John,
If you intend to rewrite or rework the version 3.6 chapter while
reviewing it, try rearranging some of the subheads so that a user would
not have to look further into the chapter for doing some tasks. IOW,
think of the chapter as being read from beginning to its end, instead of
being a reference guide--perhaps, without having to jump around within
the chapter as with the 3.6 version.
Also, be advised that some commands from version 3.x do not exist any
longer (i.e., were changed in version 4). For example, the "published"
chapter on page styles for version 4 did not detect nor change the
several mentions of the predefined style name "Default" from the earlier
editions that no longer exist in version 4--now, it is "Default
Style"--for the paragraph, character, and page style catalogs. Stuff
like that...
For what I want to do--creating a general-purpose master
document/tutorial for making and laying out print-docs or EPUBs, along
with practical templates with style names similar to those used with MS
Word or Adobe FrameMaker/InDesign (thus, making migration to LO easier),
the version 4.x LO master-document chapter is the one that I am getting
to first.
Gary
On 4/26/2013 5:23 PM, John Smith wrote:
Hi Gary
I'm currently working through WG Chapter 13 Working with Master
Documents.
Regards
JohnS
On 25/04/2013 14:40, Gary Schnabl wrote:
On 4/25/2013 5:56 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
The old lurgy of disappearing pictures seems to have reappeared (or
perhaps just never went away since it's so rare). Someone has just
come up with the idea of adding something to the guides tio help
people avoid it. Would it make sense?
Regards from
Tom :)
Ditto here with disappearing graphics in version 4 (now at version
4.0.3.1 on my Windows 7 system), especially those pictures anchored
as characters. Personally, I anchor graphics as characters only when
adding small graphics inline (such as tiny graphics embedded within a
line of text)--likely the major intended purpose of anchoring
graphics in that manner.
There was some advice in the ODFAuthors guides to anchor pictures in
figures as characters; however, I have rewritten those instructions
whenever I encounter them in my version 4.x revisions of the
Writer-Guide chapters.
On another matter, is anybody currently reviewing the Writer-Guide
chapter on master documents? In my ongoing revisions of chapters and
template redesign (based upon the ODFAuthored published chapters), I
am devising a general-purpose master document/template and
accompanying tutorials--starting from the master document, template,
and page/section considerations and working down to the specifics of
their components (text, figures, and tables, among others). I started
into revising the only "current" published master-document chapter at
ODFAuthors , the 3.6 version. Perhaps, somebody is working on the
version 4 chapter, so that I could then hold my criticism of the
version 3.6 version and apply it to the version 4 chapter, if necessary.
Gary
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