Re: Org Writer's room

[Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>]

Matt Price <moptop99@gmail.com> writes:

> 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
>>>
>> 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