On 10/20/2009 08:15 AM, Michele Zarri wrote:
Hello All,
As the subject states, I am in the process of updating the Writer user
guide (www.oooauthors.org) to include some new features introduced
since OOo 3.0. At present I am looking at the capability of allocating
to a paragraph style its own outline level.
...
Is there anybody who has used this functionality and can share with me
why it was needed?
I suppose it could be useful in a number of situations, but the one
situation I'm aware of where it is required is for unnumbered headings
that should appear in the ToC.
E.g., a book might use numbered chapters (top-level, "Heading 1"
paragraphs), but the front sections (Preface, Forward, ToC, etc.) are
unnumbered.
Such unnumbered headings need special treatment on two accounts: First,
as you mentioned, those should be top level headings but that level is
already assigned to "Heading 1", so you need two (or more) paragraph
styles assigned to the top level--not possible with Tools > Outline
Numbering, which is one style per level.
Second, if you use Tools > Outline Numbering to assign those heading
styles to an outline level, they must have a number. If you set the
numbering type to "None", then the paragraph is not included in the ToC;
for what reason, I don't understand, but that's how it works.
I don't know of any other way to handle this kind of situation properly.
You can fudge it by hijacking an unused outline level, making it
/appear/ at the top-level in the ToC and hiding it's number with
character formatting tricks, but the document outline will be malformed
in the Navigator, or an exported PDF.
Thanks for your efforts in updating the docs! The Guides are really
top-notch.
<Joe
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