On Thursday 08 March 2007 10:37, Robert Gott wrote: > 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?
I can see why you need this according to your traditional method of writing; but OOo provides styles to do similar things in a different way. By defining your chapter heading style as being centred with a certain distance before the text, a certain distance after it, and setting auto update, you can adjust them all immediately and simultaneously. By defining the widow and orphan settings in the your normal paragraph style, you can control how paragraphs get broken. Usually, there is a way in OOo to achieve the same effect as some other processor, but in a different way. Styles are central, but (potentially unfortunately) needs forethought and planning, which I admit may not fit well with some methods of working. -- Andy Pepperdine On this mailing list help is provided by volunteers. Please subscribe to the mailing list to see all the replies to a query, and reply only to the mailing list. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
