https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=124984
Issue ID: 124984
Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
Summary: Writer's Organizer/Improved Navigator
Product: Writer
Version: 4.2.0-dev
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P3
Component: editing
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
My suggestion for OO 5.0 would be improvement and extension of OO's Navigator.
If one refers to Bugzilla 3959 at
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
one can see that there is a long standing call for OO to have an Outlining
system similar to MS Word.
Such an outliner might closely integrate with the functionality of a Writer's
Organiser, which allows an author write chunks of his text and then dynamically
rearrange them; in addition, such Writer's Organisers also permit tracking each
chunk by the persons, locations, things, times involved.
I instance two good working examples of such Organisers (opensource):
Plume Creator, by Cyril Jacquet, at
http://www.plume-creator.eu/site/index.php/en/
written in C++
and
oStoryBook, overseen by favdb31 (sorry - I've lost the link to his full name),
at
https://sourceforge.net/p/ostorybook/discussion/?source=navbar
a revival of StoryBook (now discontinued), written in Java.
Both of these are currently undergoing revision - oStoryBook in particular to
allow use of an external editor.
The extension of the Navigator might also support the extended OpenDocument
MetaData functions (v 1.2? - Rob?)
Such a Writer's Organiser would fill a useful gap for authors, many of whom use
Scrivener (commercial). It also might parallel a commercial product for
Microsoft Word (I only know of this from looking at the site) of Writing Word
Outliner at
http://www.writingoutliner.com/.
The Calligra project has under development (slowly) Calligra Author, which does
not yet offer the full functionality of either of the above.
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