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Actualy, Daniel, this looks more like a list of my errors. (I am
truly a novice at this.) However, I also question anchoring the frames
as characters. I just tried that, and it did not work for me. May I
also suggest that the images be anchored "to the frame". This seems to
make it easier to work with the Figure Caption at the bottom of the
frame.
Dan
On Friday 08 April 2005 06:48 am, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Thank you for the reminders Jean. Man, I thought I was pretty good at
> this but I forgot some of the things you said (in particular,
> captions and anchoring).
>
> I have one question. You say to anchor images and the frames
> containing them *as character*. Doesn't that mean that the image will
> no longer be centered? Wouldn't that put the image on the far left of
> the page?
>
> Cheers,
> Daniel.
>
> On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 08:56:20PM +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
> > While reviewing chapters recently, I've compiled a list of things
> > some people are doing with formatting that don't fit into the style
> > we're using, and some other common problems. Read and heed! :-)
> >
> > 1) Be sure to change the default styles that OOo puts on things
> > like frames and figure captions, to an OOoAuthors style. For
> > example, change "Frame" to "OOoFrame" and Figure (on captions) to
> > OOoFigureCaption.
> >
> > 2) Anchor the frames containing screenshots *as character* NOT "to
> > paragraph", to prevent them from moving around during editing (esp.
> > a problem if the paragraph ends up on a different page after text
> > is added or removed).
> >
> > 3) Anchor the graphics (which are inside the frame) *as character*
> > also.
> >
> > 4) Do *not* put a border on the frame around a graphic and its
> > caption. The OOoFrame style has no border in the latest template.
> >
> > 5) In some cases you can put a border around the graphic itself, if
> > the graphic doesn't effectively have its own border (screenshots,
> > unless cropped, normally have a "border" of their own).
> >
> > 6) Use OOo's Caption facility (Insert > Caption) to insert captions
> > for figures. That way the figure number is a field and you can then
> > cross reference to the fields.
> >
> > 7) Use Insert > Cross Reference for all references to headings,
> > figures, and other items. Do *not* type in the reference, as the
> > figure number or the text of a heading may change.
> >
> > 6) Window names are in normal type, *not* italics or bold or
> > whatever style corresponds to those.
> >
> > Regards, Jean
