Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 44938
Enhancement for default Table of Contents behavior
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:38:24 UTC
Default Table of contents in a OOo 1.1 text documents requires some enhancements - (1) If a user inserts a table of contents then it should have it's hyper links turned on by default (Word does so), because many (or most?) of the users are unfamiliar with this option which is already there. (2) Character formatting for hyper linked Table of content should be just like normal text (until and unless user saves the document as HTML) i.e. Character should *Not* be formatted in blue color and with underlining (Word does so) because unformatted text prints fine. If hyper linked Table of content is formatted in blue colored and underlined fonts, then it may be ok for on line documents but *Not* for printed documents. (3) Separate style for Table of contents hyper links. If currently a user tries to remove or change hyper link formatting for table of contents through Insert -> Indexes and Tables -> Indexes and Tables -> Entries -> Internet Link -> Edit option, then it removes (or changes) formatting for *ALL* hyper links, which are there in the document. (4) Hyper links support for Alphabetical Index, Illustration Index, Index of Tables, Table of Objects, Bibliography etc. (5) Backward hyper linking i.e. From Text Item -> Table of Contents or Text Item -> Index etc.
reassigned to requirements.
Errata - Please ignore point no (3) and read it as If a user is working on a text document, then character style for Table of contents hyper links, should be “default†or “text bodyâ€. In order to get it now a user needs to go to option Insert -> Indexes and Tables -> Indexes and Tables -> Entries and then select “default†character style for hyper link tags. It should be the default behavior. Character style “default†or “text body†for Table of contents hyper links must be separate from rest of the document otherwise they will interfere with other text items i.e. editing it will affect the entire document. In the same way if a user is working on a HTML document then character style for Table of contents hyper links should be “Hyper link†and it should be independent from rest of the document. Simplest will be to have entirely separate styles for Table of Contents Alphabetical Index Illustration Index Index of Tables Table of Objects Bibliography etc.
As of now, please include some of the tips discussed here, in OOo 2.0 's help documentation.
I'd like to fortify the proposition: < (4) Hyper links support for Alphabetical Index, Illustration Index, Index of > Tables, Table of Objects, Bibliography etc. of the first entry from this Issue. With the advanced possibilities of PDF-creation and therefore reading documents online instead of printing them, the linking of all sorts of index-entries makes allways more sense. I suppose that it would be difficult to establish links when a index is based on paragraph-templates. But in all cases that base on marked entries it should be possible to use them as anchors, Cheers, Claudia
I thought linked TOCs in PDF export had not yet been implemented, until a google search showed me how to do it. Since one also has to work around the hyperlink formatting issue (point (2) here and also issue 55611), it's somewhat complicated to create a nicely structured PDF document.
*** Issue 70172 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***