On Thursday 02 February 2006 6:58 pm, Oliver Specht wrote:
> Another possible solution is to add a new object that is similar to
> bookmarks (com.sun.star.text.Bookmark). This extended bookmark would
> also carry a DOM tree property. This 'bookmark' can span over formatted
> text longer than a paragraph. The user can modify the text inside of
> this bookmark easily.
Oliver,
Thanks for your investigations and suggestions.
The suggestion quoted above is very useful. Have you considered whether it
maybe worth enhancing the basic field / bookmark functions to support
character styles within fields generally?
For example, this would allow captions and 'Tables Of Contents' to properly
show botanical/ scientific names in italics. And it would be an improvement
if bookmarks could reflect their actual text formating.
Your are correct in suggesting that we need a special field / bookmark to
support spanning over paragraphs. One of the 'fields' in the bibliographic
database will be 'Abstract' and his needs to support full text editing,
including paragraphs and probably headings. We need a structured way of
dealing with this type of text and your suggestion seems to be a good way of
doing it.
If this could be extended a bit further to included at least some types of
embedded objects such as mathematical formulas it would be even better.
I think there would be a wide range of uses for the complex formated bookmark.
regards
David
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David N. Wilson
Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic
OpenOffice Project
http://bibliographic.openoffice.org
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