MacBook experience...

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Apr 30, 2008 at 11:19 AM

David Dunham wrote:
>What do you mean by “inline text?” I’ll bet almost all the
>Mac products are using the same text engine (NSTextView). Sure, they can customize it
>slightly (OO and Opal do slightly different things when you drag in an image or movie
>file), but I wouldn’t expect huge differences.

By ‘inline text” I mean that text which is associated with an item heading, but not the heading itself—when that text can also appear in the outline. Okay, that was confusing. Let me try again. In Windows, most of the outliners we discuss are two-pane outliners. You create a heading in the tree pane and the content of the heading in the editor pane. When the content text can appear in the tree pane, we call it inline text. That’s not to confuse sub headings as inline text. Sub heads are separate ideas. The best outliner of all-time, in my opinion, was GrandView and it handled inline text beautifully.

I probably haven’t explained this very well, but you can see a screen shot showing inline text (OmniOutliner refers to it as “inline notes”) at http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnioutliner/

Steve Z.