-----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 <mopto...@gmail.com> writes: >> >>> On Wed, Dec 5, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Alan L Tyree <alanty...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> On 06/12/12 11:22, Rasmus wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Andrew Hyatt <ahy...@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 >> >> >> > -----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-----