Bookmark Toggle

Tags: Extensions Writer

last edited: 2022-03-15

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In Office Writer:
Show your bookmarks and their positions as annotations with Alt+1 (one)
Hide them again by pressing Alt+1 (one) again

Description

BookmarkToggle working within LibreOffice Writer
Version 1.0.0

This python script allows you to toggle on and off the text and positions
of bookmarks in your document.

Alt+1 (One) will show the text and positions of your bookmarks
Press Alt+1 (One) again and they will be hidden again.

It was written to run under Linux for another project footswitch2

Written on a Linux Mint 18.2 64bit machine using python 2.7.6
and LibreOffice 5.1

Dependencies are as follows:

LibreOffice (tested with version 5.0 and 5.1)
python3-uno
default-jre (Java Runtime Environment)
libreoffice-script-provider-python

Release List

Release: 1.1.0 – Fixes a deployment bug in LibreOffice 5.4 and 6.0, which meant that the extension, whilst installed was not recognised

Release: 1.0.0 – Initial