Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Michele Zarri wrote:
... as we do not revise documents very often, I was wondering
whether to include a fantastic new feature coming with OOo3.0, that is a
LaTex-like anchoring which allows you to anchor the graphics to the
paragraph but with some degree of flexibility. I tried it and in some
occasions it prevents the big white spaces at the end of the page that
are associated with the strict paragraph anchoring.
What do you think?
I think we should *not* include in a currently-available chapter
anything scheduled for a future release of OOo, especially a major one
like 3.0. It will just confuse many readers.
I suggest that you make a new folder for version 3.0 WG docs and put a
copy of the chapter (containing the 3.0 info) in that folder. That way
it's ready to go when the s/w is released.
In fact, it's probably time to start folders for v3.0 for all the
books, so anyone who wants to work with the betas and write up new
features can have a home for the chapters to be reviewed and edited
and stored until time to release them. That's more or less what we did
in the runup from 1.x to 2.0.
Further thoughts... at this point in the 2.x cycle (with 3.0 due out
in 6 months or less), we should encourage everyone to start working on
the 3.0 guides as soon as they can get their hands on a beta version
of 3.0.
--Jean
I do not see any harm in having early writings about new version 3
features. There are at least two simple ways to handle that besides
having a dedicated version 3 folder:
(1) include a "New for version 3" note as we had earlier for whatever
sections/subsections or
(2) use conditional text for the new material and release that later. It
wouldn't hurt for us to use Writer features we haven't used much
previously.
Having some premature version 3 material written now might goad other
writers who have early knowledge of version 3 to write about that now
also, instead of having it done over a half year from now or never... I
would tend to welcome whatever advanced material to be written by
writers who have the time and interest now than hoping that something
might get written at some unknown distant point in the future.
Gary
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