I spent most of yesterday (work-time, anyway) turning the ORRSP and Year of Miracles into a POD for my non-e-reader family members. With a few minor exceptions that I may not be able to defeat because I’m using Open Office instead of a Proper Layout Program, I’m quite happy with it. In another life, this is what I do for a living.
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like you're trying to replace both Word and PageMaker/FrameMaker
with OO Writer. I'm no expert...heck, I' not even a bumbling
newbie, but wondering if you've looked at the free, open source
layout programs like Scribus?
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As for the Table of Contents, I would recommend using the Column features as that could also be used for alignment. It also works fantastically for special projects if you realize you can click a box and keep it from restricting the column sizes to being the same size.
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hope that helps
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I haven't tested the second one (baby demanding attention by getting into trouble, you know how that is), but the menu links look roughly the same in 3.4 as they do in the instructions, eventhough those are for 2.1
http://jorgenmodin.net/index_html/archive/2008/07/16/how-to-format-a-table-of-contents-in-openoffice-21
Hope that helps!
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