web at work wrote: > > > From: "Dave Barton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> From: web at work <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:17:07 -0400 >> >>> Here is a question. >>> I have a Bible file in a OTL type of file. >>> It is an Outline Text type of document. > <snip> >>> >>> SO can anyone help? >>> Anyone used OTL files before? >>> Anyway to get OOo to have one "frame" show the Outline Headings >>> and another to show the text of that "outlined section"? >>> >>> Tim L. (web at work) >>> who lost all of my DOS books (and much more references) in my last move. >> >> OTL is the file extension that Eric G.V. Fookes (Fookes Software) chose >> to identify the "OuTLine" feature he built into the NoteTab software. >> These are just plain text, with no embedded formatting codes in the true >> sense. Other than the presence of the first line in an OTL file and the >> equal sign, used as a tag by the NoteTab software, there is nothing >> special about these text files. In fact if you open one in any other >> plain text editor (eg. Windows Notepad), remove just the first line >> (eg." = V4 Outline MultiLine NoSorting TabWidth=30") and save it, >> NoteTab will open it as it would any other plain text file, with no side >> panel. >> >> The side panel displaying the headings/"Books" is hard coded into >> NoteTab. So there is no reason why OOo, or any other software should >> display these files as anything other than plain text. Unless, for some >> reason, that other software is emulating NoteTab. >> >> I have a few ideas how something similar might be replicated in Writer >> and somebody (not me), with the necessary skills, could possibly even >> write an otl to odt converter. However, I don't see this as an award >> winning feature for OOo. >> >> Dave >> >> > So I lucked out with reading them in the proper program after all. > I do like the Outline Headings displayed in the left site panel. I would > love to be able to use some printing software to make a PDF file that > includes the Outline Headings. PDF's can have chapter outlines, etc., > but I never learned how to make them. > > That is the feature that I like. over 1500 printed pages and they are > indexed/outlined for easier use and/or viewing. Great Idea. > > The strange thing, since the OTL file was created for NoteTab, was > the fact that that file format was not associated with NoteTab [light] > and I had to "make it associate with" it after it was able to be opened > by NoteTab. Well I have seen stranger. > > Thanks for the help. > > ALSO at least this list email got through. It seems my service > is randomly bouncing some of these list-emails back to the list-server > system. I get that notice once a week or more. My service puts the > blame on the list-server, not their email server that is > bouncing the emails back as unwanted or unable to be delivered. > > Thanks everyone. > This is still a great place to get information. > Plus Version 3.0 is a great product, and faster to load > than 2.x. Slower to get its first screen up vs. Word, but > then it takes 2-3 minutes before Word lets me ask it to > open a file or type in new stuff. OOo/writer does not make > we wait that long to start working. > > Tim L. > retired, but working harder now than ever. > plus burning 30-50 OO 3.0 cd this past week > and more next week for those dialup users locally. > Free of charge or a donation to the cause.
GREAT! Keep up the good work! Fred -- "Politicians and diapers need to be changed regularly -- and for the same reason." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
