New Chapter Template for LO24

[PeeWee]

Final version of the LO Chapter Template is now available in the Contributors Resources > Chapter Template folder on NextCloud.

The filename is LO24-UG-Chapter-Template.

I will now update the LO user guide template to match the chapter template.

Regards
PeeWee

[ohallot]

Hi @peewee

Thank you for the work on the template. I think it will work on our new books and will allow us to create our sanity check macros.

May I ask you to clean the “Chapter Template” folder? It contains intermediate files and can confuse our writers. The folder should have only the template, I suppose.

Cheers
Olivier

[PeeWee]

Hello Olivier

I will be finishing the User Guide Template today and issuing the template onto NextCloud. I am bringing this template into line with the Chapter Template.
I will also clean up the Chapter Template folder so there is no chance of our volunteers from using the wrong version.

Regards
PeeWee

Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com
Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team

[PeeWee]

The new templates for LO 24 User Guides and UG Chapters are now available on NextCloud in the Contributor Resources > Chapter and User Guide Templates folder.

If anyone has any comments on these new templates, please let me know.

I shall now make a start on the Impress and Draw User Guides for LO24.

Regards
PeeWee

[ohallot]

Hi Peter
I’m coming back to the “Heading 1 First” as indicated by @jeanweber . I added this style to the template, including the explanation in the paragraph styles table.

Olivier

[ohallot]

@PeeWee

Using the Figure style as a caption removes the need to have an extra caption style and Figure is a default style. Figure style is already centrally aligned. The font is now Liberation Sans Italic 11pt.

I think we should keep paragraph style “Caption” in the template, to properly categorize it and make it easier to distinguish from the Figure paragraph just above. The Caption style contents should be centered.

I’m reviewing the Calc guide and the new template has new names for the same style (Text Body is now Body Text, etc…), so there is some extra work to fix.

Olivier

[bantoniof]

@ohallot

I think we should keep paragraph style “Caption” in the template,

@bantoniof

As I have mentioned repeatedly, the captions are assigned by Writer with their corresponding paragraph styles.

The Caption paragraph style is a parent style and as such is intended to modify child styles generic properties and should not be applied except in rare cases.
The Caption style has left alignment if you want to change the alignment of a specific object (table, image formula etc.), you must do it in the corresponding style. (Table, Figure, Formula etc.)

A writer does not have to worry about changing paragraph styles for different captions.

• When a caption is inserted into a table, Writer creates the paragraph with the Table style.
• When you insert a caption into an image, Writer creates the paragraph with the Figure style.
• When you insert a caption into a listing, Writer creates the paragraph with the Listing style.
• When you insert a caption into a formula, Writer creates the paragraph with the Formula style.

Have you read the entire content of the post?

[ohallot]

The point is that a million styles in a document is not a solution, it is a problem.

I think that the caption distinction by object category is too much. “Caption” is enough for our purposes.

Olivier

[bantoniof]

@ohallot

The point is that a million styles in a document is not a solution, it is a problem.

Figure, Table, Listing and Formula are Writer styles, they cannot be renamed or deleted, so they are in all documents, regardless of whether they have a template applied or new styles are created.