Outputs vs. inputs

[mnothrop]

Robin,

Thanks for the info on Mellel, I jumped into the Nisus camp (yes, more 
limited, but promising, IMHO), but was pretty interested in Mellel...

You've prompted me to bring up a thought that's occurred a few times... 
Unless Omni are thinking of OmniWrite ( really doubt it!), I'd really 
like to see OO3 and Nisus collaborate... or at the very least, working 
together better,

e.g. it'd be really nice to be able to reliably use OO3 as an external 
outliner (like the external Thesaurus)... with NWE2's style support, 
and a few tweaks to the process, and it could work well,

e.g. a Service that will open text into an outline, and replace the 
outline when you Save. If the formatting were consistent, and each 
program was able to properly parse the other's formatting of an 
outline, this could work very well.

Currently I've not had good results with OO2, it tends to insert too 
many tabs, and the outlines don't tend to work too well (without extra 
effort), in the receiving softrware.

With both OmniOutliner 3.0, and NisusWriter Express 2.0 coming up, I'm 
looking forward to seeing just how well, these elegant tools will work 
together.

Should also be interesting to look at this upcoming Mellel... lotsa 
software toys to play with! ; )

--marc


On 08/09/2004, at 2:06 PM, Erithacus rubecula wrote:

> Hi,
> Sorry if this has been discussed before (I've been 'out'), but 
> regarding the upcoming OO3 and it's outputs, has it been decided 
> whether there will be an 'active' link between OO and OmniGraffle, ie 
> changes that are made in OG would be reflected in OO? Obviously OO 
> already does the OG 'output' but I'm really interested in the back and 
> forth between the two programs.
>
> On a different note, I don't know if you know that Mellel is coming 
> out with an outliner in it's next update (any week now). I'd love it 
> if documents could be freely exchanged between the two programs 
> without loss of 'outline' markers (for want of a better description).
>
> So happy to hear OmniOutliner 3 is coming (soon I hope).
>
> Best
>
> Robin
>
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