Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 32374
Add a "short caption" property for the index (TOC)
Last modified: 2013-08-07 14:38:26 UTC
The problem is this. When you add a caption which consists of a number of lines of text and when you also add an index refering to these captions then this index has a number of entries that are very long. LaTeX has a nice solution to this problem. You can provide a ordinairy caption to an object. This ordinairy caption then appears above/below the object. In addition you can also define a "short caption" that will be used when generating an index. That way you can make a nice and long caption detailing for example the contents of a figure and still have a terse line of text in the index refering to the figure.
confirming. added TOC to summary
MRU->ES: pls add short evaluation before reassigning to BH.
A workaround: provided you have caption like this "Illustration 12. The Pirth' Chart - The typical evolution of a population in a protected area", you can select "The Pirth' Chart" or any piece of text and mark it as extra TOC entry. ES->BH: it would be a usefull enhancement, like the "Short name" available for bibliographies.
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on my owner to the owner "requirements".