Answers inline. On Tue, 20 Jun 2017 at 08:00 Cathy Crumbley <catcr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> There are a few questions that I hope you can help with: > > - I am getting ready to upload a file to the ODFAuthors site. Could > you please give me login information? > > I'll set this up for you. You will receive an email with details. > - I made many changes and suggestions. After you or someone works with > it, is the normal procedure that I would look at again? > > The usual procedure is that the writer (in this case, probably me) revises the file and makes it available for further review. You're welcome to look at it again or not, as you prefer. As a new member of the team, it's probably useful for you to look at it again to see the writer's responses. > - Some styles are not being used as directed in the Style Guide. > Examples are special styles for first, middle, and last lines in a list. To > what extent should the Style Guide be adhered to? Also, who should I ask > about issues that it does not cover or that I am unclear about? > > The Style Guide is out of date regarding style usage and probably other topics. Questions should be addressed to the list. In many cases there are no answers, only opinions. > - Who are my colleagues in this effort? How big is the documentation > team? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands? (ha ha) Are they mostly in Europe and > North America? Everyone is a volunteer, correct? > > Many people are on the mailing list, but AFAICT only 2 or 3 are actively working on user guides. Others are more involved with the online help, and there are lots of translators who are not native speakers of English. Olivier is paid; everyone else AFAIK is an unpaid volunteer. I am in Australia. Hazel is in the UK (I think). Olivier is in Brasil. > - How many people are subscribed to the mailing list? Are there > guidelines for using it? That is, should I write message like this to the > list or directly to you? > > Please write to the list instead of to me or others personally. That way others can answer questions if we're not around. I have no idea how many people are subscribed. Thank you for whatever information you can provide. > As background, I'm a retired technical writer and editor. I was team leader and very involved for many years but have cut back on my participation (hence the out of date style guide and other materials). AFAIK most other team members come from a variety of other backgrounds. --Jean Cathy > > > On 6/8/2017 3:33 AM, Hazel Russman wrote: > > On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 15:05:02 +1000 > Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I am updating the Writer Guide from LO v4.2 to v5.3. I have put > several chapters > here:https://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/writer-guide/drafts-v5.3 > > They need to be thoroughly reviewed. Your help would be greatly appreciated. > > If you don't have a login for the ODFAuthors website, Olivier or I or > others can create one for you. The files are public, so you can > download them without a login; however, you'll need a login to upload > reviewed files to the Feedback folder. > > -- Jean > > > > If you do that, let me know when you've done them and I'll proof-read them. > > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
