Charles Fox wrote:
Dear LyX Developers,
I am a PhD student who will be starting to write a thesis in a couple
of months time. I'd love to use LyX, but there is one feature missing
that I really need: an outline mode. Like MS Word, I'd like to be
able to see and /quickly edit in place/ the document skeleton. (I
know LyX shows the headers in a menu but I want to quickly TAB
subheadings up and down the hierachy and move them around like in
Word.) I utterly rely on outline mode when sketching out documents
and making notes.
I am just a PhD student but I could pay maybe $120 to someone who
knows the code and could write this feature in the next couple of
months.
Hopefully it shouldn't be so hard, just don't display text that isn't
heading when in outline mode; and provide a couple of key strokes to
promote and demote headings.
Please contact me if interested.
Try out the new "Branches" inset and structure your document so:
Heading
[Branch inset][contents]
Heading
[branch inset][contents]
Having said that, there's been an attempt in the past to create an
"environment inset" that would achieve your requirements transparently. (By
André Pönitz I believe.) However, I also believe that the work was
shelved... Perhaps Jean-Marc and Lars know why?
Regards,
Angus
