Ubuntu Desktop Starter Guide

[Daniel Carrera]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 07 June 2006 14:32, Daniel Carrera wrote:
> Well that makes two people I now know who consistently use OO.o 
> stylesheets - me and you. I know of the books you wrote, I have the 
> entire collection right here at /mnt/share/books - it's the enormous 
> number of OO.o User Guides, right?

:-)  Yes.  Me and several other people. It was a group effort.

> I found with an 800 page book that I was hitting OO.o's usability 
> limits.

To be fair, at the OO.o User Guides we never had a single 800-page file. 
Each chapter is a separate file and we use a Master Document to tie them 
together. I also think that an 800-page file would hit OO.o's usability 
limits, even with the Navigator and all.

> The style sheets are excellent for smaller jobs like form 
> letters and reports that have an exact format used many times. With 
> book layout, I found it to be an iterative process where I tweak a 
> bit, check the results, tweak some more, etc, etc. Each time this 
> involved reloading the document and you get one chance to get this 
> right. I know what it feels like to take a technology beyond the 
> point it was designed to go, and that book project felt just like 
> that. But to each his own I suppose.
> 
> For the record, OO.o is a damn good product, I've been using it since 
> 1.1.0. I don't blame it for not being a page layout/typesetting 
> program as it isn't one of those.


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