Re: [libreoffice-users] code listing in a writer document

At 04:30 09/11/2014 +0100, Andreas Ziegler wrote:
> i've got a writer document, where i want to cite code fragments. so 
> i set up a frame template with grey background and a template for 
> the text inside so the lines are numbered. but i've got two problems:
> 1) i can't have lines without a number, which i need, if a code line 
> doesn't fit in a single line of the document

I'm not sure how you are doing this (your screenshot shows only the 
appearance, not the structure) so I cannot really comment. But if I 
apply numbering on the Outline & Numbering tab of the paragraph 
style, it is paragraphs that are numbered, not lines. This will work 
if your code text is generally separated by paragraph breaks 
(inserted by pressing Enter) with your long lines broken by the 
natural flow of text or by line breaks (inserted by pressing Shift+Enter).

> 2) i can't assign a description to that listing, because captions do 
> always seem to be *inside* the frame - which looks terribly wrong. 
> so i have the description as a simple text line after the 
> code/listing-frame - which is bad, when i change big parts of the 
> document, because the self-made caption doesn't stick to the code-listing.

That's easier. You are evidently applying a border to the frame. 
Remove that border and apply it instead using the paragraph style. 
Then the caption can be inside the (invisible) frame but outside the 
visible paragraph border and will keep together with frame contents 
as you edit the material. Your grey background can also be applied to 
the paragraph or to the frame, so that it extends just to the 
contents or to the area including the caption - as you prefer.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


--
To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscribe@global.libreoffice.org
Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/
Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette
List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/
All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted