[odf-discuss] Idea: ODF in 30 seconds

[Daniel]

Hello,

I'm starting a new thread from an idea that arose during Damon's "A Pit 
Bull in the Mix" thread.

IDEA:  Have a series of ODF "study sheets". One sheet of paper, printed 
on both sides. You may have seen similar ones for school subjects like 
Calculus and Algebra. [*]

[*] At the end of this email you will find sample content for the study 
sheet on "Text Documents".

What should we call it?
- ODF in 30 seconds?
- ODF study sheet?
- ???

We can cover every major type of document:

- ODF in 30 seconds:  Text Documents
- ODF in 30 seconds:  Spreadsheets
- ODF in 30 seconds:  Drawings
- ODF in 30 seconds:  Presentations

And we can also cover particular technologies:

- ODF in 30 seconds:  Odfpy - ODF in Python
- ODF in 30 seconds:  OOdoc - ODF in Perl
- ODF in 30 seconds:  odftools - ODF for SysAdmins

We could have these as a free download in ODF/PDF format and also offer 
to sell professionally printed versions at 4€ each plus shipping. All 
funds go to support Fellowship activities. I doubt we'd get rich doing 
this, but it might be fun.

What do you think?

------// ODF in 30 seconds:  Text Documents //--------
What you should know:  HTML, OpenOffice.org (OOo).

Learn HTML at http://www.w3schools.com/html/
Learn OOo at http://oooauthors.org/en/

<heading> Basic Steps </heading>

1. Using OpenOffice, create a blank document and save it as 
"template.odt". Don't forget to turn the page and look at "Styles: Bold, 
Italics, Underlined, Colour..." to improve your template.

2. Unzip the file in a separate directory. One of the files created is 
content.xml

3. In a new text file, write your document as if it were HTML, using the 
TABLE 1 below.

4. Put your document inside the <office:text> tags in content.xml

5. Zip the file again and voila! You've made your very own ODF file.

---- start table ----
TABLE 1: ODF for HTML coders.
   Paragraphs:
     <p> ... </p>   Becomes...  <text:p> ... </text:p>

     <br/>          Becomes...  <text:line-break/>

   Text

   Headings:
     <h1> ... </h1> Becomes...
     <text:h text:style-name="Heading_20_1"> ... </text:h>

     Same for h2, h3, ...

   Lists:
     <ul> ... </ul> Becomes...
     <text:list text:style-name="L1"> ... </text:list>

     <ol> ... </ol> Becomes...
     <text:list text:style-name="L2"> ... </text:list>

     <li> ... </li> Becomes...
     <text:list-item> <text:p> ... </text:p> </text:list-item>

   Tables:
     <table> ... </table> Becomes...
     <table:table> ... </table:table>

     <tr> ... </tr> Becomes...
     <table:table-row> ... </table:table-row>

     <td> ... </td> Becomes...
     <table:table-cell> <text:p> ... </text:p> </table:table-cell>
---- end table ----

<heading> Styles: Bold, Italics, Underlined, Colour... </heading>

With ODF you can define styles, similar to CSS, to make the text more 
interesting.

Step 1: Add a style to your template:

1. Open your template (template.odt).
2. Press F11 to open the Stylist.
3. Click on the second button to go to "Character Styles".
4. Create a new Character Style that makes text bold and blue-coloured. 
Call the style "Bold_Blue".
5. Save your template again.

Step 2: Use the style in your document:

Now you can create text that is bold and blue coloured with:

  <text:p>
   <text:span text:style-name="Bold_Blue"> This is bold blue </text:span>
  </text:p>
--------------// END STUDY SHEET //-------------------

Cheers,
Daniel.