Software for making templates
Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 2:44 pm
There are hundreds of templates that users have kindly uploaded to the Template repository -- but never the one I'm looking for 
That's perfectly normal for a widely-used office package; everybody has different needs and wishes.
Making a template that's consistent and reliable is quite difficult. The scientific company I used to work for had a specialist team to write templates for M$ office. They added useful things like buttons (controls) for commonly used styles. All this is beyond most non-geek users.
Even free software needs, as it were, a selling point, and I was wondering whether it would be possible to have a "build-your-own" template module for Ooo. Rather than explaining what I'd like, I'd refer readers to website building packages such as TOWeb (http://www.lauyan.com/ ) There's a free version that inserts some harmless adverts.
Of course, wordprocessor templates are likely to be more difficult than that, but if you don't ask you won't get...

That's perfectly normal for a widely-used office package; everybody has different needs and wishes.
Making a template that's consistent and reliable is quite difficult. The scientific company I used to work for had a specialist team to write templates for M$ office. They added useful things like buttons (controls) for commonly used styles. All this is beyond most non-geek users.
Even free software needs, as it were, a selling point, and I was wondering whether it would be possible to have a "build-your-own" template module for Ooo. Rather than explaining what I'd like, I'd refer readers to website building packages such as TOWeb (http://www.lauyan.com/ ) There's a free version that inserts some harmless adverts.
Of course, wordprocessor templates are likely to be more difficult than that, but if you don't ask you won't get...