On Thursday March 08 2007 4:37 am, Robert Gott wrote:
> Dear Dan,
>
> Thanks for your reply. As you may have guessed I've just been using
> OO 2.1 for a few weeks. I'll try to explain the predicament in some
> more detail.
>
> As I said, I write novels usually about 115,000 words. I use 16 pt
> chapter headings, my standard page margins, header & footer etc,
> and tab the first chapter text at line 6. So far so good.
>
> Once written I usually print an A4 single spaced manuscript for my
> own use and selected readers. Just before printing I need to both
> paginate and to ensure that the pages are set out correctly. IE For
> example that a sentence or chapter does not break half way into the
> next page. That the chapter heading is always middle line 3 etc.
>
> This feature of knowing line and column number is VERY usefull in
> WORD and would be handy in OO. Hope this helps?
>
> Cheers
>
> Robert
It seems to me that the proper use of styles will provide you
with what you need and perhaps more. Page breaks at the end of each
chapter should also help.
For example, you can set the chapter heading style to be a
specific distance from the top of the page. In addition, you can set
many other formatting including font, font type, size of font,
alignment, distance to the first paragraph, style of the first
paragraph, among other things. All these things can be done from the
tabs in the heading style.
You can be just as specific with the paragraph styles, page
styles, and character styles. Furthermore, you can modify a
particular style you are using, and it modifies everything to which
that style has been applied. For example, you can change the page
size to A4 in your page style, and all of the pages will become A4.
With a page break at the end of each chapter, the next chapter's
title will be where it belongs: "line 3, centered".
Styles are explained in two chapters of the Writer Guide
available at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/oooauthors2/. You might
be surprised what you can do with styles.
Dan
> >From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: users@openoffice.org
> >To: users@openoffice.org
> >CC: "Robert Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: [users] Request for cursor position in versions
> > subsequent to OO 2.1
> >Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:43:46 -0600
> >
> >On Wednesday March 07 2007 10:13 am, Robert Gott wrote:
> > > MISSING IMPORTANT CURSOR POSITION FEATURE IN OpenOffice 2.1
> > > WRITER (Win XP and presumably Linux Ubuntu also).
> > >
> > > 1. Open the two attached screen shot .jpg files in Windows XP
> > > preferably side by side in 'tile' view if possible.
> > >
> > > 2. Compare the bottom 'bar' of
> > > Example1CursorPositionOpenOfficeWriter2.1
> > > with
> > > Example2CursorPositionWord97
> > >
> > > 3. Note that Example1 (OO) does NOT have full cursor position.
> > >
> > > 4. Note that Microsoft Word 97 and all later versions of WORD
> > > does have full cursor position. The example looks like the
> > > following;
> > >
> > > Page 4 Set 1 4/148 At 4.7cm Ln 6 Col 2
> > >
> > > 5. The latter vital feature is missing in OO 2.1 Writer or
> > > have I missed some tool or configuration?
> > >
> > > 6. The above is obviously OO 2.1 for Windows XP but I'm
> > > migrating to Ubuntu Linux 6.10 soon with OO 2.1 Linux (Both 32
> > > bit versions.)
> > >
> > > 7. As a writer of novels the exact cursor position is VITAL
> > > when I come to paginate manuscripts for home printing on A4
> > > paper.
> > >
> > > 8. If this feature is not in OO 2.1 (Win XP and Linux 32 bit)
> > > COULD IT PLEASE BE INCORPORATED IN NEXT VERSIONS PLEASE?
> > >
> > > Regards
> > >
> > > Robert Gott
> > > West Yorkshire
> > > UK
> >
> > Pardon me, but I do not understand what purpose is served by
> >knowing where the cursor is. Would you please explain how you use
> >this knowledge as you write? Then we will know why this is so
> >important to you. Perhaps we could then suggest something that OOo
> >already has which will serve a similar purpose.
> > For example, when I close an OOo file, it opens to the place
> >where I was last working on it: the place where the last changes
> > were made. I do not have to know where I stopped: it opens there
> > automatically.
> >
> >Dan
>
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