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Outliners.com Message ID: 1393

Posted by nubuckaroo
2002-06-04 11:59:12

The integrated outliner in AppleWorks 6 (and previous, going back to at least 4 or 3, maybe even 2) can handle graphics. It can also handle hyperlinks within the document, to other documents and to web pages. You can also embed spreadsheet frames and tables. You can also have multiple views of the same document open at one time.

It’s not More, but it’s pretty spiffy and it’s mostly ignored.

Back when Publish and Subscribe was a supported technology in AppleWorks, you could even clone topics, and subscribe to other documents in topics.

With AppleScript, I think some of the functionality of Hoist could be replicated; something I should probably try to do one day. I’m not sure what the best way to do it would be. Cut the text of the topic to a new document and then copy and paste the changes back to the original or something else (Move the topic to the top of the document, and then select all the remaining text and change the color of the text to white to make it disappear, or maybe just gray to make it appear to fade into the background. I’m not even certain you could do that in AppleScript in AW 6, but I think you can.)

I don’t know. It has potential.

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