Hej Steve,
When reviewing the whole book of Calc Guide 6.4, I had some general
remarks about the figures but due to time constraint I did not pass them
on as it could have delayed the guide too much, but now I would like to
comment as follows:
- the figures have sometimes no border, a green border, a blue border, a
black or grey border. I think we should look for consistency for a nicer
appearance.
- sometimes the text in the screenshot cannot be read as texts are too
small; this can be because the figure is too small and can be enlarged
(beware of the resolution) or the object is too big and does not fit on
a page and therefore the screenshot is made smaller. One could consider
in splitting the picture or partly removing unnecessary parts.
Keep up the good work and we will be happy to translate it! FYI 13
chapters of the Calc Guide 6.4 have already been published in Dutch!
Leo
Awarded with an Open Badge for translating LibreOffice by The Document
Foundation
Op 1/08/2020 om 11:41 schreef Steve (GMail):
Hi Gordon,
Many thanks for your thorough first review of this chapter. I'm a
little embarrassed that I didn't spot the erroneous description of the
characters that can be used in sheet names!
I have processed all comments and the chapter is now back in the Draft
folder with no tracked changes, ready for second review.
A few matters arising from your queries and suggestions:
With regards to adding the URL of the Getting Started Guide. As far as
I’m aware we don’t tend to include cross-links like this in any of the
guides. Bear in mind that Calc Guide, Chapter 0 includes a link to the
English Documentation page of the LO website, where copies of all the
guides can be found. If we include the URL for the Getting Started
Guide in this chapter then we’d have to be consistent and include URLs
in any of the chapters that reference other guides. There’s a lot of
these references and I don’t think it would be advantageous to
introduce this extra clutter.
With regards to the differences between the Save As dialog on Windows,
Linux and macOS. I don’t think we need to expand on this because
Chapter 0 states that there will be some differences - “Therefore,
some illustrations will not look exactly like what you see on your
computer display”.
With regards to providing other links about regular expressions. I
think we have now expanded this topic so that it is covered adequately
in the guide. For me, the purpose of our guides is not to provide
exhaustive sets of links to other sites. I don’t think it’s a
copyright issue but we do need to be aware that providing a link can
be interpreted as somehow implying a recommendation. I hope we’ve now
provided enough information for our users to get started with regex
and hence don’t see the need for providing additional links; those
interested can probably discover 100s of links via Google. This is
covered by the existing text “There are numerous websites that include
examples of regular expressions and these provide an endless source of
inspiration and ideas to help improve your data analysis skills”.
With regards to your idea about embedding spreadsheets in the Writer
file for this chapter. In principle of course this is possible but
wouldn’t be very helpful for anybody using a printed copy of the
guide! And I’m not certain how useful it would be in PDF versions of
the document. But beyond that, I am against the idea because of the
work involved in doing it consistently. The examples you’ve cited
happen to be in an area of new text, written for this update. However
throughout that Calc Guide there are many spreadsheets and spreadsheet
fragments; I don’t think it is a worthwhile investment of our time to
go through all chapters replacing relevant images with embedded
spreadsheets, for very little gain. I also feel that the associated
explanatory text (“Double click on the first box below, highlight,
copy, and paste into your own spreadsheet to follow the example”) is
unnecessary clutter because it isn’t hard to follow the examples just
by reading what’s already written. I understand that some readers
might like to try it themselves but we’re writing a guide, not a
workbook.
Regards,
Steve
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I have finished the first review of CG7001-Introduction-SF-GB-30Jul2020,
and it is in the Feedback folder now.
Gordon Bates
berrykevin...@gmaill.com
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