It was designed for reading onscreen two pages side-by-side, so the font size was made large enough to read comfortably and still fit on the screen. The font size was one of the objections people had; the other was the margins. When I change it to a more "normal" template, the font and margins will be more what you and others are used to.
--Jean On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 06:15 -0500, Nancy Ward wrote: > ?I vote yes too. For some reason Jean's message didn't come to me through > email. > > Is there a reason the documentation font is 14? Most docs I've downloaded are > 10, and some are 12, but none other than this one are 14. > -- > Nancy Ward > ---- > > > From: Wanda Phillips > Sent: Saturday, October 02, 2010 5:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [authors] Templates > > > I don't think we're going to have a better opportunity. I vote yes. > > >From my iPad... To you, wherever you are > Wanda > > On 2010-10-01, at 20:16, Jean Hollis Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > > > We've had a lot of complaints from people who print our PDFs about our > > two-up design (which was intended for reading on screen), so I've made > > the LibreOffice template in the more common portrait design with fonts > > to suit. > > > > So, my question: should we also change the OOo template? This is a good > > time to do it, while updating all the docs to V3.3. Yes, I know we're in > > the middle of updating to the latest 2-up template, but only a subset of > > the docs have been done, and they are all still in draft, so... > > > > My vote is yes, to change the OOo template now, along with everything > > else that's going on. I was going to recommend doing it soon anyway, > > while we're setting files up for reusing material. I've been holding off > > a bit because Clayton's been working on a template for the developer > > docs, and we've been talking about the pros and cons of bringing the > > user guides into a similar look as the developer docs. The changes I > > would make now would go along with that. > > > > Comments? > > > > Jean > > -- > > Jean Hollis Weber > > Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
