On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 15:47 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: > Jean Hollis Weber schrieb: > > I am preparing to write a (short) book on using styles and templates in > > Writer, aimed at intermediate and advanced users. > > I like the idea to address advanced users. What kind of authors you will > address? Writing a thesis on a technical subject is quite different from > writing a travel book and different from making a magazine. > > Do you will organize your text along examples or along the sort of > styles? For example it is not helpful to tell, that there exists a check > box to activate "Register-true", if someone does not know, that he needs > register-true for the two-column design of his magazine.
I have not yet decided how to organise the text, or how many different kinds of authors to address, but I completely agree that examples and context (when and why to use something) are needed. And lots of diagrams to illustrate concepts such as the sequence of page styles in a book. I have thought about doing it as a series of tutorials, each using a different example (such as thesis, magazine, travel book), and combine them into the book, along with a reference section at the back. I will post more as I have time to think more about it. Comments and suggestions from anyone are welcome. > It will be based on > > Chapters 6, 7, and 10 of the Writer Guide (and possibly Chapter 3 of > > Getting Started and relevant bits of other Writer Guide chapters, such > > as Ch12 on ToCs and Ch13 on Master Docs), but it will be reorganised, > > have more detail, and contain more examples of use. > > I had only a quick look at those chapters, so it might be, that I > overlook something that is already there. But here is, what I am > missing, my personally 'wish list': Thank you! Some of those items are in other chapters of the Writer Guide, but most are ones I might not have thought to include. I will add them to the wiki page. --Jean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to authors-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For additional commands send email to sy...@documentation.openoffice.org with Subject: help
