I have made a mock up document with the LibreOffice branding and colour scheme. It also includes the number outline system, which personally I love the professional look.
https://docs.google.com/fileview?id=0B93nEslnhQO_YjAwMDE1ZDctNDM3MC00MTE0LTk5NDItNzlhZGFjNWQyODlh&hl=en&authkey=CKSL9MgJ What do you all think? On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Michael Wheatland <[email protected]> wrote: > Ron: >>>-I always thought they looked a bit "old" if >>> that makes any sense. > > I totally agree, the old template does look 'old'. With LibreOffice > being a 'new' product I think it is very important to rebrand and > modernise. An updated font and colour scheme will be very important to > make it appear 'new'. > >>> I would like the documents to use outline numbering <> you would say "Please >>> reference 7.2 Formatting Paragraphs." > > This sounds fantastic. I have found in my work as a professional end > user I always use outline numbering. It makes it look more > professional and brings with it some big advantages for ease of use. I > don't think it would make it unapproachable as Jean suggests as a lot > of end user products now use numbered outlines (See > Wikipedia:OpenOffice.org). I also think this more professional look > would also assist the LibreOffice product in breaking into enterprise > markets. > > Jean: >> Also, on a practical note: you would need to investigate (test) how to >> implement automated numbering in the individual chapter files so it >> behaves (doesn't change) when part of a compiled book AND the table of >> contents displays the correct section and page numbers. The TOC was the >> problem in many systems we attempted to use. For example, I really >> wanted to use page-numbering-by-chapter (so the page numbers in the >> individual chapter files matched those in the compiled book), but the >> TOC in the compiled book wouldn't do it correctly. I haven't checked >> recently to see if this has changed. > > This is a challenge. The good part is that if the chapter and > numbering system does not allow us to do this we can alter the program > so that it can handle this requirement, and it is a very important > requirement for many professional end users. > > Michael Wheatland (Wheatbix) > www.wheatland.com.au > -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
