Thanks Andy. I'll try your suggestions as I'm determined to find a suitable
alternative to Microsoft.
Cheers
robert
From: Andy Pepperdine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
CC: "Robert Gott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [users] More detail cursor request.
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 18:40:37 +0000
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
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