Re: [libreoffice-users] Left-floated headings using styles

On Sat, 2012-02-11 at 15:44 +0800, Jason Heeris wrote:
> I'm looking to achieve a certain layout effect in LibreOffice writer, but
> it's a bit hard to describe. I can demonstrate it in HTML:
>
>     http://heeris.id.au/test/test.html
>
> ...but basically, I want a certain style of subheading to appear to the
> left of the body of text for which it is the heading. The text should be
> indented and not flow around underneath the heading. All such headings
> should have the same amount of horizontal space available, and should wrap
> if they exceed this.
>
> It would be possible to do this with one giant table for the whole
> document, with headings in the left column, text in the right, and top
> level headings or un-headed text in single-column rows; or with text boxes
> and certain wrap settings. But I want to know if I can do it purely using
> styles. Otherwise, should I want to change things in the future, I'll have
> a lot more editing to do, and using styles seem to be LibreOffice's main
> strength rather than the horrible typesetting hackery so characteristic of
> a certain other office suite.
>
> I've been playing around with paragraph styles, but I can't figure out how
> to do this. Is it at all possible?
>
> (I'm using LO Writer 3.4.5 under Ubuntu 11.10, by the way.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jason

     Would using sections be what you need? The LO Writer Guide contains
about 10 pages on using sections that begins around page 136.

--Dan


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