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On Thu, 2012-03-15 at 13:40 +0000, Roland Tarver wrote: > On 05/03/12 21:58, tom wrote: > > On 05/03/12 18:34, Gordon Henderson wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Rob Beard wrote: > >> > >>> On 05/03/12 17:45, tom wrote: > >>>> I was experimenting with LibreOffice Word processor in html mode. It > >>>> seems to have the facility to create a file as you link to it but on > >>>> the > >>>> two machines I've tried this on it gets very twisted and slow but does > >>>> sort of work in the end. > >>>> Has anyone tried this? > >>>> If you can get this working smoothly its a fantastic way of doing docs > >>>> and thinking ideas thru. > >>>> Tom te tom te tom > >>>> > >>> > >>> Nope, I don't think I've ever used LibreOffice to create HTML. I > >>> wonder if it's possible to do in PDF format? > >> > >> Heh.. You're just winding Tom up now :) > >> > >> I write stuff in LaTex and use latex2html to get the book/manual/etc > >> output in HTML format... > >> > >> Gordon > >> > > This is actually a different approach I'm looking at ( you used to be > > able to do it with frontpage!) > > When you develop an idea you can start with an outline list of themes, > > select a theme and create the associated page and link at the same time > > so you've immediately got some of the navigation going. You can then add > > more links/pages and follow your ideas around the developing > > documentation. Its a pretty good way of working on things and at the end > > the walk through is the documentation and with a bit of javascript can > > be the product.// > > Tom te tom te tom > > > > > > > Hi Tom > > This probably wont be what you are after - but if you are "developing > ideas" then the mind mapping program vym (view your mind) is very good. > It exports to html and other formats? > > Cheers roly :-) > Also take a look at Freeplane if a mindmapping application is useful http://freeplane.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page It can export to libreoffice (the mindmap nodes collapse down to headings and sub-headings etc) -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq