Changing "TIP" to "Tip" puts that "note" in line with the other two in
that all three will then be using the same font effect, instead of "TIP"
being the "lone man out" in All-Caps. Besides, OOoAuthors uses
"sentence" style capitalization for headings and such, instead of the
"headline" style used in the documentation of some others. Having "Tip"
is also more in line with that concept.
Notice that the latest edit of Chapter 3 is not published yet. So this
edit was a trial balloon for this anticipated change. If adopted, all
that is needed is a simple change in the "template"for future work and a
simple change for the older versions.
Gary
T. J. Frazier wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Chapter 3 of the Writer Guide was proofread on 15 Dec 2006 with some
subsequent edits (1 Jan 2007). (snip)
My thanks to Gary for showing a newbie, by example, how to do it.
Working with Text - WG Chapter 3
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(snip)
There is a string of problems associated with the capitalization change
of the tip feature, from "TIP" to "Tip".
1) The source of the problem is the chapter template, which shows "TIP"
in the "things to be copied" section. This needs changing. The
"Template How-to" should reflect this change, as well.
2) The recommended procedure is to copy these examples into the AutoText
mechanism. That means that current authors must be warned to re-copy
the corrected examples.
3) The bold formatting in the template (for tip, note, and caution) is
locally applied. This is probably a bad example for our authors. The
OOoStrongEmphasis style can't be used, because of the different font
specifications. I suggest that we need another character style for
this. (What we actually need is an option to "use existing font" on the
Font page of the Character Style dialog, so that the style only applies
the font effect; but that's a code matter.)
If we decide to change "TIP" to "Tip", I will include that in my
on-going proof-reading of the published chapters. /tj
--
TJFrazier
