Richard Detwiler wrote:
I'm willing to take on the role of maintainer of a couple of chapters
for which I feel reasonably comfortable with the subject matter. The
ones that fall into that category are:
Getting Started Guide:
Ch 7 -- Getting Started with Calc
Ch 12 -- Working with Templates
Writer Guide:
Ch 10 -- Working with Templates
Ch 11 -- Mail Merge
Thank you!!
I believe that all of the above chapters are in reasonably good shape,
which helped me make the decision to volunteer as maintainer. Let me
know if this isn't correct; I won't withdraw my my offer to be
maintainer, but I'll want to know if any are in need of immediate
attention.
Yes, I think they are in reasonably good shape. One section in
the Mail Merge chapter definitely needs checking (and probably
rewriting): the description of how to hide a line when a field is
blank or contains some specific value. I wrote a work-around for
this, since hidden text and hidden paragraphs were not working as
expected, but I believe the bug has been fixed in 2.0.2. I have
not tested this myself, but if indeed it has been fixed, that
sections should be revised.
In the templates chapters, I think I added a bit mentioning the
bug (to be fixed in 2.0.3) that prevents automatic updating from
an associated template. That will need to be revised when 2.0.3
is released.
As for the Calc chapter, I don't know of anything needing to be
changed, but you and Rick would know better than I.
Also, one side question. Do we have anything written up on how to do
footnotes and endnotes? I couldn't immediately find anything. A
co-worker was working on a paper he was submitting to a medical journal,
and he was having a heck of a time getting endnotes to come out like the
journal required. (To complicate things, he had originally done them as
footnotes, not as endnotes.) I got involved and got things straightened
out eventually, but it was definitely a case of me doing a lot of trial
and error to get things to work. If this subject is covered, I just
plain missed it. If it's not, them maybe we should try to include it,
either as a stand-alone chapter, or with some other chapter. Let me know
what you think.
There is a very brief mention of footnotes and endnotes in
Chapter 3 of the Writer Guide, "Working with Text". More info
could go there, or feel free to make a suggestion of where else
to put it, especially if it's long. This is a topic that probably
should go into some other (thus far unwritten) chapter, along
with some other features used by writers of academic and research
papers -- like bibliographies, the description of which really
needs to be taken out of the "tocs and indexes" chapter and
expanded, with examples of use.
Thanks again!
--Jean
