Re: Quick & dirty outlining

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Posted by srdiamond15
2004-08-24 00:46:34

OK, here’s a list. I’m omitting anything I knew GrandView had or that Steve Zeoli just told me it had.

First, some good characteristics of MS Word’s outliner that few have emulated:

1. Unlimited universal undo.

2. Open multiple copies of same outline, multiple outlines and split windows within outline.

3. Body text more or less as in Word: beneath the topic, semi-indented, and separately controlled. The two-pane outliners eliminate the option to see more than one body text at a time.

And the rarer or never seen properties

4. Ordinal mark and gather, so that the order of marking determines the order topics assume. (Only BrainStorm and the 1980s Macintosh outliner MindWrite to my knowledged have this).

5. Hoist _any_ topics in any combination. (Generalizes ADM’s “super-hoist”)

6. A focused mode that automates BrainStorm’s two-level display. (This mode is the default in MaxThink.)

7. Outlining within the body text of an outline. (No, I won’t ask for outlinable body text within the outlined body text.)
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List all the operations you would like in an OUTLINER (excluding graphics). I’ll tell you if you list one that GV didn’t have.

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