This question was occasioned by a corrupted Base file [cf: "Recommended
tool for recovering corrupted Base files?"], which led me to analyze the
file to try to recover it. The first step is the internal structure of
the Base file:
[Configurations2]
[database]
backup
data
log
properties
script
[forms]
[Obj22]
[Configurations2]
[floater]
[images]
[Bitmaps]
[menubar]
[popupmenu]
[progressbar]
[statusbar]
[toolbar]
content.xml
settings.xml
styles.xml
[META-INF]
manifest.xml
[reports]
content.xml
mimetype
settings.xml
That list is a directory structure, and so is hierarchical. I want to
use Writer to make notes about it. [I'm also using Calc to import table
values from "[database]/script" - so, in the course of learning about
Base, learning a bit more about Writer and Calc - but that is not
important to this question.] The problem is how to use Writer to
annotate that structured list.
To make the list (without bullets or numbering), I just defined a List
style "List without bullets"; that's the easy part. The hard part is
the annotation: I want to be able to put a note on each line describing
that directory or file, and I would like the notes to line up, as in:
[Configurations2] Note on [Configurations2]
[database] Note on [database]
backup Note on "backup". Note continues...
note continues...
note continues...
data Note on "data". Note continues...
note continues...
note continues...
log Note on "log". Note continues...
In WordPerfect, even with such a structured list (what WordPerfect calls
an "Outline"), one can "Indent" after any list member to a common point
on the line, as shown above. I have been wasting a lot of time trying
to see how to do this kind of annotation with Writer; can anyone offer a
suggestion?
John
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