Gary Schnabl wrote:
Either the Getting Started or the Writer Guide (or both) needs some practical instructions for (bulleted) list and numbering list styles used in coordination with the predefined paragraph and list styles: List 1, List 1 Start, List 1 Cont., and List 1 End for the first-level bulleted lists, for example.
I don't think this belongs in GS, but I agree it's definitely needed in the Writer Guide... and/or could do well as a stand-alone how-to.
However, the predefined styles need modifications in order to apply them in the manner I define them. But, that too would be worth-while from an instructional POV. Our own (OOoAuthors) manuals were remiss in using them and, instead, used manual overrides for lists in the guides. It would be beneficial if we ate our own home cooking and avoided using manual overrides for our lists, unless totally necessary.
Most of us who originally put together the template for the OOoAuthors guides had not yet learned a lot we needed to know to do the job the best way. I agree it's past time to clean up our act, and also write instructions on how to do things properly.
Way back when, I wrote some unnecessarily complex instructions about using page styles in book design, because I didn't know any better. I think those instructions are (a) still on my website, (b) still in the Writer Guide, and (c) still misleading lots of people. One of these years I'll change them to describe the easy method first, since that suits the needs of most people.
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