Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-17 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Thanks Edward and don't worry. There is a lot on your plate and you have been responsive and a force of nature behind Leo ;-). Cheers, Offray On 17/02/17 03:28, Edward K. Ream wrote: On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 1:43:11 PM UTC-6, Viktor Ransmayr wrote: For me a very important thing in the 10 minutes intro would be: > > a) that the SW reflects the environment a 'newbie' finds (i.e. not your > individual Leo setup ) & > > b) that it is up to date (i.e. does not

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-17 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 6:41 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < off...@riseup.net> wrote: > Talking about the Quotes and where they belong, I checked that my name is > still wrong[1]. > ​My apologies. Fixed at ccf1c94 and on the web, here

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Talking about the Quotes and where they belong, I checked that my name is still wrong[1]. In Latin America we have two last names: The first is from the (first) last name of your father and the second is from (first) last name of your mother. So, my name Is: Offray Luna Cárdenas. [1]

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread lewis
Hi, Re: Indeed, the Learn why Leo is special link on Leo's home page contains all the quotes. Very nice! A place to go and enjoy all the stories of how Leo changed the way they approach things. Re: Here's a radical idea. Put all the intro

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas < off...@riseup.net> wrote: I think there is a lot of power in cross-pollination of ideas > ​. > ​Imo, this is where almost all innovation happens, and why ideas tend to be invented by multiple people almost simultaneously. It's also

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, On 16/02/17 17:04, Edward K. Ream wrote: [...] Another idea: use markdown instead of rST , and (maybe) purge the discussion of rST from the intro. The great advantage of markdown is that it is html

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Wednesday, February 15, 2017 at 5:51:51 PM UTC-6, lewis wrote: After clicking 'Learn about Leo in 10 minutes' the first thing I read are > quotes about Leo. This is a distraction and quite *annoying clutter.* > The more I think about this, the more I think you may be right. Indeed, the

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, It's interesting where the conversation on literate programming and the videos about org mode (particularly literate dev-ops) lead us. I think there is a lot of power in cross-pollination of ideas (so is nice to see agenda and tables pluging going to Leo and also the .org format

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
On Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 1:52 PM, rengel wrote: > Thank you for providing this link to the excellent introduction to Org-mode! > You are right: Taken out of context your quote is 'not light reading'. But to > be fair, [the preceding paragraphs explains] the

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread rengel
> > > To get a feel for something completely different, I recommend looking at > the org-mode docs > . Here > is an extended quotes from that page: > > Q > Org-mode provides facilities to create and modify metadata quickly

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
On 16/02/17 11:17, Edward K. Ream wrote: ​​ On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:51 PM, lewis > wrote: After clicking 'Learn about Leo in 10 minutes' the first thing I read are quotes about Leo. This is a distraction and quite

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-16 Thread Edward K. Ream
​​ On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 5:51 PM, lewis wrote: > After clicking 'Learn about Leo in 10 minutes' the first thing I read are > quotes about Leo. This is a distraction and quite *annoying clutter.* > ​I disagree, but let's not get bogged down in details. To get a feel

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-15 Thread lewis
After clicking 'Learn about Leo in 10 minutes' the first thing I read are quotes about Leo. This is a distraction and quite *annoying clutter.* Also I think you can delete "Leo is a full-featured outliner. Unique features make Leo a powerful IDE, Personal Information Manager and scripting

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-15 Thread Viktor Ransmayr
Hello Edward, For me a very important thing in the 10 minutes intro would be: a) that the SW reflects the environment a 'newbie' finds (i.e. not your individual Leo setup ) & b) that it is up to date (i.e. does not reflect Leo 4.10 ...) HTH. With kind regards, VR -- You received this

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-15 Thread rengel
> All questions and comments are welcome. > I hope so. Let me play the Devil's Advocate. On the first page of the new tutorial, we find (highlights by me): Leo is a full-featured outliner. Unique features make Leo a powerful IDE, > Personal Information Manager and scripting environment. *The

Re: Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-15 Thread john lunzer
I think a new Leo main screenshot is in order. When I new user opens Leo for the first time, says to themselves, "I have no idea where to go from here. I had better read the docs", and then actually goes to the docs they should be reassured that the docs are relevant to what they're seeing in

Please review Leo's new 10-minute intro

2017-02-15 Thread Edward K. Ream
I've just finished a preliminary version of The basics of Leo , advertised on the Tutorials toc page as "Leo in 10 minutes: Leo's most important features". This is the best summary of Leo ever, by far. The "less