Re: Adapting an outline

["Herb Rubin" <hrubin@nospam.niu.edu>]

I'm often in awe about the NB knowledge people share. The Q and A on
outlines was of immense help; I'm going to change the way I work.

But rarely do NBers make me feel jealous :) But Mervyn Bennun's trip does.
Have fun MB  (:

Don't take your portable on that trip :)


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mervyn E. Bennun" <mebennun@nospam.icon.co.za>
To: "Multiple recipients of list NOTABENE" <notabene@nospam.piper.hamline.edu>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: Adapting an outline
> 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
> ________________
> Mervyn E. Bennun,
> 29 Marmion Road,
> Oranjezicht,
> Cape Town 8001,
> SOUTH AFRICA.
> mebennun@nospam.icon.co.za
> Tel/Fax: +27 (0)21 461 5535
>
> ----- 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.
> >
> >
> > -------------
> > Tom F. Driver
> > New York City
> > <tfd3@nospam.columbia.edu>
> >
> >
> >
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