I have responded to more than one note below.
Rick Barnes wrote:
...I am confused did Daniel write a chapter that can be used as a basis for a Math guide? We could remove the meat from the Writer guide and put it in a separate guide with references to the Math guide from the other component guides.
Yes, the V2 chapter was published in late January. It includes 12 pages of introductory "how to" information and 12 pages of reference tables.
Removing the reference tables from the chapter in the Writer Guide sounds reasonable, but I would not like to see the other part cut down.
... to keep things simple by removing redundancy in all of the guides and using a central source of information that each guide would point to (the Math guide). It would seem odd if the Writer guide had a strong write up of the Math component and the Impress or Draw guides simply deferred details to the Math guide...wouldn't it?
No, it would not seem odd to me. Here is my reasoning:
I want to have a chapter on Templates and Styles in each of the guides. The information on these topics in the Writer Guide will be more detailed than in the other guides (comprising 4 chapters in total), because more people (esp. new users) use Writer. So, for example, the Writer Guide has Daniel's "Introduction to Styles" chapter, which I would not include in the other guides. But a chapter analogous to one of my other styles chapters from the Writer Guide should be included.
I think Math is much the same. Given that the "how to" part of the Math chapter in the Writer Guide is only 12 pages, I see no reason not to repeat it in the guides for Calc, Impress and Draw -- perhaps slightly shortened or modified to include anything specific to the other components.
... Presentations, especially those written in academia by and for students frequently use equations and formulas (I've seen them often in Finance, Engineering and Computer Science course presentations)...I've used formulas more in presentations than in text documents (but that was as an instructor...
Thank you for your observations. I'm still in the information-gathering stage, so that definitely helps me see things from a different point of view and get a better idea of how to proceed.
I'd love to hear from some other people about how they (or the people they work with) use Math.
Let me know if you want me to write an outline for your approval. I can do it fairly quickly.
Yes, I would like to see an outline. I think that would help all of us work out what's the best way to go.
Regards, Jean
