Re: Learning/Teaching with Leo (it was Re: hack: Canonical outline so UNLs don't break)

2012-01-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
a. Installing Leo, which is specially difficult for non-programmers like my students. I will try to prepare my classes dealing previously with that problems using alternative installing strategies not found here until now like pyinstaller[2] and/or Zero Install[3] [2]

Re: Learning/Teaching with Leo (it was Re: hack: Canonical outline so UNLs don't break)

2012-01-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
There will be a new Start Menu link called OSGeo4W Shell which can be freely deleted. All it does is call D:\portable\OSGeo4W.bat, which we want to keep, but can be renamed as wished. The `shell` package is the only one which touches the host system outside the D:\Portable tree. It includes

Re: Learning/Teaching with Leo (it was Re: hack: Canonical outline so UNLs don't break)

2012-01-02 Thread HansBKK
For the sake of those googling later, Terry posted a quick and dirty example of setting up a portable Leo herehttps://groups.google.com/d/msg/leo-editor/jnpkrQeo9Hk/Ds3QsUe1W-QJ . My more involved scenario above is only needed when maintaining a more complex portable Python dev environment,

Re: Learning/Teaching with Leo (it was Re: hack: Canonical outline so UNLs don't break)

2011-12-29 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:59 AM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas off...@riseup.net wrote: Many thanks for these comments. You have touched on the big picture of Leo more clearly than I have. It's all too easy to get bogged down in the minutia: file formats, bugs, commands, etc. the more I live

Learning/Teaching with Leo (it was Re: hack: Canonical outline so UNLs don't break)

2011-12-28 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, First Hans, is really nice to read your interaction here. We need newbies like you. I'm kind of an old eternal newbie on Leo, using it more and more, but without proper knowledge of python or proper meaningful context to modify it. I'm also primarily a teacher/researcher and now I

Re: Learning/Teaching with Leo

2011-12-28 Thread HansBKK
Offray, Your message was a nice holidays present for me, thank you. On Wednesday, December 28, 2011 11:59:54 PM UTC+7, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas wrote: Personal Learning Environment[1] which includes Leo as a tool for their What discipline are the students? You said non-programmers,