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Re: Collapsible outline



I start every section with a boldfaced or underlined headline, so I wrote a
macro to copy every boldfaced or underlined line to a separate file.

At 12:48 PM 2/1/01 +0100, fenda@xxxxxxxx wrote:
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>There is a feature I have been missing in our XyWrite. I am referring to
>a collapsible outline feature. When I am writing long papers it's very
>useful to be able to see either the structure (only the headlines for
>every minor part) or the whole thing: headlines + text below the
>headlines. In the past I got that result via the "NT" command but when
>the amount of text inside every "NT" block exceeds a certain amount I
>receive repeatedly the message "cannot continue scrolling".
>I am sure that it's possible to get a perfect result using programming
>skills. Maybe Carl Distefano or Robert Holmgren could help us to get
>something like that included in their JUMBO file.
>By the way: I remember that NotaBene3 had this feature but it was not
>perfect. Anyhow, it's additional proof that a collapsible outline is
>possible under XyWrite.
>Manuel Castelao
>

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