David Cramer (Tech Pubs) wrote: > Rather than focus on enhancing the current tree view and as long as > we're dreaming, I'd submit the request as follows: > > Provide a "toc view" like XMetaL's "Structure View" or MS Word's > "Document Map". For its view, XMetaL provides a sample macro (that is > unfortunately a little hackish) to show how to switch between one of > several css stylesheets used to style this view. So you could have one > that is a simple toc with collapsable items, one where the toc includes > procedures and figure, one that is procedures only, one that is figures > only, one that is identical to the main view, whatever other view of the > document would help you. You should be able to scroll this view > independently of the main view and edit in either (like a second buffer > in emacs). Double clicking on an item in the toc view would synch up the > two views. > > I think this provides substantial usablity benefits to someone working > on a long doc. I understand if it's not a high priority, but I figure as > long as we're adding things to the list, we should be clear about what > would really be helpful.
These feature requests are somewhat already recorded in the User's Wish List (save ``Double clicking on an item in the toc view would synch up the two views''). However thanks for stressing the importance of these features. We expect to heavily use this wish list to implement XXE V3. Improving the way the user interacts with multiple views of the same document will be one of the major enhancements of XXE V3.
