Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 1867
Add "Keep with previous paragraph" to paragraph style options
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:39:35 UTC
FrameMaker has this option (in addition to "Keep with next paragraph"), and I find it quite useful.
Indeed, this is useful. Guess why it's already in the product... ;-) Format - Paragraph - Text Flow -> check "Keep with next paragraph"
Closed.
I realized there is a "keep with next paragraph" option. For hard- formatting documents that would be entirely sufficient, but when designing paragraph styles for highly-structured documents, it is sometimes necessary to have a "keep with previous paragraph" option as well--that's why FrameMaker has both choices, and why I'd like to see OpenOffice.org have both choices as well. Is this the best place to make this type of suggestion, or would one of the mailing lists be more appropriate?
There is no need to set up a new issue. I set this one to "Enhancement" and reassign it to Falko.
Frank, please evaluate this issue! Thx.
I have talked with our developers and our QA department, but without an extended example we could not imagine why we should have this feature too. From our perspective it is no difference if A is connected to B or the other way round.
One possible use would be the "Caption" style (one of the predefined Writer styles). It would make sense for the Caption style to have its "Keep with previous paragraph" options set so that it will always appear on the same page as the figure or table it describes. I've attached a Writer document describe a couple of other uses as well.
Created attachment 713 [details] A document illustrating 3 uses of potential "Keep with previous paragraph" option.
This issue is re-assigned to Christian Jansen for further evaluation.
Frank, please clarify and make a final decision.
FL: I have checked the doc and know I can see the problem. In hard formatted documents the current "keep together" function is sufficient, but in structured documents using templates, the user has no chance to create a general rule that (i.e.) an unnumbered paragraph should keep together with his parent (since not every numbered paragraph has such an successor). FL->MRU: Please write an idea in the idea board reflecting this missing feature. Thank you!
Entered the feature request into database.
Closed, from now on it will be handled by the product management via feature database.
Please set another resolution. "Wontfix" doesn't fit to "Entered the feature request into database." See also issue 7923.
Reassigned to requirements.