To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=94408 Issue #|94408 Summary|index or table (ToC or ToA or of figs) updates & dynam |ically preserving formats and edits Component|Word processor Version|OOo 2.4.0 Platform|PC URL| OS/Version|Linux Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|ENHANCEMENT Priority|P3 Subcomponent|editing Assigned to|mru Reported by|nicklevinson
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Sep 29 06:57:22 +0000 2008 ------- When updating tables of contents (ToC), legal tables of authorities (ToA), indexes, tables of figures or illustrations, and similar, allow the preservation of formats and edits. This will allow editing of the body without having to recompile and re-edit and reformat the indexes and tables. That's especially useful when yet another minor edit is discovered to be needed, especially one found by perusing the index or table. Technically, the method could be as follows: Compiling would create both an invisible index, etc. that would not be edited/formatted and a visible copy that could be edited/formatted. Entries from the visible would be associated with corresponding entries in the invisible. Updating would cause only the invisible copy to be updated, the visible copy would be automatically updated only for entries that are identical, and all other entries in the visible copy would be auto-tagged so the user could make decisions. By right-clicking a tagged entry, a user might toggle between an exact copy of the entry from the invisible copy and the non-updated visible entry; might keep either choice (i.e., freeze toggling); and might bring up a dialog with checkboxes to keep formatting and/or added edits (an example of an added edit would be an entry for "FDR..........52" that had been edited to "FDR (Roosevelt, Franklin Delano).....52" and/or integrated edits (such as "FDR" to "Roosevelt, Franklin Delano") with OK in the dialog carrying out the update. By right-clicking in the table (index, etc.) but away from a tagged entry, a similar dialog could appear but would be applicable to the entire table, index, etc. With indexes that collect several entries into single paragraphs, produced by manual editing, such as: Flowers, 32-88; petals, 42-47; thorns (for the Old English letter see Linguistics) 71-74 a solution is to preserve the correspondences to the invisible index, in this case separately for flowers, petals, and thorns. I tested updating a ToC in Writer 2.4.0 without JRE on Gnome 2.10.0 but witnessed losses of formatting and an added edit. Thanks. -- Nick --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
