Re: outlines vs. lists (was Re: Commit: VariousListsUIimprovements.)

[Martin Sevior]

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 5:01 PM +0100 2/7/01, Mike Nordell wrote:
> >Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> >>  You are missing my point, Mike.  Sectional outlines are NOT
> >>  modal - they work like "inline" outlines in the document.
> >
> >Now I'm quite sure we don't understand eachother! :-)
> >I wasn't into any modality.
> 
>       Modality in terms of being in a separate view to see the 
> outlines/folding.  In Word, you can only fold the ENTIRE document and 
> ONLY when in "Outline View".   With "sectional outlines", you can 
> fold any part of that section at any time in any view!
> 

This makes sense to me at last and I finally see that it might be useful
too. I think this could be implemented without structual changes
to abi. However I won't do it until after we have Frames, Equations 
and Tables. If someone else wants to do it, go ahead. 


Cheers

Martin