Difference between revisions of "Mano a Mano:print Mano a Mano as a book"
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#** Make the "List Heading" style bold so definition titles are bold. | #** Make the "List Heading" style bold so definition titles are bold. | ||
#** Change the spacing below paragraphs to 0 for the "Table Contents" style. | #** Change the spacing below paragraphs to 0 for the "Table Contents" style. | ||
| + | #* To remove borders from pictures in OpenOffice.org: | ||
| + | #** Right-click on the picture and select Picture... | ||
| + | #** Click on the Borders tab in the Picture dialog box | ||
| + | #** Change the Style to -None- and click OK. | ||
# Paginate the document | # Paginate the document | ||
# Create a table of contents | # Create a table of contents | ||
#* Before you can insert a Table of Contents in OpenOffice.org you must export the document to OpenOffice.org text (.odt) format. | #* Before you can insert a Table of Contents in OpenOffice.org you must export the document to OpenOffice.org text (.odt) format. | ||
# Now you have the whole system ready for printing, exporting to PDF, etc. | # Now you have the whole system ready for printing, exporting to PDF, etc. | ||
Revision as of 06:20, 17 August 2007
- Go to the Mano a Mano:Book page.
- Click on Printable Version in the toolbox beneath the navigation options and search form in the left column of the page.
- Import the contents of the page into your favorite word processor
- Option A: (the easy and clean way)
- Save the page (save the complete page with images if your browser has that option)
- Edit the html source with a plain text editor (like notepad)
- Replace everything up to
<!-- begin content -->with<html><body> - Replace everything starting from
<!-- Saved in parser cachewith</body></html> - Save the changes, close the text editor and open the html document with your word processor
- Option B: save the the page, open it in your word processor and delete the heading and footer in the word processor.
- Option C: select everything on the page except the header and footer, copy and paste it into the word processor.
- Option A: (the easy and clean way)
- Adjust the settings in the word processor for the book format you want.
- Fix anything that doesn't look good.
- Modifying styles is usually easier than selecting and changing the font settings of individual paragraphs.
- To change a style in OpenOffice.org press F11, right click the style and select Modify.
- Make the "List Heading" style bold so definition titles are bold.
- Change the spacing below paragraphs to 0 for the "Table Contents" style.
- To remove borders from pictures in OpenOffice.org:
- Right-click on the picture and select Picture...
- Click on the Borders tab in the Picture dialog box
- Change the Style to -None- and click OK.
- Paginate the document
- Create a table of contents
- Before you can insert a Table of Contents in OpenOffice.org you must export the document to OpenOffice.org text (.odt) format.
- Now you have the whole system ready for printing, exporting to PDF, etc.
