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Posted by Cassius
Dec 11, 2007 at 08:48 PM
DaXiong wrote:
>Stephen
>
>What I mean by “formating” is the indentation/tab spacing in Inspiration
>seems hard-coded. My outlines tend to have 3-5 sub-levels, with the indenting
>Inspiration forces, the deepest levels are less than half a page wide.
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Strange…I couldn’t find any setting for this or for tabs. Yet, among my Inspiration outlines are ones with different indentation settings. I suspect that these settings are a function of the type font and font size. Try changing your outline’s font to Times New Roman, size 12. That gives me relatively short indents. You might also want to contact the online technical support or phone technical support at 800/877-4292. I have called several times and have always been satisfied. If tech support tells you of a way to change indents, please let the rest of us know.
As far as trying to get Inspiration’s developer to actually implement suggestions, forget it. It is aimed at primary & secondary education. I once suggested adding a homework planner so students would get more practice using Inspiration. No go.
-c
Posted by Bob Mackreth
Dec 12, 2007 at 12:24 AM
Bernhard wrote:
>
>
>Bob Mackreth wrote:
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>>1. It’s expensive,
>>with a list price of $150 last time I
>checked. Watch for special deals, though: I picked
>>my copy up for half-price during
>a sale.
>>
>
>So, you must be a very, very lucky one! Finding a sale and above all beeing
>able to give your money to LexisNexis ... (see
>http://www.revenuejournal.com/2007/04/april_6_2007_please_please.php)
Interesting and very discouraging- more evidence that NoteMap is the forgotten stepchild in the family.
I should have mentioned that I bought my copy before CaseSoft sold out.
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Dec 13, 2007 at 09:37 PM
I think your prognoses about NoteMap’s demise are dead wrong. It simply would make no sense to build more links to NoteMap into the CaseSoft Division’s mainstay product, CaseMap, if they intended to phase out development.
What is the case is that the company has limited interest in selling to non-lawyers, or at least to users outside the legal profession. Thus they want to force the buyer to contact the sales rep. so they can sell more products, particularly their excellent but expensive extended support services.
As to the bug, two possibilies. One, I’m not sure any bug can be known to be easy to fix in advance. Maybe a programmer can comment. Two, again the legal profession thing. If you are not an attorney or a paralegal and don’t have a support account with the CaseSoft Division, they may not care about your opinions. What did they say when you reported the bug? Even though my account with them has expired, I get periodic e-mails asking if I need any assistance. If I reported the bug, I would at least get an answer.
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Dec 13, 2007 at 09:41 PM
Indents don’t appear to be editable. It looks to me that Inspiration indents 4 spaces of each level. What size indent do you get? Would you actually want less than 4? Five levels seems to leave plenty of room on my system, with a 19-inch monitor. I don’t know if that’s a factor.
DaXiong wrote:
>Stephen
>
>What I mean by “formating” is the indentation/tab spacing in Inspiration
>seems hard-coded. My outlines tend to have 3-5 sub-levels, with the indenting
>Inspiration forces, the deepest levels are less than half a page wide.
>
>In a perfect
>world, I’d have a single-pane outliner that used style-sheets users could control.
Posted by Stephen R. Diamond
Dec 15, 2007 at 02:34 AM
Am I imagining it, or do posts continually disappear and reappear in this thread?