Michele wrote:
Hello Gary,
I am ok with removing the indentation from the TextBody and very happy
with the work you have done on the numbered and bulletted lists.
I am however not convinced about centering OOoHeading2. To be
completely honest I also don't like the centering of OOoHeading1, but
I guess I can live with it.
If one manually puts a line break within the subhead for aligning it,
the ToC needs manual correction for it instead of its being automatic.
Another approach could be to do a manual override for that particular
subhead,but that breaks its normality compared with the other same-level
subheads.A yet another approach would be to not use subheads that
consume more than one line and keep the former style. And the last would
be to accept the appearance when the second line is only a single word
or two long.
I think it would make sense to remove the indentation also from
OOoTableText as when using a list in a table it gets mis-aligned and
also for consistency. We may use the borders spacing to keep the text
in a table cell sufficiently away from the edges. Ideally, while
waiting for OOo to create Table styles we should create our very own
table AutoFormatting, but I am not sure if it can be saved in the
template.
Dumping the left indentation for body text allows more text per line,
which may help to conserve space. Was that "indentation" there formerly
for a visual effect? The margin previously seemed to be only for the
subheads.
Another change, which I probably didn't mention, was that the template
styles were previously preset for entering entire paragraphs on a single
page and not using any widow/orphan control, obviously. That caused a
lot of unnecessary white space.at page bottoms.
Even better, OOoAuthors should have their own extension that installs
the template, autotext, remapped keyboard shortcuts, maybe some macros
to insert a figure, insert cross referencing more easily, a custom
dictionary etc...
Have you discussed in the past the possibility of using outline
numbering (at least for the first 2 levels)?
Cheers,
Michele
It would be beneficial if there were more volunteers at OOoAuthors to do
more and different things. Even the basics--such as writing and
reviewing. Remember, volunteers are unpaid and have lives. Have those
paid folks with OOo been contributing much as to the nuts and bolts of
authoring and editing anything in the documentation themselves?
Gary
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