I can see a blog post on this topic coming up. Perhaps I'll have time to write it on the plane. :-)
Jean Begin forwarded message: > From: Jean Weber <[email protected]> > Date: 12 June 2012 7:27:16 AEST > To: "[email protected]" > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on > template please? > > 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 >>>> >>>> -- >>>> >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> >> >> -- >> Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] >> Problems? >> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >> Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >> List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ >> All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be >> deleted >> -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
