Re: [libreoffice-users] How to turn a paragraph into a cross-reference/link

Hi Dennis,

Dennis Heuer schrieb:
> On Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:35:21 +0200
> Regina Henschel <rb.henschel@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> > Hi Dennis,
> >
> > why do you need, that the entire block of text becomes a link? Do I
> > understand it correctly, that when clicking _somewhere_ in the block,
> > LO should switch to a different part of the document?
>
> Read my message again. Therein is mentioned an example use-case.
> This behaviour (link on div) is actually very very common on internet
> and very very useful if the link info is heterogenuous (and thus it
> would be cumbersome to find out what is clickable or to always target
> at a different (and maybe small) location in an order of
> heterogenuous list entries.)
>
> > The problem is, that the <text:a> element, which is needed to define
> > the click-sensitive area, is only allowed inside a paragraph and
> > therefore cannot contain multiple paragraphs.
>
> It even cannot include a tabulator space whithout replacing the
> selection.

That is only a problem with this dialog. The file format has no problems 
with tabs. The easiest way to get a hyperlink to paragraph seems to me 
this way:
Enter first and last character of the paragraph, might be dummy, which 
you deletes later on.
Set the hyperlink to this two characters. Make sure, that you only mark 
the characters and that the marked area does not go to the next 
paragraphs. You should then have these two characters in the "Text:" 
field in the dialog. Enter target and close dialog.
Insert the desired text between the two characters.

Another way would be to edit the hyperlink directly in the file. That 
might work, if you use .fodt format and in case you know a little bit 
about HTML. If you set the hyperlink at the start of the paragraph, you 
only need to shift the </text:a> tag from inside the paragraph to 
immediately before the </text:p> element.

Another problem comes with images, which are anchored as character and 
therefor are totally inside the paragraph. LibreOffice does not allow 
you, to set the <text:a>...</text:a> brackets around shapes or images. 
That is no restriction from file format, but only from LibreOffice. You 
need to set the hyperlink in the properties of the image. That will 
generate a <draw:a> element, not a <text:a> element. That is different 
to HTML too.

Are you sure, a text document is the right medium for your purpose?

Kind regards
Regina



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