[libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-10 Thread CougarB
When I was a full-time journalist in the 1980s, I became very successful using a dedicated outliner called PCOutline. When all the major Word Processers came along--MS Word, Word Perfect, etc, the lack of outliner functionality kept me with my archaic outliner until MS Word beat the functionality o

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-10 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I am not a Macro person, but I wonder how much of this can be done with Macros. I know one book writer that does a great deal of his work through macros he created over the years. He could not find any word processor package that did what he wanted so he learned to write macros. First with Star

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-10 Thread Eric Beversluis
I've been using opml editor (on Windows, unfortunately) which seems to do all these things. Once stuff is in place it can be copied and pasted into a LO document, I believe. I've even been able to do a bit in Text Pad with indents and then copying it into the opml editor creates a good outline. I t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-10 Thread Joel Madero
Just a friendly reminder that devs rarely track this mailing list. If you have a feature request it belongs on our bug tracker (bugs.freedesktop.org) else it will never get implemented. Best, Joel On 10/10/2013 03:50 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: I am not a Macro person, but I wonder ho

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-11 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I Know that the DEVs do not have much time to read these posts, but I hoped that some poeple on this list might know enough about the Macros to know if it was possible. Since I am not on the DEVs list, maybe someone can forward the original posting to their list I did not know a feature requ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-12 Thread e-letter
On 10/10/2013, CougarB wrote: > > I used outlining as my main method of work when a full-time technical > writer > in the 90s (e.g., Fujitsu Software in San Jose). While working for a java > house, I was so influenced by the negative developer reactions to MS, that > I've been wishing to move to O

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-12 Thread jonathon
On 10/10/2013 10:50 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > I am not a Macro person, but I wonder how much of this can be done with > Macros. This is where it would have been extremely useful to have access to source code for OOo extensions. Everything requested was not only doable, but done by pe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature Request: Lack of Outliner Functionality a Deal Breaker for Me

2013-10-13 Thread Jean-Baptiste Faure
Le 11/10/2013 00:09, CougarB a écrit : > When I was a full-time journalist in the 1980s, I became very successful > using a dedicated outliner called PCOutline. When all the major Word > Processers came along--MS Word, Word Perfect, etc, the lack of outliner > functionality kept me with my archaic