Re: Adapting an outline

["Mervyn E. Bennun" <mebennun@nospam.icon.co.za>]

Tom,

This bugs(ed) me too, and is part of my deepest gripe
against NB. In fact, if I understand your problem, it's
easily dealt with __but only provided you use NB's outlining
system with academic  styles.

Then, you can define precisely  framework component or
element of the style which you want to delete.

It's a problem of the OB deltas and their various classes
and subdivisions. They are inserted by the system, and
because they are so complex it's impossible to do it
manually and editing them in expanded view as in NB4 days is
also not possible.

The answer is to use the Outlining and Academic Styles
features therefore, and not to innovate

Hope this helps!

Incidentally, I'd like to wish everyone under the Great
Dragonfly's wings a happy festive season and New Year: may
2002 see an end to the insanity, never to recur.....

I've got to do this now because we're off to the Okavango
Swamp in Botswana in a few days for the festive season.
We're going into the real, serious, African bush for some
game-watching and birding... we start off from Cape Town in
a 747 and end up being chucked out of  a Cessna Skyhawk.....
the flight guide says: "Caution: beware animals on landing
strip, and do not attempt to walk to the camp...."

Mervyn
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom F. Driver" <tfd3@nospam.columbia.edu>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE"
<notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, 12 December, 2001 18:52
Subject: 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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