Jean,
I've been reviewing Chapter 13, "Working With Master Documents." Most of it
is good, but I do have a couple of questions:
1). About 2/3 of the screen shots needed for the figures are missing (not
just invisible, but actually not there according to my navigator panel). I
would be happy to work on that. Is it necessary for my Ubuntu version of LO
to be 3.4.5? I'm running 3.5 in Ubuntu and 3.4.5 in Windows XP, but the XP
version is visually not consistent with the screen shots that are already
there.
The problem of pix disappearing completely from the file is one we
encounter often, especially with some of the older files (of which
that is one). Others can help you deal with this (or I can later today
when I have more time), but my suggestion is to use the PDF for
viewing what the pix should be and flagging any that you think are out
of date or different in ways that you think may be significant. That
way you can carry on with the review even if the pix don't behave
themselves. And if the pix do need replacing with more up to date
ones, then taming the old ones is ultimately a waste of time.
For that particular chapter, we'd prefer you use LO 3.4.5 (or 3.4.6),
because there may be some differences in LO3.5 and we want to finish
the Writer Guide for 3.4.
Screenshots in that chapter may be out of date, or there may be a
difference between o/s. It depends on what is "visually different"
about them. Do you have "Use LO Open/Save dialogs" ticked in the
options? Do you have the Galaxy icon set selected in the options?
2). I have noticed one issue on page 18 "creating one file from a master
document and its subdocuments." Figure 19 looks completely different in
Windows. And,in the tip box below Fig. 19; there is no "links" command at
all. I guess my larger question is: How do we typically deal with
differences across platforms?
Usually the differences are trivial and do not need to be mentioned.
We include a generic statement that we are using the LO dialogs, not
the o/s specific dialogs, in the book's illustrations.
In the case of Figure 19, I think it is because you are using the
Windows dialogs, not the LO ones.
As for the Tip, it may be unclear that the reference is to the main
Writer window with the new .odt file open in it.
--Jean