On 18/10/11 15:28, Anton Aylward wrote:
LLLActive@GMX.Net said the following on 10/18/2011 08:37 AM:
Incidentally, I cannot use OO-org, because there is no Outline tool in OO-org. It has been a requested issue for 10 years now, to no avail. That' s a problem?
Not for me.
I use a mindmapping tool as an outliner. The graphical representation makes it much easier to work with!
There are many mind-mapping tools available for Linux:
* XMIND * View-your-mind * Freemind and Freeplane
Those last two allow you to write 'notes' in each node of the map that when you export the map to text (.odt, .html or .pdf) and that means you can compose a lot of your document in the map before you export the outline.
There's more capability in this kind of tool that I can describe in a few words, and more than you will find in just a few minutes trial. It really is an excellent 'idea manager'
Hi Anton, I use it for writing a PhD, other books and technical papers. I use Freemind as a start, but when it comes to books, there is no better tool like Outliner in M$, sadly! I have to work with lots of text content, and mind mapping tools are the start, but not easily usable tools for my purpose. Freemind gets so big that you loose perspective. It works well for topics and headings, less well for body texts. I even tried outliners for Mac, which was quite OK, but propriety. I need an outliner for students who are migrating to use Linux and open-source, in place of M$, Mac and closed-source. Mind mappers are a good start. We need something beyond the idea development phase. :-) Dreiel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org