Re: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: Cross-references in complex documents

Hi Rik,

On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 1:42 PM, rdb <rdbusser@gmail.com> 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

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