On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 11:25:11AM -0700, Dave Kuhlman wrote: >>> Trent, does it fit your needs? >> I think so, yes, as long as the default styles.odt that Debian >> ships has already had prepstyles run over it. > > Good idea. I've added that to my build script.
Cool. I don't think I've mentioned it explicitly, but I'm (currently) still using the default stylesheet, and am trying to avoid the need for a custom stylesheet. > You may wonder why I keep emphasizing this. You need to understand > that the implementer of odtwriter (me, Dave) is partially color > blind. (reds and green; I can't tell a green banana or peach from a > ripe one) So, anyone who uses the styles.odt without editing it is > using a stylesheet created by someone who is color challenged. Isn't that a good thing? It means you're already doing some of the accessibility testing for us (the users)! > Trent, a question -- When you open oowriter, modify, and save a > file, what paper size does in save? I don't know. I don't actually run oowriter at all. As I mentioned upthread, I'm producing .odt files for sales/management and customers; I personally use the PDF (via LaTeX) because its a toolchain I understand and it produces results that I know > I have not figured out how to set a default page size in oowriter. > Does it have something to do with Templates? Surely oowriter does > not require everyone who does not use Letter size to reset the page > size for every document, or does it? Based on testing described upthread, OO.org maintains its own (internal) locale to default papersize mapping -- so if you have (say) LANG=en_AU or de_AT you get A4, and if you have LANG=en_US or fr_CA you get Letter. Because styles.odt is created in a Letter locale, it gets "stuck" with that setting (until propstyles is used). I suppose there are cases where this is useful, but I think it's just a typical gotcha from a a WYSIWYG word processor. > Of course, you can also use oowriter to set the page size in > styles.odt. And, Trent, since you mentioned that you do not have > oowriter installed on you sub-laptop, you could do that on some > other machine. Agreed; though once the default template (which doesn't specify page sizes) hits Debian I hopefully won't have to. (Actually right now I've just been letting the sales/mananagement staff fix the paper size each time I hand them a new version; I get the impression they do that sort of thing a lot. > And, if I have not said so already, thank you, Trent, for motivating > us to address this problem and for keeping us focused on it. No problem. I'm good at complaining :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
