On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 07:52 -0400, Filip Gieszczykiewicz wrote: > 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.
JUst what we need to help on the doc or help. Welcome. > > 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. Hmm, I think this is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3356 or at least very similar. Check it out to see. > > 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. WRT bibliography, there is a project for that. see http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic_Project and a mail list, dev@bibliographic.openoffice.org ANd one for Writer enhancements, http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib > > 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. It may not be exactly what you want but http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo2.x/user_guide2_draft.pdf has info on preparing headers for TOC. If you can, see Issue 29679 and pick up Chapter 3 and improve it, please. > > [*] 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? > Probably but see to the stuff above, first. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
