Answer in-line On 2025-08-22 at 20:57, "F Campos Costero" <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: >Keith, >I think I see your point, but you might have used a word other than >"shoddy" to describe the result of my suggestion. Since cross references >seem to get corrupted easily, a document with them has a real chance of >getting damaged and being much less useful even than one with plain text >cross references. > The term shoddy was certainly not meant to describe your suggestion. It was meant to describe the look of different guides using different cross-reference models. My deepest apologies if you felt I was referring to your investigation or your suggestions.
>I'll continue my work by completely finishing the standalone chapters, >making PDF versions and pushing all that to the repository. I'll then be >ready to upload those to the wiki. I'll need to get access to the wiki and >I hope someone can give me some brief instructions on how the uploading is >done. When that is complete, I'll continue to work on the full book. That >will take a while to carefully check all the cross references. > I will make sure that you have access to the wiki and that you understand the process of uploading and placing the Chapters in the right place. I was also thinking that putting a table of figures at the end of each chapter of the book might be a good way to check them. I am considering doing that with the Writer Guide. I will let you know how it works for me. Regards Keith >Francis > >On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM knmckenn...@gmail.com <knmckenn...@gmail.com> >wrote: > >> On 2025-08-20 at 22:54, "F Campos Costero" <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >Well, I haven't found a solution. I confirmed that using a master document >> >does not solve the problem and also tried changing the figure numbers to >> >restart in each chapter. I thought that if the figure numbers did not >> >change from the chapter documents to the book, the cross references might >> >be imported flawlessly. >> >I'm currently deciding between changing the figure numbering to restart >> >with each chapter or eliminating the cross references entirely. Either >> path >> >is a lot of work. The benefit of the renumbering is that the cross >> >references in the book will match those in the chapter document, making it >> >easier to compare. Dropping the clickable cross references seems radical, >> >but it would save a lot of work in the future. I'd appreciate hearing the >> >opinions of others. I'll think about this for at least a day. >> > >> >Francis >> >> Francis, >> >> I think that deleting the cross-references is to radical and could make the >> documentation unusable for some people. Everybody learns in different ways >> and >> removing any of those is detrimental to the purpose of the documentation. >> >> Also it also effects all of the documentation, as having one guide having a >> different layout than others gives the impression that one piece of the >> set is >> shoddy. This means that all of the documentation needs to look the same in >> terms of its layout. >> >> Regards >> Keith >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
