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Subject:    Re: [users] Re: Re: if adding things to OOo was dead simple
From:       Tim Wescott <tim () wescottdesign ! com>
Date:       2004-04-18 20:10:00
Message-ID: 4082E098.5080704 () wescottdesign ! com
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Andrew Brown wrote:

>Tim Wescott <tim@wescottdesign.com> wrote in
>news:4081CE04.6020201@wescottdesign.com: 
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>>Outliner?  Are you familiar with the navigator?  You use it completely
>>differently from a M$ Word outline view but once you get used to it
>>it's very nice.  Or do you mean something different when you say
>>"Outliner"? 
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>Yes, I know the Navigator, and I use it quite a lot. However, there are
>a number of disadvantages. For one thing, text in the navigator doesn't
>wrap, so that you can't use it to display whole sentences, or even whole
>notes. I have a request for enhancement in for this in IZ. For a second,
>there is no easy and obvious way to assign different heading levels to
>paragraphs that look like plain text. I can do that with a template, but
>it's troublesome, error-prone, and should be easier. 
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>A proper outliner allows you to shift headings and their associated
>sub-headings around, and to navigate quickly among them. This the
>Navigator does. But a proper outliner also allows you to show and edit
>the text levels you are interested in, and hide those you don't want to
>see, and this is the bit that is missing from OOo at present. In fact,
>it's not so much missing, as split between the navigator and the main
>view. 
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>The Navigator has the ability to hide uninteresting sub-levels. But
>because the text won't wrap, you can't see much of the levels you don't
>hide, and you can't edit anything directly inthe Navigator window at
>all. 
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>The main window lets you see and edit text of any level. But you can't
>hide the text in which you are not interested, and you can't easily move
>headings and their associated sub-heads around. It would be possible to
>lash these capabilities together using macros in the latest milestone
>releases, which do have hidden text. But it would be a lot of trouble,
>and not ver portable or easy to install -- look at the fuss people make
>about the very much simpler word counting macro. Even when written and
>installed, you would still, I think, have to move text using the
>navigator display, while editing it in the main window. A proper
>outlining mode would allow you to do both in the same window. 
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>Letting text wrap in the Navigator window would be a start, though, and
>it would make other things, like notes, easier to read. 
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You're reminding me of my complaints with Navigator, dangit!

I've just gotten used to it, but certainly having this addressed somehow 
would be nice.

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Tim Wescott
Wescott Design Services
http://www.wescottdesign.com



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