On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:34:24 -0700 Bruce Byfield <bbyfi...@axion.net> wrote:
> On Saturday 12 October 2013 03:33:54 PM Regina Henschel wrote: > > > What is "sideheads"? > > Sideheads are headings placed in a small column by the left margin. This > positioning allows for very easy scanning, but naturally means that the text > takes up more space. You see sideheads sometimes in technical documents. > > With some adjustments, you can create sideheads using the Marginalia frame > style. > > > > > I do not really understand, what you are looking for. The predifined > > frame styles have special properties, which are geared to special kind > > of frames. They are automatically choosen in most cases, when you insert > > an object. But the usage is not different from other kind of styles. You > > can use them to distinguish kind of frames and to easily change a style > > property of a class of frames. > > I am looking for ways to adapt the pre-defined frame styles, or new frame > styles that others might have developed for specific purposes. Sideheads are > one example of what I mean, and I'm hoping there might be others. > > > > "if you can suggest a use that I haven't heard about" - how can I know > > what you have heard about? > > You can't know -- but then you don't have to. :-). I'll know what suggestions > are new to me. > > > > Is it possible to get the already finished > > part for reading? > > > > The draft is very rough right now, and not fit for others to read. But I will > be completing the work in the next few months, and posting more polished > versions on the ODF Authors site. > > I will post to this list (among others) when chapters are uploaded to ODF > Authors. > > > -- > Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) > blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com > website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ In this thread on the Forum Hanya gives a macro to turn Footnotes into Sidenotes and contrariwise http://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=43956 -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
