OK, to cut things short: I will go over the chapters in the GitHub ForWiki folder, trying to eliminate the errors I find. After checking all the chapters I will assemble a PDF to see what happens if I make an ODM from the fixed chapters.
Meanwhile I would suggest to withdraw the published PDF from the mwiki On 2022/06/12 00:16:41 Jean Weber wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2022 at 1:56 AM Keith N. McKenna > <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> wrote: > > > > Jean Weber wrote: > > > The PDF of the Getting Started Guide has many serious formatting > > > errors which I do not see in the chapter ODTs. [...] > > > > > > Jean > > > > > > > Jean; > > > > [...] What sort of formatting errors are you seeing? > > Here is a sample of some things I found. There are many, many more. > PLEASE NOTE that most of these problems are in the full book, but NOT > in the chapter files. > > There are many inconsistent uses of numbered and/or bulletted lists > throughout the book, probably due to incorrect/inconsistent style use. > I am not going to itemize all of them, but here are some examples from > Chapter 1. > Page 19, at the top is a paragraph numbered 1), but the paragraph just > before Figure 15 on page 18 should be 1) and this paragraph 2). > Further down, there is another paragraph numbered 1), as it should be, > but the next paragraph does not have a number, even though it is part > of the same procedure; it should be 2). > Further down, under Saving a Document Automatically, the two final > paragraphs are a procedure and should be numbered 1) and 2). > Page 20, the use (or not) of bullet points is inconsistent, and the > final paragraph is centered but should not be. > > A few random examples from other chapters, after which I gave up looking. > Page 72 (in Chapter 3), under Adding a Movie or Sound, there is an > un-numbered procedure. Further down is an item in a different > procedure numbered 3), but the other items in that procedure have no > numbers. > Under Using Mail Merge, several items should have bullet points. > Page 81 (in Chapter 4), there is an item numbered 4), but the other > items in the procedure have no numbers. > Page 115, list begins with 4) but the actual first list item is not numbered. > > Some lists use numbers followed by a closing parenthesis; some use > numbers followed by a period (full stop). Again, inconsistent style > use, though trivial compared to the random use of numbering at all. > > Other formatting errors are in the chapter files as well as the full > book. Examples (there are many others): > Page 8, the Note is formatted differently from Notes, Tips, Cautions > in other chapters. > Page 20, the final paragraph is incorrectly tagged as OOFigure, so it > is centered but should not be. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
