Would it be too much to imagine the slickness of something like http://gingkoapp.com, but with Leo's flexibility and lack of limitations?
Or is that to dream too big? :-) Chris On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Terry Brown <terry_n_br...@yahoo.com>wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:57:50 -0700 > Matt Wilkie <map...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Chris George <technat...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > What did you think of the other approach, of getting writers into a > > > customized Leo with a WYSIWYG editor? > > > > I would love to have a wysiwyg mode in Leo, but think it will take > someone > > with programming chops and the same itch to happen on the scene. I don't > > think there's many of those type around; the process of building a > > developer makes them comfortable with plain text. ;-) > > Well, that's true, but while you were away :-) we got the richtext.py > plugin, which embeds the CKEditor in Leo, editing HTML in the body text > in a wysiwyg view. http://ckeditor.com/demo#full > > Even for people who like plain text, it's useful for pasting in > formatted text from web pages etc. without getting it mangled. > > To answer your other question, what's with the QRichTextEdit, there's > no Python based gui for rich text editing using a QRichTextEdit. > Shouldn't be that hard to build one, but a lot of detail to do it > comprehensively, i.e. to get to something like CKEditor. So instead of > the obvious native approach we have a javascript rich text editor > running in an embedded browser (QWebView) :-) > > Cheers -Terry > > > There may be a middle way, it is possible to show the most used rich text > > features -- bold, italic, underline, colours -- in plain text. See the > > txtfmt plugin for Vim, http://www.txtfmt.webs.com/. Dunno if the same > > principles are applicable to Leo. > > > > (the examples are garish to my eye, but this one in particular shows > > promise: [image: > > http://txtfmt.webs.com/sample_c_bg.png]< > http://txtfmt.webs.com/sample_c_bg.png> > > ) > > > > -- > 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 > email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- 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 email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
