On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Christian Ridderström wrote: > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 09:05:05AM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote: > > > If we want to have the outline mode separate from LyX, then a custom > > > export format would be useful... but maybe it's more efficient to put it > > > inside LyX? > > > > "Folding" text and changing the headning level should be done within LyX. > > > > I did not know that this was called "outline mode"... > > it "disposition"... anyway I think about it as editing the structural > content of the document. ... hmm, maybe "structure mode" is better?
The TOC window in lyx now gives a structural view. It works well for a short document or one chapter of a book. What makes an "outline processor" valuable is the ability to manipulate this level of information with changes reflected in the underlying document. While this is best done (smartest done) at a very early stage, it is still useful in late stage editing to be able to move whole sections around (then rewrite transitions, summaries, introductions). I've compiled lyx several times, but I have only looked at a few bits of the code (the ones that once or twice did'tn compile the 1st try). Query, how hard would it be to add functionality to the TOC (or cloned) view to permit manipulating the structure and have the changes refelcted in the underlying document? Can one drive the cut/move to new point/paste rituals be driven from this point in the code? Probably a pile of work. (I don't have much time until June or July 2003 and have't done C++ for a decade.) -- Mark Hansel PO Box 41 Minnesota State University Moorhead Moorhead, MN 56563 ph: 218-236-2039 fax: 218-236-2593 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwwcj.mnstate.edu
