Peter Grafeneder wrote: > Hope everybody understands now, what I mean, and what a lot of people > need. :-)
I have some similar wishes. There are so many tasks that need more text processing capabilities than we can offer in our text component in Draw, Calc or Impress but OTOH also need some organizing and navigation capabilities that Writer doesn't offer. Writer has chapters, sections and bookmarks that can be used to organize and navigate through text but the navigation isn't as easy and comfortable as one would desire. An outliner would be great. :-) OTOH I know only too well how much effort it would be do implement all these nice things so I'm still hoping to find something that builds upon existing components. Can you describe the essence of the requirements behind your idea in a few(!) sentences? You gave some examples, but what's the essential requirement? Mine would be: - have an easy and quick navigation to all the entries (e.g. the days of the diary in your example) - have all the text processing capabilities of Writer - link to Calc sheets and their content - optional: allow to restrict the view to a single entry Using bookmarks or headings together with the navigator would be able to fulfil the first two requirements, for the second we could use linked objects and an extension that allows to access the data in the linked content easily in the same way as our new Chart component uses data in Calc to create charts. Writer could present such data in e.g. a new kind of text field. Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
