I don't know of any way to use a conditional style in this
instance. There may be some way to deal with it, but I go for the
simplest solution whenever possible. In this case, I said "is the
colon necessary?" to which my answer is "No!" I no longer recall
why it was put there in the first place, but I think it now
serves no purpose, nor does removing it cause any problems that I
can see. Of course, I realise I could be missing something.
--Jean
Gary Schnabl wrote:
Could that colon have been tackled with a conditional style? I haven't
gotten around to using conditionals in OOo yet, although I have with
FrameMaker. It would seem to be the thing to do in that instance.
Gary
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I have updated three files in the Contributors section of the website:
Chapter template, Template How-to, and Writing OOo Guides. In addition
to accepting changes made by TJ Frazier, I made some other minor
changes and additions.
Among other things, I removed the colon at the end of the chapter
title. This is because, when the chapters are put together to form a
full book, the chapter title (from the OOoHeading0) goes into the page
footer but the chapter subtitle is not included. Having a chapter
title ended by a colon in the footer looks silly, so I removed the
colon. It isn't needed on the title pages of chapters with subtitles
anyway.
Apologies to TJ for taking so long to get around to dealing with his
changes, which he had done at the beginning of January. I was so
focused on finishing the third edition of the Writer Guide, that I
forgot about everything else.
--Jean
