On 12 Sep 2006 at 10:49, Ross Johnson wrote: ... > >> Hmmm. I'm still not clear what's happening here. > >> > >> I've cleared the 'protected' setting, and so can make any old changes > >> to the ToC. However, the 'Insert' checkbox under 'breaks' is /clear/ > >> anyway - even though the ToC immediately follows the break. That > >> said, having cleared the 'protected' setting, I can now move the > >> cursor to the start of the table and simply hit bckspc - which seems > >> to clear the break. That's OK, but if I then /set/ the protect bit > >> again to prevent accidents, the title "Table of Contents" now appears > >> twice, once protected, once not. I guess I can live with that, but > >> it looks like a minor bug. > >> > >> > > I don't think you've told us which OOo version you're using. I don't > > get this, but maybe there's something else in your document that is > > affecting things.
Oooops. 2.0.2; sorry. It gets worse though. I thought I'd start over from an empty document. Insert a couple of "heading 1" lines, go back to the top, insert ine of straight text, manual page break, then a ToC. That's OK so far -- a page with my one line, then a new page with the ToC and the 2 headers. (Although looking at 'edit para style' for the ToC shows that the insert checkbox is clear on the text flow sheet.) Go to the ToC, allow manual changes, then point into the title line, hit 'home' to get to the start and 'bckspc' to delete the break. The break goes and the pages collapse into one, and my one line of text is formatted with the ToC title style and concatenated with that title. Insert a newline to separate the two; then go back to the table and reprotect it. I've now lost my line of text completely, the documenting starting with the ToC -- worse, 'undo' is greyed out so I can't get it back. This really doesn't feel correct behaviour to me! ... > Actually I'm wrong there - Backspace to remove the Break Before doesn't > do the right thing IMO. With the Break After followed by the Break > Before, it shouldn't join the two paragraphs, and should only remove the > hidden blank page and adjust the page numbers (the second page should > still become page 2/2 because the Backspace should remove the Break > Before and also the associated page number change to "7".) > > > If you undo all of that to start over but now place the cursor at the > > end of the last para on your first page, and press Delete - then once > > again the first para of your second page is joined to the cursor para. > > I.e. this action appears to remove the Break Before setting of the > > following para. This would be ok if there was no Break After in the > > cursor para. However, the page number of your second page should then > > be "Page 2/2". That is one bug, but there is another bug too IMO. > > > > In the above (Delete) operation, the Break After setting should be > > removed from the cursor para rather than the Break Before of the > > following para. This should leave the Break Before para intact at the > > top of your second page, but it should remove the blank page (that you > > only see in print preview) and show your second page number as "Page 7 > > 2/2". > > That piece of analysis still seems correct to me though. > > > Ross I get the feeling that all this 'break' stuff is just a bit flakey -- sort of works, usually, but breaks (if you'll pardon the pun) rather easily. -- various incoming sites blocked because of spam; see http://www.scottsonline.org.uk for a list and openpgp crypto key (key fingerprint 2ACC 9F21 5103 F68C 7C32 9EA8 C949 81E1 31C9 1364) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
