> > Her author role was already assigned... oops! :-) thanks for that! > > Michele, > > Started in copyediting Writer Guide chapter1. I see that the body text size > in the template is now 14 point. Is that for regular readers or for assisted > (visually handicapped) usage?
The rationale for the 14 points font is that the guides are meant to be optimized for the screen rather than for printing, and in particular we thought that 14 was a good font that allows to see two pages of the guide simultaneously on the screen when the file is converted to PDF. In OOo I set the zoom in book mode at 85% level to display the two pages side by side (horizontal resolution 1280px). This is also the reason why the inner margin is very small. > > I noticed that the table text was set up for vertical alignment. It looked a > bit weird so I manually set all of the cells to centered vertical alignment. > Did we want the tables to be top aligned? I think this was a mistake. Thanks for correcting it. > > Is there a means to set the OOOTableText paragraph style to be vertically > aligned for a table as part of the style definition? FrameMaker has an > option to vertically align their paragraph tags when the text is used within > table cells. Is there a similar option available with OOo? I manually > selected all the table cells and set them to be vertically centered en > masse. Is there a means to automatically vertically center all the table > cells--sort of like a table style? As far as I am aware there is no way to set the table vertical alignment properties in the paragraph style. There is a very old request to introduce table styles in OOo but I do not think it is a high priority item. > > I also noticed that one table I just edited was not aligned with the margins > (its left edge extended to the left of the left margin a bit), and it was > set to be manual. Just how do we want our tables to mesh with the margins, > or don't we? I would like the table edge to be aligned with the margins. I think that what you have seen is merely the result of copying & pasting the table from version 2 of the guide to version3. I have just corrected a similar occurrency in the getting started guide chapter I am reviewing. > > I'll check a few other things later, but I was up all night and my eyes are > getting blurry. One thing that needs to be fixed in the template is the styles that apply to numbered lists in tables. Unfortunately because of the extra padding that OOo places in a table cell the alignment of OOoNumberedTNC and OOoListTNC is messed up. TNC = tips Notes Caution. Cheers, Michele
