[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 38093] Add an Outline View layout and editing mode to Writer

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38093

--- Comment #158 from Cougar Brenneman <cougar.b at gmail.com> ---
(In reply to Mike Kaganski from comment #157)
> (In reply to Cougar Brenneman from comment #156)
> 
> Cougar, all: please *don't* post to this CLOSED issue. Any follow-up issue
> concerning ouline must be filed as a *new* separate issue, and when you file
> that new issue, put "Writer-Outline-View" into "Blocks:" field in the filed
> bug. Thank you!

I've been talking about this issue with LibreOffice for ten years, and when Jim
Raykowski committed  7.1.0, he specifically asked for user comments. Almost
twenty years ago, I posted about why I could never use OpenOffice,  and now,
for the first time in ten years, LibreOffice has finally made progress towards
making an open-source word processor useful to me.

But LibreOffice is still not useful to me, except as a last resort. As far as I
know, this is the only place to go to ask for what I, as a writer and user,
need. I'm right now studying Github on Pluralsight, but really, I'm not a
developer, I'm an end user. 

I was responding to a direct request for user feedback from Jim Raykowski in
comment #150, because this is the first progress that I've seen in ten years
toward what I've needed as a writer to use the product. My feedback is
important as a user, and because I don't understand all of the intricacies of
using Git systems. 

I don't like to be in a position of always complaining, so when I say this
FIRST progress towards since I began watching the OpenOffice/LibreOffice
development process in 2001, I wanted to try it out immediately and give
immediate feedback. 

When working as a technical writer for Fujitsu Software in San Jose in the
1990s, I would writer everything in MS Word before importing it all into
Framemaker for publication, and the only reason for doing so was the outliner.
So I can tell you that what I need is what I need.

Do you want feedback from users? Then don't criticize me if I don't understand
where to post and why.

Now, finally, the open source community has gotten a little closer to what I
need than has been in 20 years. Where do I post that?

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