On Wed, 2010-11-17, Michele Zarri wrote: > Hello Jared, > > Thanks for putting the ebook together. > > I have skimmed through it and here are some immediate reactions. I will > try to find some time to go into the details. > As the release of OOo3.3 is imminent (rc4 is out) I guess we can discuss > these items for version the update to v3.3.
Agreed, we'll make the major changes for the next version of the book. You've started work on that, have you? (Hint, hint.) > > - one thing I noticed is that not all the chapters start on a right > page. I am not sure if this should be fixed or not, but it definitely > looks strange. This is deliberate. I set the styles up that way. Many people hate blank pages in PDFs. Indeed, I have seen many printed books done that way, too. It only looks strange if you are not used to it. > > - In the context of the book, I found some of the contents of Chapter 1 > a bit out of place. While when taken in isolation, chapter 1 is an > excellent introduction to Impress, when part of the book I think we > should just introduce the environment and how to start a presentation > rather than discussing formatting and running a slide show which are > covered in depth in the subsequent chapters. I would remove pages 22 to 27. One possibility, for the V3.3 book, is to keep those pages in the stand-alone chapter 1 but put them in a section that gets left out when the full book is compiled (in the same way that the chapter copyright pages and TOCs are left out). > > - Chapter 8 should probably be swapped with Chapter 2. This is because > the Chapter 2 topics are somewhat advanced user territory (slide > masters, styles and templates) and because thinking about someone using > the ebook to learn how to use Impress, it makes sense to learn early how > to format slides and notes rather than learning first how to format the > contents. This is definitely worth considering for the V3.3 book. --Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
