Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-04-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Monday, April 2, 2018 at 7:02:39 AM UTC-5, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Joe Orr wrote: > > ​> ​ > This gave me the idea to have Leo Vue be able to outline a page by > pointing to it. > The HTML5 outline standard

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-04-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 3:19 PM, Joe Orr wrote: ​> ​ This gave me the idea to have Leo Vue be able to outline a page by pointing to it. ​... ​> ​ So you can put any outlineUrl and title as params in the url above and it will attempt to outline it. ​> ​ These pages make testing a target a bit ea

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-31 Thread Joe Orr
This gave me the idea to have Leo Vue be able to outline a page by pointing to it. HTML5 has an outline spec, and there is an npm module for it, so this seemed like a fairly straightforward task. Turns out there aren't many pages that support the spec. Wikipedia supports the HTML4 spec, but it

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Fri, Mar 2, 2018 at 9:15 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > #771 Support --outline-only command-line argument >> is a new issue >> that would skip this pass entirely. >> >> I shall do this only if you actually need it. >> > > I don't need it, not r

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-02 Thread Matt Wilkie
> #771 Support --outline-only command-line argument > is a new issue that > would skip this pass entirely. > > I shall do this only if you actually need it. > I don't need it, not right now. I have my hands full with other things. Mostly t

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Friday, March 2, 2018 at 2:20:46 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > > ​What's the practical limit for number of nodes in Leo? > 3. Leo scans the outline after loading it, looking for @ nodes. This code skips @ignore trees, so you would w

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-02 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 4:21 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: ​> ​ What's the practical limit for number of nodes in Leo? ​Good question. I don't know the answer in all its details, but here are a few ideas: 1. Leo now supports representing outlines as sqlite databases, with .leo.db extension. See this

Re: Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
> With Edwards help I cobbled together a script that uses the Wordnet > database to generate an overview of a word. It outputs to the log pane. > thanks for this -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group a

Leo as backbone for dictionary reference service

2018-03-01 Thread Matt Wilkie
*A [dream-runner] post* Scenario: An online dictionary that allows linking to a single specific definition of a word? For example, suppose I want to refe