Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 59812
For a multi-page table, insert continuation indicators on each page ("continue on page #" or similar)
Last modified: 2013-02-07 22:39:59 UTC
For a multi-page table, insert continuation indicators on each page. Sometimes a file can contain multiple long tables, each spanning over =>2 pages. These tables may have identical structure. A typical example is a User's Manual of an application, which has identically structured tables that explain different menus. When the reader sees pages after pages of identically strutured tables, it is very difficult for him to distinguish between these tables. So there must be a provision to indicate when one table ends and when another begins. Secondly, the caption of a multi-page table appears only once; not on each page. So if the user sees a middle piece of the table, he can't tell which table it is. He has to scroll down till the end of the table (or scroll up till the top) to check the caption. Ideally, he should be able to glance at the top/bottom of the current page and tell which table this is. For better readability, the following should be provided: 1. Wherever the table breaks over a page-break, Writer should automatically insert a right-aligned "To be continued on next page..." sentence. (Provide a default sentence, but also let the author edit the sentence.) 2. Writer should automatically repeat the table's caption on each page. (Typically, this would include the table number and a title). 3. On the next page, where the table continues, Writer should insert a left-aligned "(...Continued from the previous page)" sentence to indicate that this part of the table is in continuation. (Provide a default sentence, but also let the author edit the sentence.) Note that the author cannot insert these sentences manually, because the location of the table-break point keeps shifting as the file is edited.
according to http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/workflowcharts/ RFE_issues_by_QA.sxd I reassign this issue to requirements and set the status to New please file a seperate issue for 2.
OK- Posted as Issue 59942. But it is better to see both issues as one. Thanks.
setting keyword, OS to ALL, extended summary
A comment on the modified summary: A broken table always continues on the very NEXT page. So a simple "continued on the next page" is enough: Inserting a page number is redundant. On the other hand, if a similar continuation indicator is used for linked frames, the page number is ESSENTIAL, because the subsequent frame may be placed on any page of the document. This is especially important if the reader is going to read a PRINTED version of the document: Without the page number, he cannot know where to continue (if the document has several frames on the pages, the user may find it difficult to locate the frame he wants).
*** Issue 64083 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
*** Issue 65846 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
In accordance with our engineering standards (xUSSR) it is necessary to write 'continue of table NN' at the top of each page for a multi-page table. Now we forced to break tables by hand and to write this string.
In Russian Federation (and all xUSSR countries maybe) GOST (as ISO) requires this feature..... :'(