It is a local style agreement of course. Open source almost always works.
In some English language practice, hyphenation is sometimes used when the term
is placed as a single adjective, as in formerly open-source software.
Confusion is unlikely in the open source case, and the OSI makes no
When I saw Jean's comments, below, it brought to mind a serous pet peeve I
have with the OpenOffice-legacy interfaces.
Although one can follow links from tables of content and also follow
cross-reference links within documents, there is no provision for retracing
my way backwards through a
08:04
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] RE: Oracle Open Office Guides - license
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote
As far as I know, the Oracle Open Office Guides are not part of the grant
to Apache OpenOffice.
Hi!
Anyone reading this know the people responsible
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Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 11:52
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] RE: Oracle Open Office Guides - license
bfo wrote
Dennis E. Hamilton wrote
I'll mention this to him and see if there is likely to be anything
happening.
Hi!
Any we
As far as I know, none of those documents were contributed to Apache.
The only documentation that is available that applies to OpenOffice.org is
whatever remains accessible on http://www.openoffice.org and the ODFAuthors
site. Work to upgrade documentation for releases of Apache OpenOffice
[I thought I answered this once. In any case ... ]
As far as I know, the Oracle Open Office Guides are not part of the grant to
Apache OpenOffice.
The only documentation available on OpenOffice.org is legacy material on
http://www.openoffice.org and material on ODF Authors. Updating for
Yes, / is named SOLIDUS or SLASH in the official Unicode description. In
related Unicode usage, solidus tends to be as an overlay and slash is used in
the sense of fraction and division notations.
I haven't looked into this, but it seems to me that reference to substantive
differences from a
It's also an inevitable necessity when users send in comments and identify
defects in the version they happen to have in their hands. It's difficult
enough to have them provide the information. If there is high friction in
being able to know what it is they are reporting about so it can be
[BUG REPORT]
On the page http://media.libreoffice.org/, there is a link with title The
Documentation Foundation. It links to TDF though. (I make cognitive errors
like that too. I always have. And my increasing years have led to more and
different ones lately. The strangest recently was
+1
Can you provide a link to the Marketing ML thread that provided the advice?
Are you planning to authorize multiple authors/editors on the WordPress account
that you reserved?
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From: Florian Reisinger [mailto:reisi@t-online.de]
Sent: Friday, May
Yes, it is the floating Table toolbar and the floating Bullets and Numbering
toolbar. It is a specific toolbar and the applies in each case.
Is that your concern?
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From: Jihui Choi [mailto:jihui.c...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2012 18:19
To:
There is apparently a missing digit in the year the OpenOffice.org project was
started. It says 13.10.200 ?
(Also, it is helpful to use International (ISO) dates of the form .mm.dd or
-mm-dd since it is an international project [;).
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From:
Production of translations is an exclusive right of copyright holders. You'll
need to see what the original license permits.
-Original Message-
From: Rogerio Luz Coelho [mailto:luz.roge...@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 12:42
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject:
Reassignment is different than adding a license or providing the material under
an additional/different license.
Reassignment is about copyright. Let's not go there.
Still, offering a license from a multiple-author work does raise issues about
the arrangement among those authors and how such
CC-SA wasn't discussed, just the consequences of using ALv2, and whether that
had any connection with iCLA that are used in the case of Apache projects.
Note that the Apache determination concerning CC-SA acceptability only covers
distribution without modification. That probably does not
There is absolutely no requirement to file an iCLA with the Apache Software
Foundation in order to use the Apache License v2.0. The iCLA is for
contributors to Apache projects. It says so right in the part quoted below.
Many projects not carried out as Apache projects use the license.
I see that I should have read further in this thread before making my own reply
to Tom.
Alex makes an important observation.
Much of the content on the OpenOffice.org web properties are under default
terms of use that provide broad reuse, including relicensing. Those terms are
very much
A little more about Tom's terminology and I shall cease discussing more about
copyright than you probably ever wanted to know.
- Dennis
Transfer of copyright is different than licensing a copyrighted work. There
are exclusive rights that obtain to copyright holders. A copyright holder can
Thurgood [mailto:alex.thurg...@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 14:35
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents
Le 26/11/2011 20:15, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit :
Hi Dennis,
There is absolutely no requirement to file
You have Wikipedia on your side, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowTo.
The HOWTO as a companion of FAQ and README is noted. I also think there is
affinity with the MAN-page Unixism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page,
although it is apparently uncommon to use man full-capitalized.
North
:36, Dennis E. Hamilton
dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote:
You have Wikipedia on your side, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowTo.
The HOWTO as a companion of FAQ and README is noted. I also think there is
affinity with the MAN-page Unixism, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man_page,
although
be a superb contributor, one that all
of us, I presume, aspire to be, with no obligations beyond those of any
volunteer.
Regards,
- Dennis E. Hamilton
tools for document interoperability, http://nfoWorks.org/
dennis.hamil...@acm.org gsm: +1-206-779-9430 @orcmid
-Original Message
+1 (sympathy vote, since I have not been a member of the documentation team).
-Original Message-
From: David Nelson [mailto:li...@traduction.biz]
Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 02:44
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Vote: Elect Jean Weber as
This could be hard, it's not likely to be easy. The simpler the manuscript
format, the easier this will be.
I may be giving you more than you need, but maybe the documentation folks can
make use of this in some way too.
- Dennis
1. FINAL SHOWING MARKUP
Final Showing Markup is a Track
Sent: Tue, 28 June, 2011 7:45:59
Subject: RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?
[ ... ]
On Mon, 2011-06-27 at 23:29 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
[ ... ]
Alas, the RSS feed does not do full posts. Can you change that? There
are
folks like myself who won't
What Jean says is my experience of how blogs keep going: when it is
irresistible to blog [;).
One thing that I see is missing is anything on the blog about how one can
become a (guest) poster there, and who are the authorized posters in the seed
community.
- Dennis
-Original
Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was so prolific that he often filled
an entire issue of the early Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Editor John
Campbell and RAH cooked up pseudonyms so that it looked like there were more
writers. Heinlein also found this useful in distinguishing
I want to erase a misconception. OASIS is a standards development
organization. Their work products are specifications, not code. The closest
to code are schemas (in Relax NG in the case of ODF) for the XML structures
that carry the ODF document representation.
The specifications do require
What I see is a strikethrough but with no text. And rejection of the deletion
leaves it blank than what the original text was. (It also appears that showing
changes is off by default in 3.4.0 but recording changes is on.)
It is (relatively) safe to use LibreOffice 3.3.2. The bug seems to be
I don't expect this will change, but I find the reasoning that appears to be
behind it rather interesting.
So, let me see if I understand this. So that you and other TDF Members can now
have libreoffice.org e-mail addresses (which will be forwarded to whatever
actual e-mail services hold and
the document
outline is brought inward or reduced to an image adjacent to the title. (I am
assuming that this appearance is the same for all builds although I am looking
at the Windows x86 one.)
- Dennis
-Original Message-
From: Dennis E. Hamilton [mailto:dennis.hamil...@acm.org
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