Michele Zarri wrote:
2009/2/16 Gary Schnabl <[email protected]>
Three changes were made to the chapter template:
(1) The tiny 2-pt vertical imbalance in vertical spacing in the
OOoTableText paragraph style was fixed.
(2) The OOoHeading paragraph style now inherits from Default instead of
from OOoTextBody. The OOoTextBody paragraph style now also inherits from
Default. This change was made to allow leading changes in OOoTextBody to not
adversely affect the OOoHeading style, as before.
(3) The chapter's typeface is now introduced by the Default paragraph
style, instead of OOoTextBody. Minor changes made to Default: language, text
flow, vertical space below.
In case anything is broken, the former template will stick around for a
while...
No editing changes yet made to its exposition.
Gary
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Gary Schnabl
2775 Honorah
Detroit MI 48209
Hello Gary,
Thanks for the update.
There is still something I do not understand on point 2: what is the benefit
in linking the OOoTextBody and OOoHeading styles to the default style rather
than making them two separate top-level styles?
Also, I have noticed a problem with the size of the headings (partly my
fault).
All the OOoHeading X styles are children of OOoHeading and their size was
calculated according to this table:
OOoHeading 1: 100% of OOoHeading (21pt)
OOoHeading 2: 85% of OOoHeading (17.85pt)
OOoHeading3: 75% of OOoHeading (15.75pt)
OOoHeading4: Fixed at 14pt (should have been 67%, but since we hardly ever
use Heading 4 I just ignored it).
Now, in the old template the size of OOoHeading was linked to OOoTextBody
and in particular it was 150% (that is 21pt since OOoTextBody was set to
size 14pt), however now the size of OOoHeading is linked to the size of the
default paragraph, so instead of 21 it is 18 making all the headings
smaller.
The problems in the new template are:
1. OOoHeading is 150% of Default (that is 150% of 12pt = 18pt) . As a
consequence OOoHeadings 1, 2 and 3 are smaller than what they should be
2. the size of OOoHeading 1, rather than 100% of OOoHeading is fixed to 21.
3. The size of OOoHeading4 is fixed to 14
The simple solution is to set the size of OOoHeading to 21 rather than a
percentage of default and correct then the sizes of OOoHeading 1 (100%) and
OOoHeading 4 (67%).
If you want I can make these changes very quickly and upload a revised
version.
Regards,
Michele
Then OOoHeading 1 for some reason has been changed to a fixed size of 21 pt.
OOoHeading 2 is still 85%
The descendants of OOoHeading had the following size
In the old template the size was calculated on the basis of OOoTextBody,
which was on turn set to 14pt.
Might it be better to pick an absolute font size instead of the
relative-percentage type? That would create a dependency that really is
not needed.
I picked the Default because the OOoHeading style had the same typeface
as OOoTextBody. Myself, I would use different typefaces for headings and
body text. Then the typeface for the headings would be entered in
OOoHeadings and afterwards inherited to the OOoHeading x styles.
Do whatever you want with the template. The older one is still way at
the bottom of that Web page.
And I keep forgetting again why we went to the 14-pt body text. Was that
done for accommodating those with poor eyesight? It does seem overly
large. And some of the pages contain little text when large words are
encountered and a line is terminated quite a bit away from the EOL.
BTW, I started in on copyediting the Calc chapters last night and
noticed some typos, and such.
Gary
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Gary Schnabl
2775 Honorah
Detroit MI 48209
