Outline as sidebar or popover?

jsamlarose

Ole, you're a saint. Not sure if it's just me, but I can't scroll that sidebar if the text contained within it extends beneath the keyboard's upper edge...

Regardless, Editorial's continuing to evolve as one of those apps that gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling when I think about getting work done with my iPad. Thank you.

mjakubowiak

And is there a chance to have a sidebar showing local pdf file? (like in PDF in Browser). I was trying to rework Wikipedia sidebar, but couldn't force webview to show a local file. I would really appreciaty any help

necropol

Bouncing off the idea of a sidebar outline, is it possible to have a fully-functioning outliner in the sidebar? A simple one of course, but one that lets you create the basic collapsible hierarchy of notes.

ccc

Yes.

import ui

# html from http://www.w3schools.com/jquerymobile/tryit.asp?filename=tryjqmob_lists_collapsible

html = '''
Copy the html text from the left pane of the page at the url above and paste it here.
'''

web_view = ui.WebView()
web_view.load_html(html)
web_view.present('sidebar')

ClareMacrae

If I understand what you want, then here's one I wrote earlier: Sidebar Live ToC.

Do make sure you load the Select Range workflow - this is needed.

Capabilities:

It shows table of contents, based on headings, for the current document in a sidebar panel, next to the editor.
The preview is updated automatically as you type, and it preserves its scroll position.
Links that you tap on in the preview select the corresponding heading in the document.

necropol

Thanks, Clare. I've actually been playing around with your ToC workflow for a few days now. I like it quite a bit, though for my needs it would be handier if: a) you could call up a ToC for a document other than the one you're currently in; b) you could see not just the header, but a couple of the lines following it; and c) if the sidebar didn't close when you click in the ToC.

Even c) by itself would be a huge boon.

And thanks too, ccc! I will definitely check that out!

necropol

ccc, that HTML outliner is excellent! Thanks again for that.

ClareMacrae

@necropol Are you on the Editorial Beta?

I found that when I moved to the Beta, the behaviour of Sidebars changed, and now, when opening a different file (or URL like in the ToC), the sidebar closes. This breaks any workflows that are used to keep open a list of links to files to open quickly.

Having said that, in the Beta, the built-in Editorial ToC indicates header levels, which the Appstore version doesn't. As a result, I'm just using the built-in ToC all the time anyway - and have just given up using the other Sidebars I had.

necropol

No, I'm just on the regular version of Editorial. Though it is running on a very cantankerous 1st-generation iPad mini...

necropol

Ah, I just checked and discovered I my memory of my experience with ToC was in error; the sidebar doesn't close as I move from file to file.