Drew Jensen wrote:
> Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote:
>> Hi Jonathan,
>>
>> 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
Thanks for the quick answers, Thomas and Drew. This is the only response I
got which came from Jonathon (with an "o" not to be confused with me, the
one with an "a").
>At first glance, my suggestion would be to use the inline header
>macro, demarcating the first three characters as the header. However,
>I cant' find that macro. :(
>The basic idea is to create a hidden paragraph style, which contains
>the first three characters of the next paragraph.
>The two obvious issues are:
>* the last heading on the page won't be displayed on that page;
>* the first heading on the page might not be displayed on that page;
>jonathon
I tried googling around for something useful but came up empty. Maybe this
would give one of you a hint however.
Sadly, I only use Openoffice so I'm not sure about the competition but I can
ask around and see if, say, MS Word could do this. I asked my Mac-using
friends and they had no suggestions.
I'm pretty sure I could do this in WordPerfect but that was about 15 years
ago. WP didn't have a built in feature but its macro language was powerful
enough for me to write the macro myself. I don't think it's possible to
recognise soft page breaks in OOo and that's a key to solving this problem.
I'll report back when I find out something.
Cheers,
Jonathan (with an "a") ;)
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