Claire Wood wrote: > I was going to have a stab at setting up Master pages in Writer anyway for a > video tutorial, based on a previous comment in the authors list. When you > mean if you've used Word, Framemaker, did you want a comparison screen > showing how to do it in Word or Framemaker and how Writer is different? I > could a few screenshots of Frame 8 and Word 2007 and add them to a video > tutorial if you like.
I meant that techwriters typically have specific requirements for documents, and if they've used another program to produce those documents, they have expectations about what they can accomplish (putting a bunch of files together into a book, with cross-referencing, a TOC & index, etc. is one of those expectations). I don't think that particular audience needs comparisons of how to do something; they just need to be told how to do it in Writer... especially since the concepts are often different. A conspicuous example is the difference between the use of "sections" in Word and "page styles" in Writer to reach the same goal of having different headers/footers on the first page of a chapter and the other pages of the chapter. BTW, I'm not sure if you mean by "master pages" in Writer what I mean by "master documents". As I'm sure you know, "master documents" is a complex topic with a lot of traps for the unwary. I'd be interested to see how that can be translated to a video tutorial, because most of the things people need to know and decide are not part of the user interface as such... and master docs build on a whole set of preconditions and things done before one actually puts them together. Still... I may be so words-oriented that I can't envision what might be useful in a video tutorial on the topic, other than specific items, subsets of the process. Some of the other topics on the list would certainly lend themselves to video tutorials to accompany written material. > If I get the time inbetween updating the wiki and reviewing the Impress > Guide, I'll certainly have a go at the others as something to accompany the > How-Tos as everyone learns differently. This is a long-term project, so no need to rush into it, especially as the how-to's for techwriters haven't even reached the outline stage yet. Or did you mean to accompany existing how-to's? Video tutorials would be most useful, I think, if they use the same examples as the written material. Either could be done first, but we don't yet have a mechanism for reviewing video tutorials and giving the producer feedback. Do you have any ideas on this? It's a new area for us as a group. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
