Jean Weber wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 3:22 AM, Dave Barton <d...@tasit.net> wrote: >> >> Thanks very much for the speedy replies guys, but... >> >>> Robert Großkopf wrote: >>>> Aren't this shades none-breaking spaces? If I set Insert → >>>> Formatting Mark → Non-breaking space I get the same shades. >> >> That, or something similar, is what I thought they were, but it was not >> making sense to have a "real" space character immediately followed by a >> non-breaking space. See my reply to K-J below. >> >>> K-J LibreOffice wrote: >>>> No, as there is a space in front of it. I think It is the mark for >>>> the alphatbetic index at the end of every document. So don't delete >>>> it. >> >> OK! Now that I have turned on "Help Tips" (I normally have these >> irritating things turned off.) and cross checked against the >> alphabetical index of the last published copy of the full GS Guide, I >> see that you are correct. >> >> However, if an author/editor changes the "Entry" name, as it appears to >> be the case with our guides, and the "Help Tips" are turned off, there >> is no way to visually differentiate between an "Index Entry" and a >> "Non-Breaking Space", or some other similar field. (ie. They are just >> meaningless little normally grey/gray blobs.) >> >> I cannot think of any good reason why ALL Index Entry words are not >> fully shaded identically, no matter what changes an author/editor makes >> in the "Insert Index Entry" dialog, I will be looking for this, or >> posting a request, in Bugzilla. >> >> Best Regards >> Dave > > > Here is the explanation, as it applies to our books. > > [libreoffice-documentation] translation of index entries > > Milos Sramek sramek.mi...@gmail.com via global.libreoffice.org > > 3/10/14 > > Hi, > > we have a small problem with index entries in translation of the GS > guide to Slovak. > > To explain: technically, there are two types of index entries, > independent and shared (may own names :)). In the first type, the > entry is independent of the guide text, while in the second the entry > shares the guide text. The first is presented as a small gray blob > between words, in the second case the shared text is displayed in > gray. > > The second type causes problems in translation to languages with > inflection, since inflected words get into the index. > We thus need to get rid of the shared entries and to replace them by > independent ones.
Thanks Jean, that is a good reason I wasn't aware of. So I will shut up, live with help tips and get on with the job. Dave -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
