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Adapting an outline



In using NB5, I find it useful to do the initial draft of a paper using an 
outline 
framework.  I'm always reorganizing my thoughts as I write; and shifting 
material from one outline component to another, and shifting the order and 
levels of the components is quite easy.  The outline structure helps my 
feeble brain.  Hacking away in this manner I eventually end up with 
something that's actually logical and readable.  Then the trouble starts.

What I want to do next is to get rid of most of the component headings.  But 
no!  NB doesn't want me to do that.  As far as I've been able to discover, it 
won't let me delete a heading without deleting the whole component, body 
text and all.  Now these headings were quite useful to me as I was writing, 
but to the reader they are just clutter.  Hence, my question:

Is there a way to convert an outline framework into a manuscript form, which 
I could then edit like any other NB document, getting rid of headers, some 
indentations, and other things as I please in my final draft?  I do hope so.


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Tom F. Driver
New York City
<tfd3@nospam.columbia.edu>



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