OpenOffice.org 'custom' page-numbering
Hi, I have an important deadline and slowly getting crazy with OOorg 1.1.1 sitting on my SUSE 9.1:( I would like to modify the page-numbering of a single 12-page document as follows: 5,7-14,22- ; but found in fact no usable way until now... Is there a feature like that in OOorg to get the "first" page numbered as 5 in this case and get some extra-shift still in the following interval(s)? 'f course the documentation was the first place I checked this, at second I attempted to find this function by myself, without any success... Thank you, Pelibali
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:31 +0200, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
I have an important deadline and slowly getting crazy with OOorg 1.1.1 sitting on my SUSE 9.1:( I would like to modify the page-numbering of a single 12-page document as follows: 5,7-14,22- ; but found in fact no usable way until now...
Is there a feature like that in OOorg to get the "first" page numbered as 5 in this case and get some extra-shift still in the following interval(s)? 'f course the documentation was the first place I checked this, at second I attempted to find this function by myself, without any success...
Would inserting page breaks perform what you are looking for? -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:11:49 -0400
Ken Schneider
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 23:31 +0200, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
I have an important deadline and slowly getting crazy with OOorg 1.1.1 sitting on my SUSE 9.1:( I would like to modify the page-numbering of a single 12-page document as follows: 5,7-14,22- ; but found in fact no usable way until now...
Is there a feature like that in OOorg to get the "first" page numbered as 5 in this case and get some extra-shift still in the following interval(s)? 'f course the documentation was the first place I checked this, at second I attempted to find this function by myself, without any success...
Would inserting page breaks perform what you are looking for?
:) Thanks, still last night I came to the same point. My stuff looks now _horrible_, but at least I made pdf and can print out that soon. Just imagine, that for a 120+ thesis distributed in several files with single chapters, where even other short, but extra articles should be inserted, to keep the numbering correct is just like a nightmare. Anyway will check the suggestion of Christopher, maybe next time I can use his trick. Thanks for you both for answering. Pelibali
On 6/17/05, pelibali
:) Thanks, still last night I came to the same point. My stuff looks now _horrible_, but at least I made pdf and can print out that soon. Just imagine, that for a 120+ thesis distributed in several files with single chapters, where even other short, but extra articles should be inserted, to keep the numbering correct is just like a nightmare.
this sounds like what you need is a feature like M$ words "master document" ... this makes it possible to have numbering that is consistent across seperate doc files.
From OOo help (vesion 1.9.74):
A master document lets you manage large documents, such as a book with many chapters, by acting as a container for individual OpenOffice.org Writer files. The individual files are called subdocuments. You can also separate a large document that is being worked on by several people into subdocuments and then add the subdocuments to a master document. When you add a document to a master document or create a new subdocument, a link is created in the master document. You cannot edit the content of a subdocument directly in the master document, but you can use the Navigator to open any subdocument for edit. Page, caption, footnote, endnote, and any other numbering that you have set in the subdocuments, is carried over into the master document. For example, if the last footnote in the first subdocument is footnote 6, then the first footnote in the next subdocument will be footnote 7. Styles that are used in subdocuments, such as paragraph styles, are automatically imported into the master document after you save the master document. When you modify the style in the master document, the style in the subdocument is unaffected. Use the same document template for the master document and its subdocuments. When you modify or create a style, add it to the document template, and then reload the master document to apply to the subdocuments.
Hi, On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 22:14:53 -0500 Peter Van Lone <.> wrote:
On 6/17/05, pelibali <.> wrote:
:) Thanks, still last night I came to the same point. My stuff looks now _horrible_, but at least I made pdf and can print out that soon. Just imagine, that for a 120+ thesis distributed in several files with single chapters, where even other short, but extra articles should be inserted, to keep the numbering correct is just like a nightmare.
this sounds like what you need is a feature like M$ words "master document" ... this makes it possible to have numbering that is consistent across seperate doc files.
From OOo help (vesion 1.9.74):
<...> Many thanks for this additional comment! Probably shortly after my defense, when I won't have deadline anymore, I will move to that newer OOorg release. But for a while still keeping my fully functional 1.1.1 ... To be honest I decided already earlier to give a try to the OOorg 1.9.x series, but for me was preferred to wait a little before chan- ging to something completely new. That would likely ensure, that developers can fix at least the most annoying/bigger bugs. Pelibali
On Thursday 16 June 2005 17:31, pelibali wrote:
Hi,
I have an important deadline and slowly getting crazy with OOorg 1.1.1 sitting on my SUSE 9.1:( I would like to modify the page-numbering of a single 12-page document as follows: 5,7-14,22- ; but found in fact no usable way until now...
Is there a feature like that in OOorg to get the "first" page numbered as 5 in this case and get some extra-shift still in the following interval(s)?
You have to specify a different page _style_ to be able to change options such as page numbering. Each time you change a page style you can change the numbering sequence. Styles are a very powerful feature in OOo. -- Christopher Shanahan
Hi, This can be done via Insert -> Manual Break Choose page break Choose a profile (standard?) Check 'change page number' (or something like it - using Dutch myself) Enter the page number. hmmm - could be easier, butit is not as bad as changing default bullets (i still have to find out how that works). Peter Vollebregt pelibali wrote:
Hi,
I have an important deadline and slowly getting crazy with OOorg 1.1.1 sitting on my SUSE 9.1:( I would like to modify the page-numbering of a single 12-page document as follows: 5,7-14,22- ; but found in fact no usable way until now...
Is there a feature like that in OOorg to get the "first" page numbered as 5 in this case and get some extra-shift still in the following interval(s)? 'f course the documentation was the first place I checked this, at second I attempted to find this function by myself, without any success...
Thank you, Pelibali
Hi, On Sun, 19 Jun 2005 18:52:52 +0200 Peter Vollebregt - gmail <.> wrote:
Hi,
This can be done via Insert -> Manual Break Choose page break Choose a profile (standard?) Check 'change page number' (or something like it - using Dutch myself) Enter the page number.
hmmm - could be easier, butit is not as bad as changing default bullets (i still have to find out how that works).
Peter Vollebregt
Thanks, I just did completely the same! After I had all of the well- numbered chapters (still in separated OOorg documents), first I exported them as .pdfs, while skipping the inserted empty pages. Then I combined that 'clean' .pdfs with Acrobat6's drag&drop, because didn't want to experience just now through the command-line on Linux... All the best, Pelibali
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