Scott: I agree with everything you said in your review. Now to find time to rewrite the chapter, decide whether to move some of the material to its own chapter or somewhere else, and so on... At this point I'm unlikely to do more than fix a couple of errors you found; someone (possibly me) can do the bigger rewrite for v2.3, or 2.4, or even 3.0, depending on when someone has time to do it. Having a good review like yours, that points out the areas needing improvement, is an extremely valuable starting point. Thank you!
One problem I'm wrestling with -- not just in this chapter -- is just how much to put into a "Getting Started" book which is already a lot longer than I would like it to be. The whole book needs rethinking in terms of audience: maybe two books would be better, one aimed at beginners with little background in office suites, and one aimed at newcomers to OOo who have experience -- and expectations and needs -- from other suites. Perhaps some of it (eg customisations) would go better into a separate, shorter book, perhaps along with stuff like how to move your templates and autotext and other customisations from one computer to another, some system admin stuff related to networked computers (eg dealing with shared files vs user-specific files), and a lot of other topics that most users would have no interest in or understanding of. I'd like to completely overhaul the whole set of books for OOo V3.0 -- still over a year away, so it gives some time for planning how to do them better than the current set. Now that we've got a lot of material written, we can spend more time looking at what's missing and how best to organise the existing and missing material. Heh... and then hope people show up to do the work, especially writing the missing stuff. --Jean On 6/26/07, Scott Rhoades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From your note, I think we might be thinking similarly.
