Re: "Metaoutlining"

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Posted by sub
2005-02-16 04:14:07

[Stephen: I always thought a metaoutline was an outline where the topics were whole outlines.]

Yes, an outline of outlines; that would be a more proper use of the prefix “meta” anyway!

[Ted Says: “Now VoodooPad joins a few others in supporting bulleted lists in notes. Hey, it’s a start.”]

Bulleted lists are part of the RTF specification; in fact, I’ve just created a I-A-1 bulleted list (as requested by Bill Steo) in Word and impeccably imported it in Hyperclip.

So I don’t see what’s new about what Ted mentions, apart for the fact that the outliners I’ve tried don’t support _creation_ of such hierarchical lists; but then this goes for a lot of other text formatting features as well. It’s been mentioned before that, ideally, outliners could be setup to use an external word processor for note editing.

The question is: do hierarchical bulleted lists count as proper outlines? In my opinion they don’t, unless the outlining concept is severely crippled.

alx

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