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From: Russell Butler on 13 Apr 2008 19:42
Frank Pouw wrote:
> I really enjoy using the Open Office suite for my professional
> writing but I find the fields provided in the bibliography are too
> short for many of the scientific papers I want to enter. Some
> examples are:
>
> Title: "Proceedings: hidden forest values. The first Alaska-Wide
> nontimber forest productsconference and tour November 8-11, 2001"
>
> (note, the convention for this type of citation includes the
> conference date in the title in addition to the
> <author><year><chapter title> date)
>
> Author: some papers can have 6 or more authors.
>
>
> I hope you can increase the size of these fields in future software
> releases.
>
> Frank

Hi Frank

Very few developers follow these mailing list, so the way to get their
attention is to post a "bug" as a request for enhancement.

To do this you will have to register at www.openoffice.org, reply to the
confirmation email sent out, then login on the website - perhaps best at
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/query.cgi

Do a "query" first (actually I don't think you need to be logged in to
do that) to see if an rfe exists. Look at Issue type "Enhancement" and
component "bibliographic"

Once convinced there is nothing there, then put in the details you can
in a new issue. Usually any fields you can't understand can be left
blank or at default and will be sorted out by the administrators of the
qa list.

HTH

Russell


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From: "Adrian Try" on 13 Apr 2008 21:20
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Hi Frank

On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Frank Pouw <fpouw(a)netidea.com> wrote:

> I really enjoy using the Open Office suite for my professional writing but
> I
> find the fields provided in the bibliography are too short for many of the
> scientific papers I want to enter.


If you are talking about the bibliography that you can see when pressing F4
(data sources), then it is a normal Base database that you can change
yourself.

- Press F4, right click Bibliography and click "Edit Database File"
- Click on Tables, right click biblio and click Edit
- All of the filed seem to be a Text type, which I assume has a limited
length. If you change the problem fields to Memo, I think you're problem of
short fields will disappear.
- Click the Save icon, select File/Save from the menu

I hope this achieves what you're after.

Adrian

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