New User Questions/Request

[Kent Johnson]

>Hmmm... I seem to be spamming you this morning. Sorry, I don't mean to.

No problem at all.

>
>I wanted to follow up a bit more, if you don't mind, about how you 
>do insert a subhead at the top of the list of subheads? The 
>"natural" thing to do, it seems to me, is to click (or move) to the 
>parent heading and hit return, assuming the subheads are open 
>already. Do you position to the first subhead and shift-return, or 
>is there something else I don't know yet that is easier and more 
>intuitive?

Well, there isn't an easy way to do this in OO, and I agree strongly 
with you that there should be.

I have already posted my suggestion to the list - Acta uses cmd-D 
(daughter) and cmd-A (aunt) as shortcuts to create a new item 
indented or outdented below the current item. For aunts, it is smart 
enough to put it below the children of teh current item.

In OO, the easiest way to create a new child of the current item is 
two keystrokes, down-arrow shift-return.

>
>Perhaps it's just a difference in outlining style, but when do you 
>*want* it to insert a heading at the same level (again, assuming the 
>subheads are open). I would normally collapse the subheads and hit 
>return, or perhaps use the shift-return thing to add it above.

That sounds awkward and confusing to me - return sometimes adds a 
sub-item, sometimes a peer item, depending on what? What if you are 
in the middle of a list of peers and want to create a sub-item?

The Acta behavior is clear and consistent - separate keys for aunt, 
sibling and daughter, no context dependencies.

Just my two cents,
Kent