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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 22 17:01:47 +0000 2007 ------- > Provide a convenient means to reference any numbered paragraph. I think we already covered this point in the current specification - for all paragraphs, which belongs to a list and have a number on its list level, a direct cross-reference can be inserted. Does the current specification satisfy this part of your proposal? YES IT DOES, THANKS. > Allow the writer to include additional text with the paragraph number > that will show up where the reference is inserted. What do you exactly mean by "include additional text"? Should this "additional text" be part of the reference field? Or should the cross-referencing dialog provide an input field for this "additional text", which is simple inserted on performing action "Insert chosen reference"? An example: Usually direct-cross references to numbered paragraphs will insert a link that displays only the number of the referenced paragraph. What I would like to see is an option to add additional text such as "paragraph " to link display. This capability should be in the requester that is used to choose the direct-cross reference. Some choices for such additional optional text could be in a drop down list within the requester. Any such additional optional text typed into the requester by the user should probably be added to the drop down list. It would be best if text could be added both before and/or after the actual link text. Also, I would like to see the ability to assign aliases (use optional) for the numbered direct-cross reference links that would display instead of the line/paragraph/page number. Again, the additional optional text could be included with the alias. > Internally, in the link information keep a copy of the text associated > with the paragraph that is the destination for the link. I don't know, if I understand you correctly. Do you want, that the reference field should ... I'll try to explain what capability I would like to see. My idea for implementation could quite possibly be the worst way to achieve the goal. What I would like if for the program to automagically notify the user if anything about the referenced text changes so that the user can decide if the link has become invalid. In my work I see this problem with astonishing regularity. Someone revises a sentence (that happens to be referenced). The person making the revision has no indication that the text being revised is referenced elsewhere in the document. The reference becomes invalid (because of the revision) and no one is aware that there might even be a problem. Everything else that I proposed is related to "invalid" (logically as well as physically) link problem. In terms of "tools" to aid the document writer, just having a way to display that references exist to line/paragraph/page/object. Such a display should give at least the page number where link exists. At least that way the writer could read both the location where the direct-reference link was placed and examine the "thing" that the link points to in order to ensure that the link is correct. An important point for me is that there should be a tool menu item that checks for "physically" broken links, that is links that don't point anywhere (because the linked location was deleted). It is NOT enough that the link shows up in the text with something like "Reference not found." But even a check for "physically" broken links would NOT be enough. A means for the writer to conveniently check the referenced and referencing text is important. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
