Leo's nodes are basically text-only nodes. The text is available from the node's body, typically p.b, or the headline, p.h. I wonder if there could be another part of a node, a drawing canvas. Perhaps p.cnvs? If we could figure out how to converse with the canvas of a node, then we could visualize anything we like.
Alternatively, perhaps there could be a new node type, one that has only a canvas, with no text body - that would be more like the Jupyter approach. Having a canvas as a built-in part of a node could fill a conspicuous lack, the inability to display graphical information. There are workarounds. The @pyplot node type is one, and writing graphics as SVG to a node and showing that node with VR3 is another. Writing RsT or Markdown referencing an image to a node and displaying it in VR3 is a third. This gives you mixed text and graphics. But these methods are all limited and clumsy. A graphics node should include the ability to have links that point back into Leo outlines, or at least its own outline. This capability would make Leo stand out in comparison to say Jupyter, which otherwise has so many good features. -- 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/bf345490-57fc-4dc6-981a-2c2b9f796826n%40googlegroups.com.
