Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki display of user guides

2007-07-02 Thread Jean Weber
Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The way I've been working with it for the test document... is: - An introductory page for the book (how this book is organized, acknowledgments etc) with a master TOC of chapter titles only. - When a reader clicks on a chapter title they are taken

Re: [documentation-dev] Wiki display of user guides

2007-07-02 Thread Jean Weber
Clayton Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about the Getting Started guide? http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Getting_Started Seems like a good place start. I can put together a top level TOC, and at least one chapter TOC this morning (CET time). If I look at the first chapter of

Re: [documentation-dev] Bibus Biblio References for Term papers

2007-07-02 Thread Jean Weber
Scott Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://bibus-biblio.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page Has anyone used this product? It looks like it could help with references for term papers. I haven't used it, but it's highly recommended often on the Writer Forum and other places by people who

Re: [documentation-dev] Re: [authors] Have you installed OOo3 on Windows?

2008-08-14 Thread Jean Weber
Gary Schnabl wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've noticed that when I install OOo3 on WindowsXP, the installer does not show the file associations page. Is this a change from OOo2.x, or is it something to do with my setup? (I'm not doing a clean install of OOo3, because I'm keeping OOo2.4.1

Re: [documentation-dev] Have you installed OOo3 on Windows?

2008-08-14 Thread Jean Weber
Uwe Fischer wrote: Hi, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I've noticed that when I install OOo3 on WindowsXP, the installer does not show the file associations page. Is this a change from OOo2.x, or is it something to do with my setup? (I'm not doing a clean install of OOo3, because I'm keeping

[documentation-dev] Ping Frank, Clayton: Where to upload PDF user guide chapters for OOo3?

2008-09-25 Thread Jean Weber
I mentioned a few weeks ago that some user guide chapters revised for V3 will soon be coming available. A few now are close to ready, and I intend to have all of the Getting Started guide chapters available by the release date for OOo3 itself, at least in PDF. (Bringing the draft wiki pages up to

Re: [documentation-dev] Notes don't work on wiki if they include a list

2009-01-20 Thread Jean Weber
ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: The problem is not with the HTML formatted list in the note, it was with the obsolete code syntax. I replaced code with source lang=oobas and everything displays correctly. What, then, is the problem with the Tip on this page:

Re: [documentation-dev] Doc Project at the OOoCon 2009?

2009-07-25 Thread Jean Weber
Claytonccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: The OOoCon2009 is coming up fast :-) http://conference.services.openoffice.org/index.php/ooocon/2009 I've registered as a presenter, and will be submitting a paper soon (but I have not yet finalized an abstract). In the past few years we've discussed

Re: [documentation-dev] Wikidoc: Licensing

2009-09-30 Thread Jean Weber
User guides produced by OOoAuthors are dual-licensed: the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later, and the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), version 3.0 or later. We determined that translators and others could use it under the PDL as original documentation. What all that means

[documentation-dev] Re: Cleanup the Doc Project mailing lists

2010-02-01 Thread Jean Weber
Clayton, your proposals sound fine to me. My only concern would be whether there is anything worth preserving in the archives of any of the lists you propose to delete. --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

Re: [documentation-dev] Editing

2010-02-11 Thread Jean Weber
Please note that the wiki version of the Getting Started book has NOT been updated to include the many changes made in the latest edition of the book, so editing on the wiki is a waste of time. The odt and PDF versions are up to date. In general it is best to work on the user guides in their odt

Re: [documentation-dev] Editing

2010-02-12 Thread Jean Weber
I think that's the one. Thanks, Nino. --Jean On Saturday, February 13, 2010, Claire Wood clairedw...@googlemail.com wrote: Thank you Nino, unless I hear differently I'll assume this is the one. Claire On 12 February 2010 15:36, Nino Novak nn...@openoffice.org wrote: On Friday 12 February

Re: [documentation-dev] How-Tos and Tutorials

2010-02-17 Thread Jean Weber
Welcome! I really like your proposed project. I would like to see more how-tos targeted at specific audiences, especially intermediate and advanced users. OOoAuthors may be a good place to work on these. --Jean On Tuesday, February 16, 2010, Anne McGee a...@lod.com wrote: Hello, I'm interested

Re: [documentation-dev] Writing User Guide

2010-02-17 Thread Jean Weber
If you know relational databases you could be of great help on the Base Guide. Please send a blank email to oooauthors-subscr...@user-faq.openoffice.org to sub to the list where that work is taking place. It's also a good idea to sub to dev-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org. Dan Lewis is the

Re: [documentation-dev] Openoffice documentation

2010-02-17 Thread Jean Weber
If you are familiar with spreadsheets, the draft Calc Guide needs help. Please head over to OOoAuthors and introduce yourself. Instructions for subscribing were sent to you earlier. --Jean On Saturday, February 13, 2010, Mike Adams mikeadam...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi Guys Very much like

Re: [documentation-dev] Open Office Documentation

2010-02-18 Thread Jean Weber
The Calc Guide could use some help especially chapters7 9. On Thursday, February 18, 2010, Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: On 02/17/2010 11:25 PM, Stuart Reynolds wrote: Hi, I am a very experienced spreadsheet user and will be looking at your product and trying to put some user

[documentation-dev] Mid level Base tutorial

2010-02-19 Thread Jean Weber
Mariano, I'll reply in more detail re licensing and formatting when I get home from vacation on March 1. Meanwhile I'm glad to see others stepping up to help with editing. --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail:

[documentation-dev] Claire: what to do next

2010-02-19 Thread Jean Weber
Claire IMO work on anything to do with Base or Calc has a higher priority for your talents than the Draw Guide at this time. So Mariano's tutorial or Chapter 7 of Calc Guide would be good. I note that several people have offered to help on the Base tutorial so the group of you need to work out

Re: [documentation-dev] User Guides on Wiki

2010-02-23 Thread Jean Weber
The user guides were converted to mediawiki using the export function that is now in the Sun extension. That is probably the easiest way for you to convert the Italian guides. Of course the figures and the tables of contents must be done by hand and some cleanup of the mediawiki code is sometimes

[documentation-dev] ePub version of our docs

2010-04-04 Thread Jean Weber
I've just done a quick-and-dirty test of converting some of the user guide chapters to ePub format, using Calibre and all its default settings, then viewing the result in Calibre's own viewer. The ePubs came out better than I expected, but they definitely need some tweaking, especially regarding

[documentation-dev] Who is coordinating update of FAQs?

2010-08-27 Thread Jean Weber
Is someone coordinating/driving/monitoring the update of FAQs? If so, who? The Documentation Dashboard says Frank, but that may be out of date. --Jean - To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@documentation.openoffice.org For

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Jean Weber
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: Well, it seems that a very long time ago I created a problem - with my email accounts and registrations with some ooo mailing lists. Specifically with the authors list. Just checked and it seems that for a while

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Jean Weber
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote:  On 08/28/2010 10:47 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com  wrote: Well, it seems that a very long time ago I created a problem - with my email accounts

Re: [documentation-dev] Today's word is Idiot

2010-08-28 Thread Jean Weber
On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Drew Jensen drewjensen.in...@gmail.com wrote: I think that I wasn't clear - I don't mean a bounced message when It fails to post to the list - I mean a normal message. For instance I just sent a response to a question at user list and in a minute it will come

Re: [documentation-dev] Question about regular expressions in Calc Find Replace

2011-01-22 Thread Jean Weber
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 19:28 +1300, Gareth McMullin wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Doesn't work for me. Here are all the steps I did: Format the cells as

[documentation-dev] Re: Status of OOo Admin Guide?

2011-05-06 Thread Jean Weber
On 07/05/2011, at 2:34, Clayton ccorn...@openoffice.org wrote: On 05/06/2011 02:23 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Clayton or anyone who's been involved with the OOo Admin Guide: How out of date is it? What topics are missing? --Jean Basically the Admin Guide was written for 1.x an 2.x.

[documentation-dev] Re: PING Andy: Good work on inquiries

2011-08-23 Thread Jean Weber
On 23/08/2011, at 18:53, TJ Frazier tjfraz...@cfl.rr.com wrote: Thanks for stepping up and handling those new inquiries. I have one question: do you have a way to know whether the poster is or is not subscribed to the list? That is, whether to use Reply or Reply all? I notice that you

[documentation-dev] Update on mailing lists at Apache OOo

2011-09-04 Thread Jean Weber
This note is mainly for those of you who are not subscribed to the ooo-dev list at ApacheOOo, where we are discussing the forthcoming shutdown of the old OOo lists and what lists will be established at AOOo. I have suggested AOOo set up a list similar to the old authors@ooo list, that would cover

[documentation-dev] Re: documentation

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Hello Mileva, Thank you for your interest in helping with user documentation for OpenOffice.org. Please see this page for more information, particularly the section about mailing lists. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Introducing_OOoAuthors Regards, Jean On

[documentation-dev] Re: Looking to contribute to documentation

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Hello, Ashima, Thank you for your interest in helping with user documentation for OpenOffice.org. Please see this page for more information, particularly the section about mailing lists. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Introducing_OOoAuthors --Jean On Sun, Sep

[documentation-dev] Re: I can help

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Hello Marc, Thank you for your interest in helping with user documentation for OpenOffice.org. Please see this page for more information, particularly the section about mailing lists. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Introducing_OOoAuthors --Jean On Tue, Sep 6,

[documentation-dev] Re: User Guide Contribution

2011-10-18 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 01:28, Jordan, Jeffrey jajor...@uncc.edu wrote: To Whom it May Concern, My name is Jeffrey Jordan and I am interested in contributing to the OpenOffice user guide. I am a recent college graduate with a BA in English and a concentration in Technical Communication and I'm

[documentation-dev] Re: openoffice user guide for students

2011-10-19 Thread Jean Weber
Thank you for offering to let us post your students' guide on the OpenOffice.org website. As you may be aware, we are in transition to Apache OpenOffice.org, so there may be a delay before the files get posted to the site. But we are very glad to have them! Meanwhile, I have a question: Your

[documentation-dev] Fwd: openoffice user guide for students

2011-10-19 Thread Jean Weber
Forwarding to the list for information and for action if I am not around later. --Jean -- Forwarded message -- From: David Paenson davepo...@googlemail.com Date: Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 23:44 Subject: Re: [documentation-dev] openoffice user guide for students To: Jean Weber jeanwe

[documentation-dev] Re: Offer to Help Write User FAQs, HOW-Tos User Guide

2011-11-08 Thread Jean Weber
Hi Emma, Not much is happening in documentation at OpenOffice.org during the transition to Apache, and I don't think anyone really knows what direction AOOo docs will take, so for now you might be interested in joining the LibreOffice Docs team and contributing there. --Jean On 09/11/2011, at

[documentation-dev] Re: introducing a writer or editor

2011-12-16 Thread Jean Weber
Welcome, Kevin! Your experience with OOo should come in very useful here. Please refer to my generic note to the list yesterday for some of my thoughts on where the ODFAuthors group could contribute to the Apache OpenOffice documentation efforts. We're a small group and very much need people with

[documentation-dev] AOO How-tos

2011-12-18 Thread Jean Weber
Similar to my note about the FAQs, there is a collection of how-tos on the OOo wiki. These also need to be checked to see if they are out of date. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos That page is also a good place to check if you're thinking of writing a how-to; perhaps

[documentation-dev] Re: AOO How-tos

2011-12-18 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 02:04, Rob Weir robw...@apache.org wrote: On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:37 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Similar to my note about the FAQs, there is a collection of how-tos on the OOo wiki. These also need to be checked to see if they are out of date. http