[libreoffice-users] Automatically generating and updating many similar documents
Hi all:
A friend of mine writes datasheets and user manuals for many similar
devices with Microsoft Word 2010. Many sections (legalese, company logo,
some device features) are exactly the same across many documents.
Maintaining so many copies of the same text is a pain. If you want to
fix or enhance something, you have to manually update many copies in
many documents. Just to clarify: these are not just short database
fields, but complete text sections with subsections, full formatting, etc.
He has recently learnt about Microsoft Word's {INCLUDETEXT} field. By
pressing F9 (Update Fields), he can update all imported sections in a
document at once.
This mechanism has its limitations. He cannot update all documents at
once. And, although some sections are almost exact copies, some of them
mention the device's model number, which is different in each document.
Perhaps the most severe limitation is that he cannot update styles
across documents at once. If the marketing department decides that all
section titles should be blue, he has no way to change them all
automatically.
What he really needs is some sort of automatic templating system that
can generate or update many documents at once.
I would like for him to move to LibreOffice. But Writer has no such
{INCLUDETEXT} feature, right?
What would be the best way to knock such system together with
LibreOffice? I can write a few scripts or Makefiles if necessary.
My friend is no programmer, and he is not willing to learn some markup
language like AsciiDoc in order to write the documentation. Besides,
other colleagues contribute some text every now and then. They all know
how to use a word processor, but it would not be realistic that all of
them get familiar with something like AsciiDoc.
Thanks in advance,
R. Diez
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[libreoffice-users] Cannot delete horizontal red line
Hi all: I managed to add an horizontal red line to my document's footer that I cannot delete anymore. I just cannot select it with the mouse. Please find attached the document. I stripped all contents down to a couple of text lines. Could that be a bug in LibreOffice? I am using the latest version 5.0.4.2. Thanks, rdiez -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot delete horizontal red line
Attached files are generally removed by the mailing list processor before messages are distributed, so no-one will have been able to see your document. OK, thanks. It is a shame that I cannot send even a tiny example document. I am attaching it again, so that at least you get it. One possibility is that you have added a top or bottom border to a paragraph. > [...] I drew the line manually using Insert, Shapes, Line. I double-checked anyway, and all places I could find following your instructions are set to "Set no borders". >> Could that be a bug in LibreOffice? > Possibly not. Not unheard of. 8-) In fact, when closing Writer, both on Linux and Windows, I often get a "LibreOffice Document Recovery" dialog. "Due to an unexpected error, LibreOffice crashed.". "The following files will be recovered", and then an empty list of files. If then leaves the lock file ".~lock.CannotSelectRedLine.odt#" behind. If happens if I change the document and then undo the changes and don't save it to disk, then close LibreOffice Writer. This is a very small document, on a rather clean Ubuntu 14.04.3, and a Windows 7 PC. All other software is pretty stable. But the problem with the red line is what bothers me most at this point in time. Thanks, rdiez -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
