Re: Org Writer's room

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

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OK - Left side: is present in ecb. I installed ecb from MELPA (the other version does not work
with emacs 24 and the cedet version) and I have the navigation panel - very nice. ecb, I am back.

Cheers,

Rainer



On 06/12/12 10:14, Rainer M Krug wrote:
> 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.
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> 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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