Tom there *is* a way. Actually more than one way. Read the chapter on templates 
in the Getting Started Guide. One way is to use the Template Changer extension 
to update all the docs in a folder at the same time. 

Jean

On 11/06/2012, at 22:36, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi :)
> I think the problem is that each time he starts working on a new Chapter he 
> has to redo all the settings again, and again for the next Chapter and again 
> for the one after.
> 
> If only there was some way of applying a revised template to multiple 
> documents! :)
> Regards from
> Tom :)  
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Mon, 11/6/12, Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> From: Gary Schnabl <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on 
> template please?
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Monday, 11 June, 2012, 13:28
> 
> You are free to modify the English template yourself however you want. 
> If you desire to set Asian Text Fonts option while modifying the 
> English-language template when adapting it to your language's template, 
> just do it--yourself. It's that simple. Also, you do not require any 
> permissions from anybody to do that.
> 
> Perhaps, there is a problem concerning this, but I just do not see it.
> 
> Gary
> 
> On 6/11/2012 8:08 AM, Alexander Sun wrote:
>> Thanks for these reply!
>> It seems that a friend has misunderstood my suggestion.
>> 
>> Note that I didn't say anything about to alter the English-language template.
>> 
>> English-language template's style and format or something like that,
>> just in the Western Text Fonts' option. There is no relationship
>> between the Asian Text Font and the Western Text Font.
>> 
>> I believe that maybe the author of the template forgot to set the
>> Asian Text Fonts' option(Maybe they didn't realized that one day the
>> guide well translate to Chinese/Japanese/Korean).
>> 
>> So my suggestion is not ALTER anything in the English-language
>> template, just set the  Asian Text Fonts' option while you are at it.
>> 
>> And thanks the Jean's suggestion!
>> 
>> Regards
>> Sun
>> 
>> 2012/6/11, Gary Schnabl<[email protected]>:
>>> On 6/10/2012 10:25 AM, Alexander Sun wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>> I´m in the process of translating the Getting Started Guide to
>>>> Chinese. But there has a little problem here. The Font's size and
>>>> style in template between Asian and Western are different. Every time
>>>> I open a new file and become translating. I must change the font size
>>>> and style first.
>>>> 
>>>> For example, in the OOoHeading 1, the Western text fonts' Style is
>>>> Bold, and the Size is 16 pt. But the Asian text fonts' Style is Book,
>>>> the Size is 12 pt. I must to change the Asian style and size first.
>>>> It's a boring work.
>>>> 
>>>> Could make the Fonts' Size and Style in template become equal between
>>>> Asian text and Western text in NEXT template please?
>>>> 
>>>> Thank you!
>>>> 
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>> Sun
>>> It is a no-brainer for you to alter the "official" English-language
>>> template's paragraph or character styles yourself. It really does not
>>> make a helluva lot of sense to alter the English-language template to
>>> accommodate any other languages.
>>> 
>>> You can change that template to whatever formats you desire on your
>>> language's template . Doing that should only take a minute or so for
>>> each style's changes, and it may not even be necessary to change many of
>>> them if the Default paragraph style is modified first because many of
>>> the others (should) have their fonts and other formats inherited to them
>>> from the Default style.
>>> 
>>> Gary
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 
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