Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 19981
WW8: StyleRef field doesn't have an existing good match in writer
Last modified: 2017-05-20 11:26:12 UTC
See attached example, a follow on task from issue 19682. Perhaps the thing to do is to tackle the most common subset of the possibilities of the StyleRef field and map the case which fits our chapter number to that field, and remain as conversion to raw text for the edge cases of stylerefs on styles not in outline numbering.
Created attachment 9631 [details] A demo .doc
cmc->ama: Attached is an example that demonstrates why the word StyleRef field is not currently converted into a writer Document->Chapter field. Perhaps the filter should detect the most common case and convert it when possible, or perhaps we should have an equivalent field. I'll let you decide which way we should go.
For Q we'll implement new fields if it make sense. We've to collect the most important missing fields and think about implementation. Maybe we create only one new field type "command field" including a string which has to interpreted.
I too would like to see such a field added. I have spent a day trying to think of workarounds particularly for the ability to find the last text on a page with a given style (paragraph or character) and also the first text on a page with a given style (with the fallback of searching backwards onto previous pages if missing on this page). The primary use for this for me is in typesetting dictionaries with the various headwords appearing in the header of a page.
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Because of a shortage of resources we have to retarget this issue to OOo later. I don't like this, but we won't be able to solve this for OOo2.0. Improvement of field im-/export will be an important issue for the next releases.
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*** Issue 78677 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
This was marked as oo_later in 2004 (priot to OO 2.0); is there any process of reviewing the priorities? I'd love to see this feature and afaict there is no styleref support in OO 3.0 (July 2008).
I also hope, that the styleref functionalitiy will be implemented in OO 3. It's the one missing feature that causes many professionals not to switch from MSOffice to OO... For this is a very old request, I'd like to see it implemented soon.
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