About the OPML Editor The OPML Editor is an outliner, which is a text editor that allows you to control the level of detail that's visible, and allows you to reorganize text according to its structure. Outlines are just lists of lists, carried on to as many levels as you want. The grouping is arbitrary and totally up to you. The outliner has commands that make it easy to browse and reorganize ...
An outline, like a wptext, is edited by first ascertaining that it is "the target" and then using editing commands which do not themselves specify what window is to be operated on.
Outliner Crib Sheet A quick tour of the outline-based script and menu editor in Frontier. O utlines play a big role in Frontier. Scripts are outlines and so are menus. I've been using outliners for so long, they've become part of my basic vocabulary, it's easy to forget that for some people they are new and perhaps strange things. So here are the basics of using the outliner that's built into ...
Outliners & Programming I wrote this piece as we were starting up UserLand Software in 1988. It's interesting if you want to know how I got involved in outlining while I was learning about programming on my way to doing an BBS which turned out to be an outliner which turned out to be part of a scripting system. Whew! High Files I started working on outline processing and scripting at the ...
A useful outline renderer is tableOutliner. This is a quick and easy way to make an HTML table. The result is fairly simple -- all the columns are of identical width, for instance -- and the first row is automatically boldified; but this is often just what is needed. To try it out, make a fourth Web page, called "fourthPage", and have it be an outline that looks like this:
Site Tools Suite A collection of site management tools for BBEdit-based websites. The first tool creates an outline of a website from a folder on your LAN. By Dave Winer, dwiner@well.com The first site tool is the Site Outliner. It actually works with any website generated by any content tool, even tools that run on Windows or Unix or whatever. If you can make the site appear as a series of ...
The opmlProjectEditor explainer needed a light edit. It should make a lot more sense now if you're a newcomer. Perhaps the most important thing is that it now includes an example that you can open in Drummer to see how it works in an outline editor. OPML has become a really important format for apps that use RSS, but it's far more broadly adaptable. It's a good package for a whole app, and you ...