Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
As I mentioned yesterday, I've been working on a tutorial for using page
styles when creating a book. An early draft of this tutorial starts
here: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=90
It's rough, most of the graphics need work or are missing, some of the
text hasn't been written yet, I haven't attempted to make the use of
bold, italics etc consistent, and I'm sure there are amusing spelling
and grammatical errors. But you're welcome to have a look at it zor any
other parts of the draft book, much of which is even more rough than
this section) and very welcome to comment, either on or offlist.
Oh, and of course it's a bit simplified. I'll be giving one or two more
complex examples in a later part of the book, and linking to this
tutorial to the others when the other bits are written.
The plan is that eventually this book will be available in PDF and print
form as well as on the Web. And, eventually, I'll check it all against
v3.0 and update text and/or graphics as needed.
--Jean
Jean,
It's lovely. The tutorial is quite properly geared toward the most
complex requirements, those of a non-fiction technical manual. I think
I can cut it down for my own (fiction) requirements, when I get that far.
The one tricky point I would like to see covered somewhere, is the issue
of forcing a right-hand page. It might make a "yes/no" column in the
Page Styles table. For that matter, in that table, is the Next Page
Style entry for the "Front matter first page" style correct?
Depending on the level of *publishing* sophistication of your target
audience, you might want to say a few words about the term, "Front
matter", before introducing it in the table.
Best of luck, and thanks for all the hard work. /tj
--
TJFrazier
