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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_CLOSED bz_closed"
title="CLOSED FIXED - Add an Outline View layout and editing mode to Writer"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38093#c158">Comment # 158</a>
on <a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_CLOSED bz_closed"
title="CLOSED FIXED - Add an Outline View layout and editing mode to Writer"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38093">bug 38093</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:cougar.b@gmail.com" title="Cougar Brenneman <cougar.b@gmail.com>"> <span class="fn">Cougar Brenneman</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Mike Kaganski from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=38093#c157">comment #157</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Cougar Brenneman from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=38093#c156">comment #156</a>)
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> 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!</span >
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
<a href="show_bug.cgi?id=38093#c150">comment #150</a>, 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?</pre>
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