https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38262
Bob <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Priority|low |high --- Comment #12 from Bob <[email protected]> --- Bug 68167 has far more detailed discussion and references, and very specifically explanation of why minor fixes to navigator will _not_ cut it. If 68167 is to be marked as a duplicate of this, then the importance level (high) needs to be transferred as well - which I'm going to attempt to do, but I probably don't have the required karma. I would like to add my very strong support to this RFE (yes, sorry, I realise it's quite old, but I didn't find it till now). I teach a course on technical writing (I'm a CS professor, but you teaches what you gets). As far as possible, the course is based on free software. Just as in software, any complex document needs a design/implementation cycle. That implies a need for good tools to support the design process (the analogue of UML and other design tools for programming). Well-designed word-processing documents - at least technical ones - are tree-structured, so the design process requires a good tree-structuring tool: one that supports the editing of the document structure at the 'ideas' level prior to and during writing, and does so in an intuitive, easy-to-use way. MS Word outline mode is excellent for this. For all that I love all the other aspects of LibreOffice, Navigator just doesn't cut it. So at the moment, I have to lamely tell my students 'beg or borrow a copy of MS Word, or use jreepad, to do the document structuring, then switch to LibreOffice'. Of course, you can guess how far my free software evangelism gets with that... Incremental changes to Navigator aren't what's needed. For all the reasons argued at 68167, and before that on the OO links, implementing this requires a complete new design, to properly support editing document tree structures. It needs to be simple and natural to use, as MS Word outline mode is. Without such a redesign, Writer cannot be a proper tool for designing and building large documents: it will remain an editor rather than a document IDE (think vi versus eclipse). To my mind this missing functionality is by far the biggest issue with Writer, or indeed the whole of LibreOffice. And it's the biggest danger to LibreOffice - if OO implemented this first, it would be the one thing that would force me to switch. I'm sure I'm not alone in this. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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