[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/02/2015 03:30, jonathon a écrit : Hi Jonathon, Didn't that get made into an extension? Or a beta release? Asking, because I remember using tabs on OOo, but have no idea when that was, or what I did to accomplish it. All I remember is that the user experience was worse than using

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-03 Thread X Roemer
Organon works a bit like Scrivener. Files are organized in a treeview and it's possible to open parts of the project in new tabs. You might open different files in different tabs, but they have to be part of the same project. What it exactly does, is creating textsections, linking files to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Back before MS Word became so widely used there was another word-processor that had an excellent way of using tabs helpfully. I don't think it was for different documents but i'm not clear what it used to do. Does anyone here know what program i'm talkign about and what the tabs were used

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-03 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 03/02/2015 18:46, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Back before MS Word became so widely used there was another word-processor that had an excellent way of using tabs helpfully. I don't think it was for different documents but i'm not clear what it used to do. Does anyone here know what

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 02/02/2015 12:05, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, Alex i had no idea about there being an Extension that does do tabs! many thanks for pointing it out! :)) I'd kinda given up on it ever happening in LO tbh and maybe the people who kept on going on about it feel the same way (or else maybe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Cley Faye
2015-02-02 9:10 GMT+01:00 Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com: Symphony, IBM's OOo-like offering (now abandoned) also had a tabbed document management interface more akin to browser tabs. ​For what it's worth, some Window Manager do have this feature. It's easily accessible in KDE, and I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do such Window Managers allow tabs within LibreOffice (other than Calc and Impress obviously! (since those 2 already use tabs in some way or other)). I thought the lack of tabs was due to LibreOffice itself not taking advantage of the possibility? Alex i had no idea about there being an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread jonathon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/02/15 08:10, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 01/02/2015 20:06, CVAlkan a écrit : Not quite the same thing, but a long time ago, and only for a little while, there was a tabbed document interface code branch/extension developed as part of a GSoC

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Urmas
Florian Reisinger: Could you give me the link to the enhancement request? AOO 19291 DF 31481 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread X Roemer
My Extension Organon uses tabs, but maybe not in the manner you were looking for. Here you'll find screenshots: https://github.com/XRoemer/Organon/tree/master/Screenshots and particulary: https://github.com/XRoemer/Organon/blob/master/Screenshots/tabs.png The most recent version of Organon is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 01/02/2015 20:06, CVAlkan a écrit : Not quite the same thing, but a long time ago, and only for a little while, there was a tabbed document interface code branch/extension developed as part of a GSoC for OOo, but it was never integrated into the main code tree. Debates about the pros and cons

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-01 Thread Urmas
CVAlkan: it used to be possible to use a split screen to compare/edit/copy from one part of the same document That was an enhancement request since 2001 :) It will not be probably ever implemented as there are core design deficiencies in SO/OO.o/LO which are preventing this. -- To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-01 Thread Florian Reisinger
Hi Urmas, Could you give me the link to the enhancement request? It could have been closed for years: https://flosmind.wordpress.com/2013/10/24/2-window-mode-in-libreoffice/ Good LibO is Using Model/View/Controller http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%E2%80%93view%E2%80%93controller and does not