Jean Weber wrote:
Finally catching up on this topic...
If I did not comment, I agree.
4) Remove line for maintainer's name or make it optional. The original
intention was to give credit to the person doing the work, but many
chapters no longer have an ongoing maintainer. IMO best to just leave
the line to direct comments to the list.
Comments should go to the list. Author's/maintainer's names should be
listed, but still, send comments to the list. You can always send a
direct email anyway if they do not respond on list.
6) Ensure no use of Times or Courier: these cause problems for me when
creating the printed books from Lulu. For example, the copyright
symbol in the current "template" is in Times; needs to be Times New
Roman. Text created by the drawing tools defaults to Times (at least
on my system); this needs to be changed to Arial or Times New Roman.
We shouldn't be using the drawing tools anyway (because of other
problems), but if we do -- we need to agree on what font to use for
the text.
What font will you use for macros if you remove Courier?
8) Make the Frame frame style identical to the one we have defined for
OOoFrame, or delete OOoFrame; main requirement: remove the 0.20 cm
spacing on left, right, top, bottom for Frame. Also, make the Graphics
frame style the same as OOoGraphics. When new graphics are added,
their style defaults to Graphics and no one changes the style to
OOoGraphics. When a caption is added to a graphic, both are contained
in a frame of style Frame; again, no one changes this to OOoFrame. We
might as well simplify things by eliminating the custom styles; but if
not, make the defaults identical.
Or stop placing graphics in frames
9) Similarly, make the Figure paragraph style identical to
OOoFigureCaption. The default style for a caption added to a graphic
is Figure; people are better at changing these to OOoFigureCaption,
but many forget. Change the spacing below paragraph for both these
styles to 0.1cm.
I could write a macro to "fix-up" common mistakes. Obvious style
substitutions should be easy to fix.
11) Should we simplify the table design? I think it looks good, but
applying the changes to alternate rows between a white background and
a 10% grey background are a nuisance. Are they worth the trouble? I
can't decide.
I use a macro to do it! hesitant to do this in a macro, however, because
not all tables have this. Tips, for example.
--
Andrew Pitonyak
My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt
My Book: http://www.hentzenwerke.com/catalog/oome.htm
Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php
See Also: http://documentation.openoffice.org/HOW_TO/index.html
