On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 11:56 +1000, Jean Weber wrote:
> On 12/01/2012, at 8:44, Dan Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 06:47 +1000, Jean Weber wrote:
> >> On 11/01/2012, at 22:13, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi Dan :)
> >>> Normally we wouldn't do this but would it be good to upload those
> >>> incomplete chapters or works-in-progress to the wiki?
> >>> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
> >>> Updates could always be uploaded to replace them later?
> >>> Regards from
> >>> Tom :)
> >>
> >>
> >> Could also (or instead) put them on the ODFAuthors website.
> >>
> >> I have no objection to putting the Base Guide drafts on the wiki, but I
> >> suggest not on the same page as the officially published docs -- unless
> >> clearly marked as DRAFTs.
> >>
> >> I've seen a lot of confusion (and accusations of poor quality) from people
> >> who get hold of user guide drafts thinking they are finished documents.
> >> They get passed around from one user to another and not everyone realises
> >> there might be a more up to date version or where to get it. Of course,
> >> some of our "finished" docs are a bit rougher than we'd prefer, but that's
> >> a separate problem.
> >>
> >> Jean
> >
> > Then again the drafts can be clearly marked as drafts using a
> > watermark? Just a thought.
> > Then again, chapters 2-4 are written for OOo and need some
> > modifications before they will be ready for LO "use".
> > I going to think about this during the evening and annouce what I
> > will be doing in the "morning" (by 1400 UTC).
> >
> > --Dan
> >
>
>
> Yes, and I'm thinking that this would be a very good thing to do. Put it in
> the header or footer, not as a "watermark" as such, much as I did for the
> "Free eBook Edition" notice on some of the OOo PDFs. That way it's obvious
> but doesn't interfere with the text, and it's quick and easy to remove when
> we declare the document "final".
>
> Jean
Here is what I have done: I have made two graphics containing the
word "Draft". I made the larger graphic the background for the Chapter
page which shows Draft 2 cm in height at the bottom of the page.
(Selected position instead of Tiled or Area, and then selected the
bottom center position.) I made the smaller graphic the background for
the OOoFooter adding tab spaces in the footer to increase the number of
lines so that the word Draft appears in the center of all the footers. I
the created a header and modified it in a similar way. So, every page of
the text had the word Draft at the top and bottom.
To undo all of this takes only a few steps.
1) Remove the background for the title page (OOoFirst Page).
2) Remove the background for the footer style (OOoFooter).
3) Remove the extra tab spaces so that the footer contains only one
line.
4) Remove the header in the OOoPage style.
One more question: where should these draft chapter be placed so
they will be available without having to have sign into ODFAuthor?
--Dan
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