https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #214 from Donald Murray <[email protected]> --- I'm one of the people that tried to push this feature on OO as I wanted to see an end to MS control of the desktop PC and quite simply, this feature IS the only feature that is keeping MS in control of the desktop market. Linux would explode exponentially over windows if this feature were added. I am a software engineer with 30 years experience and I've used outlining for almost that entire time. It is such a useful feature for specifications which most professional engineers produce. I think the engineers that write the code here are used to not writing specs....after all it is an open source development effort, which isn't necessarily done professionally....you pay for what you get.... I submitted this as we all want Outline mode, but the problem is that someone long time ago said "Navigator does it or there are 3rd party mindmapping tools" (which I quoted and stated that this is unmitigated BS). .....and the person assigned to my issue said that this problem was a duplicate of the one that said that crap and so it was already addressed, which of course it wasn't. We need to get to the head of the project and inform that person.....or if I had the time, I could get the source code and write my own version. Make no mistake it's a big project to have to produce an alternative display for the entire project (Outline mode) and the controls and ability to apply outline formatting information to any text, and display that too in other display mode. So for those of you that this outlining is considered ancient technology, if you supply an alternative that works, I'd be the first one to try it out, but nobody has done that yet. It needs to have ALL the features of MS outline mode, including the ability to expand and collapse the different outline sections. I even tried to write my own macros with hidden text to handle hiding the text in a section to try and immitate outline mode, but it can't be done in any way using the existing controls. It'll also need to be possible to generate tables of contents from the outline titles and to sort by outline sections, etc, etc... So, yea, it's a lot of work and because the package wasn't designed with this in mind from day one, it'll be difficult. However, Writer just isn't good enough without this functionality, and I still need MS WORD until Writer is fixed to support this. Also, if anyone knows how to get this issue expanded beyond trivial, please do so. Finally, please stop telling us to use 3rd party or navigator.....that's just not good enough. Also, stop talking about Latex, etc, as that is a different subject. Thank you all for your input....keep trying.... -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are watching all bug changes.
