Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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Oh, bother. I had forgotten about that problem, which has been around
since OOo2.0 was first released. I suspect it won't be fixed in OOo
v2.1 (which is due out this coming week), as it's not a bug that
affects the functionality. I don't have the Release Candidate for 2.1
installed on WinXP, or I would check.
Now that 2.1 is a Release Candidate it can't be installed alongside
2.0.4, so I'm stymied as well. Maybe I'll install it on one of my
machines just for inspection, but it'll be running Win2K, not XP so no
silver theme!
Under Debian Linux ('Etch') the dialogues render correctly.
Any thoughts?
If you or Carl or someone can redo all the dialogs in this chapter
using Linux, that would be great. The only other choices I can see are
to redo the Insert Insert/Table dialogs in Linux and leave the others
alone, or just redoing the problem dialogs in Linux -- either of which
means inconsistent figures in this chapter.
I might be tempted to do this long term, but I'm in no hurry to start
again. The problem as I see it is that end users will see 'F' (and 'I'
instead of 'L') under Windows on their own systems, which seems to
negate any benefit from a little pixel editing in the screen shot. What
about a caveat in the document, stating that a minor bug prevents the
'E' showing properly under Windows and that the screen shot reflects
what the user will see on their own system?
Good point about the benefit (to Windows users) of having the
screenshot show the bug.
There are notes already in the chapter that say the "E" shows as
"F" (and "L" shows as "I") on some operating systems. At the time
I wrote that, I wasn't sure if that occurred on anything other
than Windows (and possibly not all flavours of Windows), and I'm
still not sure. Regardless, those notes could be amended a bit to
include a comment that the screenshots show what people will see
on WinXP.
I'm also thinking about adding some red circles or arrows on a
few of the pix, to indicate more explicitly some of the things
people need to do. Having them marked on the screenshots, as well
as described in the text, should help explain some of the
trickier things.
Thanks again, Peter!
