Show Space Between Number and Heading Text in Navigator

OpenOffice.org (OOo) 3.0

Document - ID	Specification Owner	Last Change	Status
	Frank Loehmann	10/05/04	Final
Conforms to	
Applies to	Writer
Task ID(s)	i34674
Category	Feature

Abstract

A chapter numbering and the heading text itself could be separated by a space character, a tabulator or an indent. If the tabulator or indent method is used, the navigator does not show a spacing between the chapter number and the text. This is hard to read for the user and looks ugly.

i-Team Members (The specification owner is part of the i-Team)

	Name	E-mail Address
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	frank.loehmann@sun.com
Development	Oliver Specht	oliver.specht@sun.com
Quality Assurance	Éric Savary	eric.savary@sun.com
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	uwe.fischer@sun.com

Approved for Implementation

	Approved by	Date
User Experience	Frank Loehmann	09/27/04
Development	Oliver Specht	10/05/04
Quality Assurance	Éric Savary	10/05/04
Documentation	Uwe Fischer	09/27/04
String Review	none	none

Document Change History

Rev. Level	Change	Initials	Date
1.0	Inital specification	FL	09/24/04
1.1	Work on comments from Uwe and Oliver	FL	09/27/04
1.2	Final	FL	10/05/04

Contents

Glossary	1

1	Motivation	1

2	User Scenarios	1

3	Goals	1

4	Requirements and Dependencies	1

4.1	Requirements	1

4.2	Technical Dependencies	1

5	Competitive Analyses	1

5.1	OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Navigator	1

5.2	OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Insert Link Reference from Navigator	2

5.3	OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Chapter Field	2

6	Detailed Specification	3

6.1	Navigator	3

6.2	Insert Link from Navigator	3

6.3	Chapter Field	3

6.4	G11n	3

6.5	Error Conditions	3

7	Future Tasks	3

8	Notes	4

9	References	4

Glossary

Term	Description
<Term 1>	

Motivation

Improve readability of Navigator contents.

User Scenarios

User A works on large documents. The document is structured by using the paragraph styles Heading 1 to 5 for the different chapters in the document. The user frequently uses the Navigator to change the document structure, but the heading text (representing the section in the Navigator) is only hard to read because the chapter numbers are displayed directly in front on the heading text. There is no space left to separate the number from the text.

User B works on a book and uses the Chapter field in the header of his page layout with the setting "Chapter number and name". The field looks like "" in the text, because he uses tabulator/indent to separate the number from the heading in his document.

Goals

Improve the readability and the look and feel of the Navigator's content by adding a separator space.

Requirements and Dependencies

Requirements

<State the requirement(s) of this feature here.>

Technical Dependencies

none

Competitive Analyses

OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Navigator

The chapter numbering is shown directly in front of the heading text in the Navigator view of a document.

Illustration 1 Document structure shown in the Navigator

OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Insert Link Reference from Navigator

If a reference (link) to a heading is inserted into the document text by dragging the heading from the navigator, the chapter number in the inserted link text, is also displayed directly in front of the heading text without any space in-between.

Illustration 2 Chapter number in a textual link to a heading is also shown directly in front of the heading text.

OpenOffice 1.1.3 - Chapter Field

If the Chapter field is used with the setting "Chapter number and name" the field isn't usable if there is no space used behind the chapter numbering to separate the number from the text.

Illustration 3 Chapter field "Chapter Number and Name"

Detailed Specification

Navigator

OOo 3.0 automatically inserts a space between the chapter numbering and the heading text in the Navigator view (marked green in Illustration 4) if there is no space present .

Insert Link from Navigator

Furthermore the textual representation of a link dropped from the Navigator to the document also shows this automatically added space (marked red in Illustration 4).

Illustration 4 Automatically created space between chapter number and heading text

Chapter Field

The chapter field automatically inserts a space between the number and the text (name), if a chapter numbering is given and no space is set for the current chapter1.

G11n

This feature uses some special routines to handle G11n environments correctly.

Error Conditions

none

Future Tasks

none

Notes

none

References

none

Space set as "Separator behind" or manually at the beginning of the heading text

Show Space Between Number and Heading Text in Navigator

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Frank Loehmann

2004-09-24T14:46:04