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[Ryan Cheetham <address@hidden>]

Hi Bass,

Thanks for your suggestion, you clearly understand what I am after and 
find benefit in the process yourself.
The folding/hiding part is very important. I find it helps 
psychologically to only concentrate on 5-6 paragraphs
at once, I feel overawed when trying to slog my way through many pages.

I agree about the benefits of having 'everything as a tree', that is why 
I would love to integrate TeXmacs into my work flow
but could not possibly give up the benefits I get from mind mapping in 
the writing process.

Ryan

Bas Spitters wrote:
> 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
> > > >         
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