On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 14:27, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > Ian wrote: > >I confess that I am currently looking at "Introduction to Styles" having > >briefly looked at "Styles Reference for Writer" and "Working with > >Styles". > > > >None of these documents mention proportional font size. In my opinion, > >proportion font sizes is one of Writer's big advantages over Word. > > In what way? I'm not sure I know what you are talking about. > Poor wording - I should have said "Percentage". A font size in a style can be expressed as a percentage. For character styles this is a percentage of the paragraph style's font size and for paragraph styles it is a percentage of the "based on" style's font size.
Similarly, it is also possible to have increments and decrements in font size +2pt -5pt. > >I think that what I want to do fits in better with the "Introduction to > >Styles" chapter. This chapter is currently in the "Published pre-release > >chapters" folder. Any objections if I review it instead of "Formatting > >pages"? > > "Intro to Styles" is a very tutorial chapter for beginners. We're trying to > keep more detailed or non-basic stuff out of that chapter by putting it in > one of the other chapters on styles. At most we might put a note or tip in > the intro chapter, pointing people to one of the other chapters. > One of my reasons for suggesting an update is that, in my opinion it needs another review: There is a typo on page 2. (Paragraph styles affect *a* an entire style). An underlying distinction between paragraph styles and page styles could/should be mentioned on page 15. The example for a title page isn't really a title page on pages 20/21 (it is basically the same example as that for New Chapter). The example of a chapter should use a paragraph style rather than a manual page break on page 22. An incorrect/unclear note on page 24. > >Alternatively should I take the stuff on pages 15-24 as the > >basis for a new document on page numbering in Writer? > > Page 15-24 of which chapter? Ah, Intro to Styles. > > Do you have enough information to make a whole chapter on page numbering? > Sounds a bit extreme to me, but until I see what you have, I won't make a > judgment. > In my opinion no don't have enough for another document, I was suggesting it as an alternative so that I wasn't tampering with a document currently in published rather than review state. > At this point we definitely won't be removing those pages from that > chapter, but there's no problem in having some overlap between them and a > wider-ranging, more detailed discussion in another chapter (whether page > formatting or a separate chapter or whatever). > > So my suggestion is to write up what you have and then we'll decide just > where to put it. Does that work for you? Do send me an outline of your > proposed chapter when you can. > Will do. > I would really prefer not to revisit existing chapters if we can avoid it, > because we have far too much to do to get the books done in time for the > OOoV2 release. OTOH, I don't want to leave out important stuff just because > we didn't think of it earlier. It's a balancing act, and the easiest > short-term solution may be to have a new chapter. > > BTW, after the initial release of the books, I fully expect to do some > tweaking, filling in of gaps, and possibly major reorganisations, but > that's later in the year. > > Regards, Jean > Thanks, Ian
