OpenOffice Off-the-Wall: ToCs, Indexes and Bibliographies in OOo Writer
Tuesday, January 04 2005 @ 04:47 PM EST Contributed by: glosser
The Linux Journal brings us a tutorial on Open Office Writer and it's unique ability to coordinate the table of contents, index and bibliography.
Indexes and tables is the phrase that OpenOffice.org Writer uses for tables of contents (ToCs), indexes and bibliographies. The term also covers ToC variants, such as lists of illustrations or tables. At first, the need for the phrase seems momentarily puzzling. If you're like most people, you probably are used to thinking of ToCs, indexes and bibliographies as separate pieces with no relation to one another. That's how most word processors treat them. Roughly half the time, that's how the Writer interface treats them, too.
However, the term exists because Writer doesn't distinguish between these pieces of contents. Lists of figures, tables of contents, indexes, bibliographies--in Writer, all indexes and tables are treated as variations on the same structure. No matter what particular type you are creating, the procedure is identical:
* Tag contents in the body of a document for inclusion.
* Format the index or table.
* Move the cursor to the position for the index or table and create it.
Each step has variations, depending on the type you are creating and, at times, your own preferences. But in each case, the basic procedure is the same.
