https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70408

Cougar Brenneman <[email protected]> changed:

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         Resolution|DUPLICATE                   |---

--- Comment #2 from Cougar Brenneman <[email protected]> ---
Here's another comment on that thread and my response to it:
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e-letter <[email protected]>

There are many outliner tools out there, why use a word-processor when
a text editor such as Leo or Jedit can achieve outline functionality?

Alternatively, use LO writer styles and the navigator toolbar.
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Cougar Brenneman <[email protected]>

I took a look at Leo, Jedit, and OPML, and frankly, none of them are as
convenient as M$ Word. I'm using Word as both a word processor and an outliner,
and it's extremely convenient to be working on a document as an outline, then
move over to a word processing mode without losing the outline structure, and
work with formatting and other elements that are convenient in that view, and
then move back to outlining without losing my formatting and other tools that
are available in Word. When I'm writing in outline format, I even want to just
experience my novel as it will be read on the page, and then go back to using
the outliner.

In Eric B's first post, he recommended OPML but stated that once the document
was moved over to LO or OO, it was no longer in outline format and could no
longer be manipulated as an outline. This is what I found in looking at every
option that anyone here has recommended.

In http://cribsheet.opml.org, there are a lot of comments by people who also
want to have their outliner also act as a word processor. There's no export
facility in OPML that preserves the outline structure once you cut and paste
the text into your word processor, and the users include many old-time outliner
users who think that OPML is the best of the options.

The reason I'm currently sticking with Word is I need a tool that is both a
word processor and an excellent outliner, such that I don't have to cut and
paste, thereby losing the outline structure. I need to be able to constantly go
back and forth between the two views--which is how Word handles it--as two
views.

That's why I am not willing to give up my current use of Word. On the cripsheet
page for OPML, you'll find ample evidence that I'm not alone in requesting this
feature.

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