Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 17198
Outline: Allow line feed in heading while no line feed in TOC
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:38:32 UTC
Some style sheets require that the chapter number and the chanpter name be on separate lines, like this: Chapter 1 What I did about my mother-in-law. Now, if I define the second element as "Heading 2" so I can reference it on page headers ("Chapter <ch no>: <ch title>"), it works just fine. However, in the TOC, the style sheets say it should read: "Chapter 1: What I did about my mother-in-law .................. <page no>". At present, there seems to be no way to do this. A suggestion is to permit a definition of "chapter reference" that would not be printed or visible in WYSIWYG mode but would be used by TOC and page headers alike. An alternative would be to add the same functionality to the TOC generator that is found in the header. I suggested a low resolution priority because it seems to affect few people, but for those it affects, this can be a serious problem.
SBA: Reassigned to Bettina from the User Experience team for consideration.
A better way of implementing your idea, in my eyes, is to have the option to insert a line feed after the outline number in > Tools > Outline... What you suggest is to implement a possible workaround for something that needs to be solved in a way more consistent with the present outline concept. Anyway. I will change the summary, set this to new and see what the developers think about it.
I am continuing being busy with RFEs on outlining so this Issue gets another change of summary to have it appear in search lists on "outline".
*** Issue 56 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
I like your suggestion. Seems like it would work.
As a workaround, go to Tools -> outline numbering -> Position tab. In the field "minimum space numbering <-> text" put a number similar to the width of your text area: that moves the text of your title to the following line and is not reflected in the TOC. NOTE: remember to put a space between the number and the text, otherwise the first character of the word remain in the first line!
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".