Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-23 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi, I would start by creating a single .org document that contains all the key attributes you want to preserve from your current database to the one that would be inside of Pharo. Then I would try to import it to Leo and save it as a .leo file (which is just XML). Then I doulw use the XML reading

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-23 Thread Stephan Eggermont
Hajo Dezelski wrote: > My main problem is the organisation of information in the form of > lots of text objects. Here I used heavily Emacs and the org mode and > still my favorite: Scrivener > (https://www.literatureandlatte.com/scrivener/overview) > > I am still looking for an integrated envir

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-23 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Hello, thanks to all for the pointers you offered. They were more than helpfull. So I will give it a try: Grafiscopio seems to be a very good tool to get started with my project . So I will focus first to get my text database into the image. I have to convert the *.org files to *.ston. A way cou

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Ben Coman
I came across this today. Maybe related. http://scg.unibe.ch/archive/projects/Syre18a.pdf cheers -ben On 23 March 2018 at 01:54, Hajo Dezelski wrote: > )Hello, > > I must confess that I have not RTFM totally, so when my question has > been asked or answered before, sorry. > > I have been using

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi again Hajo, I just saw that you mention Grafoscopio in your first thread's mail and yes, you are right, we lack of the tools for text management you are looking for (dictionaries, and text processing). We have preliminary support to refer external files via node links, but if you already have s

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Offray Vladimir Luna Cárdenas
Hi Hajo, I have been working with a similar problem: how to organize long complex text and I found that making it *inside* Pharo and program extensions to work with particular agile visualizations that are part of a data narratives is the most powerful and flexible approach, after trying Jupyter,

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Hajo Dezelski
Thanks Hernán, for the hint. I will have a look at it. I have a large "database" (in the moment ~ 1 GB) of notes articles in three languages, all in plain text organized thematically in about 40 *.org files. They have partly keywords but mostly I search for lemmata to gather material for new ar

Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Hernán Morales Durand
Hello Hajo, 2018-03-22 14:54 GMT-03:00 Hajo Dezelski : > )Hello, > > I must confess that I have not RTFM totally, so when my question has > been asked or answered before, sorry. > > I have been using Smalltalk about 25 years ago and still have the > books from Goldberg and Lalonde. But during the

[Pharo-users] Pharo as an advanced desktop with applications

2018-03-22 Thread Hajo Dezelski
)Hello, I must confess that I have not RTFM totally, so when my question has been asked or answered before, sorry. I have been using Smalltalk about 25 years ago and still have the books from Goldberg and Lalonde. But during the time I watched but did not actively follow the development. In the l