Re: Org Writer's room

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@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:
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>>>>> Andrew Hyatt <ahyatt@gmail.com> writes:
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>> I would also like to see this.  It sounds nice when I read your description, but I
>>>>> still don't fully appreciate the idea.
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>>>>> –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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>>> 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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