Re: [libreoffice-users] Writing large or complex documents

This may sound "stupid", but I would like to know. . .

I see the postings about the complexity of the documents, but I have not 
seen any info about the size of the documents that are part of the 
"writing large" statement.

Everyone should agree that the odt version of the "get starting guide" 
or "using Writer", etc., would be a large and complex document.  But how 
many pages in the document would be considered as the low end for "large 
document"?

For the last 5+ years, I rarely write [or work on] any documents over 30 
or 40 pages.  I use to work with documents of 100 to 500 pages.  Most of 
those were broken up by chapter, or a range of chapters, to make the 
document easier to handle.  Sometimes, I did have to edit a single .doc 
file with over 300 pages - that included graphics/photos and other 
options that makes the document complex one, with no "formatting style 
option" available to use within the word processor or none used by the 
original document writer[s].

For those of us who work with 30 or 40 pages in a document file, plus 
maybe some complex formatting options used, we may consider 40 pages as 
a large document, while others may consider documents need 100 or more 
pages to be a considered large one.

SO, is there any consensus on where is the line drawn for this document 
is a large one and this other is not?  Does anyone know any "official" 
reference about this?

I know there are technical writing books that are still in use for 
college classes from "the early days of PCs" and even ones written 
before PCs came out.  Each time I went for a degree in the computer 
field, there was a "new standard" for writing documents [technical or 
otherwise], i.e. changes in proper footnotes formatting, that was 
required to use by writers to be taken as a "professional" in whatever 
field of study.  Before my office space, in a previous apartment, got 
flooded from a overflowing tub above me - I had 7 or 8 books that were  
the "newest standards" for writing "proper documents".  Each newer book 
showed the updated/new standards I had to learn for my new college 
classes for the next degree.

It has been years since I bought a new technical writing book. So, I do 
not know what the new standards are or what is considered a large 
document and not a "normal sized" one.




On 09/06/2016 08:40 AM, wiebe wrote:
> On 05-09-16 20:10, Girvin Herr wrote:
> > What I was occasionally experiencing was
> > something similar to what you are seeing.  The tables would prematurely
> > advance to the next page before filling the current page, or continue on
> > the next page in other than the first section column, and blank pages
> > would appear which could not be edited (the cursor could not be put in
> > them), but were printed (negating the purpose of saving trees).
> So in general things that are not text, such as TOC's, tables, frames and
> pictures, that are anchored not as character can cause trouble when
> repaginating.
>
> I think it would help if some work arounds can be found, you have a
> solution:
>
> > ... I found the Tools -> Update -> Page Formatting option and
> > having nothing to lose, tried it.  I was pleasantly surprised that the
> > pages were reformatted correctly with no blank pages and the table flow
> > problems were corrected.
> ... as an example of such a work around. For me it does not work.
>
>
> So I tried to create a pure document, trying to create the problems:
>
>   * New document from default template
>   * Change default style (a hate double enters)
>   * Insert image, png, via menu, style left and right
>   * Insert ASCII text, Lorem etc.
>   * Make headings 1 and 2
>   * Copy everything (dragging+ctrl) untill there are ~60 pages
>   * Make page 1 with page break for title
>   * Next page TOC
>
> Everything works fine, no problems, but...
>
> When I change evaluate levels of the TOC to 1, everything repagenates fine.
> Turning it back to a higher level, and everything becomes chaos. See
> attached nabble file.
> <http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4192710/04.png>
>
> Tools > Update does not work. Work around: Close and open file. But many of
> my .odm files are not sensitive to this solution.
>
>
>
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