Re: Markdown preferences

2019-10-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
I use markdown most of the time, because I've learned it, and that largely due to the amount of time spent in the Stack Exchange network and now GitHub. However I increasingly chafe under markdown's limitations and have targetted as Asciidoc as my escape path. I tried rst but balked at the

Weird space character

2019-10-17 Thread Rob
My LaTeX processor choked on 2 instances of an unknown UTF8 character. Probably came into Leo when I copied from somewhere else (perhaps an MS Word document). Anyway, there was no visual clue in Leo where the offending characters were. By process of elimination I found the offending node and

Re: Markdown preferences

2019-10-17 Thread jkn
On Thursday, October 17, 2019 at 2:52:53 PM UTC+1, Rob wrote: > > Curious what other Leonistas use when writing plain text (not coding). > Over the many years of using Leo, I have used markdown (md), multi-markdown > (mmd), rst and org mode (experimented some, but don't really understand >

Re: Improved asciidoc, asciidoctor and pandoc support

2019-10-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 8:42 AM Chris George wrote: > > >> Oh, I suppose Leo could run the rST through the sphinx tool chain, and >> render the resulting html, or better, open the resulting page in a >> browser. Rather than reopening #333, I have just created #1388. It's >> schedule for Leo

Re: Markdown preferences

2019-10-17 Thread Chris George
I write fiction, nonfiction, and some technical documents (not so much anymore). For fiction I use plain text. Anything more is simply a distraction. For nonfiction, I use rst as I learned it along with Leo. Links, bold, italics etc. are easy with it. I could probably have used markdown but by

Markdown preferences

2019-10-17 Thread Rob
Curious what other Leonistas use when writing plain text (not coding). Over the many years of using Leo, I have used markdown (md), multi-markdown (mmd), rst and org mode (experimented some, but don't really understand it). Haven't tried asciidoc yet. My current writing practice is: - Write

Re: Improved asciidoc, asciidoctor and pandoc support

2019-10-17 Thread Chris George
> > Oh, I suppose Leo could run the rST through the sphinx tool chain, and > render the resulting html, or better, open the resulting page in a > browser. Rather than reopening #333, I have just created #1388. It's > schedule for Leo 6.1, but no guarantees. > > Edward > The browser based

Re: Improved asciidoc, asciidoctor and pandoc support

2019-10-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 3:51 AM jkn wrote: Thanks for #1398. > You're welcome. It should happen in a few days. Edward -- 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

Re: What's happened with find/replace buttons in Find tab?

2019-10-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 12:17 AM gar wrote: > I am talking about column with 'find-next: F3', , 'replace-all' > elements in the 'Find' pane. > I do remember that in version 5.9 of Leo they were accessible. > But now they are just labels with helper texts, which cannot be pressed. > This is

Re: Leo 6.0-final installing and running with python 3.8

2019-10-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019 at 1:11 AM Quaraman wrote: > > I installed and run Leo 6.0-final in Python 3.8 with following changes: > [snip] Thanks for this workaround. An easier one is to install Leo using git. That way you get the latest code. Edward -- You received this message because you are

Re: Understanding a large code base?

2019-10-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:04 PM The Living Cosmos wrote: There was a comment somewhere on the Leo website about Ed's methodology to > understand a large code​ ​base. It said something like: > > "I create a new git repo and import all the files using @clean" or > something like that. > > If

Re: Improved asciidoc, asciidoctor and pandoc support

2019-10-17 Thread jkn
On Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 12:24:16 PM UTC+1, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 5:04 AM jkn > > wrote: > > > I for one would appreciate a bit of an explanation of the 'very > different workflow required'; I am kinda used to using @file etc. but abit > unclear as to how

Leo 6.0-final installing and running with python 3.8

2019-10-17 Thread Quaraman
Hi @all, I installed and run Leo 6.0-final in Python 3.8 with following changes: *file: Python38\Lib\site-packages\leo\core\leoApp.py:* line 2392 : t1 = time.process_time() *rewrited method createCursesGui to:* def createCursesGui(self, fileName='', verbose=False): self.createQtGui() I tried

Re: For Leo 6.0 on Windows 10 - PyQt 4 or PyQt 5?

2019-10-17 Thread Matt Wilkie
> > Work around: > > set HOME=%USERPROFILE% > mkdir %HOME%\.leo > echo "My ID" > %HOME%\.leo\.leoID.txt > leo-console > > Note: skip the `set HOME` line if you already have it defined. > *DON'T* quote My ID or you'll break your .leo files. See