Pre-omnioutliner users continued

[Brian C.]

Alan-
The interface will be different, but much more capable and flexable 
styles, including the ability to apply a style to a subtree of a 
document, is one of the things we're planning to support in Outliner 3.

Sincerely,

Brian C.
OmniOutliner Product Manager
Omni Group



On Wednesday, January 28, 2004, at 01:02 PM, Alan Pagliere wrote:

> Hello. I recently purchased OmniOutliner. This is my first posting. 
> Pardon me if there is etiquette I have not yet absorbed.
>
> I would like to follow up on a posting by Dick Rucker back in 
> December. He wrote:
>
> ------------
>  really like the way that MORE, through its Rules menu, allows me to
>
> (1) select a set of default formatting rules that apply to the entire
> document and then
>
> (2) select any branch at any level of the outline and set whatever
> exceptions to the default rules that I like for that branch.
>
> I've used such exceptions to provide distinctive captions for imbedded
> graphics and to create the equivalent of sidebars in my document.
>
> That's the beauty of the Rules menu approach:  it's simple to use, and 
> it
> places no restrictions on how the user can deviate from the default 
> set of
> rules.
> ----------
>
> I, too, was/am a great MORE fan. I used it until just a few months ago 
> (yes, Virginia, it still runs fine in Classic mode...). But to the 
> point. I would like to strongly second the "rules" approach, where any 
> outline row, with all its subrows, is a branch that can have any of a 
> large set of rules set for it and, by inheritance, all its subrows. A 
> kind of cascading style thingy long before css was a glint in anyone's 
> eye.
>
> This brings up another point that perhaps should be a separate posting 
> (see what I meant about etiquette?). Are there plans to allow for 
> different levels (or branches, if "rules" are ever implemented) to 
> have different line spacing, line breaks, etc.? Again, just look at 
> all the options for rules in the old MORE.
>
> Liking what I'm seeing so far,
> Alan