Dear All, Brace yourself: veeeeeery long message follows.
As announced some time ago I took the liberty of restructuring chapters 6 and 7 of the Writer guide. I dismembered the two chapters and rebuilt them giving them a structure so that: - Chapter 6 is an introduction to styles. The user learns to apply, manage and the very basics of modifying styles. It explains all the options of the styles and formatting window and explains how to create a outline, how to associate styles to keystrokes, how to use conditional styles. - Chapter 7 is a more advanced description on the various formatting options for styles and contains advanced usage examples. I also grabbed this occasion to move some topics to chapter 3 (basic formatting) and consolidated all the page numbering material in chapter 4. Details follow. The 4 chapters have been just uploaded and submitted. DETAILS: Info for PHB and a question: I tried hard not to add too many figures (14 in total) and to avoid the need to change existing ones (3). As I trust you will redo all the screenshots with the Silver theme, I just tried to give you an idea of what I would like to show. Actually I should gain soon admin rights on my work PC which runs WindowsXP so I can switch to the XP Silver theme and give a hand with the screenshots: which program do you use to capture the screenshots? A summary of the new figures is given at the end of each changelog, in some cases I added some text in angle brackets <> describing what I would like. _______________________________________ Chapters changeLog: Chapter 3: (changes revision marked) - Added some information on options for paragraph justification - moved the description of default tab stops from chapter 7 to this chapter - moved the example of nested lists from chapter 7 to this chapter New screenshots for figures: 9 Optional screenshots: 18, 19, 20 (title of the dialogs is not the right one) _______________________________________ Chapter 4 (changes revision marked) - Reformatted the Page numbering section adding the examples given in chapter 7 and giving it a different structure. New screenshots for figures: none _______________________________________ Chapter 6 (no revision marks) The first level outline now looks like this: Introduction The Styles and formatting window Applying styles Modifying styles Management of styles Assigning styles to shortcut keys Defining a hierarchy of headings Working with conditional paragraph styles New screenshots for figure 2 _______________________________________ Chapter 7 (no revision marks) Despite my best efforts this chapter became very long... Here's the outline (at level 1 only): Introduction Creating custom (new) styles Working with paragraph styles Working with character styles Working with Frame Styles Working with Page Styles Working with List Styles Example: Creating custom paragraph styles Example: Creating a simple List Style Example: Setting up a book chapter sequence of pages New screenshots for figures 1, 6, 7, 9, 13, 19, 20, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27 Optional screenshots: 5 Cheers, Michele
