Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
Other than being over-committed on my time, it is difficult to stay
current because the templates have changed. At this point, I need to
spend time (no idea how much) to figure out the current way to embed
images and captions, and the preferred display format, etc.
People writing new chapters or updating the *content* of existing
chapters to OOo 3.0 should not be too concerned with the details of
layout and presentation. Someone (me, Michele, Gary) familiar with the
details of the 3.0 template can deal with that, if necessary.
Of course, it's great if you or anyone also deals with putting material
into the new template, tidying up the styles, etc, but PLEASE don't let
any uncertainty over presentation detract from the really important
thing, which is the content: is it well organised, logically presented,
accurate, clearly explained, not missing any vital information... those
sorts of things.
For people who, for whatever reasons, can't or don't want to deal with
the ODT files, I'm happy to take new content or corrections in almost
any form (even an email) and turn it into a form compatible with the
chapter template. In fact, I've done exactly that on several occasions.
And of course, there's always the wiki, for those who prefer to work
that way.
While looking at the Calc files, I am left guessing as to exactly what
needs to be done. It would be nice if we had a workflow engine of some
sort (or even something as simple as bugzilla) so that I could login and
search to see a list of what speciically needs to be done. Even todo.txt
would help.
Agreed. Unfortunately, my experience is that these things are rarely
kept up to date, even when someone sets them up, so you still can't be
sure what state things are really at. (Several of us have made stabs at
maintaining to-do lists over the years, always with the same result.)
The Calc Guide outline is one attempt to at least summarise the status
of chapters and what's needed. I've updated it and put it into a new
file so it can be read on the website:
http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide3/calc3/cg3_outline/document_view
--Jean
