On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 10:36 AM, jan i <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11 May 2015 at 14:57, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > https://blogs.apache.org/roller-ui/authoring/preview/OOo/?previewEntry=authoring_e_books_in_apache > > > > That requires an editor account for the blog to read. I though there > > was an easy way to rewrite the URL so the preview was public, but that > > does not seem to be working for me. > > > no the preview function is only for the "selected" few. > > > > > > In any case, this is an interview with an author who used AOO for a > > book he recently wrote and has some nice technical hints on how to > > accomplish this with OpenOffice. This should be of interest to many > > of our users/ > > > +1 go for publish. > > rgds > jan I. > > > > > > -Rob > > Looks good. I assume it was an email interview?
I know what he means by the <span> issue, though I haven't explicitly looked for it in OpenOffice. But in MS Word and Sharepoint wiki editor, every time you change font, character size, color, etc., it effectively creates a <span>. Deleting the characters in that set doesn't necessarily eliminate the <span>, and the empty <span>s can accumulate. And of course each <span> needs its own full complement of style attributes. Also, it's sort of instinctive to change a font or size or color "back" to what it was before a particular section by setting it explicitly. Each instance of setting will create a new block that your text goes in. So you'd have a <span> that contains your normal text, then you'd have a <span> inside that that contains your red text, then you'd have a <span> inside that one that contains your back-to-black text. All these <span>s lying around are like sinkholes that things can fall into if you're not careful. Perhaps a couple things that can help with that... - An option to either explicitly or automatically eliminate empty <span>s. - A hotkey to turn off the last style attribute applied. Though again I haven't looked...Does OO already have these? Don
