Hi :) Style & Templates is Chapter 3 of the Getting Started Guide in the official documentation which can also be accessed on the wiki http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Good luck and regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 11/2/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Left-floated headings using styles To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 11 February, 2012, 12:00 On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 15:44 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote: > I'm looking to achieve a certain layout effect in LibreOffice writer, but > it's a bit hard to describe. I can demonstrate it in HTML: > > http://heeris.id.au/test/test.html > > ...but basically, I want a certain style of subheading to appear to the > left of the body of text for which it is the heading. The text should be > indented and not flow around underneath the heading. All such headings > should have the same amount of horizontal space available, and should wrap > if they exceed this. > > It would be possible to do this with one giant table for the whole > document, with headings in the left column, text in the right, and top > level headings or un-headed text in single-column rows; or with text boxes > and certain wrap settings. But I want to know if I can do it purely using > styles. Otherwise, should I want to change things in the future, I'll have > a lot more editing to do, and using styles seem to be LibreOffice's main > strength rather than the horrible typesetting hackery so characteristic of > a certain other office suite. > > I've been playing around with paragraph styles, but I can't figure out how > to do this. Is it at all possible? > > (I'm using LO Writer 3.4.5 under Ubuntu 11.10, by the way.) > > Cheers, > Jason Would using sections be what you need? The LO Writer Guide contains about 10 pages on using sections that begins around page 136. --Dan -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@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
