Subject: Re: Outlining (was Re: Version 0.9.0)
From: sam th (sam@bur-jud-118-039.rh.uchicago.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 24 2000 - 20:12:03 CDT
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2000, Randy Kramer wrote:
Well, this is quite ambitious. It looks like you are talking about 4
probably distinct projects.
> -Automatic heading numbering
>
> -Ability to promote, demote, cut and paste (headings only or headings
> and associated "body" text).
>
These seem like the basic elements of an automatically numbered outline,
and are probably the most basic of the projects described here. For
ideas, you should probably look at the list patch (which also does
automatic numbering) that has been kicking around the list for a while.
http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/March/0007.html
> Collapsibility <snip>
This probably isn't neccessary in the inital run of outlining. It would
seem to require significant new machinery to get all the differing aspect
of this working correctly.
> -Header (and body text) formatting that varies by "level" within the
> outline.
>
This is a significantly more complicated aspect of your plan. As it is,
our support for custom styles is not as strong as it could be, let alone
automatic application of those styles. Thus, this seems like an
additional project.
> -The ability to insert hypertext cross-references to heading text and
> numbers, and, as in Word, the hyperlink text is the actual contents of
> the heading, so, if the heading text changes, the hyperlink text changes
> automatically. Also, the ability of these cross-reference hyperlinks to
> change color to indicate they've been followed. (Which Word does not
> support -- "real" hyperlinks do change color, cross-reference hyperlinks
> do not.)
This sounds very neat, but is again very ambitious, and could probably be
tied to a more general system of allowing hyperlinking in abiword
documents. Thus, this should probably be done seperately.
>
> I'm sure there is more that won't come to my mind until at least 30
> seconds after I send this -- the sooner I send it the sooner I'll
> recognize what I've overlooked.
>
> Randy Kramer
everything you propose sounds very interesting, and very exciting. I
would love to see it in abiword, and I wish you loats of luck, and I am
sure everyone on the list will be willing to answer questions.
sam th
sam@uchicago.edu
http://sam.rh.uchicago.edu
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