MS Word 2003 on WINE

[Liam Proven]

On 3 December 2016 at 00:33, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> ot exactly what you want, but depending on how you use outline view it
> might do the job. Somewhat outdated link:
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/187814/does-libreoffice-have-an-outline-
> view-similar-to-microsoft-2010


Unfortunately, none of the LO functionality is even close to what I
need. It is the one thing keeping me on Word. Well, that and
performance -- it's hard to benchmark a wordprocessor, but on my Core
2 Duo Thinkpad X200S, Word 97 and 2003 are both fast and responsive.
LO Writer is barely usable and can't keep up with my typing. (Nor can
Firefox looking at a Google Doc or even a Facebook comment field,
incidentally, so I also use Chrome.) AbiWord can keep up but also
lacks an outliner and robust file import/export.

I comment on this on this rather jaded tech-blog post from a few years ago:

http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/32792.html

Outliners were once an entire app category, now almost gone.

Word's is reasonable, not great. There are a few FOSS ones. I've tried
everything I can. They're all essentially unusable.

For a start, they all make a strange distinction -- the outline holds
the structure but there is a separate pane for the text "contents" of
a leaf node.

There should be no distinction between outline and contents. Outliners
are a way to impose structure on text. The text _is_ the structure,
the structure _is_ the text.

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