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

On 06/28/2011 06:42 AM, rdb wrote:
> I'm trying to write a fairly long book with OpenOffice and in general things
> go very smoothly.

Curious what you consider long? I have stuff over 500 pages as a single 
document.

> 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.

I created my own numbering style for chapters and one for appendixes so 
that they will number as I desire (ie, "1.2. Hello" for a regular 
chapter and "Appendix A. Big Hello" and "A.2 Hello" for an appendix).

I believe that you can separately insert the number (which will contain 
any extra text such as periods), the reference, or the number and 
reference.

If you do NOT want the trailing period, then reference the section as 
"chapter" and it will leave off the trailing stuff.

> 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.

You are correct.

> 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.

Hmmmm. Never thought about it. Could probably write a macro to do it. 
Seems like a good idea.

> Am I overlooking some clever tricks?
Probably!  :-)

--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
Info:  http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php


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