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
    • Option A: (the easy and clean way)
      1. Save the page (save the complete page with images if your browser has that option)
      2. Edit the html source with a plain text editor (like notepad)
      3. Replace everything up to <!-- begin content --> with <html><body>
      4. Replace everything starting from <!-- Saved in parser cache with </body></html>
      5. 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.
  4. Adjust the settings in the word processor for the book format you want.
  5. Remove the borders from the pictures
    • To remove borders from pictures in OpenOffice.org:
      1. Right-click on the picture and select Picture...
      2. Click on the Borders tab in the Picture dialog box
      3. Change the Style to -None- and click OK.
  6. Modify styles. (This is easier than selecting and changing the font settings of individual page elements.)
    • To change a style in OpenOffice.org press F11, right click the style and select Modify.
      1. Make the "List Heading" style bold so definition titles are bold.
      2. Change the spacing below paragraphs to 0 for the "Table Contents" style.
      3. Make the "Internet Link" style italic, change the Underlining to (Without) and the Font color to Automatic.
  7. Fix formatting in tables
    • Adjust the width of the tables where appropriate
    • Center cells where the data should be centered
    • If the bottom row of data in a table is taller than the others, top-align the data in that row.
  8. Paginate the document
    • In OpenOffice.org:
      1. Open the View menu and select Print layout.
      2. Press Ctrl+Enter wherever you want to start a new page.
  9. Create a Table of Contents
    • In OpenOffice.org:
      1. Export the document to OpenOffice.org text (.odt) format, close the html page and open the .odt file.
      2. Open the Insert Menu, select the Indexes and Tables menu, click on Indexes and Tables... in that menu
      3. Change the "Evaluate up to level" option to 2 and then click OK.
  10. Now you have the whole system ready for printing, exporting to PDF, etc.
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