Hi Chris, > The next may seem rather picky or even ignorant but: > > When I opened the chapter, it had the appearance of a stand alone > document, the cover page, the copyright notice and the table of > contents. However, in the "Overview" (should this be changed to > "Introduction"?), there is a reference to 2 other chapters. So is this > a 41 page chapter, of Reference, or a standalone reference document?
It is a chapter from a greater work, the Writer Guide. You are right that it looks like a stand-alone document. This is due to a combination of: (1) Historical reasons. This is just not something we thought of when we first wrote the template. (2) Requirements imposed by the Public Documentation License. (3) The fact that we want to let people download just one chapter. This is one of the neat things about the new template (with a new license). It addresses (1) and (2). The new template makes it a LOT more clear that this is a chapter from a larger work. > What is the best way to refer to the referred chapters? Just by name or > name and number or what ?? By name. The number will not be known until publication. Furthermore, the chapter number is subject to change, as new chapters are added, removed, combined or re-organized. > Why does this spell checker want to change the file extension .sxw to > either sew or sex? Because computers are stupid. :-) The spell checker has an internal dictioary of "known" words. It doesn't know any word called "sxw" and tries to help. If this is annoying, consider adding "sxw" to the dictionary. Next time the dictionary picks up "sxw", click on "Add". Warning: If you do this, then your dictionary will think that "sxw" is a word. So if you ever write about sex, and spell it "sxw", the spell checker won't pick it up. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |
