Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Improve options for including paragraph text in Table of Contents | ||||||||
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Product: | Writer | Reporter: | geofffarrell <gfarrell> | ||||||
Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||||
Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||||
Severity: | Minor | ||||||||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | elish, issues | ||||||
Version: | OOo 1.1 | ||||||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||
Hardware: | PC | ||||||||
OS: | Linux, all | ||||||||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | 4.1.0-dev | ||||||
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
geofffarrell
2004-03-14 05:11:18 UTC
Created attachment 13778 [details]
Example document showing cluttered TOC
Created attachment 13779 [details]
Example document showing the desired TOC
Sorry, the examples have been clobbered by site formatting. Better ones follow (hopefully). Cluttered TOC: FirstMainHeading............................................................2 FirstSectionHeading........................................................2 1.Para1 Title. This is the text included in the body of the paragraph. This is the text included in the body of the paragraph. This is the text included in the body of the paragraph....................................................................2 Desired TOC:: FirstMainHeading............................................................2 FirstSectionHeading........................................................2 1.Para1 Title....................................................................2 You can get such a TOC when you mark the "in line"-heading and define it as index-entry (Insert - Indexes and Tables - Entry). There you choose the Index "Table of Contents" and Level "3". In the TOC itself check the option "Index Marks". Automatically including in line headings via style would mean, that there had to be an option in the TOC to recognize character-styles. I don't think that such an option is really necessary. Thanks for the suggestion Regina. I tried it, but it didn't work for me. I *did* get the paragraphs as I wanted, but they were displayed *in addition* to the original ones (ie, doubled-up). To get rid of the duplication, I would have to remove the check marks from 'Outline' and/or 'Additional styles'. That would mean having to create index references for the other headings manually with the 'Entry' option, when they are already created automatically for me at the moment. For that reason, I don't think it would be a practical solution. For the example I gave, I would have to create 18 index marks, as well as those for all the main and section headings. This would not be practical for a large document. Indeed, it would be similar to the problem facing those having to insert many cross-references in their documents. A more practical solution is as I have suggested: the desired text in the paragraphs has already been marked by the Character Style, all that is needed is the selection in *one* place for them to be used as the TOC text. After all, I have a computer - it should be doing the work for me, not the other way around. > but they were displayed *in addition* to the original ones
Oh, I didn't mentioned, that in "Additional Styles" you have to move your
"ParaNum" to the column "Not applied".
But handling should be discussed in one of the user mailing lists, not here.
Thanks again Regina. That removes the problem of having to designate included text for every main and section heading, but not for *every* paragraph; the original shortcoming stands and needs attention. I have responded to your comments to add to the dabate here on the TOC feature in OOo Writer, not to receive or give advice on how this word processor should be used. The person who investigates this request for enhancement needs to understand why the present method is such a pain, and why improvement is needed. In this context, 'handling' is a legitimate discussion here. 'Handling' is the essence of getting an application's GUI right, which in this particular case, is not quite right. And anyway, I don't use mailing lists, which are an obsolete communications paradigm; I use the modern equivalent - the website forum. I've just tried Regina's suggestion on removing 'ParaNum' from the 'Additional Styles' section, and have found the TOC to appear uncluttered, but all paragraph numbering has been removed from the TOC listing for level 3. To fix that requires more manual configuration that involves removing the ParaNum1 Numbering Style from the ParaNum Paragraph Style, then implementing numbering through Tools->Outline Numbering. *Then* paragraph numbering does not continue sequentially throughout the document; it re-numbers from '1' after each intervening style that is *not* ParaNum (including MainHeading and GroupHeading). Sigh! So, in short, this is not a practical solution. The 'automatic' solution I suggested is just begging. reassigned to bh To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements". Confirmed with AOO410m14(Build:9760) - Rev. 1585624 2014-04-08_04:11:10 - Rev. 1585644 Debian |