AutoText file(s)

[Gary_Schnabl]

Jean, what I intend to do concerning AutoText in my future versions of the templates is to include a downloadable *.bau file with the predefined AutoText entries dedicated for each individual template, which can be downloaded and included in a user's AutoText folder, such as:
C:\Program Files\LibreOffice 3\Basis\share\autotext\en-US for an XP installation in US English, for example. [I reckon other Windows operating systems would employ the same folder.] This should eliminate confusion when different page sizes, etc. are used for different templates. Each *.bau file needs a carefully descriptive filename for each template variant, so that the users need not have to create any such AutoText entries, unless they choose to.

Gary

[jeanweber]

Excellent! Thanks, Gary, much appreciated. I've never used multiple .bau
files, but they sound very useful. I certainly don't have time to create
such things myself, despite their usefulness. (I could say the same
about a lot of other ideas I've had.)

--Jean

[Gary_Schnabl]

The *.bau AutoText files are really simple to build. Each *.bau category file is essentially a set of AutoText entries. What one needs to do is to create a descriptive filename for a BAU category file and load a category file with AT entries. Then, that category shows up in a user's AutoText, which then can contain any number of AutoText entries.

Right now, I have created a LO 3_3_3 chapter template_USLetter.bau file for US Letter pages and another LO 3_3_3 chapter template_A4.bau file for A4 pages. All that is needed is to create an archive (ZIP) file and include a dedicated BAU file for each template download. Pretty brain-dead simple, actually.

I created AutoText for tables and figures (with their captions), so inserting anything AutoTexted is merely done via an AutoText Insert command. Afterward, those AT-inserted graphics can be replaced with the desired graphical content via the clipboard or whatever.

Gary