While I anticipate pushback on this idea, I am wholeheartedly for it. I have long wanted such a feature, but couldn't figure out just how to word it.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 10:42 AM tbp1...@gmail.com <tbp100...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/bf345490-57fc-4dc6-981a-2c2b9f796826n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAJ1i%2BSYRpxpZtpAzmkMM8bNdc1As0qP2AcVvhfO8LuuSjgk37Q%40mail.gmail.com.
