Under Writer, Labels and Business Cards are substantially identical functions:
a page array of frames (optionally linked?) to serve as containers for
printable data (text or images). [For labels, the data are typically (though
not necessarily) entered via fields defined from a database.] Though these
forms might be regarded as templates, they are not under the Templates manager.
For several reasons, it would be nice to manage them more effectively, as a
forms library. I would elaborate the reasons, but don't want to lengthen this
post before getting to some basic information, like: Where are these
definitions stored?
Checking LibreOffice Paths, there are User Paths and Internal Paths; presumably
the Internal Paths point to resources available to all users. All Internal
Paths are of the form (under Windows):
C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\<X>, where <X> is:
"autocorr" (for AutoCorrect)
"autotext\en-US" (for AutoText (which is language-specific))
"wordbook" (for Dictionaries)
"gallery" (for Gallery)
For Templates, there are two Internal Paths:
C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\template\common;
C:Program Files\LibreOffice\program\..\share\template\en-US;
So "share", like "program", is a first-level subdirectory under "LibreOffice", containing 31 (possibly more) shared subdirectories. Among those are five
{"autocorr", "autotext\en-US", "gallery", "template", "wordbook"} from the "Internal Paths" list, as well as 26 others NOT listed
in "Internal Paths" -- but there is no "template\en-US".
[By comparison with "autotext\en-US", I infer that there may be language-specific templates, but
that there is no such directory as listed in "Internal Paths" because there are no
"en-US"-specific templates. Does that explain it? If so, are there ANY language-specific templates,
for any language? It would be interesting to see how that works.]
Among the 26 shared subdirectories NOT listed in "Internal Paths" is one for "labels".
That sounded promising for my purpose, but had only a single file, "labels.xml", dated 2021-09-08,
so this is obviously not where my labels definitions are stored. [However, labels.xml does include
definitions of business cards (and all other such cards), and I could at least edit it to put the
manufacturers in alphabetical order -- small comfort. ;-) ]
But that still does not expose user-defined labels definitions (which are
appended when LibreOffice loads to the shared definitions in labels.xml) and I
could not find those user-defined definitions. The only thing I could find
under LibreOffice user Appdata, that was at least timestamp-compatible, was a
file pack\registrymodifications.pack. It is a binary file, not readable, and I
don't know how to decode it. Could that be where user definitions reside? If
so,
(a) How is that file read and edited?
(b) Why are user-defined label definitions not in the same kind of XML file as
shared definitions?
John <with profound apologies for the length>
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