Subject: Re: Commit: Various Lists UI improvements.
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 10:55:56 CST
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:55:19PM -0500, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> At 7:34 AM -0500 2/1/01, Randy Kramer wrote:
> >I'm not exactly sure why they distinguish an outline from a list, I'm
> >not even absolutely sure they do (it's been about a year since I used
> >Word on a daily basis).
>
> And Word's model for outlines may NOT be the one that we want
> to take - in fact, I would suggest that it is NOT the way we want to
> go.
>
> Word's idea of an outline is more of an alternative view of a
> document, rather than a section of a document that can be
> edited/viewing in an outline (hierarchical list) structure. Both
> have their place, but they are VERY different. The latter, which Abi
> does, is IMO, more useful.
I would like to very strongly agree here. I was only briefly a word
user, and a wordperfect user for long before that. And in my opinion,
there are a number of areas where Word was never even close to as good
as WP.
Outlines are the clearest example of those, since Word didn't even
have the kind of outlines that wordperfect did. As Leonard said,
they are part of the document, and just as much a part of the text as
the numbers in a list in Abi. But you could collapse parts of it, and
view just the levels you wanted.
Actually, I'm not sure if you could collapse a part of it, or just
show headings 1-3, for example. I'll download the free version and
get some screenshots.
But this is an area where we can be *much* better than word.
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