Fwd: [SoftMaker] PlanMaker for Linux - the beta is out!

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Fri, 07 May 2004 07:19:26 +1000
James McDonald <james at jamesmcdonald.id.au> wrote:

> Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> 
> >On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 22:14, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> >  
> >
> >>TextMaker reads and writes Word formats very well indeed. I have yet
> >>to encounter one it can't read. I've found it fast and reasonably easy
> >>to use and not nearly as bloated as {Star,Open}Office.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Does it do multiple file documents, indexing, TOC, styles (paragraph,
> >character, page) and all that? SO/OO has a few show stopping bugs (e.g.,
> >incorrect numbering across documents in multiple file docs) that may
> >make me look elsewhere.
> >  
> >
> I have been using OpenOffice to create word docs for work and the TOC's 
> don't align the page numbers on the right hand side correctly when 
> viewed in Word. The TOC appears to have problems with which font it 
> wants to use(it changes to the document default instead of what the rest 
> of the toc is sometimes).
> 
> It's difficult to configure page numbering (numbering starting on second 
> page)

My problem was that I would make a book, an in it I would include 10 or so
documents, each being a chapter. The book should arrange it so that chapter
numbers, figure/table numbers, pages, and all those things should continue
across chapters. Well, this is inconsistent. It may work for two or three,
and then on the fourth reset. Rearranging the docs shows that it is not in
the individual docs. The very same document in one position would work, but
in another have all the counters reset. This is a very very basic feature of
a book. Without it, you cannot claim to have multi-document book
capabilities. I bought SO just so I would not be told 'hey, it's free'. But,
hey, it made no difference. I think that where OO/SO went wrong on this was
that there is no explicit setting for this. I compare this to FrameMaker,
where item numbering specification is more complete. Including specific
settings about what should happen across documents in a book. All OO have is
some vague reference to 'outlines'. OK except that it remains unclear how
you control which number sequences are in which outline thread. In any
document there need not be only one numbering thread. For example, say you
want to number pages as chapter-page_in_chapter. This requires that the
chapter number continue across docs and that the page_in_document does not.
I think the guys at Sun need to buy a copy of FrameMaker to see how to do it
right.

So, I will look at TextMaker. This problem in SO/OO is a show stopper. We
reuse chapters in custom documents for various products. We want them to fit
the document they become part of.

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