Re: Org Writer's room

[Rainer M Krug <r.m.krug@gmail.com>]

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On 06/12/12 10:11, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> On 06/12/12 09:36, Jambunathan K wrote:
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>> I am attaching screen shot of LibreOffice UI.
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> 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.
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> 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.

Sorry - meant speedbar.

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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.
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> 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.
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> Well - kind of ecb for org files - saying that, it might be possible to use ecb for that?
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> Cheers,
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> 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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