Re: [users] relative indent for paragraph

[John Kaufmann]

In a message dated 2008.05.15 11:36 -0500, Kenn Goutal wrote:


Is it possible to define a paragraph style such that the before-text
indent is relative to the before-text indent of the previous line ...? 
For example, suppose in a hierarchical document (e.g. one of those 
horrible army-style 8.13.12.29 arrangements) wherein each heading is

indented relative to the indent of the next-higher-level heading.


You mean what, in another word processor, might be called an "outline 
style"?  For whatever reason, in OO/Writer it's not called a style, but you 
set it up the same way under Tools|Outline Numbering.  While not completely 
extensible, it goes up to 10 levels, which should be enough for most 
purposes.  Unfortunately, AFAICS, you can only define one outline style (of 
10 levels), but that's enough for most documents - and maybe someone who 
knows OO better can say how to extend this.



... suppose I define a pair of paragraph styles for questions and
answers.  These have hanging indents ... Now I want to have a group of
questions and answers somewhere under a level-three heading, amidst
level-three text. The Q&A lines are still flush with the left margin.

It would/will be a real pain in the neck to have to design 5 versions of
every paragraph style. Is there a way around this?


Sorry to be dense: You mean to put a Q&A at any of 5 levels?  If you use the 
Outline feature, could you do something like assigning s to the 
odd-numbered levels and s to even-numbered levels?  [My apologies if I 
have misunderstood the problem.]

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John

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[users] relative indent for paragraph

[Kenn Goutal]

Is it possible to define a paragraph style
such that the before-text indent
is relative to the before-text indent of the previous line,
or something like that?
I'm not even sure how to express this.

For example, suppose in a hierarchical document (e.g. one of those
horrible army-style 8.13.12.29 arrangements) wherein each heading
is indented relative to the indent of the next-higher-level heading.

At the moment, for the headings,
I've just defined 5 separate paragraph styles
that are essentially identical except font size and space-above,
but most importantly, the before-text indent.

Likewise, for the text below the headings,
I've just defined 5 separate paragraph styles
that are identical except for the before-text indent.

This is kind of annoying, but it's not too too bad.

But then, suppose I define a pair of paragraph styles
for questions and answers.  These have hanging indents,
so that if the question or the answer is longer than one line,
the "Q. " or the "A. " sticks out to the left.
And one or the other has additional spacing before or after.
Looks great.

Now I want to have a group of questions and answers
somewhere under a level-three heading, amidst level-three text.
The Q&A lines are still flush with the left margin.

It would/will be a real pain in the neck
to have to design 5 versions of every paragraph style.
Is there a way around this?


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