Hi Jean,
Jean Hollis Weber schrieb:
I am preparing to write a (short) book on using styles and templates in
Writer, aimed at intermediate and advanced users.
I like the idea to address advanced users. What kind of authors you will
address? Writing a thesis on a technical subject is quite different from
writing a travel book and different from making a magazine.
Do you will organize your text along examples or along the sort of
styles? For example it is not helpful to tell, that there exists a check
box to activate "Register-true", if someone does not know, that he needs
register-true for the two-column design of his magazine.
It will be based on
Chapters 6, 7, and 10 of the Writer Guide (and possibly Chapter 3 of
Getting Started and relevant bits of other Writer Guide chapters, such
as Ch12 on ToCs and Ch13 on Master Docs), but it will be reorganised,
have more detail, and contain more examples of use.
I had only a quick look at those chapters, so it might be, that I
overlook something that is already there. But here is, what I am
missing, my personally 'wish list':
(1)
Inheritance of style settings and how one can reset inheritance and
determine the actual settings in a style in the 'Contains' section of
the dialog page 'Organizer'.
(2)
Setting the language of the document. Hierarchy of language settings.
Working with different languages in one document.
(3)
Style information in the status bar: Access of page style settings via
status bar, Information about lists and outline.
(4)
Connection between page numbering and page style. Reason of empty pages
and why "Offset" is bad.
(5)
The implicit anchor property of frame styles.
(6)
Hiding style settings by implicit direct settings, when moving objects
with mouse.
(7)
Working with right and left pages. Mirrored alignment.
(8)
All automatism, which are based on styles. For example generating a TOC
based on style. But also the other way round, which style is
automatically used for something, for example hyperlinks, for bullets,
for footnotes, for tables.
(9)
Why and how to use register-true.
(10)
What happens with styles on import and export to doc-format or to
rtf-format?
(11)
Background and borders in style, hierarchy and combining.
(12)
The different ways to use format paint brush.
Kind regards
Regina
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