Mano a Mano:print Mano a Mano as a book

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  1. Go to the Mano a Mano:Book page.
  2. Click on Printable Version in the toolbox beneath the navigation options and search form in the left column of the page.
  3. Import the contents of the page into your favorite word processor
    • The easy and clean way to do this is:
      • 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 cache with </body></html>
      • Save the changes, close the text editor and open the html document with your word processor
    • Alternately you could save the the page, open it in your word processor and delete the heading and footer in the word processor.
    • You could also try selecting everything on the page except the header and footer, copying it and pasting it into the word processor.
  4. Adjust the settings in the word processor for the book format you want.
  5. 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.
  6. Paginate the document
  7. 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.
  8. Now you have the whole system ready for printing, exporting to PDF, etc.