Hi Rik, On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, rdb <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm not really sure how to go about lodging a feature request, so I'll just > disguise this as a question. > > I'm trying to write a fairly long book with OpenOffice and in general things > go very smoothly. So far, I'm pretty happy that I ditched Word (very fickle > with long documents) for LibreOffice. The problems start when I have to > insert cross-references: > > > There is no obvious way to change how your cross-reference is formatted or > represented. For example, my sub-headings are like this: > 1. > and the dot will show in my in-text cross-reference, whatever I'm trying to > do to make it go away. > There is no search option in 'Headings' or 'Numbered paragraphs'. Why would > you need that? Well, wait till you're writing something with 20 chapters, > 200 section headings, and 2000 numbered example sentences. > The only option then is to scroll through all items in the pane on the > right-hand side. Problem is, you can't resize the pane and scrolling takes a > while with hundreds or thousands of items. > If I'm not mistaken, LibreOffice does not have an obvious way to search for > broken cross-reference links, unlike Word, which turns your link into a > bolded "Error! Blablalbalbla". That's a problem if you just changed all > headings in Chapter 20 and you want to check if all references to it in > Chapter 1 are still ok. > > Does anybody have similar problems? Are there any plugins to give you more > versatile cross-ref options? Am I overlooking some clever tricks?
The LibreOffice docs team writes some long user guides. We use the approach of one document per chapter, and then agglomerate all that within a global document. Maybe this would work for you? -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] In case of problems unsubscribing, write to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
