Peter Kupfer wrote, about the OOoAuthors logo: > The more I thought about, I think it should also be added to the cover. > Just a thought.
But the cover is already pretty balanced...
Let's see what others say. But my initial reaction is that I wouldn't like it. I'd
like a "clean" cover. Also, is there a chance that advertising OOoAuthors more will
make the guides come accross as less official? I mean, we are the main project
producing documentation. I know of a couple other people doing one-man efforts. But
the real community project that develops guides is us. Would it take away from that
if we put the Authors logo there?
I'll have to think about this. I'd like to hear what others think.
My initial reaction is to *not* change the cover. It is great the way it is. Another logo would make it cluttered. Daniel's point about making it look less official is also good.
Some relevant comments here, that Peter and others won't know because they haven't seen the draft guides that I put together for the RegiCon in San Diego.
1) Those books had a cover (Linda's design) and an interior title page (of a different design), as do most books. We could put the OOoAuthors logo on the interior title page -- that's a common place for such a logo and I think it would look good there.
Here is an example so you can see what I mean. http://oooauthors.org/Members/jhweber/testfiles/sample_book_title_page_.sxw/file_view
I don't think that the latest iteration of the chapter title page design will look good as the title page for a full book, following immediately after the cover -- it's both too similar and too different, and I think the title page for the book should have fewer graphics. (I don't think my old draft would do, either.)
2) Those draft books also had chapter title pages. These were similar to the old title page for the standalone chapters, but without the revision information at the bottom. Instead, I had put the "Overview" information (but not the copyright and other info) from the standalone chapters on the chapter title pages in the full books, below the chapter title. Here is an example.
http://oooauthors.org/Members/jhweber/testfiles/sample_book_chapter_title_page.sxw/file_view
The overview information needed to go somewhere; the other choices were to put it on the back of the chapter title page or on the first page of the chapter itself -- the latter is not desirable, as it often changes the pagination in the chapter, which I consider highly undesirable (if not completely unacceptable).
I'm thinking that the proposed chapter title page, while it looks good for the standalone chapters, might be too "busy" when used as chapter title pages in a full book. I definitely think it would not look good if the chapter overview information were on that page as well (even if the OOoAuthors logo were not there), so the overview info would need to go on the back of the chapter title page.
(3) When the chapters were collected into a book, all of the copyright information was summarised at the beginning, along with a full table of contents. The chapter within the book did not have individual copyright or ToC pages.
Regards, Jean
