Hello Gary.

As threatened earlier, I finally modified the chapter template so that
> the Note/Tip/Caution tables won't break across pages any longer. [Its
> breaking only rarely happens anyway, but it was an unnecessary nuisance
> and potential time bomb.]

Good

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>
> Also the Default paragraph style was modified from 12pt to 11pt TNR and
> some dependencies were linked to the Default style: OOoTextBody and
> OOoTableText. Also the OOoComputerCode (our character style for
> monospaced text) was changed from the Courier to Courier New. If that's
> a problem for somebody, let me know. Courier is not a standard MS
> Windows typeface (probably a Mac O/S typeface?). I don't have Courier...

Not a problem for me, although we may want to consider as per the other
thread to switch to other fonts (the MS core fonts are available also on
Linux, but I am not sure if they will be forever and they do not come
installed by default).

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>
> OOoTextBody had its text flow set for 2/2 widow/orphan control instead
> of having the entire paragraph on a page w/o breaking. This may cut down
> the page count a bit.

I guess what could really help having more compact guides is to adopt a
different policy on figures as Jean has occasionally done. The major problem
with this is that every revision is likely to require readjusting of all the
pagination.

>
>
> If anybody wants any further style changes or reverting back to the
> former (or other styles created or deleted), let me know...

I have not revised the template in detail, but I noticed that you did not
include the user input character style (blue italic? neither the strong
emphasis in red/purple).


> ToDo list: Set up paragraph and list styles for the bulleted and
> numbered lists so that those (nested, even) lists won't require any
> manual overrides for formatting indents, vertical spacing, etc.

I am ok with using paragraph styles rather than list styles, but probably it
is too much. I would prefer to add another couple of list styles for nested
lists (bullet followed by numbers and numbers followed by bullets). I do not
recall nested lists more than 2 levels deep.

I will finish the review of the template in the next few days and provide
feedback (if any).

In general I think we should start using the template when we start creating
the user guide for OOo version 3 (planned fo September 08 IIRC).

Cheers,

Michele

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