oskusalerma/trelby — Issue #122: Title pages dialog needs to be reworked/simplified
Author: anilgulecha
Created: 2012-02-26 03:59:20+00:00
State: open

Anecdotal evidence from a professional writer.

> 4- Sorry to keep harping on the title page wizard, but I'm still having
> issues with it.
>
> At the most basic, I suggest that the default format should include lines
> for a repeat of the author name, street address, plus phone and email
> address. Or at the very least, if you add lines everything should space down
> automatically. I tried to add lines manually, but the whole 4.6 units per
> line and the X/Y axis thing, overtaxed my brain and I ended up with
> overlapping lines.
>
> Believe me, you REALLY don't want to force the average writer to do math or
> geometry (writers who are also programmers are excepted). No matter how
> simple the calculations may seem, we're a notoriously numbers and
> spatially-challenged bunch (seriously! So said my prof in educational psych,
> all those years ago) so this kind of thing has to be idiot-proof, with as
> little number manipulation involved as possible.
>
> Also, many script formats require the address information to be on the
> right-hand side of the page. Is there a way to add a flush-right command?
>

The first time I used our title page, I found it to have taken an extreme position on the flexibility/simplicity scale.

Here's perhaps a design that's much easier for the first-timer.
![Mockup](http://i.imgur.com/ACyCI.png)

Maybe we could add another dropdown for font.

(tagging: oskusalerma)