Ron:
-I always thought they looked a bit "old" if
that makes any sense.
I totally agree, the old template does look 'old'. With LibreOffice
being a 'new' product I think it is very important to rebrand and
modernise. An updated font and colour scheme will be very important to
make it appear 'new'.
I would like the documents to use outline numbering <> you would say "Please
reference 7.2 Formatting Paragraphs."
This sounds fantastic. I have found in my work as a professional end
user I always use outline numbering. It makes it look more
professional and brings with it some big advantages for ease of use. I
don't think it would make it unapproachable as Jean suggests as a lot
of end user products now use numbered outlines (See
Wikipedia:OpenOffice.org). I also think this more professional look
would also assist the LibreOffice product in breaking into enterprise
markets.
Jean:
Also, on a practical note: you would need to investigate (test) how to
implement automated numbering in the individual chapter files so it
behaves (doesn't change) when part of a compiled book AND the table of
contents displays the correct section and page numbers. The TOC was the
problem in many systems we attempted to use. For example, I really
wanted to use page-numbering-by-chapter (so the page numbers in the
individual chapter files matched those in the compiled book), but the
TOC in the compiled book wouldn't do it correctly. I haven't checked
recently to see if this has changed.
This is a challenge. The good part is that if the chapter and
numbering system does not allow us to do this we can alter the program
so that it can handle this requirement, and it is a very important
requirement for many professional end users.
Michael Wheatland (Wheatbix)
www.wheatland.com.au