On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 00:05 -0600, Ron Faile wrote: > On 11/30/2010 3:28 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > In a very quick look, here are some things I noticed: > > > > 1) There is no page footer and no page numbers. > > 2) Paragraph styles are used inconsistently. > > 3) IMO, the LibO logo on the cover should be smaller. > > 4) IMO, explanations of typographic conventions are unnecessary in > > guides aimed at ordinary users. It's usually obvious what something is, > > and if it's not obvious, then either the something should be written > > differently or it doesn't matter. Pages like this are IMO just > > space-wasting noise in most books... and especially in individual > > chapters. > > 5) Different colours for the notes/tips/cautions is a nice touch, but I > > don't like the gray behind the text on the right: it's harder to read > > onscreen than black-on-white and prints out a bit muddy. > > > > --Jean > I've changed the page styles to the correct ones (mostly), updated the > paragraph styles so they are consistent and made the logo smaller. I > didn't mean for it to sound like I wanted to add a conventions section > to the chapters, just wondering about the formatting they used in the > overall doc. The gray behind the tips text is gone too. > > I've noticed that sometimes when I'm applying page styles, they don't > always change (and sometimes I apply a style to one page and it seems to > change the style on another). And after I change the style on one page, > and I scroll to another page that has a different style and click in it, > the highlighted style in the Styles window doesn't change to reflect the > correct style for that page. Does anyone else experience this? > > Ron >
I will look at one or more of these files to see if I have the same problem. Which of the chapter files have been updated with the latest iteration of the template? --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
