On Sat, Feb 6, 2021 at 8:21 AM Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > > On 1/24/2021 4:12 AM, Jean Weber wrote: > > I've updated the preface and first two chapters of my book, but I am not > > feeling terribly motivated to continue. I’m finding AOO very clunky and > > lacking in features that I use all the time in LO. OTOH, so little appears > > to have changed since AOO 3.4 that updating has been going fairly quickly > > so far. > > > > Another thought: my book is licensed CC-BY, so AOO docs people could take a > > copy and do your own updating, giving proper acknowledgment to me (and > > changing the title of the book to "Getting Started with AOO 4.1" and the > > author to “AOO Docs Team”). If you choose to go that route, I’m happy to > > contribute what I’ve done so far. > > > > If you're interested, you can download a copy of my v3.4 book here: > > PDF http://taming-apacheopenoffice.com/downloads/TamingAOO34.pdf > > ODT http://taming-apacheopenoffice.com/downloads/TamingAOO34.odt > > > > Jean > > > > You said elsewhere on the list your interest in updating your book was > flagging.If you have chapter files available we could help with this or > take it over entirely. Chapter files would be great help either way as > we have limited resources and could portion it out by chapter to have it > done quicker.
I didn't have separate chapter files, but I just generated them by exporting the full file as a master document. That created an ODM with links to chapter files. One annoyance: because there is a Preface, its file gets numbered 1, then chapter 1's file is 2, etc. It's easy enough, though a bit tedious, to renumber the files (starting with 0 for the preface) and their links in the master doc. Also, the generated chapter files don't have cover pages or ToCs. > On another topic. I had a question on how you packed all the chapters > into the full book. Did you just remove the toc from the chapters and > merge them into a separate file or was there another way to accomplish that? You can do it using a master document, for example the one created in the step of generating chapter files. (I prefer to do it manually.) If you do use a master document, then I recommend exporting the book to ODT after the book is compiled, so you have one file. There are some more steps after that to facilitate the publishing process Later today I will zip up the master doc and chapter files for the AOO4.1 book, some of which contain notes on what I know needs to be done, and some of which have been partially updated by me already (rewriting, corrections, new screenshots). I didn't mark changes when I was doing it, because I wasn't expecting at that point to share the draft. I'll put that zip file on my website and let you know when it's there. (I'm not interested in working out how to use GitHub.) Regards, Jean > > Regards > Keith > > > On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 1:21 PM F Campos Costero <fjcc.apa...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > >> > >> Jean - Thank you for considering this! It would be a very valuable > >> contribution. If you do decide to go ahead with the revision, would you > >> prefer to do the updating entirely on your own or could others help in > > some > >> way? > >> > >> Francis > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:41 PM Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > >>> I'm thinking of updating my self-published “Getting Started” book on AOO > >>> and making it available to the community in free PDF and low-cost > > printed > >>> copy, whether you choose to link to it or publicise it in any way. It > > could > >>> be dual-licensed CC-BY & GPL, but not A2. > >>> > >>> The v3.4 version of this book began in the ODFAuthors group, but after > > AOO > >>> rejected it, I completed it and published it under my own name in 2013. > > It > >>> doesn’t cover the full range of topics as for the old OOo book, but IMO > > a > >>> “Getting Started” book doesn’t need to do that. > >>> > >>> Jean > >>> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
