Re: "Outline View"

Hi Randy, hi Martin,

thanks a lot for adding your - no, not only $0.02, but at least €1.00. ;)

At first, I am going to respond to Randy's suggestions:

>Abiword's list feature works on lists within the document (not the
>entire document)--the collapsible outlining feature works on the entire
>document as long as you've included headings in your document, and
>formatted them as Headings
>From either the MSWord or oowriter feature, you can navigate
>through the entire document quite easily.

These are the words that I myself was not able to find when I tried to describe what I am actually searching for. The decisive term is "entire": I am searching for a feature that lets me navigate quickly through the ENTIRE document, not only through a single list within a document.

>I was going to suggest (horror of horrors) using OpenOffice as an
>alternative to Abiword because it has a feature that is usable (to me)
>as an alternative to collapsible outlining.

I have always had an inexplicable averseness to the "Navigator"-Feature in Open Office. But I had not used oowriter for a long time (rather ooimpress). After Randy's suggestion, I tried out a current version of oowriter, and I have to admit that "Navigator" improved considerably as measured by my requirements. So, thanks to Randy for his advice (and especially for the link)!

However, I often have to use different computers and operating systems, and therefore I like applying portable versions of certain programs. Of course, there is a portable version of Open Office, too, but I prefer Abiword as it is lightweight and fast. Thus, I appreciate Martin's suggestion:

>Martin wrote:
>>OK, I'll expand the feature to use any of the Heading styles, not just
>>Numbered Headings. The navigator dialog does look very useful. It
>>should be easy to implement and would be a great GSoC project. Feel
>>free to add a Request For Enhancement for it to our bugzilla.

Thank you very much!

Martina

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