On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 21:12, Tom wrote: >"Pleading Wizard" features.
This is one of roughly half a dozen features, that lawyers require, that aren't available for OOo. The _current_ workaround is to create a template for each type of pleading, for each court. AFAIK, the lawyers in California that use OOo, print the documents to specially lined and numbered paper. > legal venue, the court, the parties, and the pleading's name. Then it drafts > the difficult caption portion on a numbered and lined document template. If the exact specifications for each type of pleading are given, then you _might_ be able to persuade somebody on the list to create the required templates. > I realize that there are probably enormous copyright hindrances to adding > such a feature to Open Office's writing app, The issue isn't copyright, but technological. Specifically, getting the lines, numbers, and text to flow correctly. > but is there some after-market add-on or macro that will emulate or > substitute for this MSWord feature? I'm not aware of anything that is generally available, that meets California State Local Rules. BTW, the biggest issue in using OOo, is creating the _Table of Authorities_ for the pleading. > would be sunk without some foolproof way to draft documents that the clerks > downstairs will accept. "Pro Se" and "foolproof way", are mutually exclusive terms. :( jonathon -- The court in the southern city of Shenzhen on Wednesday sentenced 11 people to jail terms of up to six-and-a-half years for making high-quality counterfeit software that was sold in 36 countries, Microsoft said in a statement. The first clue that genuine Microsoft products were not being offered, was that it was "high quality software". --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
