Dear Thomas, thank you very much. I am now trying to use Leo for a simple webpage prototype. I see how it goes :).
Best, Jan On Monday, 20 April 2020 13:24:19 UTC+2, Thomas Passin wrote: > > Hi, @Iohannes, I can give some suggestions for some of your questions. > You could use them as starting points. > > On Monday, April 20, 2020 at 12:20:48 AM UTC-4, Iohannes wrote: >> >> Hi, a beginner here again. >> >> I would appreciate some advice on how to se tup Leo. I am no professional >> programmer. I am doing research in humanities but I like to do some little >> stuff here and there. >> > > >> Some of my current problems: >> - How to nicely import html files (and whole projects)? If I import them, >> they are creating an (almost) endless tree. >> > > I would start out with a single file (not a whole project), and get some > practice in structuring a file and working with it. You could do this for > each of the major file type you want to work on. And you may want to start > from scratch rather than import a file to start off with. That's just so > you don't get stuck with Leo's standard structuring when it imports a > file. OTOH, the standard structure can always be changed, and it may give > you some ideas. > > If you want to start working on a particular existing file and don't want > to import it, you could create a new node in the outline for it and just > paste the text of the file into it. You could name that node @file > test1.html, or something similar. When saved, the file would be created > in the same directory as your outline. I suggest starting off with the > @file type because leo includes all its information about the file right > in the file. If you need to share the file with other (non-Leo) users, > then @clean would probably be better since there would be no Leo-specific > lines in the file. > > Since there is no Leo-specific data in the @clean file, When Leo reloads > the file, it has to match up the file contents against the organizing data > it has stored. That works well even when the file has been edited outside > of Leo, but if there are too many or too radical changes, Leo might have > trouble figuring it out the structure. > > - Should I manually rename @auto to @clean when importing files? > > I do, though I usually change to @file instead. That's mostly because > I've never been clear on what @auto does that @file does not. Someone > else will be able to say. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/8f903e1a-6622-4984-a713-41be19278251%40googlegroups.com.
