Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
4) Remove line for maintainer's name or make it optional.
Comments should go to the list. Author's/maintainer's names should be listed, but still, send comments to the list.
Where the author/maintainer is known and still around, especially when it's only 1 or 2 people (eg you for some chapters, Michele Zarri for most of the Impress Guide), I am quite happy to list those names. In cases where a chapter has been revised and updated so much that there are numerous authors, none of whom is currently taking responsibility for the chapter, or where the 1 or 2 authors are no longer working on OOoAuthors, it seems silly to me to keep a name there. However, this isn't an issue of high importance to me, so I don't really case what is decided.
What font will you use for macros if you remove Courier?
Courier New; sorry I didn't mention that in my earlier note.
Or stop placing graphics in frames
AFAIK, OOo places all graphics in frames. I don't think it is possible to change this, though one can change the frame style or the characteristics of the default Graphics frame style. It's similar to pages: every page has a style.
We can choose to stop using the second frame -- the one that encloses the caption and the graphic. I suspect that's what you meant.
I could write a macro to "fix-up" common mistakes. Obvious style substitutions should be easy to fix.
That would be very useful, in addition to changing the style definitions to deal with the many times when we forget to run the macro on a revised chapter.
Re serif vs sans-serif fonts (in another sequence of notes): my original comment related to labels on figures, not general text, and Peter responded in that context. Changing the fonts for headings and text is a different question from specifying a font for figure labels; I don't think we have ever done the latter. I, like Peter, prefer Arial 9 pt for figure labels, partly because it does reduce well for the Lulu books.
--Jean
