Too bad there isn't a way to find and severely punish them. Well, one can always believe in karma. :)

The outcomes of the Katrina disaster have many lessons.  o­ne lesson comes from what happened to the electronic medical records (EMR's) of patients at the New Orleans VA, Charity Hospital and University Hospital.  The medical records of patients from Charity and University Hospitals were wiped out.  Those of patients at the New Orleans VA are o­nline and accessible (to those with permission) at any VA outpatient or hospital setting.  I am a primary care physician at the Durham VA Medical Center and have seen a number of New Orleans VA veterans who sought followup care at the Durham VA.  Using VistAWeb I can view the EMR of the New Orleans VA veteran and get an overall summary by looking at the annotated Problem List and Medication List.  For instance a veteran with prostate cancer was being treated with a number of cancer chemotherapy agents and within seconds of using VistAWeb, o­ne can see exactly when and how the diagnosis was made and what treatments were given at ANY VA.  The information is basically in outline form.

Just enter the depth (the lowest level you want to keep) and the file name. Output is on standard out.

#!/bin/bash
if [ "$#" -lt 2 ] ; then 
	echo " Usage: vosummarize level file"
	echo "        level is the number of levels to include"
	echo "        file is any file, hopefully a .otl ;)"
	echo "        output is on standard out"
	exit 0
fi
sed "/^\(\t\)\{$1\}.*$/ { D }" $2

Enjoy!

• works with many (all?) windows variants


• dynamically detects VIM installation location


• installs the hoist and checkbox plugins


• runs the helptags command to index the help files


• associates .OTL files with (g)vim


• includes an easy to use uninstaller (not that you would ever use it...)


• It Just Works®

First you'll need to download the newest version of otl2html.py. You can get it here: www.vimoutliner.org/files/otl2html-1.40.tgz. Once it is installed, you need to put it in your path. I set a link in my own ~/bin directory, which is already in my path. Like this:

cd ~/bin
ln -s /home/noel/apps/otl2html/otl2html.py otl2html

#!/bin/bash
TEMP=/tmp/voprint
CSS=/home/noel/apps/otl2html/css/nnnnnn.css
BROWSER=konqueror
cat - > $TEMP.otl
otl2html -S $CSS $1 $TEMP.otl > $TEMP.html
$BROWSER "file://$TEMP.html"
rm -f $TEMP.otl $TEMP.html

The final step is to add these two lines to your ~/.vimoutlinerrc file. It sets the mappings for printing. I use ,,p.

nmap ,,p :w !vohtmlprint<cr>
vmap ,,p :w !vohtmlprint -T<cr>

The first is for printing an entire file. The second is for printing a visually selected area. The second needs a bit of work.

Well, that's how to pretty-print VO files. You don't need to create any html files. You don't even need to exit Vim Outliner.

Have fun!

This is the final version in the 1.xx series. otl2html.py is undergoing a ground-up rewrite. The 2.xx series will support external configuration files, table of contents generation, slide and even the authoring of full web sites from a single OTL file.

Enjoy! otl2html-1.40