they whom i call Matt Neuburg wrote:
>Then I discovered that Ruby likes to save structured
> data as YAML.

excellent -- looks like nested YAML outlines in key/value form
are reasonable enough for my non-geek client to edit in BBEdit
(which folds YAML nicely), with file system for higher level
organization; it will cause some moaning, because tracking indent
levels is not quite so intuitive, but it will work

this is pretty much the last piece except for the client to reach
the tipping point

thanks a lot for the patient suggestions, Matt

too bad for Frontier, though; i will miss the code editor