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Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Jun 14, 2009 at 03:06 PM
Derek
Maybe you would like to take a look at Normall Manager:
http://www.normfall.de/products-en/normfall-manager/overview.html
Dominik
Posted by moritz
Jun 15, 2009 at 04:14 PM
Hi Charles,
OmniOutliner Pro 3.x (on the Mac) supports exporting (paragraph) styles to Word. Unfortunately it doesn’t support clones (yet!) or I would be using it A LOT more.
Moritz
CRC wrote:
>Hi Folks:
>
> I’m going to flog one of my favorite topics, Styles. All of the outliners I
>have ever used (and I’ve used many) that have a way to transfer information to Word do
>not use styles. Some, like the former IdeaMason use headline style, but none of them
>style paragraphs and characters. They all use the lazy approach of just sending over
>the rich text.
>
> The closest I’ve found for a style based editor is LyX which is TeX
>based.
>
> The bottom line is that combining the structure of an outliner (I actually
>use each outline entry as a paragraph, or bullet item, or numbered list item, etc.)
>along with paragraph and character styles which result in a document that, when
>transferred to Word, can still be edited in a reasonable fashion (necessary when
>collaborating on documents) would be the ideal for me. I’ve built some of my own tools
>in this space (with something like NoteMap as the base - and when the outline item is
>just a paragraph you don’t have the overflow problem described above - and my own text
>based coding scheme), but having real tools that are outline and style based would be
>my holy grail.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charles
Posted by Derek Cater
Jun 16, 2009 at 06:22 PM
Many thanks for all the posts since I last replied. If I had at least a passing acquaintance with the software referenced by the first tranche of posts, the most recent ones have lifted the veil on a whole writing software ecosystem I had no knowledge of. Thanks also for the related threads that respondents have directed me towards.
Regarding InfoQube, I agree with Jan Rifkinson that it is a massively capable programme, the development of which I am keeping a close eye on. I plumped for Amode (not necessarily to the exclusion of InfoQube) for various reasons. Firstly, because of its ease of use: I reckon that anyone who has used a two-pane outliner, an electronic calendar and a Gantt-chart-producing project management package would feel at home in Amode within half an hour. I did. Secondly, because it has very robust project management tools and I have to spend much of my life in Gantt charts. Amode allows you to define custom work calendars, set hourly or daily rates per resource and establish start-to-start, finish-to-finish, start-to-finish and finish-to-start dependencies, within and between projects, something which I think InfoQube does not allow, with the exception of the last of the above dependencies. On the other hand, I accept that InfoQube better handles the kind of tabulated data that lends itself to grids. However, I have found InfoQube to be a massively complex programme that requires more practice than I have had time to give to date.
Many regards
Derek
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Jun 16, 2009 at 08:08 PM
Dominik,
Normfall Manager looks like a very powerful application; I am surprised I’ve never seen it mentioned before (not even by the lawyers here, to which it is originally aimed). Once again, it is a product of the ‘German School’; to me it seems like a cross between Sycon IDEA! (in terms of the outline organisation) and AskSam (in terms of importing the actual documents).
Thanks for the heads up,
Alexander
Dominik Holenstein wrote:
> Maybe you would like to take a look at Normall Manager:
> http://www.normfall.de/products-en/normfall-manager/overview.html
Posted by Frederick Wahl
Jun 17, 2009 at 02:20 AM
>Dominik Holenstein wrote:
>> Maybe you would like to take a look at
>Normall Manager:
>>
>http://www.normfall.de/products-en/normfall-manager/overview.html
Although their website claims Norfall is Vista compatable, it apparently doesn’t like Vista Pro (64 bit). I sent an email to their tech-support a couple of days ago, but haven’t heard back. I’m hoping there will be a fix soon.