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") ;) -- Registerd Linux user #445917 at http://counter.li.org/ Please do not send me copies of list mail. I read the lists. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@api.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@api.openoffice.org