Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: > > Hi Jonathan, > > Jonathan Kaye wrote: >> Hi all, >> I posted this several days ago on comp.openoffice.questions and haven't >> received anything I can use to solve the problem. Any ideas out there? >> >> This may be a tricky one. I am helping to produce a dictionary and things >> are nearing completion thanks to the outstanding support from the >> Openoffice groups. >> I've got an .odt file laid out exactly as it should be. Entries are in >> paragraph form using the hanging indent style. The only hard line breaks >> are to separate one entry from another. >> >> I need to create a unique header for each page. On the header we should >> see the first 3 characters of the first entry on the page and then the >> first 3 characters of the last entry on the page. Note that these are >> usually not the first and last lines, respectively since entries may run >> over (soft) page breaks; there are no hard page breaks in the document. I >> think I know how to left/right justify the 1st and last entry characters >> (using left and right tabs) but how do I get this into a header? It seems >> to be that creating a page style is the way to go. I don't think there's >> a way to find soft page breaks using a regular expression. >> >> What I want to know is does such a page style for dictionaries already >> exist? I don't want to reinvent the wheel here. If so, a link would be >> greatly appreciated. I've looked fairly hard for one but come up empty. >> If, indeed, none exist, then any hints about to create the page style (if >> that's the best way to do it) would be greatly appreciated. I'm using >> OOo3.1. >> > > I have asked around, and no we have no means of creating such a page > style. Also no one could think off different means to produce a similar > effect. > Thus I'm afraid you are the first one who ever had told us about such > need. :-( > > The only reasonable choice you have is to file a feature request about > this, and hopefully it gets supported in the future. I do believe that > this is really a very reasonable request. > > Do you know if it is possible in competitive products? > If so you should also state this in the feature request as well! > Compatibility issues are usually always getting some more attention than > other non-fatal issues. > > > Regards, > Thomas Hi Thomas, AFAIK it is not possible on competitive products. I have really really searched the Openoffice.org website high and low and can't, for the life of me, find where I can file a feature request. Any hints? TIA, Jonathan
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