Keith, Thanks for your kind clarification! I pushed the commit with the final versions of the Calc guide chapters. I look forward to learning how to get them on the wiki. Michele and Michael are working on the Impress guide, so we can hope to have another one to post in a couple of months or so.
Francis On Sun, Aug 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM knmckenn...@gmail.com <knmckenn...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > >
