On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 18:39 -0600, Ron Faile wrote: > On 12/3/2010 6:15 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > > However, to help others know which LibO chapter files you are working > > on, it's useful to have a login and author role so you can retract the > > LibO files (which takes them off the Review List while working on them) > > and upload the revised files to the OOoAuthors website as well as to the > > LibO site. Otherwise, please mention on this list what you are working > > on, so someone else can keep the OOoAuthors website up to date. > > > > LibO files are here: > > http://www.oooauthors.org/english/libreoffice3/getting-started > > Some are in the Draft folder; some are in the Feedback folder. Ron has > > done some work on the ones in Feedback, but I don't think he's had a > > chance to incorporate the last-minute changes from the OOo chapters. > > > > --Jean > > > Regarding the problem I was having with the page styles not applying > like they are supposed to: > I've narrowed it down to the LibO files I've been working with. The OOo > chapters don't have this problem. I think what happened is that early on > I would sometimes do a select all and ctrl-c to copy all the text in a > file and this crashed my installation of LibO repeatedly. I think this > may have caused the problem with the files. David said he thought he > noticed this too. > > So in that regard I would like to suggest that we start fresh from the > OOo guide files. This would also help get the files up to date and be a > better basis than what I've been working on. Like you said Jean about > using the compare feature, we could take any worthwhile changes I've > made and add them to the updated OOo files. What do you all think? > > If we did do this, what would be the best way to go about it? The new > OOo guides are nice. From what I see, we would only need to change > things like the logo, name, font, web addresses, screenshots and the > like to get them up to speed.
You would need to do more than that, at least in some of the chapters, but it still might be faster to start anew from the OOo chapters. If you do, then DO NOT copy the contents into a new file based on the new template. Instead, use File > Templates > Assign Template in the OOo file to assign the LibO template to it, then do any further tweaking that may be necessary. But first -- name the template WITHOUT a date as part of the filename so further tweaks to the template can be applied automatically to the chapter files. (Anyone reading this who is unfamiliar with the proper use of templates for updating documents is encouraged to read Ch3 of the Getting Started guide.) BTW, although the OOo Getting Started book is published, the OOo Writer Guide is still under development. I'm hoping to get the last of my updates ready for review within the next few days, so you might want to hold off on further work on the LibO Writer Guide chapters until then. Meanwhile, I will nag the OOoAuthors team to review what I've already done on the Writer Guide. --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 ***
