Earlier (around the end of June) I proposed changes to the Getting
Started guide. That generated some discussion, and someone is working on
a draft revision.
Now I am proposing that we split the Writer Guide into two volumes, as
follows:
1. Essentials
This volume would contain most of what is in Chapters 1 through 12 (but
not bibliographies and possibly not indexes) of the current Writer
Guide, plus Appendix A, some basic field info (for page numbers etc in
headers and footers, and for cross-references), and a new section on
using Writer to write/edit email. Might be some other things people
commonly do that are not covered in the current book, that should be
added.
Probably this would include some reorganisation of topics within
chapters and/or the sequence of chapters in the book.
2. Extras (or Advanced?)
This volume would contain Chapters 13 through 16 of the current book,
plus the bibliographies section of Chapter 12 (and possibly the indexes
section of Ch12), new information on linking or embedding spreadsheets,
audio, and video in Writer documents, info on macros (especially
recording), possibly info on xforms. May be other topics to include,
such as Writer/Web.
Depending on the reactions to this proposal, I will post a draft set of
tables of contents.
I will also soon put all of this on the wiki, if I haven't done so
already. (I keep thinking I put the Getting Starting Toc on the wiki,
but I can't find it.)
--Jean