Re: Quick & dirty outlining

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Posted by ureadit
2004-08-24 13:23:42

SD asked & I answer.

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. <=NO

2. Open multiple copies of same outline, multiple outlines and split windows within outline. <= Yes. Up to 9 windows (DOS memory limited), can size, tile, etc. Windows

3. Body text more or less as in Word: beneath the topic, semi-indented, and separately controlled. <= Yes, and very nicely.
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).<= Almost: Can mark, gather (copy, clone, move), Can prioritize=you arrange as you wish, can sort.

5. Hoist _any_ topics in any combination. (Generalizes ADM’s “super-hoist”) <= Not sure what you mean by “any combination,” but can hoist and hoist within hoist.

6. A focused mode that automates BrainStorm’s two-level display. (This mode is the default in MaxThink.) <= don’tr know what you mean.

7. Outlining within the body text of an outline. (No, I won’t ask for outlinable body text within the outlined body text.) <= Not sure what you mean, but can have outline head followed by body text followed by suboutline head, etc. Probably equivalent.

But there are so many more wonderful things like macros, redefining keys, moving a single item left or right without changing its vertical position or affecting anything else,...

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