Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
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.
touché
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.
I was only aware of a frame if I allowed OOo to insert the caption.
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.
Indeed.
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,
If you are able to carefully enumerate a few conditions that I should
check, I can write the macro. Must be very careful to not "change"
differences that might be intentional. In other words, I intend to be
paranoid as I write. Start small and expand it as we find more things to
check!
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