Leo : Basics What is Leo

You've just seen an introduction to Leo as an outlining editor. You can use Leo to make an outline, with optional text for each outline element. You can save the outline to a file. Outlines are explained more in a later tutorial in this series. The outlining capability of Leo goes far beyond what has just been demonstrated, including multipath outlines, and multiple outlines in one file .

What we've shown so far is no different from other outlining editors. What makes Leo unique is the addition of a new feature. Using simple directives, you can instruct Leo to extract text from any number of nodes, in any order, and write the text to a new file. You can also embed outline information in the second file, giving Leo the ability to read the text pieces back into the Leo outline, even if they have been changed.

In effect, Leo is a meta-text editor . It gives you the ability to create a structural document for a non structured document, or a document that is structured in some other way.

What does this mean in practice? Some examples should help clarify things...

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