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Posted by MadaboutDana
Nov 5, 2018 at 10:41 AM
Interesting, washere, especially the discussion of outlining on the LibreOffice website. The usefulness of outlining is clearly underestimated by those who don’t use it.
Quite a useful alternative to Word is Outlinely in rich-text mode (as opposed to markdown mode). You can turn Outlinely into a single-pane outliner simply by hiding the library/notes windows. However, Outlinely only runs on macOS/iOS.
Posted by washere
Nov 5, 2018 at 11:12 AM
Yes, many are stuck with Windows for various reasons. Recent MS stats shows a hundred million mac users & 1.3 billion Windows machines running worldwide. And there are more mobs with pitchforks asking for an outliner view in the link below.
I’ve read philosophical and mathematical books which easily run into double digit sub level heading’s numbering.
If half the people here don’t see the need for double digit outliner view levels, can we blame the LibreOffice devs (who left OpenOffice after the takeover) when they say we’re not going to waste time building it, who cares about outliner view or deep heading outlining?
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959
Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 5, 2018 at 11:42 AM
washere wrote:
>If half the people here don’t see the need for double digit outliner
>view levels, can we blame the LibreOffice devs (who left OpenOffice
>after the takeover) when they say we’re not going to waste time building
>it, who cares about outliner view or deep heading outlining?
Maybe half the people here do not need 10 or more heading levels. But most (all?) posters here would agree that a decent word processor needs a decent outlining mode/view.
I don’t see why the LibreOffice developers refuse to integrate Organon or something comparable in the LO package.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of developers of word processers who do not see a need for outlining - Textmaker (part of the German Softmaker Office) is one example.
Posted by thouqht
Nov 5, 2018 at 02:32 PM
What does org-mode not provide you?
Posted by Franz Grieser
Nov 5, 2018 at 02:50 PM
thouqht wrote:
>What does org-mode not provide you?
You talking to me? (sorry, couldn’t resist)
Who did you ask?