numbering; and return key

[Greg Titus]

On Friday, January 4, 2002, at 03:23  PM, Lawrence Matasar wrote:

> 	I'm a longtime MORE user (also PCOutline and ThinkTank), that has 
> just discovered this list.  So pardon me if I'm going over old ground, 
> but the main thing that I miss between MORE and OmniOutliner is MORE's 
> ability to add numbers to the outlines, especially the "Harvard" 
> numbering system:
> I
>    A
>       1.
>          a.
>
> etc.
>
> 	Such numbering is practically essential when navigating through 
> big outlines, especially if they've been printed out. It would be a 
> great addition to OmniOutliner.

Hi Lawrence,

The UI for setting the numbering isn't there in the currently released 
version, but this stuff has been implemented and you'll see it in the 
next release. The options are legal (1, 1.1, 1.1.2), letters (a, b, c), 
numeric (1, 2, 3), and roman (I, II, III), in upper or lowercase and 
with your choice of prefix and postfix (i.e. following "."s or 
parenthesis or whatever).

At the moment we haven't implemented automatic combinations of styles so 
you'd have to set those four levels individually for Harvard style, but 
that is certainly planned.

> 	Also, as far as the recent discussion over the return key, I may 
> be in the minority, but I greatly prefer the MORE approach in which 
> hitting return adds a new item wherever the cursor is.  In fact, on the 
> rare occasions when I've tried "outliners," in word processors,  such 
> as the one in Word, this is the missing MORE feature that I first 
> noticed.   Command-return or option-return seems like a better approach 
> for splitting the entry at the cursor.

Thanks for the feedback. I guess we might end up needing a preference 
for this...

	--Greg