Thanks for the tip. I'll read the manual and continue experimenting. In the meantime:
My Outline looks something like this: 1 Document Title="Modern Greek Verbs" 1.1 Verbs 1.1.1 Verb Title="ΑΓΑΠΙΕΜΑΙ", Voice="Passive", Meaning="I am loved" 1.1.2 Verb Title="ΑΓΑΠΩ", Voice="Active", Meaning="I love" 1.1.3 Verb Title="ΕΙΜΑΙ", Voice="Active", Meaning="I am" 1.1.4 Verb Title="ΕΡΧΟΜΑΙ", Voice="Passive", Meaning="I come" 1.1.5 Verb Title="ΕΧΩ", Voice="Active", Meaning="I have" 1.1.500 etc. 1.2 Index Title="ENGLISH-GREEK" The document page number should appear in the page footer, always on the outside margin. (Too bad OO doesn't understand English :) Document.Title appears on the cover sheet and in the footer of every page (but the cover) on the inside margin. Verb.Title appears centered in each page header in the Verbs section. To control inside/outside margin in the headers I could use a function like page==odd?Verb.Voice:Verb.Meaning; The footer would look like this: page==odd?page:Document.Title; Then I wouldn't need to poke around your menu system to find the right check boxes -- the headers and footers would merely contain the function names -- but I'd need to know how to program your box, and I really just want results, what-you-see-is-what-you-get. Index.Title should appear centered in the Header of each page of the Index (but the first, which should be at the top of the page). 1) I map my Sections to your Styles -- page styles to be exact. But the Section is not a page, it is more like a Chapter, a sequence of pages. 2) I create an instance of the page style for each verb in the book. I'd like to capture my book by inserting something, "styles" for lack of a better term. How about 'Insert Style/Section Break'? How do I create the variables which appear in the headers? Are they attributes of the Style -- a custom page Style? I don't want to apply the Style to a page, but to a series of pages, a "chapter". (Actually, the styling requirements are quite minimal. I use a little Italic, but that's all, so I don't mind doing it by hand. Character styles makes sense for this, but I'm already terrified by your interface. It gives me nightmares.) Is there a "Chapter" Style? (Probably not, that would be too easy.) What I really want to do is insert Sections into my document, but your Sections only do multiple columns, right? I need to define attributes/variables in each Section/Style, which would appear (magically) in the headers. I don't want to work with names and functions. I'd rather point and click. I think your program should do something reasonable by default, right out of the box. I'm a bit disturbed by all this flexibility. The solution should jump out at me, right off the screen. Thanks, Joe On 7/28/05, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 22:31 +0300, Joe Schaffner wrote: > > Sorry, > > Let's try again... > > In principle, do I create "Sections"? > > I don't see any Section formats, just a default. > > What is a "Style"? > > I seem to remember Microsoft Word had an Outline view. You could > > essentially create the document before you even started capturing the > > text. The Sections were hierarchical and the title of the Section was > > the text you gave it, I think. [I've forgotten the details. It was > > rocket science, but I could make it work.] > > Joe > > > > [snipped] > > I suggest that you go to http://documentation.openoffice.org/ and browse > the manuals and HOW-TOs as both have pertinent info. > > -- > PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. > OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead > http://documentation.openoffice.org/ > >
