Re: [libreoffice-users] APA Heading 3 that does not use paragraph style

Would a non-braking paragraph terminator resolve the issue. Inserted 
into the Insert>Manual Break... Menu. It would be a paragraph break that 
does not perform a line feed.
Steve

On 2016-05-07 05:35, Marc Grober wrote:
> > Not knowing anything about it it sounds like a real odd requirement\\
> Let me try again :-)
>
> LO has a built in indexing feature.  Part and parcel of this feature is
> a configurable Table of Contents (ToC) generator.
> For some reason, this generator will include a user configurable set of
> Paragraph Styled text as ToC entries, but will not allow you to include
> text that is Character styled.
>
> As a result, any heading that could be described as "run-in" or
> "in-line" can't not be included in the ToC. In the example below, the
> bold text should be a heading, but cannot be made a heading without also
> making the entire ensuing paragraph part of the heading :-(
>
>          <b>*This is Heading Three*.</b> As one can see, this level of
> heading yada yada yada
> and blah blah blah as that is the way it is.
>
> The macro that was referenced earlier creates a mini invisible heading,
> and then character formats the actual text, fooling the ToC generator
> into adding the text to the ToC, while hiding the heading from the
> reader.  Quite a kludge, but there should be a simpler and more robust
> way to manage this.
>
> Why? Because all APA (or similar style) formatted documents with a level
> 3 heading have this issue, and because it is likely that all the
> generator is doing is searching for the tags, noting the page and adding
> the tagged text to the ToC, there should be no reason this would not be
> the simplest fix.
> > > Op 5 mei 2016, om 21:14 heeft John Jason Jordan <johnxj@comcast.net> het volgende geschreven:
> > >
> > > On Thu, 5 May 2016 06:48:54 -0800
> > > Marc Grober <marc@interak.com> dijo:
> > >
> > > > The APA Publication Manual (Section 3.03, Pg 62) mandates a Heading 3
> > > > style that that is bold and indented (1/2 an inch like a normal
> > > > paragraph), and then followed on the same line by the text.
> > > I believe there is a template for APA. Don't ask me where to find it,
> > > however. And I don't know if it will solve your problem.
> > >
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