https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #195 from johngardner58 <[email protected]> --- (In reply to ther from comment #191) > As others have stated, there are other tools to achieve outliner > functionality, such a mind map or text editors. New tools, technologies > often necessitate developing new methods of working. Asking superior > software to adopt legacy mentalities of performing tasks in m$o is a mistake. > > The m$o outliner functionality as described here may well be a cause for > software instability of m$o, such as the ability to move sections of > formatted text whilst within this outline mode. > > Introducing outline functionality like m$ would be a mistake and should be > rejected. Outliners are not legacy and as others have stated before, please do not suggest mindmaps or other tools besides word processing. For many of us outlining is a requirement in a word processor. And in some companies it is a requirement for documentation. Bottom line is this has been a normal feature for all major word processors past and present. Wordstar, WordPerfect, MS Word since the beginning and is available in in iWorks. Writer is the only mainstream word processor that does not have an outline mode. Bottom line, OO doesn't have a chance of gaining a large following without this feature. Then need for MS Office and a few other widely used apps like PhotoShop may be the single reason that Windows continues to have dominance on the desktop. And many simply won't switch until Writer supports outlining. I won't. My family won't. They have tried OO but have rejected it in favor of Word. They would rather me spend $200 for each computer than use OO for free. That says something. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
