[authors] PING: Jean

[Gary Schnabl]

I thought it would be generally informative to review a few lines using the rationale in the Template How-to for their edits. Let's go through four examples from the first two pages of the current, published Working with Fields chapter, each in its present style/format: (1) An example of a checkbox: Fields have a gray background when viewed on screen, unless you have deselected the Field shadings checkbox, or changed the color of field shadings, on the Options–OpenOffice.org – Appearance dialog. [The manual used an overridden OOoTableText (It was in a note.) with bold styling. My version is (using OOoEmphasis and OOoMenuPath): Fields have a gray background when viewed on screen, unless you have deselected the Field shadings checkbox or changed the color of field shadings on the Appearance dialog box (Options – OpenOffice.org – Appearance). (2) An example of a tab in a dialog box: The User Defined tab provides four fields for you to use as required. [The manual used a overridden OOoTextBody with bold styling.] The style/format for a tab seems to be undefined in the How-to. I planned to use OOoEmphasis: The User Defined tab provides four fields for you to use as required. (3) An example with textfields: The example in Figure 3 shows that Info 1 has been changed to Chapter subtitle, Info 2 to Chapter number and Info 3 to Name of guide. [All OOoTextBody.] I planned to employ OOoEmphasis for the six entries: The example in Figure 3 shows that Info 1 has been changed to Chapter subtitle, Info 2 to Chapter number and Info 3 to Name of guide. (4) An example of a name for a dialog box and a command: In the small pop-up dialog Edit Field Names (not shown here), type the field names you want, then click OK. [Here the dialog box's name and the OK used an overridden OOoTextBody with bold styling.] My planned version using proper OOo style/formats--OOeTextBody and OOoMenuPath: In the small pop-up dialog box (Edit Field Names, not shown here), type the field names you want, then click OK. What would be your versions? Gary