This is probably not a good place to discuss the copyright status of an existing work. It seems to me that the only matters to address here are the technical question concerning how to get chapters starting with the text pages lined up as the OP wants. I am surprised that it requires a Master Document to accomplish, though.
- Dennis MORE THAN YOU MIGHT CARE TO KNOW: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was copyright in 1899 by L. Frank Baum and W. W. Denslow (the illustrator). It was published in 1900. The original is no longer under US copyright (that is, it has entered the public domain). You can still purchase the book. I did that recently, in fact. I first downloaded a free Kindle version, but it didn't have the illustrations. There are versions of the book that have content still in copyright. This includes versions that have newer illustrations and also books that have added content about the history of the book, etc. For example, the book I purchased recently has the an Afterword that is copyright 1987. While that notice at the front of the book is accompanied by boilerplate claiming "No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever ... " it can't apply to content that is not subject to the 1987 copyright. (It happens that the scene I was looking for, and the dialog that goes with it, "... ignore the man behind the curtain," is specific to the motion picture, so I didn't find what I was looking for.) There is no way of knowing, without further information, what the copyright status of the bilingual plaintext is, what the rules are in the jurisdiction where that was produced/is-used, and whether or not the illustrations being added are subject to someone's copyright. -----Original Message----- From: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2012 06:52 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL Hi :) At a guess "The Wizard of Oz" is copyrighted by some fairly hefty people that wouldn't like to see copies of the story floating around unless they got paid for each copy! I'm not even sure they would accept a single "private use" copy. So, i think this list has to officially assume that you were just using that name as an example to give us a rough idea of the sort of size project you are dealing with ;) Many of us are far more familiar with copyleft agreements that aim to help people share and spread ideas and knowledge rather than to try to contain and cage it to prevent people from learning things. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 17/3/12, Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote: From: Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> Subject: [libreoffice-users] Documentation URL To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 17 March, 2012, 13:16 On Sat, 2012-03-17 at 18:41 +0700, John Francis Lee wrote: > Hi, > > I've found a bilingual plain text copy of Wizard of Oz and have set up > the individual chapters, right page/left page with chapter headings. I > found the illustrations as well and will print them separately in color > and just insert them as right pages. > > But how do I put all the individual chapters together to make the book? > > All the chapters begin with a right hand page. I thought I could just > insert each chapter, add a blank left page if need be... although I > thought LibreOffice might be smart enough to put a left page betwen two > right pages... until I was finished. > > If I insert the files into a new file LibreOffice gets stupid and tries > to use the style settings from Chapter 1 for the whole book... it looks > like. > > I tried inserting the chapters as so-called sections, but LibreOffice > got stupid again and used its own idea of style to format the thing. > > Any help appreciated. > > -- > "This message may have been intercepted and read by U.S. government > agencies including the FBI, CIA, and NSA and/or the present government > of Thailand without notice or warrant or knowledge of sender or recipient." > > John Francis Lee > 246/3 Thanon Kaew Wai > Mueang Chiangrai 57000 > Thailand > What you need to do is use Master Documents. The Writer Guide contains a chapter on this topic. Link to this guide below: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications. (FYI: The Writer Guide was written in chapters which were then combined using Master Documents.) -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
