To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=89311 Issue #|89311 Summary|Writer: Organize Ideas in a new Document Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.4.0 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|All Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|FEATURE Priority|P3 Subcomponent|viewing Assigned to|mru Reported by|discoleo
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun May 11 16:45:26 +0000 2008 ------- When starting a new text document (e.g. a novel, book, or some academic article), users do not yet know all the details they intend to write. It is difficult to write ''de novo'' something new, and it is useful to first write down the critical ideas and expand them later as ideas accumulate and consolidate. The Outline View [http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3959] describes one possible workaround for this functionality. However, that is a very crude and still limited feature. As ideas come up, the users writes them down, e.g. outlining the chapters in a new book, or the scenes in a novel. But he might want to change the order of the chapters later, so he moves/shuffles the written ideas around giving them a new order. He might want to delete some scenes entirely or insert new ones as the story develops. Instead of writing a single continuous-text document, the document will now be split and grouped into functional components (e.g. chapters), and each 'chapter' will be a separate document that can be moved around within the *master-document* similar to the slides in Impress (only that we are dealing now with text-documents). This is an extension of the Storylines tool in Writer's Cafe: http://linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6330/2 These *chapters* would additionally benefit from the following options and features: - start every chapter on a new page [any page (even or odd) or force odd-page] or flow text continuously - toggle view: -- flow all text within a single document -- view every chapter in a separate tab, see http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=20701 and http://www.openoffice.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/18599/Tabbed_divisions.JPG [it should be possible to name tabs more meaningfully] - automatically create TOC from the chapters -- even more complex TOCs: e.g. in complex books, where every chapter is written by a different author, you may want to add the author to the TOC entry --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
