Vim Outliner (OTL)
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There is and old series of articles at the Root.cz [1] (from around 2004) about
the OTL. It's a simple file format with some summort for the Vim [2] text
editor. I wrote a very simple tool called OTL2A [3] to convert the outliner
output to a few file formats (plain text, LaTeX, HTML) as the converter
available at time were written in some strange languages (probably the Ruby or
something similar).

I have used this thing for some parts of the manual fo my uFEM software and
also for preparation of skeletons of presentations and articles. But I almost
stopped to use it before few years. I have had several reasons: some of my
computers of these times have not supported the Vim very well (mostly the
portable/handheld ones).

But after some years with intensive use of Windows machines at work (I do use
remote access to an Debian workstation for computations and other work but mot
os text processing and office works I have to do in the native environment) I
have found than use of UXIX tools is necessary for my mental health. So I'm
thinking shoult install the OTL support (and a few other extensions) even into
the Vim on my work desktop.

At the moment I do use Vim+OTL for making notes when reading MethTV and SILO
documentations...

References:
[1] http://www.root.cz
[2] http://www.vim.org
[3] https://github.com/jurabr/otl2a
[4] https://github.com/jurabr/ufem