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I have been using the outline numbering as you and Claudia suggest in
this thread. It works fine as a formatting tool, but the features of an
Outline tool as used in M$Office-Word does not seem to be available in
OO-Writer. Features I used a lot in
M$Office-Word was: (taken from the link above)
# singling out and display all the items at the top level of the
hierarchy, or any other level, blending out the lower levels
# showing the subheads under a major heading, or including only the
first sentence
# hiding and revealing the subheads under any particular heading, while
remaining in the higher outline displayed, and you only see the subheads
of this particular heading
# easily move an entire section of your outline (not as easy with OO as
with M$)
# record notes within your evolving structure, which can be printed as
hidden text on the bottom of the text or as an addendum. It is not the
standard referencing that OO also does as foot or end notes. These are
notes that contain comments and references in research that is for the
author and is not part of the normal document.
I am wading through the WikiPedia Outline topic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner to find some compatible software.
It would be nice to have it all in OO. I have installed M$ with
CodeWeavers, but I want to get away from M$ to Open Source.
Has anyone used outline software in conjunction with OO? Reading on an
outlinersoftware.com forum
(http://www.outlinersoftware.com/topics/viewt/114/0/software-for-dissertation-research-writing), it may be that OO is not aiming to haven outline software features. One participant called Softwareguru is an OO, Java, .Net and C# developer using IdeaMason.
Would it be feasible to have such features as a module for OO-Writer?
There's an issue in the OOo tracker on thie subject; you can find it at
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3959. I recommend you
log in there and add the above comments to the issue, and please vote
for it! As you'll see, there's been a steady trickle of commentary
since the issue was opened back in April of 2002. I don't know what it
takes to raise it on the priority list, but I'd hope that enough votes
would do the trick.
--
Don Dwiggins
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"Experience is what you get when you were expecting something else."
-- Seen on an office wall
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