Hi :) Apparently it's well worth getting Zotero and apparently that works with both LO and MS Office. I think it's not an Extension for LO but is a fully-fledged 3rd party tool Regards from Tom :)
On 25 January 2014 19:26, CVAlkan <[email protected]> wrote: > I know the table of contents feature seems to work well, as I've used it > quite a bit in the past. > But creating an alphabetical index (a first for me, at least using Writer) > seems to have a number of rather annoying features. I've provided an > experiment you can do at the end, but first let me discuss the issues. > > 1) When creating an alphabetical index, the Columns feature works as > expected, BUT ONLY FOR THE STANDARD (DEFAULT) PAPER SIZE! If I attempt to > use columns on a 6" x 9" page, Writer still seems to assume a "standard" > paper size and doesn't seem to know that I'm using a 6" x 9" page. Thus no > matter how I try to tweak the setup, the right column is almost completely > off the page on the right. So I can't use columns for the Index - Bummer, > but not the end of the world. > > 2) If I go through and highlight each entry that I want indexed, everything > works great (so far as I can tell), and I have the options for "match case" > and "whole words only." But in a long document, using a concordance file > certainly seems to make more sense, and it SEEMS TO WORK, but it actually > doesn't. > > Issue a) No matter what boxes are checked, Writer goes and marks ALL > instances of whatever the concordance entry has: regardless of whether or > not it is a whole word or whether the capitalization matches. > > Issue b) If you add another entry to the concordance file and "Update > Index/Table," all instances (even incorrect ones) of the new entry are > indeed marked within the file and added to the index, but every earlier > entry GETS AN ADDITIONAL marker. As I modify the concordance file to add new > items and update the index, I find that the earliest entries have as many > markers as the number of updates I've done. > > Here's an experiment you can do: > > Open a new document using whatever standard size is in effect. > At the top of the document, type dt and press F3. This generates the dummy > text. > In a separate text editor create a concordance file with the following > entries: > > Breeze;Breeze;;;0;0 > Long;Long;;;0;0 > Self;Self;;;0;0 > Wrist;Wrist;;;0;0 > > Back in the document, create a new index at the bottom of the page, and mark > "Case Sensitive." Then choose the concordance file created above. > > You'll see that the words "himself" and "along" are marked in the document > and included in the index as "Self" and "Long", even though these words > never appear in the text. Now add the following entry to the concordance > file: > > Eat;Eat;;;0;0 > > Find it? It actually marked the last three letters of the word "sweat" which > doesn't match the case. > > In a three hundred plus page document with a surname index this tends to > make the index pretty useless, since it's cluttered with erroneous entries > which will drive you nuts looking on a referenced page to find something > that just isn't there. > > Sadly, I've obviously done that, which brings up another issue: > > How do I get rid of the index markers? Going through one by one is far too > tedious. I recall that the alternate search and replace had a selection for > "index" under properties, but the I downloaded that and the latest version > seems to have a serious bug which doesn't let you get to a specific entry on > the drop down list for "properties" so that's out. And I don't know if that > would be what I need anyway. > > Any help would be appreciated. > > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Index-Quirks-in-Writer-tp4093936.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > 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 > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] 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
