There is a perennial problem when one wants to give a Leo outline to someone else. It happens when an outline contains external files, or images to display, or any other data files that might be needed. For example, an article written with the Viewrendered3 plugin in mind, or for a Sphinx document, must have its resources available or it cannot work.
If the outline contains @file trees and these external files aren't included in, e.g., a zip file, those files will be blank when the recipient open the outline. Yes, one can change the @files to @clean and re-save them all. But that is awkward, and negates the reason for having them be @files in the first place. Otherwise, one is forced to create a package file - usually a zip file - that contains the outline and any required external files and subdirectories. Current software, such as LibreOffice or Word, handle this by saving their files as archives that contain all the external resources a document needs. I suggest that Leo needs a similar capability. This would not replace the existing Leo file format nor the existing outline save commands. It would add new *Save/Open Archive* commands. How might this work? For a save, Leo would check each external file and each @rst tree to get their paths, and then compress the external resources and at-files into the archive. For other resources, such as images in, say, an *images* directory, An outline could have a new kind of node, perhaps with an *@resources* headline, that specifies what subdirectories and files to include. Perhaps there could be more than one *@resources* node in the document. To open an archive, Leo would expand the archive, which would create all the directories and files. Then it would load the .leo outline contained in the archive. -- 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/516d7db0-e2e9-4fdf-9197-0a10f869edfbn%40googlegroups.com.
