Howdy. A short bio follows: Electrical engineer by trade. Hacker by necessity. Coder by contract. User of linux since .94pl1 and of OO only since 2.0 beta. I have been writing 'stuff' for a long time... dabbling in technical manuals off-and-on for a while. Most recently, that dabbling paid off when I finished polishing/editing a 300 pp dissertation for my lovely wife - in the process, managing to fish out a few bugs in writer.
I found complying with the ETD (electronic thesis & dissertation) requirements of the school beyond OO 2.0's abilities - by a hair. In fact, I only needed Adobe Acrobat to arrange the bookmarks in the exported PDF file![*] What brings me here is conflicting directions in OO's on-line help. For example, I found that the Table of Tables and Table of Figures, when following the instructions in OO, were impossible to create because the standard: http://www.pitt.edu/%7Egraduate/etd calls for them to be hyperlinked. Try it, you can't add hyperlink tags to the two tables, above, in OO unless you do some gymnastics. I am hoping to create a simple (lean) document on JUST satisfying the ETD so that other folks are spared from having to suffer with MS Word (great for a 10 pp report, nightmare for a huge 200+ pp document). If anyone knows of such a document, I would like to use it as a starting point. I elected not to use Master documents (seeing how much grief folks have with it) nor Bibliography (gave it a chance and gave up after burning several hours) - I will leave these two 'features' for someone else. Summary: if anyone knows of dissertation-writing documents for OO (no matter how incomplete), I'd love to hear about them. Also, style tips would be welcome. Cheers, Fil P.S. Is there a place I can get an 'overview' of the levels of indirection used in generating the Table of Contents (with reference to Tools->Outline Numbering menu, especially) without having to read C++ code? That part is not explained anywhere that I could find. [*] while the bookmarks for the figures were in a big list near the top of the document (but not in a nested-bookmark like the ETD wants), the bookmarks for tables were scattered throughout the chapters - I had to manually gather them all up and nest them under a created "Table of Tables" bookmark. Easy task but does this sound like an issue that should be filed on Issuetracker? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
