OpenOffice Writer - Practice 1

Post date: 10-Jan-2012 07:15:24

The objective is:

1. Create an OpenOffice document containing the text below,
2. Insert 2 pictures of Sigüenza in the document, one at the beginning and one at the end,
3. Insert your name in the heading ("encabezado"),
4. Insert automatic page numbering in the footer,
5. Save it as "name_siguenza.odt" (substitute "name" by your actual name)
6. Export to PDF and
7. Send to the teacher both documents (name_siguenza.odt and name_siguenza.pdf).

Text:

The site of the ancient Segontia ("dominating over the valley") of the Celtiberian Arevaci, now called Villavieja (“old town”), is half a league distant from the present Sigüenza. Livy mentions the town in his discussion of the wars of Cato with the Celtiberians.

The city fell under Roman, Visigothic, Moorish and Castilian rule.

Around 1123 it was taken by Bernard of Agen, its first bishop. Sigüenza played a large part in the civil wars of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The fortress palace of the bishops, an earlier Moorish qasbah, was captured in 1297 by the partisans of the Infantes de la Cerda, and in 1355 it was the prison of Blanche of Bourbon, consort of Peter of Castile. In 1465 Diego López of Madrid, having usurped the miter, fortified himself there.

The last bishop-lord, known as the "mason-bishop", built a neighborhood below the level of the old town in a Neo-Classical style, before renouncing to the temporal lordship.

During the Spanish Civil War, the Francoist Civil Guard fortified the upper castle, while the Republican forces took to the lower cathedral.

(text copied from the wikipedia).

You can look for help on the internet o read this tutorial made by Antonio Pulido, Gabriel Cabrera y Belén Fajardo and published on the Technology website of the IES Villalba Hervás in La Orotava (Tenerife).