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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Mar 28 10:00:03 +0000 2008 ------- To save Mathias Bauer (mba) some energy I'll pitch in with a summary of my understanding of the situation, so that everyone understands where we are and why we must ave some more patience. Many people seem to be quite impatient to have the workable outline view that will make Openoffice the outliner of choice of word processing power users. But as Mathias hints, there is no need for more begging : the need is well acknowledged. Mathias has apparently taken a good look at the feasibility of this feature and concluded that it involves modifications that reach quite deep into the Openoffice document handling model. As explained in http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_Views (Mathias posted that link here last year) the whole layout engine needs to be modified so that a proper implementation of advanced views can be made possible : "There is a particular problem in Writer that needs to be solved before it makes sense to implement more views. A Writer documents always has one layout. If the user switches from "Print Layout" to "Online Layout" the old layout is thrown away and the new layout for the complete document is calculated. On switching back the same happens again. This can become quite annoying when new layouts are used that let switching between layouts happen more often. Perhaps it might also be attractive to have two different layouts visible at a time in two different windows, e.g. Outline Layout and Print Layout". This prior requirement has been hinted by Mathias as far back as 2006 (http://readlist.com/lists/openoffice.org/users/4/20550.html). Maybe a quick fix for outline view is hypothetically possible, but the developers apparently wish to build a solid foundation for the implementation of views so that the whole problem class can be cleanly solved with greater future development potential. So for now, unless you can contribute to the layout engine overhaul that is required prior to implementing the much dreamed of outline mode, patience is probably you best option - that and MS Word for a little while more... --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
