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

Hi. There isn't one, but it was a suggestion for a means of enhancing LO 
by including one.

On 2016-05-07 08:06, Robert Funnell wrote:
> Steve, I've never heard of a non-breaking paragraph terminator. Could 
> you expand on how to insert it? I don't see it in the Insert > Manual 
> Break menu.
>
> - Robert
>
> On Fri, 6 May 2016, Steve Edmonds wrote:
>
> > 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.


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