Just what is an outliner?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
May 5, 2017 at 08:30 PM

Pierre,

Thank you for sensibly pointing us to a definition of outliner.

Steve Z.

Pierre Paul Landry wrote:
Paul Korm wrote:
>I think I’ll stop here, permanently, since it seems I have completely
>lost the ability to understand what people are posting here, and
>torquing everyone off as a result. (...) I will be forever gone. Bye.
> >Sad to see you go Paul. Communities should be inclusive, not divisive…
> >Wikipedia does provide a definition of an Outliner:
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outliner
> >In my view, an outliner is the ability to show information in an
>outline, with expand / collapse. Period.
>But it needs not be limited to this outline view. The ability to view
>the information in an outline AND in a flat (or flatter) view is very
>useful. In a nut shell, sometimes the outline gets in the way, so a flat
>view is useful.
> >HTH !
> >Pierre
> >
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