Re: [opensuse] Writing a small book... what should I use?

On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 15:43 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
On 1/10/2012 4:52 AM, LLLActive@xxxxxxx wrote:
Outlining is something I use as well, and sadly its pretty much missing/useless in
OOo and Libre Office.
That is why I am reluctantly still using an old copy of Word 2003 for my 'little books' since the 90's, now with wine on openSUSE. I've been
onto the OOo issues (https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3959) trail for many years to get Outlining into the OOo Writer, but no
one seems to want to incorporate it. As you say, what is pointed out to be outline and navigator is useless for serious work in OOo and its
derivatives.
All capable Outliners are not free or open source. Very few are as good and easy to use as M$-Word outline mode for non-technical users.


Outlining is in OpenOffice 3.3, but its just not as smooth as it was in 8 year old Word.
It is not as swift to switch between modes. It does work, but it took a lot of digging to
get comfortable with it (which I'm still not).

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How do I use outlining in LibreOffice, and what does it do? Generally I
just use a bulleted list for smaller document outlines.

The outlining in OOo and derivatives are NO outliners; i.e. it does not work - they are no outliners. Try M$-Word's outline view, use it, and see what I mean. OOo & co. only do outline formatting. That is it. Do not mention navigator, it is none either.
Outliners existed since the dos days. I used it back then already. Look at this old link: http://outliners.scripting.com/ - It was originally used for programming as well: http://davewiner.userland.com/outlinersProgramming

Outlining is a writing tool, not a formatting tool like it is used in OOo & co.

Look here to see what an outliner does: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner. Look at the way it works. Here you will find some tool that you can use for writing a small (collaborative) book.

Dreiel


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