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Automatic Heading Recognition
by Anonymous on Wednesday 06/Sep/2006, @08:38

Hope it does not only work with
1.
1.1.
1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.1.1.
1.1.1.1.1.2.
1.1.1.1.2.
1.1.1.2.
1.1.2.
1.2.
2.

but also the other big header scheme:
A.
I.
1.
a)
aa)
(1)
(2)
bb)
b)
2.
II.
B.

Sometimes you have to use another level below (1), (2): Greek letters alpha, beta, gamma. More levels aren't recommended, though. Still, I've seen a variant with the levels below (1), (2) labelled (a) and (aa).
I strongly hope the header variant with mixed numbering works, too. Certain branches of study strongly recommend or require the second variant because it's laid out more clearly (the scheme is always the same - aside from the non standardized forms when it becomes nested too deep - and you know at which level you are without deciphering a long range of numbers).

Additionally, it would be totally cool if KWord could automatically generate a table of contents from these headings (with indentation, page number and space filled in between) like:
A. Header......1
I. Header......2
1. Header...4
B. Header.......4

I think MS Office can do it (by referencing an index; the headers then get recognized after they get assigned to a formatting level -- manually!)
I tried to do the same in OpenOffice but didn't succeed. Don't know if OO can do it or not. Anyways, doing it by hand is quite painful with copying all headers, getting the formatting right and changing page page numbers till the end.

If that would work, academic/scientific essays would almost write themselves ;-)

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Re: Automatic Heading Recognition
by Louis on Wednesday 06/Sep/2006, @10:19

I've gotten this to work in OOo using styles. Styles can be very powerful if used correctly, and you can use different numbering systems as you indicated. I, too, am hoping for this feature in KWord. It would be nice if, by KDE 4, I could be using all the KDE apps full-time. The progress is amazing. Great work all around.

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Re: Automatic Heading Recognition
by Steve on Saturday 09/Sep/2006, @07:00

MS Word can also base the structure of the TOC on user-defined styles.
A style can base where in the TOC strcture the header will appear, this is a powerful feature of MS Office that I tend to use all the time.

Other styles such as "Invisible 1, 2, 3" won't show up in the TOC by default.

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