From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Rainer M Krug Subject: Re: Org Writer's room Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:11:50 +0100 Message-ID: <50C06156.40301@gmail.com> References: <87lidc6nc1.fsf@pank.eu> <50BFEA73.2050309@gmail.com> <87fw3jfvqf.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <87lidb7f2b.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51635) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgXUx-0004nc-Rb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:12:12 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgXUs-0000So-8P for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:12:03 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f41.google.com ([209.85.214.41]:37442) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TgXUs-0000SW-1Z for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 04:11:58 -0500 Received: by mail-bk0-f41.google.com with SMTP id jg9so2778357bkc.0 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:11:55 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87lidb7f2b.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: Eric Abrahamsen , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote: > > I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI. Nice - I cusomised libreoffice immediately to look like that - nice. > > 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. > > 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) > > In the center, toward lower right is the jump to next and prev element arrows. > > 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 > > > > > > > >> Matt Price writes: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree wrote: >>>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Hyatt 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 >>>>> >>>> I'm also very interested. I haven't used Scrivener -- what features do you see as making >>>> org a *way* better writing environment? >> >> [...] >> >>> 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). >> >> 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. >> >> For the left-hand pane, org-toc and org-panel in the contrib directory (or even the org-goto >> interface) might provide some inspiration. >> >> Ugh, sounds like a lot of work. >> >> E >> >> >> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlDAYVYACgkQoYgNqgF2egrAkQCghEYQ6YoPYEFtxMNb19tOJ6R4 zf4AoIQHcvibLePJexu2zXAoUHnWAxNX =Syhc -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----