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Keith Collyer <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #246 from Keith Collyer <[email protected]> --- There is a bit of a dialogue of the deaf going on here. There seem to be a number of reasons why people are saying we don't need this: 1 I don't need it, so I can't see why anyone else does 2 You can use another program to do outlining 2.1 You can use freeplane or similar 2.2 You can use jedit 3 It's in Word, and MS is evil, so we won't do it 4 You can use Navigator 5 If you really want it, you'll pay for it OK, 1 is a strawman, so ignore that (though it is evident that a lot of the people giving other answers really can't see why others need this capability) 2. No, you can't. The point about the outlining capability in MS Word is that it is pretty seamlessly integrated into the word processor. So freeplane isn't an option after the initial creation. Nor is jedit, as that is plain text. These are both fine programs, I often use freeplane myself in the initial stages, and I use a folding editor for plain text (not jedit, as it happens, but that's not really relevant) 3 grow up, little boy, some of us are in the real world 4 Navigator is very useful, but it is what it is. It allows you to navigate, but not to edit and move stuff 5 As has been said, we are paying, we have to use Word for this. If OO wants to be a serious competitor, it has to have features that people need, and a significant number of people, particularly those writing long documents, need a real outliner. And from the "pro" side, a lot of frustration and, in some cases, insults (like in 3 above ;) ) BUT, none of this gets away from the fact that this is a significant, very useful and very powerful capability that has been requested for many, many years yet hasn't happened. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.
