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Posted by 22111
Oct 28, 2018 at 11:16 PM
“the real thing” = to some, only 1-pane outliners are outliners: so what?; German tool: TextMaker/SoftMaker, Word clones: LibreOffice and that Oracle thing, XyWriter spinoff: Nota Bene. (I’m Windows only.)
Posted by 22111
Oct 28, 2018 at 11:28 PM
Speaking of Nota Bene, Papyrus should be mentioned, too. (I don’t know either of them personally, but both strive to help with serious writing, but NB seems to do it in some convoluted ways, here and there, judging from the pics on “See what’s new in Nota Bene 12”: frightening! Such a fuss, for re-organizational tasks which would be utterly simple in any good 2-pane outliner…)
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 31, 2018 at 10:12 PM
@Stephen: There seems to be confusion about what you are really looking for. Is it a “simple” outlining tool (such as Inspiration, UV Outliner) or a full-featured writing environment (Word, Scrivener, Sente).
Re Inspiration: Installation simply did not finish correctly. There is an Insp9IE.exe on my hard drive but it won’t start.
Posted by jaslar
Oct 31, 2018 at 10:46 PM
Have you looked at Lyx? Not exactly an outliner, but designed for books, based on structured text.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 1, 2018 at 11:08 AM
Franz is quite right. And of course you can turn Scrivener into a simple one-pane outliner if you want to (using the appropriate Workspace setup). But with all the bells and whistles in the background if you should need them…
Franz Grieser wrote:
@Stephen: There seems to be confusion about what you are really looking
>for. Is it a “simple” outlining tool (such as Inspiration, UV Outliner)
>or a full-featured writing environment (Word, Scrivener, Sente).
>
>Re Inspiration: Installation simply did not finish correctly. There is
>an Insp9IE.exe on my hard drive but it won’t start.
>
>