Hello All, Lately I have been absent but certainly not idle in fact I have just uploaded on the OOoAuthors website an update of the template as well as 6 chapters of the Writer guide updated to the new template. I I decided to use a portrait template as it did not require to resize the figures and can be read either in book mode (two pages side by side) or as single page. You will notice that the inner margin is quite narrow, that was done in order to mimic the two columns layout. Note that I am not attempting to impose the portrait template, the conversion of the documents to the new set of styles was needed anyway and going from the portrait template to the landscape template is fairly easy (the only issue being the figures). General notes: - Because of a bug still present in the latest snapshot of OOo3.0 (m20) which makes OOo crash when anchoring a frame as character many of the figures are anchored to paragraphs. The good news is that the bug as been fixed on the 19th of June so it should be fixed in the next developer snapshot. - I also tried to wrap the text around small figures but without much success. - Some of the tables that accompany the toolbar figures explaining the name of the tools will need to be re-formatted as the font size change has caused some serious misalignment.
List of uploads 1) portrait-oriented chapter template http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/OOo3_chapter_template_portrait.ott/file_view Added styles for lists in a table (they are identified by at TNC suffix). Created new OOoBullet and OOoNumbered list styles in order to use the new position page options. All the fonts size are in percentage so changing the size of OOoTextBody makes all the headings, table text etc... change proportionally. Refined some of the styles (e.g. OOoEmphasis was not only italic, but applied the font type too). 2) 0203WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0203WG-WorkingWithText_21Jun08.odt/file_view I added a section on notes and one on the new language menu. Re-formatted the styles to comply with the new styles in the template (all the lists, all the tips/caution/notes, headings) 3) 0204WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0204WG-FormattingPages_21Jun08.odt/file_view Accepted some old corrections still hanging 4) 0206WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0206WG-IntroductionToStyles_21Jun2008.odt/file_view Accepted some changes Issues: Need to review the figures to see which ones can be anchored to paragraph, which ones can be made smaller and which ones can be deleted. 5) 0207WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0207WorkingWithStyles_portrait_21Jun08.odt/file_view Accepted the modifications made by Jean Added a new section on the position dialog for list styles Updated the example on creating a list style Issues Still not sure the setting up of page styles should be a level 1 heading (I would prefer it to be under the page style level 1 heading) 6) 0208WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0208WG_WorkingWithGraphics_21Jun08.odt/file_view Accepted the modifications, removed one image (redundant) 07) 0209WG http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/writer3/V_3.0_stuff/0209WG-WorkingWithTables_21Jun08.odt/file_view no changes, just updated it as a result of updating the template. Cheers, Michele
