On Wed, 2005-03-09 at 21:42 -0500, Greg London wrote: > I have a OpenOffice document that is a perl training manual. > > http://www.greglondon.com/iperl/ > > The manual has a lot of perl excerpts in it. > I'd like to be able to keep the excerpts in external files > and somehow shadow them in the document, so that I can run > the perl script to check for typos, and if I change anything, > it shows up in the document. > > right now, the code is pasted in the document, > and to run it, I paste it into a file, save it, > and run it. If there are bugs, I fix them, > and then paste the content back into the document. > > Is there an easier way to do this? > > Maintenance has become a nightmare.
I can see that it might be so. I suggest that you try inserting sections where your code goes. Link it in and you should find that you can deal with it in a reasonable manner. To set font size, modify the style that is used. You can find more on sections in the user manuals at http://documentation.openoffice.org/ -- Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
