From: Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org Writer's room
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:11:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C06156.40301@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lidb7f2b.fsf@gmail.com>
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On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote:
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> I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI.
Nice - I cusomised libreoffice immediately to look like that - nice.
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> On the left is the navbar. - You can quickly navigate to any heading, a table or a captioned
> figure.
Couldn't the navbar from emacs be used for that? I haven't used it in a long time, but in ecb
(Emacs Code Browswer) it is used for this - see Screenshots on http://ecb.sourceforge.net/ for how
it looks there.
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> On the right is the style - one can choose char, paragraph, frame, list styles - at point. - In
> case of Org it will probably be element or point at point.
Not clear what you mean, but I would imagine the properties at cursor location (with the different
levels of the properties from file via section to block)
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> In the center, toward lower right is the jump to next and prev element arrows.
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> So the global view, doc view and local view seems to be pretty universal across all UIs.
Well - kind of ecb for org files - saying that, it might be possible to use ecb for that?
Cheers,
Rainer
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>> Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:
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>>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree <alantyree@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This sounds like an interesting project. My advice is to make a few screenshots that
>>>>>> give people an idea what you are working towards. Of course, they could be completely
>>>>>> fake, but it would be helpful to understand for people like me who haven't used
>>>>>> Scrivener.
>>>>>
>>>>> I would also like to see this. It sounds nice when I read your description, but I
>>>>> still don't fully appreciate the idea.
>>>>>
>>>>> –Rasmus
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>>>> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do you see as making
>>>> org a *way* better writing environment?
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>> [...]
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>>> To start with I would like to just replicate this window structure, because it keeps you
>>> focused on writing, while having the larger structure available if you feel the need to
>>> flit around a bit. The third screenshot shows a semi-fake, still very primitive version
>>> of what I'd like to have. (I haven't figured out a good way to do the metadata yet).
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>> I *really* like the idea of having a right-hand pane available showing properties around the
>> current point -- it could include properties from the PROPERTIES drawer, from the structure
>> returned by `org-element-property', text properties, and maybe properties of the current
>> headline parent. I'm sort of envisioning what you get from the "inspect element" command in
>> Firefox.
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>> For the left-hand pane, org-toc and org-panel in the contrib directory (or even the org-goto
>> interface) might provide some inspiration.
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>> Ugh, sounds like a lot of work.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-06 9:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-05 16:01 Org Writer's room Matt Price
2012-12-05 23:08 ` Andrew Hyatt
2012-12-06 0:22 ` Rasmus
2012-12-06 0:44 ` Alan L Tyree
2012-12-06 2:21 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 7:12 ` Scot Becker
2012-12-06 8:08 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-06 8:36 ` Jambunathan K
2012-12-06 9:11 ` Rainer M Krug [this message]
2012-12-06 9:14 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:28 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 10:51 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 11:25 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:55 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 11:58 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:50 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 12:07 ` David Engster
2012-12-06 12:26 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 11:59 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 12:09 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 14:15 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2012-12-06 15:51 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 8:39 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-07 12:57 ` Matt Price
2012-12-07 13:11 ` Rainer M Krug
2012-12-06 4:21 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
2012-12-06 12:00 ` Matt Price
2012-12-06 18:18 ` Yagnesh Raghava Yakkala
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