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Hyperbole User Manual

7. Outliner

The Hyperbole outliner, also known as the Koutliner (pronounced Kay-outliner), produces structured, autonumbered documents composed of hierarchies of cells. Each cell has two identifiers, a relative identifier indicating its present position within the outline and a permanent identifier called an idstamp, suitable for use within hyperlink references to the cell. The idstamp is typically not displayed but is available when needed. See section 7.3 Autonumbering.

Cells also store their time of creation and the user who created the cell. User-defined attributes may also be added to cells. See section 7.8 Cell Attributes.

The outliner works only under GNU Emacs version 19 or higher, XEmacs version 19.9 or higher or under InfoDock. You can tell whether you are running a version of Emacs which supports the outliner by hitting {C-h h} to display the Hyperbole menu. If you see an Otl/ entry in the menu, then the outliner is available. Otherwise, the outliner does not work with your version of Emacs, so this section of the manual will not be of interest to you. (The same is true of the Hyperbole/Outline pulldown menu; if it appears, the outliner is available for use.)

This chapter expands on the information given in `EXAMPLE.kotl' file included with Hyperbole. Use {C-h h o e} to display that file. It is an actual outline file that explains major outliner operations. You can test out the viewing and motion commands with this file. If you want to experiment with editing operations, use {C-x C-w} to write the outline to a temporary file such as, `/tmp/e.kotl', and then use {C-x C-q} to make the outline editable.

See section C. Outliner Keys, for a full summary of the key bindings and commands available in the outliner.

7.1 Menu Commands
7.2 Creating Outlines
7.3 Autonumbering
7.4 Idstamps
7.5 Editing
7.6 Viewing
7.7 Links
7.8 Cell Attributes
7.9 Outliner History