https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
liotier <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #202 from liotier <[email protected]> --- --- Re: comment #201 from ther <[email protected]> --- > > this legacy function is designed to enable > an author to organise and plan the generation of content. No, outlining is not an activity preliminary to the generation of content: it is the generation of content. It allows the writer to continuously reorganize the structure as his ideas take shape : thoughts and document structure feed back into each other. > After 10 years or so, it is evident now that the majority of users > are not interested in outliner. Indeed the majority of users are not interested in an outliner... But when I reach out to hapless users lost in multi-hundred pages documents and show them how to use outline mode, it is usually a beautiful epiphany - they realize that word processing is all about structure, not presentation ! Suddenly, a disciplined style structure makes a whole lot of sense and the user ceases to format his document using carriage returns... This is a recurring theme in collecting user requirements: 19th century people don't want a car - they want a faster horse. Just because the majority of users don't know they need an outliner doesn't mean is would not be useful to them. But from twenty years of writing as a software projects manager, I can testify that word processing productivity and well-structured documents are strongly correlated to the use of the outline mode. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
