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[Bas Spitters <address@hidden>]

I have experimented with the following way of making outlines for my papers.

Use folds for sections/subsections/.... Write the header in first part of the 
fold and the content of the section in the second part. When writing I only 
unfold the parts that I am working on. The same thing can be done with 
theorems and proofs.

This is probably not exactly what you are asking for, but might be a step in 
the right direction.

One of the very strong points of texmacs is that `everything is a tree'. 
However, this has not been applied to sections or proofs. I guess this is due 
to the latex heritage. I could imagine this it would be good it change this 
in future versions of texmacs.

Bas

On Monday 17 September 2007 18:43:54 address@hidden wrote:
> Greetings Offray,
>
> If you wish to define physical styles and use attributes in FreeMind you
> will need the new Beta:
>
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7118&package_id=18877
>2
>
> Of course, this is not considered stable for production so use at your own
> risk! I agree with you about the desirability of an outline option in
> TeXmacs. Outliners and mind mappers really allow one to concentrate on the
> structure of a document, but as I have said, rarely can this be transferred
> to the completed article (pun intended).
>
> Leo is a great tool too, if a little complicated. Please take a look at
> this essay template I created in FreeMind, hopefully it will give some idea
> as to how FreeMind could be used in conjunction with TeXmacs to write
> articles, books, etc. if there was an import/export option.
>
> http://img101.imageshack.us/my.php?image=freemindtemplatewi0.png
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Ryan
>
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I use freemind and TeXmacs as primary tools on every day basis (both on
> a basic level and even I didn't know that there is away to define
> personal styles for nodes in freemind). I also use Leo[1] at lot for
> workflows in my daily use of computers. What would be nice is to have
> the possibility to define an outline view of TeXmacs documents in a
> lateral bar, something that can show you the sections, subsections,
> quotations, etc. You can make a sketch outline of your document there
> including mathematical notation for titles and in general using the
> enriched symbolic notation and writing that your thought need and then,
> fill the outline with contents as you advance in your work.
>
> There is any way to get this pane with a tree view of the document and
> at the same time the document, so we can think in the part and the all
> in easy ways, using TeXmacs?
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Offray
>
> [1] http://webpages.charter.net/edreamleo/front.html
>
> address@hidden wrote:
> > > Hello Joris,
> > >
> > > Thanks for your reply. I believe FreeMind's file format is XML, and it
> > > evolves slightly from version to version. There are XSLT and Ruby
> > > scripts for conversion to LaTex. Some are included in FreeMind's
> > > accessories folder, some (possibly not the same ones) are here:
> > >
> > > http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Accessories
> > >
> > > I'm personally not familiar with LaTex, and with this method only basic
> > > structure appears in TeXmacs. What is interesting about FreeMind is
> > > that you can assign attributes to nodes, and define filters and styles.
> > > I think these features would help when exporting to TeXmacs. The two
> > > tools could work together wonderfully. I will send you a sample map if
> > > you are interested? No problems if you are too busy though.
> > >
> > > All the best,
> > >
> > > Ryan