After restart of zim it checks the
 index against the folder structure and updates accordingly.

 A more likely reason is that other pages still link to the page, which
 would result in a placeholder for the page to still exist.

 Try deleting the contents of the .zim directory and/or the contents of
 the $HOME/.cache/zim directory and restart.

 This is rather drastic solution. If the index is out of sync you can
 rebuild it with the menu item in the Tools menu, or by running zim
 --index.

 After that, I'd suggest that, in general, you add/delete pages within
 Zim so that it can update the cache on-the-fly to reflect to mods.

 In general yes, but in this case that will probably trigger the same
 bug shown in the traceback.

 Regards,

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[Zim-wiki] Adding an Horizontal Rule

2012-03-21 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Apologies if this has been covered in the past.

Looking for a way to break up my text a bit.  In other systems I have
used some type of a HR tag.  Up to this point I have been using line
images and have an AutoKey (or AutoHotKey on Windows) script that
pastes the following in-line.

{{~/Images/line.png}}

This works OK, but I have to make sure that I keep image directories
located in the same path (relative to HOME) on my systems.

Other approach is to insert a diagram using the following dot:

graph g {
a[label=,shape=box, width=6, height=0.01];
}

Which doesn't rely on any external directory.

Is there a better way?

Thanks

- Kurt

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Proof of Concept markdown export for zim

2012-02-17 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Features work beautifully, Jaap.

Thanks!

- Kurt

On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Jaap Karssenberg
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Ok, so I now merge support for exporting pandoc markdown to zim. It is in
 rev494 of the main trunk. Will be in next release in a couple of weeks. If
 you want it early there is an Ubuntu PPA with daily builds here:
 https://launchpad.net/~jaap.karssenberg/+archive/zim-snapshots . And of
 course you can also grep the source from launchpad.

 Added Markdown also as Copy As format, so in zim you can select some text,
 right click it and the context menu will have a Copy As sub menu with
 Markdown in there. Might make it easier pasting directly into emails /
 websites etc. Same option also allows you to configure markdown as default
 format for copy paste.

 Enjoy !

 Jaap

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Proof of Concept markdown export for zim

2012-02-10 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Jaap (and all)

Finally got around to trying the proof-of-concept script.  Have to say
it worked beautifully.

I took my most complicated zim article, replete with special arrow
characters that I have mapped in zim, New Testament Greek words, and
most if not all of the formatting options available in zim.  First
experience after running the resulting markdown through pandoc to
generate html was marginal. Then, after realizing that --standalone
might be helpful (pandoc newbie here) - results were magnificent.

Only issue I had is concatenating sequential lines.  In zim I can use:

Here's a list:
* item 1
* item 2

but it comes out in the html as

Here's a list: * item 1 * item 2

Fix, of course, was to put a blank line between the line and the list.
Similar issue happens with any set of sequential lines.  I know this
is probably a tweak - or I can change my habits too for that matter.

Having the translation capability is very helpful.  I use Simplenote -
which reads markdown, so pasting the translated markup into Simplenote
gives me an on-line copy of any zim article I want.

Similarly, I like Instapaper for capturing web pages for reading, and
use Instafetch on my Android tablet to grab offline copies of the
same.  Turns out that I can send the html generated by pandoc to my
Instapaper account, and then I will have an offline version of the
rendered markup on my tablet as well.  This is handy for having
on-the-go access to rendered articles that I have written up in zim.

Great job Jaap - I know this is proof-of-concept - but it is already
production quality in my book.

- Kurt

On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 4:52 AM, Jaap Karssenberg
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:
 Dear all,

 Attached a quick and dirty proof of concept for converting zim
 formatting into markdown with pandoc extensions. This script takes a
 file name for a zim page as argument and outputs markdown to stdout.
 If the people interested in this could go ahead and test it I can
 include it in the next version of zim as an export option. The script
 requires zim to be installed, or at least to have zim modules in the
 path.

 To test it I suggest:
 1) Create a page in the zim GUI with lots of markup
 2) Convert it to markdown using this script and check if it looks as expected
 3) Convert to html/pdf/... with pandoc and check again if it looks as expected

 Feel free to mail any test results to me personally or put a bug in
 the zim bug tracker.


 Open issues  questions:

 1) How to deal with checkbox lists ? Current I leave them in the same
 syntax as zim (using [ ], [*] and [x]) but this will not
 translate well in pandoc's interpretation

 2) How should we link to other files when exporting a notebook ? I can
 link the file as file:///path/to/file.txt or as ./file.txt

 3) How to deal with underline / mark formatting ? Now rendering as
 bold, which is acceptable for the time being

 4) How to deal with indented paragraphs in zim ? Now ignoring any
 indenting, because it would turn paragraphs into verbatim in markdown

 5) How to deal with image properties, like setting width and height ?

 6) How to deal with with tags (and in the future anchors) ? For now
 will just put them in as plain text

 7) How to deal with inline objects ? (This is a future feature being
 tested, allows plugins to do custom rendering for a block of data.)
 Probably can re-use syntax for verbatim with code highlighting
 properties - e.g. ask to highlight as x-zim-plugin-foo. This will be
 transparent as verbatim text if not supported.


 For proper export at least item 1) and 2) need to be addressed. Other
 can be ignored because there is at least a fallback behavior that will
 not mess up parsing in pandoc, and export is a one-way process.

 However for native support in zim (which means storing all pages
 directly in markdown) also 3) to 7) need to be addressed to make sure
 we can write a page and then read it again getting the exact same
 content. (And probable I forgot a few, but this is what I saw so far.)

 Regards,

 Jaap

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Re: [Zim-wiki] Evernote/Footnote-like UI change?

2012-01-10 Thread kwood...@gmail.com
Hi Jaap  Adam,

Been lurking for a long time on this group. I used dokuwiki for quite
a while as well as wikidpad - and about 6 months ago decided that Zim
had just about the perfect balance of what I needed/wanted, and that
the additional features I was looking for (wiki syntax for tables and
header folding) were already in the plans...

One of the things I liked about Zim was the simplicity of the
interface, so I initially reacted unfavorably to Adam's suggestion.
Having said that, though, I warmed up to the idea after monitoring the
thread and pulled-down Jaap's prototype childview plugin.  I really
like it.

One of the more ambitious things that I did in dokuwiki is set up a
reference repository with about 200 or so references.  Each reference
got its own sub-page and was linked from the master reference page.
Each sub-page had all the bibliographic data for the reference along
with the abstract and some metadata that I cataloged using tags.
The master reference page had the article-page title, author(s) and
year of publication.  Dokuwiki has a great plugin that can dynamically
build tag-specific tables - so culling the reference list to generate
a table of links on a particular topic or date range was a really nice
feature.

The potential that I see in your plugin for something like a reference
list would be that I could expand the master reference page to include
all of the sub-page content in order to browse the reference database,
or - if I understand Adam's vision for this capability - filter the
set of tags so that only the articles on a certain topic are presented
in the list for expansion.  If this is in-line with your vision - I
agree: it would be a great feature to have!

Jaap - thanks for all of your work on a great tool.  Adam - thanks for
a great suggestion.

- Kurt

On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:46 AM, Jaap Karssenberg
jaap.karssenb...@gmail.com wrote:
 OK, I've made a very quick and dirty prototype as a plugin. It shows
 all child and grand child pages inline with the parent page below the
 text. To try it, drop the attached file in the zim/plugins/ folder
 (/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/zim/plugins or similar folder when
 installed).

 Consider it a mock-up and let me know what to change - bonus points
 for modifying it in gimp/photoshop/paint to come up with a better look
 ;)

 Please note:
 0/ this plugin is experimental -- don't even think about using it for
 real at this moment
 1/ after you disable the plugin again restart zim to get rid of the new view
 2/ inline notes are only read-only for now
 3/ inline notes are clipped to 300 px (not sure if this is needed or not)
 4/ indenting for sub-sub-pages not really visible - need to enhance that
 5/ no rounded corners - needs some cruft to make it look nice ;)
 6/ no guarantees about scalability and load time at this state

 One question I already have is whether it is a good idea or not to
 have a single scroll bar for both the parent page text and the child
 page listing. Alternatively these could be in separate panes, so the
 text remains in the same place while scrolling through the child
 pages.

 Another question is how to handle folding of sub-pages. I now show all
 sub-sub-pages in the tree. But I also could hide them until you click
 show.

 Enjoy!

 Jaap

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