Chris McGinlay wrote:
On Sunday 24 February 2008 10:07:52 Gary Schnabl wrote:
Chris McGinlay wrote:
Hi Everyone
The first draft of a supporting exercise for the Writer Guide Chapter 3
(Working with Text) is ready and I have uploaded it to the site.
I created a new folder in what seemed a fairly logical place, "Education
Resources"
Hyperlink to the folder:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/education/Exercises/
I'm looking forward to some reviews and your thoughts on this draft.
Thanks
Chris
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/education/Exercises/WriterExercise3_24Feb0
8_CTM_GS.odt/file_view?portal_status_message=File%20changes%20saved.
draft 1 copyedit
Copyedited only--not reviewed. Use this copyedited file for extracting
its styles, of which some are different from the old template's. Some
Oxford series commas added and some punctuation changes and character
styles applied to various items instead of using the Default character
style with manual overrides. Manual overrides were removed.
Commit any of the edits and reissue it using the modified styles. I keep
putting off issuing a better template. In short, the 12pt TNR was
changed to 11pt, and some changes need be made in the new template so
that the Note/Tip tables don't break across pages. Now, that was done
manually for this file, along with a few minor changes.
This file has not been reviewed, just copyedited. Volunteers could use
this file or subsequent edited files as an exercise to check it out.
Gary
Thank you for all the copyediting there! From here, where do I proceed in the
workflow of this document? For example, I notice that the bulleted and
numbered list example that I had provided has not maintained its formatting
in the copyedited version?
I think that I should merge in your changes, set up the bullet list example
(not sure what went wrong there) and then follow these instructions:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/resources/howto_update
Is that correct?
Thanks once again for the corrections.
Chris
First, most of your body text paragraphs in your draft used the Default
style for the lists. The Default style is normally used for inserting
the primary typeface so that the derived paragraph styles will inherit
its parameters, instead of having to modify all of the other paragraph
styles when changing a typeface.
I generally adapt my own lists using the List or Numbering series of
paragraph styles. [We haven't been using those..., yet.] I would set the
indents and vertical (interparagraph) spacings, using different List x
paragraph styles to do that, for a bulleted list.
For example: You might employ a certain body text style to lead into the
first level of a list (usually the same style for both numbered or
bulleted lists, followed by List 1 Start. The List 1 End style would
terminate the list (if indeed a first-level paragraph ended the list.
[If there might be a nested second or third level paragraph ending a
list, then some modifications are necessary. But I don't want to
over-complicate things, at this point.]
If there are any list paragraphs other than the first or last list
items, then either the List 1 Start or List 1 cont. paragraph style
(along with a list style) might be used, depending upon whether you
wanted any special formatting for the middle list items.
Ditto for the numbered lists. Then there's the consideration of the
nested second, third, ... levels. When setting up these paragraph
styles, you better have ample examples both for yourself and any others
who might use them. This is something that I have done for my own
writing/editing but not yet for OOoAuthors.
Experiment for yourself and make up a detailed tutorial for this if you
really want to have a practical practical project for a tutorial topic.
Gary
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