Designing a Book in Open Office

I've been searching for some tools to help me write a book. The word processing tool I intend to use is Open Office, which I find much more elegant and clean when it comes to the use of styles.

Using Open Office, I've been searching the web for tools to improve the design and give hints on writing a book in OO. Here is my list of links:

Overall this is the best link: http://www.linux.com/archive/articles/51448

A basic tutorial on Open Office is Available here: http://www.kaaredyret.dk/openoffice.html

Further resources on taming OO are here: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=27

A general guide to writing a book is available here: http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=18

Experience is http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=8545

There are two ways to write a book: as a single file or as a master document. For information about the single file method see here: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/articles/create_book_template_with_writer

or here: http://maketecheasier.com/layout-a-book-with-openoffice-org-part-1/2009/07/13

Interestingly, the other Open Office apps have styles too: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/graphic-styles-openofficeorg-draw-and-impress

Information on graphic design and pagelayout is on Wikipedia here:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic_design and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_layout

I also use Zotero for references, which I'm finding very helpful. Go here http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Bibliographic/Style

Templates

You can get a full book template here: http://www.lulu.com/content/multimedia/6x9-book-template-for-openofficeorg-writer/232670

The open office templates are here: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/search/node/book

I've downloaded all the templates but I'm not that impressed by the graphical design.

The 'Advanced book template' has space for notes.

One template with active development is here: http://templates.services.openoffice.org/en/node/1577

This is intended for novelists, but has a lot of detailed help, including styles to create notes that won't be part of the final book. There is even a google group

http://groups.google.com/group/open-office-writers