Subject: Re: Commit: Various Lists UI improvements.
From: Randy Kramer (rhkramer@fast.net)
Date: Sat Feb 10 2001 - 11:55:01 CST
Graham,
Thanks for writing! (I was afraid everyone had gotten disgusted with
even talking about outlining. ;-)
I remember there was such a thing (the outliner by Brown Bag) (or more
than one) -- I don't remember the name and I don't recall using it.
Have you ever used outlining (not lists) in Word? I have never found a
competing word processor with outlining features anything like it. As
I'm learning, sometimes people describe what Word calls a list (numbered
or bulleted) as an outline.
I have not made exhaustive studies of word processors, but if you know
of another word processor with outlining features like Word's, I'd be
interested in looking more closely at it, especially if it works in
Linux.
Anyway, I'm glad to know that there are other people out there who are
interested in (some kind of) outlining features.
Randy Kramer
Graham Murray wrote:
>
> Leonard Rosenthol <leonardr@lazerware.com> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> I personally do not like what Word (or most other wordprocessors) call
> outlines. Does anyone else remember, from the DOS days, a shareware
> outline processor from Brown Bag software? Unfortunately I cannot
> remember its name. It was more of an "ideas" processor than a word
> processor, but this is more what I think outlines should be.
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