/new_home_for_sun_documentation for
some more information.
Uwe
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Hello, authors.
For the first time, a web based Wiki Help was started for OpenOffice.org
/ LibreOffice software.
In the OpenOffice.org Help Tips and Tricks blog at
http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/web_based_help I wrote down some ideas
that crossed my mind.
What do you think?
Uwe
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Hi,
scanning through very old issues, I found
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24022
about a Book Review project.
A first page was created at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/book_reviews/books.html
Now, with the Wiki, it might be a good idea to revive this project?
Every user
Hi all,
please feel free to submit issues regarding the installed Help using
Issuezilla: http://qa.openoffice.org/ooQAReloaded/ooQA-ReportBugs.html
If you don't speak Issuezillanean you can e-mail your issue to me.
As an exception you may post the issue on this mailing list.
Unfortunately,
On 02/05/10 09:38, Clayton wrote:
On 02/02/2010 03:21 AM, Pub Coord wrote:
Here is a first draft of chapter 1. I have the first 9 done and more to
come. Would the “community” be interested?
Hi Bill.
The community would love to have the documents localized into all
languages :-)
The
On 27.01.2010 16:40, Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe,
I have two issues in the help file you find under Recognizing;colons and
row labels.
- The graphic is truncated whatever the language.
- The French graphic is wrong because it displays 'Ligne 1' instead of
'Ligne un'.
Do I open 2 issues and do you
the first time you browse to
that page, but cut off at half of column A later on. Might be something
like issue 90395.
thank you for finding reporting this.
Uwe
On 27.01.2010 17:15, Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe,
Uwe Fischer wrote:
On 27.01.2010 16:40, Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe,
I have two issues in the help
On 12/03/09 19:39, Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe,
In the file /text/shared/01/extensionupdate.xhp, the numbered list is
not well formated, and this make the help quite difficult to understand,
see:
If updates are available, the updates can either be installed
Clayton wrote:
I've been looking through the Wiki Policy page, and I think large
sections of it are generic enough to become general Wiki Help pages.
The best way (in my opinion) to be sure we're not loosing content or
duplicating our efforts is to transclude the content... which way is
better
Hi,
Sophie wrote:
...
I was not speaking of spaces but about the emph/ that appears in this
string for example :
Chooseemph/ item type=\menuitem\Edit - AutoText/item.
I know that you change emph to item, and this cannot be rolledback,
but this emph/ appears at several places in
On 09/07/09 15:28, Rafaella Braconi wrote:
Hi Andre'
On 09/07/09 15:22, Andre Schnabel wrote:
Hi,
Original-Nachricht
Von: Rafaella Braconi rafaella.brac...@sun.com
We need to know if we should roll back the changes listed
above that were introduced with m57
Hi,
On 09/04/09 15:55, Clayton wrote:
...
If we argue that we can use Writer as a DocBook editor (it is
technically possible to export DocBook from Writer), then why bother
with DocBook? Do the docs right in ODT.
No matter which way we go (Wiki, DocBook, or something else), we will
have
On 08/27/09 10:37, Gary Schnabl wrote:
I'll add a pair of Microsoft Word: Sections -- OOo: Page Styles to
the Help at index Microsoft Office;feature comparisons.
Did not know Word so good that I recognized that this may be a problem
for some users.
Uwe
This might help: the English version
Well,
a section can contain a section can contain a section ... This is the
reason for the hierarchical display in Edit - Sections dialog.
And the order of the section names in that dialog seems to be
alphabetically.
So what was the problem?
That page layout and page style problem doesn't
Hi,
Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe,
Jean-François Philip, one of our QA tester (in copy of this mail) has
reported a missing information in the HC2 file concerning the time
format [HH]:MM:SS that allow you to display hours beyond 24 hours. He is
proposing the following text, that I've tried to
On 08/12/09 20:01, Sophie wrote:
Hi Uwe, all,
I'm currently working on the OLH files for 3.2. In the shared/01.po
files there is :
#: 06050100.xhp#par_id3156042.help.text
msgctxt 06050100.xhp#par_id3156042.help.text
msgid link href=\text/shared/01/05030100.xhp\ name=\Indents
Spacing tab
Hi,
you certainly already know there is an ongoing project Renaissance [1]
to improve the user interface of OpenOffice.org.
Several design proposals have been submitted by community members. At
least one proposal by Miroslav Mazel [2] also mentions the Help. Here
are some paragraphs from
Hi,
On 05/20/09 09:51, Per Eriksson wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone have a comment to this page in HC2?
The Swedish community has noticed that there is an article in help for
Draw stating the following:
Delete layer
Deletes the active layer.
To access this command...
Choose Edit - Layer -
Hi,
On 04/04/09 09:11, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I'm writing a section for the Calc Guide about linking from a
spreadsheet to external data. I found a page in the help titled
Inserting External Data in Table (WebQuery) which explains what to do
The WebQuery works the other way round: data
On 04/06/09 11:45, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
... I have just written a web page, with illustrations.
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/newsite/?page_id=633
Would be good if you check it to see if I made any mistakes. (It's also
now part of a draft chapter of the Calc Guide and will appear
Ain Vagula wrote:
and more:
a lot of strings came with last updates like:
Tools - Autocorrect Options
There is no menu entry Autocorrect Options, right were Tools -
Autocorrect - Options (the tab)
yes there is :-)
it came in with the community submitted patch of CWS menuchanges
integrated to
Hi Ariel,
On 01/22/09 01:17, Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Setting this up can be very simple, or an odyssey (no middle term). First
time I tried on other system it was very easy, now on Fedora 10 the file
coulnd't even be installed due to an issue in the installer, so I had to
edit the binary
Hi,
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Hello Jean,
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 22:33, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
in theory, all movie and sound files that your default browser can play
should also be playable in Draw and Impress.
I think you mean default media
Hi Sophie,
On 01/20/09 09:45, sophie wrote:
In HC2 for DEV300_m39, there is a strange notation for graphics size,
I'm not sure it is correct or without consequences or if you want me to
file an issue :
#: 0004.xhp#par_id3156315.help.text
msgid image id=\img_id3156322\
Hi,
On 01/18/09 22:16, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Can anyone assist me in writing a specific section of the OOo3 Impress
Guide?
...
For example, I'm totally unclear on the difference between Insert
Movie and
Sound versus Insert Object Sound (or Insert Object Video). I can
get
the first to
On 01/19/09 12:45, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
If there is info in the Help, I've been unable to find it, and some
of what I
have found doesn't seem to correspond with what I see in WinXP.
please send me some pointers to the incorrect Help pages
Hi T. J.,
On 01/19/09 13:32, T. J. Frazier wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
On 01/19/09 11:44, T. J. Frazier wrote:
Clayton wrote:
BTW: I thought the Alphabetic List of Functions, Statements, and
Operators would be generated automatically. Do you really have to fix
that by hand?
Which list
Hi,
On 01/19/09 16:27, Clayton wrote:
The functionality JHW and I are using (Export to MediaWiki) seems to be
built into V3.0. I haven't installed the extension, nor does it show in
the Extension Manager. The File format list box on the Export dialog
shows MediaWiki (*.txt) as the option we are
Hi,
* explanation about how to declare new types is AFAIK missing (I
couldn't even find it in the office Help):
Type aMenuItem
aCommand as String
aText as String
End Type
Sub Main
Dim maItem as New aMenuItem
With maItem
.aCommand = .uno:Copy
.aText =
On 01/08/09 22:26, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Even though hundreds of people are members of OOoAuthors and/or the OOo
Documentation Project, very few actually contribute to writing,
reviewing, or editing of user-documentation content (whether for books
or on the wiki). A few years ago OOoAuthors
Hi,
all those meta text strings
{ENTER ALTERNATE DESCRIPTION HERE}
should be
Icon
instead. Translate them as you did with all the other Icon meta text.
We are currently investigating how this could happen.
Uwe
On 12/22/08 15:17, sophie gautier wrote:
Hi Clayton, Uwe,
Could we have an
On 12/08/08 15:49, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
Thank you and Frank for this :) I didn't noticed the More... link at
first sight, I think the first reaction is to click on the more
prominent link, so I for myself, prefer the first proposal you made
with less to read at the first look.
Hi,
On 11/18/08 11:06, Cor Nouws wrote:
Hi Frank,
Frank Peters wrote (18-11-2008 10:11)
At the OOoCon I was in a small group with some ideas about it.
The project is on hold, there were some ideas but we came against
some obstacles, both technical and legal that needed to be resolved.
If
On 11/12/08 17:15, Shampa Bhattacharyya wrote:
Hello All,
Just joined OOo documentation team!
Being technical writer for the past three years I never had an opportunity
to work on open-source documentation. Though new to OOo I am eager to learn
and extend my help in any of the documentation
On 10/28/08 09:27, ccornell - OpenOffice.org wrote:
On 10/28/08 02:10 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On this page http://documentation.openoffice.org/contributing.html at
the bottom is this statement: Once you have received Developer
status, you will need to get CVS access. This page has links
Hi,
On 10/20/08 17:31, amaloney wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
some authors of OOo documentation may have read or missed the following
discussion in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Max, who is a very respected code contributor (we all must thank him for
the fine new notes in Writer) wants to change
Quoting Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
some authors of OOo documentation may have read or missed the following
discussion in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list.
Max, who is a very respected code contributor (we all must thank him
for the fine new notes in Writer) wants to change the names and
positions
On 10/09/08 12:12, Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi,
there was a Community Innovation Program contest, and several winners
from the Documentation category were announced.
Congratulations to all winners!
But now I'm trying to find the winning documents somewhere. Even Google
did not help much
On 09/28/08 00:43, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
do you think we have enough documentation about using OOo in different
languages, writing systems, locales?
...
Jonathon Blake wrote a document titled OOo in a Multi-Lingual
Environment, but I don't know where the latest
Hi Cor,
On 09/26/08 08:51, Cor Nouws wrote:
In Writer choose Tools|Options|OOoWriter|Compatability. Now choose any
of the options and click Help.
The info explains the setting from StarOffice 6/7 with OpenOffice.org 3.0.
The problem is OpenOffice.org 3.0 : the options have changed in
Hi,
do you think we have enough documentation about using OOo in different
languages, writing systems, locales?
The application help just covers the very basics. Look for the index
word CTL in the installed help, for example, or search for Asian
keyword.
This certainly is not sufficient
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 OOo2.4.1 on the machine as
Hi,
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi Jean,
Jean Weber wrote:
Thanks, Uwe. Does this mean the file associations page will be in the
installer when the program is released? I just want to know what to
put in the user guides! :-)
I remember a recent discussion somewhere - sorry, cannot find it right
Hi,
Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:
There is no extended tip for the menu View Notes in Writer.
this new command will be documented in the next release of OOo.
Uwe
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Hi,
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I've done a quick-and-dirty sample of a 2-column layout for producing
PDFs instended for onscreen reading. Text font size increased to 13. No
indentation from column margin. Other tweaks would improve it.
...
Would appreciate some feedback, especially from those
Hi,
many issues exist for subcomponent How To, owner
[EMAIL PROTECTED], most in the state new, submitted in 2004.
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/buglist.cgi?issue_type=TASKcomponent=documentationissue_status=UNCONFIRMEDissue_status=NEWissue_status=STARTEDissue_status=REOPENED
I would
Original Message
Subject: [documentation-dev] Translation of German PDF Export Guide
into English wanted
Date: Mon, 05 May 2008 13:54:20 +0200
From: Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: dev@documentation.openoffice.org
Hi,
in issue http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=73884
Hi,
sophie wrote:
Hi all,
The link [1] that is indicated in the section 4 of the how-to Adding
more language [2] is not the good one, this one is listing the available
dictionnaries. Thhis should be this link [3], but all the language packs
are not available and there is no place (I think)
Hi,
Ain Vagula wrote:
I have one suggestion for OLH. Please keep starting and ending spaces
and ending punctuation outside of tag content.
Example:
Bad: Click emphOK /emphto do something.
Good: Click emphOK/emph to do something.
thank you for your suggestion of cleaning up tags.
I can find
Hi,
sophie wrote:
Hi Frank,
Sorry for the delay,
Frank Peters wrote:
Hi Sophie,
In the second handoff of l10n, swriter contains a link to the specs [1].
Sorry to come again with that, but there is no licence on the specs,
so are we allowed to translate the relevant content in the wiki or
Hi,
Martin Hollmichel wrote:
Hi,
I just noticed that in Getting Support in the OpenOffice.org Help
there is just a link to www.openoffice.org instead of
support.openoffice.org. I'm afraid we are loosing many users on the
way from www.openoffice.org to support.openoffice.org and get their
Hi,
Frank Peters wrote:
Hi Sophie,
Working on the HC2 l10n of 3.0, there is some blog links (to OOo TNT
if I remember well :) inside to give more help on special features.
Those blogs entries are great of course, no question here, but very
difficult for us to localized, where the wiki page
Hi all,
scanning through old and open documentation issues, I found this one:
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=24022
Obviously this is a project to be cared for, so that the current page
http://documentation.openoffice.org/book_reviews/books.html
can get populated and then
Hi,
sophie wrote:
Hi Alex, all,
Alex Thurgood wrote:
Frank Peters a écrit :
Hi Frank,
- Switching languages in the wiki should be an easy thing
provided we agree on one common schema:
o the localized pages sit in a defined hierarchy so URLs
to switch languages are easily generated
Hi,
Regina Henschel wrote:
Martina Waller schrieb:
My first approach was to look into the inconsistencies of the current
help style. colon is mentioned in the other places because currently
we have several cases where the Syntax and Example headings as
well as the arguments are followed by a
Hi Ariel,
Ariel Constenla-Haile wrote:
Frank Peters escribió:
Hi Ariel,
as you may all know, OpenOffice.org's Help system is going to be
extended to support extension's help:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Extensible_Help
Hi,
when you go to the Find tab page of the OOo help viewer and search for
captions, you get a list of pages where that word can be found.
Additionally you also get pages where that word is not visible, but it
exists only as an index word as in captions; see 'call outs'
There are some more
Hi Mark,
welcome to the documentation list!
Mark David Anthony Sr. wrote:
I'm working on a documentation team for a software development company,
and its a new position for me. We're using openoffice and knowledgetree.
I have the need to do a concordancer-like search (like Adobe Reader
does)
Ain Vagula wrote:
- in shared/01/06040100.xhp:
Text will be replaced after you type a trailing white space (space, tab, or
return). In the following table, the A and B represent text consisting of
letters A to z or digits 0 to 9.
...
I will replace those A to Z with ascending / descending
Hi,
Frank Peters wrote:
Uwe Fischer wrote:
The Sun Getting Started Guide does not fit in to OOo documentation.
It was written months before the first release of OOo 2, thus it is
very outdated. And it will be updated only when and if Sun marketing
demands this. The included installation
Hi,
Ain Vagula wrote:
Frank Peters wrote:
There is an issue for the broken full text search engine.
Development is aware of that and currently working on a
reimplementation.
http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45826
and http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=38553
Hi,
it appears that a few people here (well, at least the co-lead of the doc
project) think that the OpenOffice.org help that is installed with the
program is not a part of the OpenOffice.org documentation project.
I'm totally puzzled what makes people think this way. The so called
online
Hi,
Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
Uwe Fischer a écrit :
In my opinion, there is only one prominent place to add a link to
*all* the existing places that offer templates and samples and macros
and more - that is the OOo user interface itself.
For example, the Templates and Documents dialog
Hi,
Sophie Gautier wrote:
Sorry, I didn't follow the entire thread, but here is a documentation
that Tony Galmiche, the Chart project and me has written about the
functionalities.
http://graphics.openoffice.org/files/documents/12/3278/List_of_whished_enhancements_for_Charts.odt
Issues are
Hi,
Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Ger,
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 21:00 +0100, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Ger,
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 08:21 -0500, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Please see
Hi Scott,
Scott Carr wrote:
The instructions for that is still on the Templates area, and I am
wondering if it would be safe to move or remove them from the page so
there isn't any confusion with users.
if this is about http://documentation.openoffice.org/Samples_Templates/
then that page
Hi,
you are very welcome to find information about the OOo Online Help and
to contact the Online Help authors:
- Mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] for discussions
about contributing to the Online Help
- Blog http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt for browsing tips and tricks, just in
case you have some
Hi Alex,
see my answers inline
Alex Thurgood wrote:
Yep, good idea. I take it the db would be hosted by Collabnet ?
Collabnet is a good choice. There may be other places, too.
c) There is a database running on the server. The community maintains
the database. When for example a Language
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
Members of the project should be aware that Uwe Fischer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is recruiting on other lists such as
dev@openoffice.org, OOoAuthors and [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please track
down these messages if you want to get involved.
Thank you, ger
Looks like I have a bad
...)
Shall we use the script (allfiles.tree) that Frank Peters has done to
help us debugging the localized OLH files as all the page files are
referenced with it ?
don't run too fast ;-) It's just a proposal at this time.
Regards
Uwe
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Hi,
please find my comments inline
marbux wrote:
The OOo 2.x Writer Tools Customize dialog goes no further than
WordPerfect and Microsoft Word have gone. There is room for improvement.
All
three apps make it fairly easy to assign product commands to menus,
toolbars, keystrokes, and events
Hi,
Gregor Hartmann wrote On 03/15/06 08:32,:
Hi,
Am 14.03.06, 16:10:21, schrieb Uwe Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] zum Thema
Re: [documentation-dev] How to add an extended tip to a new UI element?:
Hi,
Ivo Hinkelmann wrote On 03/14/06 14:45,:
Hi Uwe and Andras,
I
Hi,
Ivo Hinkelmann wrote On 03/14/06 14:45,:
Hi Uwe and Andras,
I think there is a small misunderstanding. Andreas has a patch to
modify helpcontent2 source file while Uwe is speaking about the
StarOffice Product Patch mechanism.
No, I did not. What I wanted to express is that it is not
Hi Andras,
Andras Timar wrote On 03/04/06 23:18,:
Hi Uwe,
Thanks for your answer.
Uwe Fischer írta:
as far as I know, the online help currently cannot be patched in this
way. Online Help is built from the xhp source files as part of the
general OOo build process. Several index files
Hi Ain,
Ain Vagula wrote:
What are reasons, that OLH fixes are integrated so rarely? I'm going
to write about this very urgent problem for community translators into
CC agenda, but at first I want to hear what you have to say.
I'm sorry to hear that community translators are not happy with
files have been
translated years ago anyhow, so there should be no unnecessary work for
translators due to this decision.
Kind regards
Uwe
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