2008/6/3 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have uploaded a draft "template" (in .odt format) for OOoV3 user guide > chapters. Later on I'll also provide a proper template (.ott). > > > http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/res3/chapter_template_v3_JHW_03June2008.odt > > I think I've included all the necessary styles, but no doubt some tweaking > to the styles will be needed before it's reasonably stable. And some more > instructions may be necessary. This one document is intended to serve (as > Gary was doing) as both a template and a template how-to, instead of having > separate documents for the two purposes as we had in the past. > > I borrowed from Gary's draft style changes, modifying all the styles to fit > a landscape orientation intended for onscreen viewing. I also took into > account the excellent comments made in discusssions on these lists over the > past few days, for which I thank the participants very much. > > As always, comments on this draft are welcome. Barring dramatic objections > to anything I've done, I think it's ready to use. > > BTW, I started from a blank file containing no custom styles, and I did NOT > load or copy any styles from existing documents. The first time I tried > this, I loaded styles and ended up with some junk that caused problems... no > doubt related to the long and convoluted history of our documents. So, to > avoid any historical problems creeping in to the new template, I started > over and manually entered all the necessary styles. If you choose to modify > anything in this template, please do NOT do it by loading or copying styles > as that might contaminate the clean file. > > --Jean > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hello Jean,
If you don't mind I would like to re-work the hierarchical structure of the styles since at present it is not very clean. For that purpose I think we should: 1) create OOoHeading and place OOoHeading n under it 2) create OOoContents and place OOoContents n under it 3) move the list styles and OOoNumbered styles under OOoList on turn placed under OOoTextBody 4) Do we need OOoTextBodyNoIndent? 5) make OOoFootnote not linked to Footnote 6) move the OOoToCHead one level up (under OOoHeading) 7) move OOoTableHeader under OOoTableText 8) do we need the differentiation between OOoGuideName and OOoHeading0? I am tempted to create a single style (OOoTitle). 9) do we need OOoPageBreak and OOoDefinition? With the above structure we can change the font style for the whole guide with very few clicks . An even better change would be to replace the font size with percentage values so that by just changing the parent's style font size all the other sizes change accordingly. If you don't mind I am prepared to perform these changes both to the pdf version template and to the "normal" template. Two more comments: 1) I would change the language to English USA (or even better to English UK) 2) I don't like BitstreamVera Serif and I don't like Deja Vu Serif either. Both fonts work best in their sans version. What other fonts are shipped with OOo? Cheers, Michele
