Re: "Outline View"

Hi Martin (and others),

first of all I have to admit that this is in fact the first mailing list I have subscribed, and so I hope that I act in an appropriate manner.

Back to topic:
Many thanks, Martin, for your detailed answer!
Even before I had written my question in the mailing list, I experimented with "text folding". Indeed, that function hides text within lists. But what I am searching for is rather what you circumscribed as follows:

> If you use a numbered
> heading system you can
> systematically hide text
> that you're not interested
> in this way and restore it
> when you're ready.<

Hence, I would be satisfied if I could apply "text folding" to a heading system. Unfortunately, that was accurately the task I failed to accomplish with "text folding". I placed the caret on a headline of level 2 and chose "hide below level 1" up to "hide below level 3". The only thing that happened was, that the single headline disappeared, not the text below that headline. Afterwards, I could not restore the headline in any way.

I tried that with

DEBIAN, Version 5.0.1 (lenny), Kernel Linux 2.6.26-2-686 + Abiword Version 2.6.4 (the only version of Abiword I could get from the repositories),

XUBUNTU, Version 9.04 (jaunty), Kernel Linux 2.6.28-13-generic + Abiword 2.6.6 (pre-installed).

> I would be very interested
> to know how useful you find
> this feature. I thought it
> would be easier to use than
> MSWord "outline mode" which I
> never actually understood.<

As long as it works (^^), "text folding" is undoubtedly a very useful feature. Nevertheless, I would find it even more convenient, if you could edit the "Table of Contents", that one can create via the "Insert"-Menu, and create e.g. links.

What I personally did: I inserted a "Table of Contents" via the named function, saved my document as Html-File and then reopened that Html-File in Abiword. Hence, I was able to navigate in my document via the "Table of Contents".

Cheers

Martina

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