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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 16 22:19:41 +0000 2007 ------- Background: Cross referencing is used extensively in a number of different document types in multiple disciplines. Examples include legal documents, medical documents, and the entire class of documents called “Technical Procedures,” among others. The users that are writing and editing these documents have to be able to insert, check, and edit “links” that exist between portions of text (usually a numbered paragraph). For Open Office to be accepted in disciplines where cross referencing is used extensively support must be convenient and solid. To my knowledge, none of the existing word processing programs, certainly not MS Word assist the user in maintaining these links. I believe that an opportunity exist for open source in general and Open Office specifically to once again show the power FOSS. One of the huge problems with direct cross referencing is that as the document is revised to cross referencing may either break or no longer be correct and no warning is provided to the editor. To me, this is unacceptable in today's age of computing power. Proposal: Provide a convenient means to reference any numbered paragraph. Allow the writer to include additional text with the paragraph number that will show up where the reference is inserted. Internally, in the link information keep a copy of the text associated with the paragraph that is the destination for the link. If a change is made to the destination paragraph then prompt the user to confirm that the link is still valid Provide a “remind me later” option Provide a mean for the user to check all of the links. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
