If a title (a "heading1", for example) is something like this: This is a very very very long long long title split over several lines. the title field will reflect the whole paragraph, but in my heading I want, instead of that, the following : A long title... That is, a reduced version. In latex, you can assign a brief "alias" to a very long title (something like \Chapter[brief title]{The very long complete title}), so if you use a fancy header, the alias and not the actual title is displayed in the header. In OOo, the title field display the whole paragraph, correctly aligned with line breaks when needed, but there is no way to set an "alias", which is an important limitation to the design of complex documents.
Sure, that would be an interesting possibility, though we may need to extend ODF at some point. This is slightly more than an easy hack... any taker for this?
[This is an automated message.] This bug was filed before the changes to Bugzilla on 2011-10-16. Thus it started right out as NEW without ever being explicitly confirmed. The bug is changed to state NEEDINFO for this reason. To move this bug from NEEDINFO back to NEW please check if the bug still persists with the 3.5.0 beta1 or beta2 prereleases. Details on how to test the 3.5.0 beta1 can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/BugHunting_Session_3.5.0.-1 more detail on this bulk operation: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/RFC-Operation-Spamzilla-tp3607474p3607474.html
Dear bug submitter! Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer within the last six months, we close all of these bugs. To keep this message short, more infos are available @ https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem. Yours! Florian