allout.el outlining help

[Maciej Kalisiak <mac@die.spammer.die.dgp.toronto.edu>]

I'm using GNU Emacs 21.2.1 (from Debian package "emacs21").  Is the
included allout.el fully functional?  I'm having trouble using it.
Here are some issues I'm running into:

- outline-presentation-padding: this customization seems to have
  absolutely no effect on the padding displayed; I always get 1 space
  of padding difference between items on consecutive depth levels.

- outline-shift-in seems to only add a single space of padding; I
  would have thought that it would also update the bullet to the
  correct one for the new depth level.  Is this normal operation?

- some of the bindings are different from what's listed in the info
  documentation

Are there any other/better outlining modes/packages which would allow
me to edit space-padded hierarchies of lists in Emacs?

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