Hi John,
John Kaufmann wrote:
Hi Andy,
Thanks, Andy. FWIW, I had looked at this a few months ago, so might
have some useful thoughts on it. It might be useful, but it's not very
OO - which is to say, Solveig uses neither the "Insert > Envelope"
command<*> (which she finds too complicated) nor the "Envelope" page
style (which she does not even mention). Instead, her approach says to
make a template - take as much time as you need to get it right - and
then use it whenever you need an envelope. Besides the fact that it
means a template for every envelope type you use, it is simply too
burdensome for a modern word processor, where users (rightly, IMHO)
expect such a common task to be relatively quick and easy. And, as
mentioned, it ignores such imperfect tools as Writer does provide. I'm
afraid it simply does not inform the current discussion very much.
As I said I have just started and only did a quick scan. It may not be
worth using as a reference. It is true that a template is used but I
see that no different than using templates for other documents. To me
it is faster, once it is setup, than using the "built in" feature.
[<*> Reading it recalled why I started calling that an "envelope
wizard", as Solveig does - but then dropped the term "wizard" because a
list member objected that it is not a wizard. It's a small point, but to
the extent that this is documented, it might be nice to know whether the
documentation team considers "wizard" a proper term for this tool/command.]
I can not find, from a quick scan of the related documents that it is
called a "wizard", the Mail Merge is called a "wizard" but that shows up
in the Title.
Andy
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