T. J. Frazier wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
As I mentioned yesterday, I've been working on a tutorial for using
page styles when creating a book. An early draft of this tutorial
starts here: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=90
It's lovely. The tutorial is quite properly geared toward the most
complex requirements, those of a non-fiction technical manual. I think
I can cut it down for my own (fiction) requirements, when I get that far.
I intend to provide one example in the last section of the book on a
typical fiction book, along with other examples. I have many friends
who are fiction writers.
The one tricky point I would like to see covered somewhere, is the issue
of forcing a right-hand page. It might make a "yes/no" column in the
Page Styles table.
Is the right-hand page you want forced going to be the first page of a
new chapter, or for some other purpose? It's a good point to cover,
but I'd like to make sure I relate my explanation to a real-world
situation.
For that matter, in that table, is the Next Page
Style entry for the "Front matter first page" style correct?
No, it was wrong. Thank you for spotting that! I've just corrected it.
Depending on the level of *publishing* sophistication of your target
audience, you might want to say a few words about the term, "Front
matter", before introducing it in the table.
Good point. Yes, there is a lot of explanatory stuff I haven't done
yet, and no doubt I'll forget some important stuff even when I think
I've filled in all the gaps.
Best of luck, and thanks for all the hard work. /tj
Thanks for the feedback. Much appreciated!
--Jean
