2008/7/8 Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michele wrote: >> >> The most significant changes to Impress are actually provided as >> extensions and we did not decide yet what to do with them. > > Yes, it's time we made a decision. > > My opinion: significant extensions should be covered in the chapter (or > appendix, depending on the book) on customization, and they should be > covered in the same level of detail as other (built-in) features. > > What is a "significant extension"? IMO, those that are being mentioned by > OOo marketing as features of OOo3 but are available only as an extension > (not integrated into OOo): for example, Sun Presenter Console, PDF import, > and the Sun Report Builder. > > There are a few other extensions that I think might be worthy of inclusion: > André Schnabel's Template Changer in particular > (http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/project/templatechanger), which > I've been using to keep up with changes in our template. That one needs only > a short paragraph in the Writer Guide. > > --Jean >
Hello Jean, I also think we should at least cover the SUN-provided extensions. Regarding other extensions we should only document the ones one or the other volunteer has direct experience of, so yes to template changer, maybe a mention of the mountains of templates now available as extensions. Personally I do not use many extensions (crop pictures, template changer). I was told that the Impress autostarter is nice, that the writer's tools and language tools for Writer are useful but I never tried them, so I would have some difficulties writing about them. Cheers, Michele
