Monday October 18, 2021; 7:13 PM EDT
- Ken Smith sent me an idea via email - if Drummer had a print-ready template for an outline, and a button or a menu item to click to call it up, then young people still in school could do their homework in Drummer, save a nice-looking pdf for their teacher, and start doing all their writing in Drummer for the foreseeable future. I told him I thought this was a good idea and to send me an example. He then sent two pages, a blog post, and the print-ready form of the blog post.#
- As a proof-of-concept, I wrote several iterations of a short script and came up with the following simple rendering of the print-ready form of the post. I copied the text of the post into an outline (one paragraph per heading), selected that tab, then ran my script from the Scripts menu. It certainly isn't a finished product, but definitely shows some promise.#
- Prior to starting this effort, I took a look at some pages about outline rendering in Frontier (since I am a Frontier user since 1999....) and also looked at a table in the OPML Editor (user.html.renderers for you Frontier types). I will look into rehosting some of that content into Drummer, but I am going to complete my collaboration with Ken Smith on this example first.#
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