Re: Academic Writing

On Monday, November 18, 2013 7:41:28 PM UTC-8, Jacob Peck wrote: > > > Interesting thoughts. Here's my take on your points. > Bibtex.py autolookups -- this should be trivial, and could probably be > baked into the bibtex.py plugin at somepoint. > > The CrossRef service to convert DOI to bi

Re: Academic Writing

On 11/18/2013 10:27 PM, Chris George wrote: I have attached an outline of some ideas I have around bending Leo to my will as an academic writing platform without peer. But it will take some help from those who are actual programmers and those who know Leo best. Much of what I am after may alre

Academic Writing

I have attached an outline of some ideas I have around bending Leo to my will as an academic writing platform without peer. But it will take some help from those who are actual programmers and those who know Leo best. Much of what I am after may already exist somewhere in a Leo outline or in th

Re: Asap: find/replace that newbies can use

On Sunday, November 17, 2013 4:45:23 AM UTC-6, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > I am shocked by the response to the Find/Replace tutorial. > > Leo must have find/replace commands that newbies can use...I'd like to > target this for the next week or so. > Phase 1 of a grand reorganization and simplificat

Re: Simple things are too hard!

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:48:12 -0600 Terry Brown wrote: > although I know Edward's already working on things up to 24 hours a day > (don't do that too often! :-) and I'm not finding a ton of time at the > moment p.s. and Ville has perhaps become a lurker? Ville? Nasty case of the Sublime Text or

Re: Simple things are too hard!

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 14:16:01 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > > Second: I wanted to import a Django project structure into Leo. Leo has a > > File|Import command that works well - but only with files. Now, a project > > folders/files structure is a perfect example for hierarchically arranged > > t

Re: Simple things are too hard!

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 2:18 PM, wrote: This is exactly the point that I was trying to make in my earlier posts. > I get it. Really. It was quite a wake-up call when several of the usual suspects said they never use Leo's find command! Screencasts help two ways. They inform, and they show pe

Re: Simple things are too hard!

On Monday, November 18, 2013 8:56:20 PM UTC+1, rengel wrote: > > In his post 'This, and *only* this, can make Leo more > popular' > Edward is asking how to make Leo more popular. > > Well, after a couple of years I decided today to g

Re: Simple things are too hard!

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:56 PM, rengel wrote: My first impression: > > Leo is too hard to work with! Even seemingly simple things are way to > complicated to figure out. > I agree completely. I am working on it intensely, with help from many people. > First: The default font size is too

Simple things are too hard!

In his post 'This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular' Edward is asking how to make Leo more popular. Well, after a couple of years I decided today to give Leo another try. I was working on a Django project (with a couple o

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

On 11/18/2013 12:38 PM, Terry Brown wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:26:31 -0800 (PST) rengel wrote: Basically, IMHO, people are not interested in tools, benefits, outliners etc. They are interested in solutions to their problems. Show how you can develop a Django project (or a website, or any

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:26:31 -0800 (PST) rengel wrote: > Basically, IMHO, people are not interested in tools, benefits, outliners > etc. > They are interested in solutions to their problems. > > Show how you can develop a Django project (or a website, or any Hmmm, Django would be a good examp

Re: Setting a type for headlines

On 11/18/2013 12:30 PM, Terry Brown wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:51:21 -0800 (PST) rengel wrote: Hi, I'm pretty new to Leo. If a larger python file (with classes, methods, etc. as separate headlines) is shown in the outline pane, is there any way to differentiate their appearance, i.e. by co

Re: Setting a type for headlines

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 08:51:21 -0800 (PST) rengel wrote: > Hi, I'm pretty new to Leo. > > If a larger python file (with classes, methods, etc. as separate headlines) > is shown in the outline pane, is there any way to differentiate their > appearance, i.e. by color, so it would be easier to tel

Re: This, and *only* this, can make Leo more popular

Basically, IMHO, people are not interested in tools, benefits, outliners etc. They are interested in solutions to their problems. Show how you can develop a Django project (or a website, or any application) faster, cleaner, cheaper with Leo than with other tools. Show realistic (medium size exa

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 5:06 PM, Terry Brown wrote: > I can't reproduce that, starting with an empty $HOME/.leo and creating > mySettingsLeo.leo and copying in dark theme 0 and Ctrl-B on the "source > & stylesheet" node does not remove menu highlighting for me. Haven't > been able to test in Win

Setting a type for headlines

Hi, I'm pretty new to Leo. If a larger python file (with classes, methods, etc. as separate headlines) is shown in the outline pane, is there any way to differentiate their appearance, i.e. by color, so it would be easier to tell classes from methods or modules? -- You received this message

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 07:40:24 -0800 (PST) jquil...@gmail.com wrote: > On Monday, November 18, 2013 4:12:52 PM UTC+1, Terry wrote: > > > I don't know what Edward did with myLeoSettings.leo a couple of weeks > > back, but you, Jerry, I think were just reporting that the menu > > (non)highlighting b

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Monday, November 18, 2013 4:12:52 PM UTC+1, Terry wrote: > > > I don't know what Edward did with myLeoSettings.leo a couple of weeks > back, but you, Jerry, I think were just reporting that the menu > (non)highlighting bug returned when you compiled the stylesheet from > the outline with the

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 13:55:51 +0100 Jerry wrote: > On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > > Terry, we've got to remove this advice. It tends to destroy > > myLeoSettings.leo. > > Do you mean that the script-based generation will be eliminated? I'm not seeing a problem with

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On 11/18/2013 10:06 AM, Terry Brown wrote: On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:39:07 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, wrote: Help! I messed up my UI configuration (I know this would happen, sooner or later :) Under the "stylesheet and source" branch of myLeoSettings.leo, it

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 06:39:07 -0600 "Edward K. Ream" wrote: > On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, wrote: > > > Help! I messed up my UI configuration (I know this would happen, sooner or > > later :) > > Under the "stylesheet and source" branch of myLeoSettings.leo, it says: > > > > # To generate th

Re: Third screencast: Leo's Find/Change command

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: First, though, I have to detour to fix an abbreviations botch that I >> recently introduced. It's horrible to search for <| pattern |> >> automatically when an abbreviation fires! Only ,, should ever do that. >> > Fixed at rev 6324. This r

Re: Third screencast: Leo's Find/Change command

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > > First, though, I have to detour to fix an abbreviations botch that I > recently introduced. It's horrible to search for <| pattern |> > automatically when an abbreviation fires! Only ,, should ever do that. > To be clear, it's fine to

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 1:39 PM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > Terry, we've got to remove this advice. It tends to destroy > myLeoSettings.leo. Do you mean that the script-based generation will be eliminated? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor"

Re: Third screencast: Leo's Find/Change command

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Matt Wilkie wrote: > my avoidance of Leo's native S&R has less to do with mouse reliance than > the extra steps. > Thanks for your detailed comments. I think all your points are valid. My present plan for the new find is to have Ctrl-F put focus in the "Find" te

PyEnchant questions about local dictionary

Looking in the LeoSettings.leo file, I find the following node: Spell Checking Leo's spell checker requires PyEnchant to be installed. See: http://www.rfk.id.au/software/pyenchant/tutorial.html#installation That link returns a 404 error. I believe the correct link s/b: http://pythonhosted.org/pye

Re: Customizing the UI with myLeoSettings.leo

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 3:09 PM, wrote: > Help! I messed up my UI configuration (I know this would happen, sooner or > later :) > Under the "stylesheet and source" branch of myLeoSettings.leo, it says: > > # To generate the stylesheet @data from this source, > # use `run-script` on this node. >

Re: Asap: find/replace that newbies can use

On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Edward K. Ream wrote: > The gui work is mostly complete. You can see the new look at rev 26 23. The new buttons in the Find Pane don't do anything at present. Despite being the results of about 24 hours of actual work over the last 36 hours, Leo should work