Clayton wrote:
I've uploaded the Draft versions of the Administration and BASIC Guides to the Wiki (in ODT/PDF format). http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Wiki_Books
I haven't had a chance to look at these yet, but I'm very interested in the method for producing them, and (when I have time, ha ha) testing how it might go for the user guides.
The basic steps I used to create these draft guides are: - Use the ODT Collection extension on the OOoWiki to export a raw ODT - Remove the Sections in the ODT - Apply the template (which has most tags mapped correctly)
Where is the template? Is it specific to those particular guides, or a more general template?
- Fix the Heading levels and Chapter Levels (these do not export correctly)
What's involved in fixing these? Much manual work, for example identifying and tagging each one individually?
- Convert the Note tables into Note styles - Correct the illustrations (They are imported into the document as thumbnails. Not sure how to automate this step yet.)
This could be a really big issue for the user guides, which have lots of illustrations. However, I put the illos on the wiki full size, without thumbnails, so perhaps it would work differently for them. Something to test, when I have time.
Can you give an estimate of the time required for the manual work involved in your procedure? I'm sure it's much shorter than the manual work involved in going the other way.
Do you do any further cleanup of bad page breaks? Two that seem most important to me are not separating the lead-in sentence to a list from the list itself, and figure placement to minimize the number of pages with large amounts of white space at the bottom. For the former, we use a paragraph style with "keep with next" enabled, but I assume there's no way to automate that when exporting from the wiki.
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