I updated LibO3_3_chapter_template.ott in various. I left change tracking on, so you can see what I proposed.
* It already mentions that names of books and such should use the Emphasized style. Although I recall from grade school treating the names of books and the names of stories differently, I suppose for simplicity we can have just one. But, how would we hyperlink/cross reference the name of a different chapter, or worse yet, the name of a section within a different chapter? * The OTT file already notes that there are styles for Menu Paths and certain UI elements. I saw that they were not always used, and in fact did not notice such a style at first. The template admonishes against ever using Bold and Italic or other changes directly. It states that names of dialog boxes are in plain text. I changed that to refer to a new LibOUiItem style, which I defined to look exactly like the existing OooMenuPath style. Also, use the same treatment on all elements uniformly; buttons are not different from field labels, etc. As for the appearance of the menu path separators, I made a User Field for that. Apparently, as far as I can tell, I can insert text but not associated complex formatting. Is there a fancier mechanism available? So, you need to use the field to insert whatever character and spacing is used, and also apply a character format to just that part. And, the whole of the substitution needs to work with a single style. At least, once that is done, you can change the arrow character, it spacing, and its style globally and it changes everywhere. Related question: does the template changer add-in pull in "User Fields"? Do they normally replicate in the manner of a style change when you open the document again? * What fonts are used? What fonts can/should we use? I noticed another stray bit of formatting in the OTT file: one word was in Bitstream Vera Serif. And in the chapter I looked at initially, the contents of a table is DejaVu Serif and the table headers in DejaVu Sans. Looking closely now, that is not the definition of the styles, so it was applied directly. Is there a tool to show what fonts are being used in the document? It would help identify stray formatting. Likewise, is there a way to identify or search for any ad-hoc formatting, as opposed to text that only gets its attributes from named styles? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
