Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 106199
character in index entry dialog
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:41:55 UTC
Click Insert > Indexes and Tables > Entry to display a dialog box similar to that shown below. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/w/images/2/20/WG12-13.png You can accept the word or phrase shown in the Entry box or change it to whatever you want. But is not possible to format the character. Now you can only insert special characters. When I use Microsoft Word have this feature. With Microsoft Word can be done in two ways. 1)In the "Mark Index Entry", select Main entry in the box, right-click of the mouse and select character menu. 2)Locate the XE field code for the index entry. (You may need to enable the display of hidden text in order to see the location of the XE fields) and change the character. Is useful for this type of indices Anthracite.................p 8 Baltic Dry Index[italic]...p 6 Coal.......................p 14 Iron.......................p 9 Wheat..................... p 2 Best regards
you can define a charcter style by key level using "Insert - Indexes and Tables - Indexes and Tables - Entries" tab. Else you can format specific entries afterward when removing the write-protection of the index and without updating the index anymore. The implementation of a formatting to specific entries not related to a style is not possible.
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After reading this page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Writer/Textfields I thought I would reopen this iusse. "It Would be more intuitive and faster to edit Practical These fields in-place instead of through a dialog. Ideally They Should Also allow for direct formatting as well." The XE field code for the index entry allows change the character on MsWord! Best regards
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This is a very good idea and would enhance compatibility with Word.
field code of ms word {XE "battle of Pittsburgh"} < of Pittsburgh > = italic When the issue 33737 is resolved, allow for direct formatting as well in the "insert index entry" dialog-box.
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@oooalpha I do not understand. A input field is not field of index mark.. Maybe it's more like the issue 29508 For now you can not have a fields to support more than one style font.
In a scientific document some index entries need to be able to display words in Italics. The problem is analogous to the functions bibliographic http://bibliographic.openoffice.org/implementation.html and to the Table of Contents http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=27377
I also do not understand. XML tags that identify index entries does not seem a TextField, but I'm not a developer. <text:alphabetical-index-mark>, <text:alphabetical-index-mark-start>, and <text:alphabetical-index-mark-end> "es" said: "The Implementation of a formatting to specific entries not related to a style is not possible." Maybe you could think of a character style for some specific index entries. Indeed - as said "hpessoa" - in a scientific paper you need's use of italics for some index entries or parts thereof. A kind of main entry, but applied to the text - or part - of the index entry. For better compatibility with MS Word would be useful to have three styles: Bold, Italics and Underlines. Greetings Jacques
Might be an idea the use of "signs" to identify the text to be formatted with a different style. e.g. Bold -> @[text] Italics -> @(text) This could also be used in the concordance file. e.g. text;@(text);;;1;1 or texttext;text@(text);;;1;1
"es" wrote: "Else you can format specific entries afterward when removing the write-protection of the index and without updating the index anymore." You could add an option to store formatting ( of specific entries) when you update the index? This ability to store the formatting may be used even when you must import/export to doc/docx (The XE fields allow formatting). Regards Xavier Dubrac