I want to generate running headers for pages of a Bible that have the first and last verse numbers on each page. I don’t see anything obvious in the documentation or the help community. Thanks!
Patrick
Retrieving first and last data of some “structured” sequence can be done, though a bit tricky.
Fields in the header will show the state at start of page. So, you get the first data.
Last data is available only in the footer. Consequently, if you want it to be shown in the header, you must cheat: the field is inserted in a text frame anchored in the footer. Fortunately anchor and position are independent from each other. The frame style forces the frame to appear in the header.
The key point here is the generation of the verse number. There are several possibilities. Which one to chose depends on what you want to do with the verse number: simply tag verses, or use it also in TOC.
Please give more details on your project. Very important: my suggestions all rely on Writer features. Consequently, the document will be stable, reliable and maintainable (edits and reviews) only in .odt format. DOCX will lead to failure.
EDIT: I was a bit too optimistic. I experimented and met a difficulty where I didn’t expect it. Stay tuned, I try to get a workaround.
EDIT 2: See bug tdf#167851. Presently you can’t retrieve the correct first verse number in the page when the first paragraph has several.
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Thanks! That’s a lot further along than I anticipated!
The verse numbers are already appear before the verses. Only the book names, Genesis, Exodus, etc. will appear in the TOC.
When you say “state at the start of a page,” if Genesis, Chapter 1, appear before Gen. 1:1, would I still have access to Gen. 1:1, assuming it has a distinct style for selection in the field?
Or is generation of the verse numbers tied to the population of fields for the starting verse (none appears on the starting page of a chapter) and the field on the frame for the closing verse on a page?
The particular translation I am working on at present is to be a presentation object to one of our funders in printed and bound form. So I don’t need cross-refs, indexes, maps, etc. Those may follow but at present I just need a clean looking, with a good font, kerning, etc.
Thanks again!
Patrick