Re: Request MSWin outliners with I,A,1,a etc structure?

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Posted by srdiamond15
2005-02-20 19:43:30

Steve Cohen wrote: “Why would the ability to diagram bother someone who has no need for it? You don’t have to turn it on. (If you don’t like the programming on channel 5, don’t switch to it. Would you throw out your TV because of Channel 5 programming?”

But Steve Zeoli wrote, without necessarily intending to reply, “One other reason to choose NoteMap over Inspiration is the hope that as a dedicated outliner, NoteMap will continue to evolve and improve.”

That’s one reason the presence of a major unneeded component might _rationally_ affect your judgment of it negatively.

Another reason is that where the program is designed intelligently (if it isn’t, why consider it in any event), there will be an intended set of best practices that will probably involve using both modules, and will adversely affect the desired function used alone. One difference between the NoteMap and Inspiration outliner is that the outline itself in NoteMap has more visual appeal. This may be related to the fact that the outliner in Inspiration is intended to complement the diagrammer.

Stephen R. Diamond

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