https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
--- Comment #256 from FCdBQxSEbhQs <[email protected]> --- The missing "Outline View" feature in open-office is of such paramount importance, I am unable of letting it being ignored. The feature is going to be implemented by programmers, so in order to have more chances to take high priority, I believe it must be described in a "language" closer to coding. As I see it, the "feature" in question is ***very familiar to programmers*** who use it every day. Every IDE and most code editors include it. The "feature" is consisted by the following sub-features: a) Code folding, and b) Auto indenting According to Wikipedia, Code folding "allows the user to selectively hide and display – 'fold' – sections of a currently-edited file as a part of routine edit operations. This allows the user to manage large amounts of text while viewing only those subsections of the text that are specifically relevant at any given time."(!!) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_folding). Furthermore, indentation "is used to format program source code to improve readability" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentation_%28typesetting%29) I find both descriptions, very accurate regarding the "Outline View", which is requested here. Although most programmers could not live without the above, the request of implementing it for authors is disregarded, and marked as "trivial". It is not the same as the "Navigator" feature mentioned here before. It is a pure productivity tool, essential for large size text authoring. I am absolutely sure there are already available open source routines to handle the above mentioned functions. The challenge is to adapt the routines to the open-office framework. I wish I could help, but my knowledge of the open-office framework is extremely limited. I hope someone from the core team will notice this. In the current condition, each OO text document is doomed to contain just a few pages of content. regards -- ---------------------------------- Tassos Kolydas PhD Musicology - MSc Computer Science http://www.kolydart.gr/en/ ---------------------------------- -- -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the issue.
