Mano a Mano:print Mano a Mano as a book
Contents
From Wiki to Word Processor[edit]
- Go to the Mano a Mano:Book page, and save the complete page (with images) on your computer.
- Open your saved copy of the page with a plain text editor (like notepad.)
- Replace everything up to
<!-- begin content -->with<html><body> - Replace everything starting from
<div class="printfooter">with</body></html> - If you will be using Microsoft Word, use the text editor's "Replace" feature to change every
<dt>to<dt><b>and every</dt>to</b></dt> - Save the changes and close the text editor
- Open the modified copy of the page with your favorite word processor
- If you are using OpenOffice.org, export the document as an OpenDocument text file (.odt).
- If you are using Microsoft Word, save the document as a Word document (.doc).
Give it some Style[edit]
To change a style in OpenOffice.org:
- Press F11 to bring up the Styles palette
- Click on the paragraph symbol to select a paragraph style or the 'A' to select a character style.
- Right-click the style and select the Modify option
To change a style in Microsoft Word:
- Open the Format menu and click Style... to bring up the Style dialog box
- Select the style and click on the Modify... button to bring up the Modify Style dialog box
- Use the Format button at the bottom of this dialog to change the style.
- image borders
- If you use OpenOffice.org, there is a blue border around linked images. There is no style for this, so we have to change each image separately. Right-click on the picture, select Picture..., click on the Borders tab, change the Style to -None- and click OK.
- cross-references
- Make the "Internet Link" (OpenOffice.org) or "Hyperlink" (Microsoft Word) style italic, change the Underlining to (Without) or (none) and change the Font color to Automatic.
- definition terms (like this)
- In OpenOffice.org, make the "List Heading" style bold so definition terms are bold. Microsoft Word does not seem to have a style for definition terms (which is why we made them all bold using "Replace" in the text editor.)
- tables
- In OpenOffice.org, change the spacing below paragraphs to 0 for the "Table Contents" style. Some cells should be centered and others should be left-aligned, so the rest of the table formatting needs to be done one-table-at-a-time. Sometimes you will need to top-align data in the bottom row of a table because it gets stretched by text to the left.
- font size
- Use the "Default" (OpenOffice.org) or "Normal" (Microsoft Word) style to resize most of the text. The Header styles may need resizing too.
Page Setup[edit]
- In OpenOffice.org, open the Format menu and select Page...
- In Microsoft Word, open the File menu and select Page Setup...
Pagination[edit]
- Open the View menu and select Print layout.
- Press Ctrl+Enter wherever you want to start a new page.
Table of Contents[edit]
- Click the place where you want to insert the Table of Contents to move the cursor there.
- Open the Insert menu and click on Indexes and Tables... (In OpenOffice.org you actually open a submenu of the Insert menu - which is also named Indexes and Tables - and click on Indexes and Tables... in there.)
- Click on the "Index/Table" (OpenOffice.org) or "Table of Contents" (Microsoft Word) tab.
- Change the "Evaluate up to level" (OpenOffice.org) or "Show levels" (Microsoft Word) option to 2 and then click OK.
