Dear Dan,
Thanks for your reply. As you may have guessed I've just been using OO 2.1
for a few weeks. I'll try to explain the predicament in some more detail.
As I said, I write novels usually about 115,000 words. I use 16 pt chapter
headings, my standard page margins, header & footer etc, and tab the first
chapter text at line 6. So far so good.
Once written I usually print an A4 single spaced manuscript for my own use
and selected readers. Just before printing I need to both paginate and to
ensure that the pages are set out correctly. IE For example that a sentence
or chapter does not break half way into the next page. That the chapter
heading is always middle line 3 etc.
This feature of knowing line and column number is VERY usefull in WORD and
would be handy in OO. Hope this helps?
Cheers
Robert
From: Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: "Robert Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] Request for cursor position in versions subsequent to
OO 2.1
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 11:43:46 -0600
On Wednesday March 07 2007 10:13 am, Robert Gott wrote:
> MISSING IMPORTANT CURSOR POSITION FEATURE IN OpenOffice 2.1 WRITER
> (Win XP and presumably Linux Ubuntu also).
>
> 1. Open the two attached screen shot .jpg files in Windows XP
> preferably side by side in 'tile' view if possible.
>
> 2. Compare the bottom 'bar' of
> Example1CursorPositionOpenOfficeWriter2.1
> with
> Example2CursorPositionWord97
>
> 3. Note that Example1 (OO) does NOT have full cursor position.
>
> 4. Note that Microsoft Word 97 and all later versions of WORD
> does have full cursor position. The example looks like the
> following;
>
> Page 4 Set 1 4/148 At 4.7cm Ln 6 Col 2
>
> 5. The latter vital feature is missing in OO 2.1 Writer or
> have I missed some tool or configuration?
>
> 6. The above is obviously OO 2.1 for Windows XP but I'm migrating
> to Ubuntu Linux 6.10 soon with OO 2.1 Linux (Both 32 bit versions.)
>
> 7. As a writer of novels the exact cursor position is VITAL when
> I come to paginate manuscripts for home printing on A4 paper.
>
> 8. If this feature is not in OO 2.1 (Win XP and Linux 32 bit)
> COULD IT PLEASE BE INCORPORATED IN NEXT VERSIONS PLEASE?
>
> Regards
>
> Robert Gott
> West Yorkshire
> UK
Pardon me, but I do not understand what purpose is served by
knowing where the cursor is. Would you please explain how you use
this knowledge as you write? Then we will know why this is so
important to you. Perhaps we could then suggest something that OOo
already has which will serve a similar purpose.
For example, when I close an OOo file, it opens to the place
where I was last working on it: the place where the last changes were
made. I do not have to know where I stopped: it opens there
automatically.
Dan
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