Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?

[Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>]

I can see a blog post on this topic coming up. Perhaps I'll have time to write it on the plane.  :-)

Jean


Begin forwarded message:

> From: Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>
> Date: 12 June 2012 7:27:16 AEST
> To: "documentation@global.libreoffice.org" <documentation@global.libreoffice.org>
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?
> 
> Tom there *is* a way. Actually more than one way. Read the chapter on templates in the Getting Started Guide. One way is to use the Template Changer extension to update all the docs in a folder at the same time. 
> 
> Jean
> 
> On 11/06/2012, at 22:36, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Hi :)
>> I think the problem is that each time he starts working on a new Chapter he has to redo all the settings again, and again for the next Chapter and again for the one after.
>> 
>> If only there was some way of applying a revised template to multiple documents! :)
>> Regards from
>> Tom :)  
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> --- On Mon, 11/6/12, Gary Schnabl <gschnabl@swdetroit.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From: Gary Schnabl <gschnabl@swdetroit.com>
>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?
>> To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
>> Date: Monday, 11 June, 2012, 13:28
>> 
>> You are free to modify the English template yourself however you want. 
>> If you desire to set Asian Text Fonts option while modifying the 
>> English-language template when adapting it to your language's template, 
>> just do it--yourself. It's that simple. Also, you do not require any 
>> permissions from anybody to do that.
>> 
>> Perhaps, there is a problem concerning this, but I just do not see it.
>> 
>> Gary
>> 
>> On 6/11/2012 8:08 AM, Alexander Sun wrote:
>>> Thanks for these reply!
>>> It seems that a friend has misunderstood my suggestion.
>>> 
>>> Note that I didn't say anything about to alter the English-language template.
>>> 
>>> English-language template's style and format or something like that,
>>> just in the Western Text Fonts' option. There is no relationship
>>> between the Asian Text Font and the Western Text Font.
>>> 
>>> I believe that maybe the author of the template forgot to set the
>>> Asian Text Fonts' option(Maybe they didn't realized that one day the
>>> guide well translate to Chinese/Japanese/Korean).
>>> 
>>> So my suggestion is not ALTER anything in the English-language
>>> template, just set the  Asian Text Fonts' option while you are at it.
>>> 
>>> And thanks the Jean's suggestion!
>>> 
>>> Regards
>>> Sun
>>> 
>>> 2012/6/11, Gary Schnabl<gschnabl@swdetroit.com>:
>>>> On 6/10/2012 10:25 AM, Alexander Sun wrote:
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>> I´m in the process of translating the Getting Started Guide to
>>>>> Chinese. But there has a little problem here. The Font's size and
>>>>> style in template between Asian and Western are different. Every time
>>>>> I open a new file and become translating. I must change the font size
>>>>> and style first.
>>>>> 
>>>>> For example, in the OOoHeading 1, the Western text fonts' Style is
>>>>> Bold, and the Size is 16 pt. But the Asian text fonts' Style is Book,
>>>>> the Size is 12 pt. I must to change the Asian style and size first.
>>>>> It's a boring work.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could make the Fonts' Size and Style in template become equal between
>>>>> Asian text and Western text in NEXT template please?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you!
>>>>> 
>>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>> Sun
>>>> It is a no-brainer for you to alter the "official" English-language
>>>> template's paragraph or character styles yourself. It really does not
>>>> make a helluva lot of sense to alter the English-language template to
>>>> accommodate any other languages.
>>>> 
>>>> You can change that template to whatever formats you desire on your
>>>> language's template . Doing that should only take a minute or so for
>>>> each style's changes, and it may not even be necessary to change many of
>>>> them if the Default paragraph style is modified first because many of
>>>> the others (should) have their fonts and other formats inherited to them
>>>> from the Default style.
>>>> 
>>>> Gary
>>>> 
>>>> --
>>>> 
>> 
>> 
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