Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
Hi Jonathan,
Jonathan Kaye wrote:
Hi all,
I posted this several days ago on comp.openoffice.questions and haven't
received anything I can use to solve the problem. Any ideas out there?
This may be a tricky one. I am helping to produce a dictionary and things
are nearing completion thanks to the outstanding support from the Openoffice
groups.
I've got an .odt file laid out exactly as it should be. Entries are in
paragraph form using the hanging indent style. The only hard line breaks are
to separate one entry from another.
I need to create a unique header for each page. On the header we should see
the first 3 characters of the first entry on the page and then the first 3
characters of the last entry on the page. Note that these are usually not
the first and last lines, respectively since entries may run over (soft)
page breaks; there are no hard page breaks in the document. I think I know
how to left/right justify the 1st and last entry characters (using left and
right tabs) but how do I get this into a header? It seems to be that
creating a page style is the way to go. I don't think there's a way to find
soft page breaks using a regular expression.
What I want to know is does such a page style for dictionaries already
exist? I don't want to reinvent the wheel here. If so, a link would be
greatly appreciated. I've looked fairly hard for one but come up empty. If,
indeed, none exist, then any hints about to create the page style (if that's
the best way to do it) would be greatly appreciated. I'm using OOo3.1.
I have asked around, and no we have no means of creating such a page
style. Also no one could think off different means to produce a similar
effect.
Thus I'm afraid you are the first one who ever had told us about such
need. :-(
The only reasonable choice you have is to file a feature request about
this, and hopefully it gets supported in the future. I do believe that
this is really a very reasonable request.
Do you know if it is possible in competitive products?
If so you should also state this in the feature request as well!
Compatibility issues are usually always getting some more attention than
other non-fatal issues.
Hello Jonathan, Thomas
Perhaps this is another use case for the RFE:
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=22728
IIRC there was a discussion about this on one of the web forums and I
believe someone came up with a workaround using fields and macros...but
can't say for sure, might be worth a search though, also not sure if
that would be oooforum.org or user.services.openoffice.org. I would
search both.
I know that doesn't really help but maybe you can find something there
that will.
Best regards,
Drew
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