[libreoffice-users] Re: How to Find Dangling Cross References in Writer

On Mon, 2013-08-12 at 21:12 +0430, Sina Momken wrote:
> On 08/12/2013 02:53 PM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-08-09 at 07:25 +1000, Tim Lloyd wrote:
> > > Hi, Probably not the solution you were hunting for but I create a PDF 
> > > and search for the offending text. It gets the job done in a roundabout 
> > > sort of way
> > Sadly, this is my method as well.  It is especially irritating when
> > using Master Documents [which link many docuemnts].  The documents *CAN*
> > reference each other but only that only works from the Master Document,
> > so refreshing the master document and generating a PDF and searching for
> > the text is [so far] the simplest way I have found.
> I've not tested this idea myself, but why don't you just search for the
> offending error (i.e. Reference source not found) in the master
> documents itself? Why you first generate a PDF from that?

Because the error message text is not actually 'in' the document, it is
the results of the cross reference de-referencing.   Thus, in the master
document you cannot find / Ctrl-F the error message.

> P.S. I don't have a serious solution, but I think this can be my problem
> in the future too.
> > Cross reference and Master Documents are the killer feature of
> > LibreOffice, but this is one corner where it falls down [why can't a
> > document 'know' in it's meta-data that it is part of a master document,
> > dunno, that would probably be a big deal, but it would certainly be a
> > boon for this feature-set].

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Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383
Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA


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