On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 4:30 AM, Ashley Shan <xueqing.s...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Hi all, > > This is Xueqing Shan from Vanderbilt University (TN) who plans to work on > this "UI improvement and non-linear writing" for LyX this summer. I've read > Robert Oakes's blog posts. So there are two options for a student developer: > > 1. Continue to work on the existing project. According to the specification > and the blog posts linked to from the project description, some preliminary > work on an outliner and a corkboard has been done. I saw the source code for > the outliner but I didn't see anything about the corkboard except for posts > on that blog. So if I am about to work on the existing project and > completing the outliner and the cork board, I wish I could know more details > about the progress and design of them. > The code is hosted at Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/lyx-outline . Did you check that?
> 2. Start a brand new idea or make significant changes to the outliner and > the corkboard. I have been thinking maybe we can combine functionalities of > the outliner and the corkboard, making elements in the outliner moveable, so > the user can drag and insert and edit directly in the outline view (and in > the actual document at the same time). > Rob correct me if I'm wrong, but I think this was part of the original intent. > Another brand new idea of mine is to have a "draft" interface for writing, > and this interface must allows the user to drag and rearrange sentences and > phrases. Sentences are separated by newline characters and dots, while the > separation of phrases requires a little bit more work to implement an > algorithm to smartly determine pieces of thoughts. From my personal writing > experience and my conversations with my humanities-major friends, such an > interface would be much better than the traditional white blank Microsoft > Word window. > This sounds like an interesting idea, but let's see what other developers think on such a feature. Regards , Liviu > I look forward to suggestions and ideas. > > Xueqing Shan > > ------------------------------------ > Xueqing Shan > Vanderbilt University, '16 -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail
