On 6/20/2011 5:26 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Sun, 2011-06-19 at 22:30 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote:
Jean, what I intend to do concerning AutoText in my future versions of
the templates is to include a downloadable *.bau file with the
predefined AutoText entries dedicated for each individual template,
which can be downloaded and included in a user's AutoText folder, such as:
C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autotext\en-US for an XP
installation in US English, for example. [I reckon other Windows
operating systems would employ the same folder.] This should eliminate
confusion when different page sizes, etc. are used for different
templates. Each *.bau file needs a carefully descriptive filename for
each template variant, so that the users need not have to create any
such AutoText entries, unless they choose to.
Excellent! Thanks, Gary, much appreciated. I've never used multiple .bau
files, but they sound very useful. I certainly don't have time to create
such things myself, despite their usefulness. (I could say the same
about a lot of other ideas I've had.)
--Jean
The *.bau AutoText files are really simple to build. Each *.bau category
file is essentially a set of AutoText entries. What one needs to do is
to create a descriptive filename for a BAU category file and load a
category file with AT entries. Then, that category shows up in a user's
AutoText, which then can contain any number of AutoText entries.
Right now, I have created a LO 3_3_3 chapter template_USLetter.bau file
for US Letter pages and another LO 3_3_3 chapter template_A4.bau file
for A4 pages. All that is needed is to create an archive (ZIP) file and
include a dedicated BAU file for each template download. Pretty
brain-dead simple, actually.
I created AutoText for tables and figures (with their captions), so
inserting anything AutoTexted is merely done via an AutoText Insert
command. Afterward, those AT-inserted graphics can be replaced with the
desired graphical content via the clipboard or whatever.
Gary
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