Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 4295
Support for Document Style to be added to Document Properties
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:34:43 UTC
I have Split my Bibliographic Database enhancement proposals into 4 seperate proposals. My full proposal and links to relevant wweb based information is at http://www.users.bigpond.com/dnwilson/biblio1.html Proposal 4 Add Support for Document Style to be added to Document Properties - as an New Tab Box to Files>Properties>Styles. Also Use a Predefined Styles List to Set Bibliographic Citation and Bibliography Formats and Other Document Styles and Settings. I suggest adding Support for Document Styles To be applied to the whole document. It could be an new tab box called Files>Properties>Tab Styles. This would allow the user to select from a predefined list of Document Styles. (We need to do a user survey to find a candidate list to support, I have little idea what Europeans use). The tab box would also have a ?Re-apply Style defaults? button to over-write used changes to settings. The List could include document styles as ASP, APA, MLA, Chicago, etc. The election of a document style would load Bibliographic citation and Bibliography formats. Also other document styles and settings could be set as well. I have not researched this in any detail.) The Chicago style for example recommends double spaced text-body, Indented single spaced quotation style, Single spaced lists tables and bibliography. This does not seem hard to implement as the selection of the document styles would just reset lists of default document settings. An Import Styles function could also be added. These importable styles could be developed separately from the main OpenOffice release and easily added by the users. Endnote does this and them make them available to the general public at http://www.endnote.com/support/enstylesfinder.asp . If we could unscamble the Endnote format (it is not plain text - it may be compressed) we your convert some the information directly.
Reassigned to Christian.
Reassiged to Bettina.
A more recent description of thsi proposa can be seen on the wiki page - http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer_enhancements_for_OOBib#Support_for_Document_Style_selection
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".