Hi Kevin, > My question: I've downloaded the document template and see how things > work but was wondering if someone knew of a template to produce a book > or other documents? I intend to use mostly open source software such as > GIMP, OO, Linux, etc to produce this project as well as one who "eats > his own dog food" to show others that it can be done.
Why don't you join the OOoAuthors project? We are writing a book using OOo. Specifically, we are writing a user guide. Hence, OOoAuthors seems like a place where you'd find useful information, both in how we are doing things, and the documents we're writing themselves. List name: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://oooauthors.org You could take a look at our chapters and our template. Just to see how we are doing it. That might giveyou some ideas. > Since MS has some free templates here > (http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/templates/default.aspx) do you think > we could modify them for OO? Or do we NOT want to associate with them? I can't comment. I don't know what license those are under. Thank you for your other links. I'm CC'ing this email to Jean Weber and Janet Swisher. They are the editors for OOoAuthors. You might be interested in making OOo templates similar to these ones and donating them to the documentation project (documentation.openoffice.org). Cheers, Daniel. > I found these book templates here: > > http://www.self-pub.net/templates.html > > Besides, they promote OO: > > http://www.self-pub.net/resources/software.html > > We could also use O'Reilly's recommended layout for their books since > they publish about open source: > > http://oreilly.com/oreilly/author/ch02.html#tools > > Or HP has some as well: > > http://www.hp.com/sbso/productivity/office/index.html > > If we can't download them, could we point to the URL for people to > download themselves? > > Just helping out, Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
