[AccessD] Book or writing template

[Rocky Smolin]

You might look at the tech books on your shelf and copy their style. As I
said, get all the content into the word doc first, then make a pass through
the copy formatting as you go.

Once you have all he content the formatting choices will become clear.

R

On Mon, Oct 3, 2022 at 1:17 AM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:

> And what is most irritating, I downloaded the manual for Writer, which is a
> very professionally written manual, good stuff, which states that it is
> written using a template.  Does it provide a LINK to the template it uses?
> OF COURSE NOT.  And so I go play an hour of Empire Deluxe.😜😁
>
> On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 7:08 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Look at this mess...
> >
> > LibreOffice templates help
> > <
> https://extensions.libreoffice.org/?Tags%5B%5D=118&q=&action_doExtensionSearch=Search
> >
> >
> > Hundreds.  Try filtering on book.  NOTHING.
> >
> > Sigh.
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 2, 2022 at 5:08 PM John Colby <jwcolby at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I am trying to write an ebook for my classes and events.  I keep getting
> >> bogged down in formatting.  TBH I have never written a book before and
> it
> >> is a skill I have never mastered obviously.  Anyway, I am trying very
> hard
> >> to use LibreOffice Writer rather than Office Word.  I have googled and I
> >> just don't understand the whole template thing.  I downloaded and opened
> >> several and though they do in fact seem to include 'all you need' what
> they
> >> don't do is teach 'these are the tasks, and this is how you use them in
> >> this template'.
> >>
> >> My challenge is that I do not expect to make any money on this thing due
> >> to the limited audience, and so paying much if anything for a Pro to do
> >> this for me is a problem.  Not to mention that the worse my formatting,
> the
> >> more time such a person would have to spend.
> >>
> >> And so I am reaching out to this forum for advice.  I know that Rocky
> >> wrote his book.  I know that Arthur has written an ebook.  And I know
> that
> >> Susan writes for tech magazines.  So perhaps one of you or others on
> this
> >> list can recommend a good book (ebook / kindle preferably) which
> discusses
> >> the process of writing a book, focusing on using a modern editor to set
> up
> >> everything.  And then discuss which if any template you use for your
> >> writing.
> >>
> >> I am thinking about such things as 'use this font for the main text, use
> >> this for code, use this for notes'.  How to automatically format a
> section
> >> of already written text to be one of those things.  For now I care less
> >> about 'page and paragraph widows and orphans' and all that. Making  a
> TOC
> >> and hyperlinks to get at the correct location would be good.
> >>
> >> I just want to discover 'this is a good template for writing a technical
> >> book, these are the things that a template does for you, and this is how
> >> you get these things done using this template'.
> >>
> >> I have a ton written but I need to make the push to get it done.  It was
> >> written over the years, much of it came from the AccessD emails from
> long
> >> ago, I have cut and pasted various things into a single document, and
> >> therefore I have a mess I need to clean up.
> >>
> >> --
> >> John W. Colby
> >> Colby Consulting
> >>
> >
> >
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