columns and numbering in parts of rows only?

[Curtis Clifton]

Alfred,

On Dec 22, 2004, at 3:38 AM, Alfred Lang wrote:

> Is there a possibility to have columns in selected parts of an outline 
> only or could it be introduced in the final version? This would be a 
> most elegant way to have table within text. The tables would have to 
> be tranformed in html-tables in the respective output. I searched for 
> such a possibility but could not find it.

Currently columns apply to the whole document.  My sense is that this 
choice is deeply rooted in the design of the program and would be 
difficult to change.  For instance, how would the display be rendered 
if the currently visible part of the outline had two different sets of 
column titles?  Someone from Omni Group could confirm or refute this.

> The same problem exists for numbering. Often I would like to number 
> only a section of an outline or to number sections differently, also 
> to simply omiot the numbering set for this or that row.

OO3 does support per row choice of numbering.  See the row inspector.  
I'm using it to good effect in a couple of documents. Note that if you 
want to format different sections of an outline differently, you may 
want to turn off Format->Automatic Level Styles.

Curt

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Curtis Clifton, PhD Candidate
Dept. of Computer Science, Iowa State University
http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~cclifton