On 01/03/06, Dan Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I have noticed some questions in the [email protected] mailing list
about the use of master slides (aka master pages or slide masters). Since
these serve basically the same purpose as page styles in Writer, I feel they
should have a prominent place in the Impress Guide.
I am thinking that chapter 1 might be a good place. The location within
this chapter might be the first topic in the Formating a presentation
section. An introduction to master slides would come first. Then all of the
style modifications should probably be spread throughout the rest of this
section. For example, the Title style could be mentioned when the Title page
construction is explained. Various levels of outlining could be mentioned
where slides with text are explained.
I am thinking strongly of writing Chapter 1 for the Impress Guide, but I
need this clarification first.
Dan
Hello Dan,
I was the guy asking the question on the [email protected] list, because I found creating multiple masters a real pain. One really annoying thing is that OOo renames the master from where you accessed the view-->master and it is easy to end up with two master pages with the same name which are unusable.
I have also found some confusion in the terminology used, for example in the dialog that appears when the user presses the slide design button, the checkboxes at the bottom mention the slide background which is not correct.
Anyway, enough with this complaints!
I would agree that the chapter 1 could be a very good place for introducing the concept of using several slide styles in the same presentation. Question: what is exactly you need to clarify?
Cheers,
Michele
