Hierarchical outliner with the most complete writing tools?

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