On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 18:43 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > The Getting Started guide was originally intended to be no longer than > 200 pages, but it is now closer to 400 pages. I would like to make come > major changes, by cutting out some chapters and making them into > standalone guides, dropping some material that is covered in other books > and IMO not needed here, slightly reorganising what's left, and adding > some pointers to the other books and documents. Details below. > > 1) Remove Chapter 8 (Getting Started with Base) and make it a standalone > document. It is 52 pages long (longer than the Math Guide) and I think > would be more useful to beginning Base users if it's standalone. Also, I > think the vast majority of new OOo users will NOT be using Base. > > 2) Remove Chapter 9 (Getting Started with Math) because it duplicates > the first part of the Math Guide and is therefore not needed here. > > 3) Remove most of Chapter 12 (Creating Web Pages) because the info is > given in the guides for Writer, Impress, etc and is really little more > than an export function; it could be mentioned briefly in the chapter on > Printing, Exporting etc. Info on hyperlinks needs to be put somewhere > else; I don't have a specific suggestion on this, but it didn't really > fit in this chapter anyway, since it's relevant to more than web page > creation. > > 4) Combine Chapter 2 (Setting up OOo) and Chapter 14 (Customizing) and > leave the result at the end of the book. This is similar to the way the > topics are handled in the other books. > > 5) Drop Appendix A (Keyboard Shortcuts) and put a brief mention in > Chapter 1 with a pointer to the Help. > > That's the major stuff. It should cut the page count down below 300 > pages and make the book more useful for the majority of new users. > > Comments? > > --Jean
Forgot one item: 6) Remove Chapter 13 (Macros) and make it a stand-alone document. --Jean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] For additional commands send email to [email protected] with Subject: help
