Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Video Tutorial Link in Help

2015-12-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
tfoundation.org/Documentation/Production#Sample_screenshots Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Software_screenshots -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org 802-379-9482 | IRC: colonelqubit on Freenode -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: doc

[libreoffice-documentation] [LibreOffice Bugzilla Migration] We're done! Please visit the new site to reset your password!

2015-01-24 Thread Robinson Tryon
the coming weeks. The QA Team is excited to work on improving, updating, and polishing our bugtracker. We're always happen to have more people join us! -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[libreoffice-documentation] [LibreOffice Bugzilla Migration] Starting shortly! Bugtracker will down for a few hours

2015-01-24 Thread Robinson Tryon
again ply us with myriad bug reports :-) Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: cover art for v4.4 user guides

2015-01-13 Thread Robinson Tryon
that involve text but that is not specific to Draw. It seems to be more of a Windows problem afaik. Sounds like a bug report ready to be filed! Best, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Bugzilla Migration is happening January 24th -- read on for more details!

2014-12-31 Thread Robinson Tryon
or the QA mailing list: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Mailing_List Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Beta 1 of LO 4.4.0 is available

2014-11-22 Thread Robinson Tryon
-qa IRC channel and say hi! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugHunting_Session_4.4.0.0 Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Which FAQs are unanswered?

2014-10-10 Thread Robinson Tryon
://ask.libreoffice.org/ Best, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation volunteers

2014-09-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
WM Best, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-22 Thread Robinson Tryon
when that version is released, and perhaps PeterS can take the lead here in evaluating what we might need to do to our templates to make 1-click PDF and EPUB output possible. Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald Senior QA Bug Wrangler The Document Foundation qu

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference

2014-04-19 Thread Robinson Tryon
some I 3 LibreOffice stickers, etc.. 2) Give us a report about the conference when it's all over! :-) ) Cheers, --R -- Robinson Tryon LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald The Document Foundation qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-14 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:58 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Given that we author the manuals in LibreOffice and use the same to generate PDFs, it would be easiest for initial set-up and maintenance to use the same tool to generate EPUBs. I'll chat with both the author

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:22 AM, PeeWee psaut...@libreoffice.org wrote: Another sample of an LO chapter in ePub format... This sample was created as a blank document in LO Writer and using standard style names where possible, for example Heading 1, Heading 2,Text Body, and so on. I did create

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: If possible, we should choose a solution that is free/libre open source software and runs on all three major platforms, so that any and all volunteers who wish to do this can use the same tool, without expense. +1 Of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 8:04 AM, PeeWee psaut...@libreoffice.org wrote: Hello If you follow the link there is an Test LO iBook in my Dropbox account. Unfortunately you will need iBooks Author to open the file. This is a free app you can download and if you are operating Mac OS. Sorry, but it

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:01 AM, PeeWee psaut...@libreoffice.org wrote: Hello I agree with Jean about converting the guide files into ePub format about getting a good-looking result. I've run a few baseline tests using LibreOffice, Calibre, and a couple of extensions that output EPUB. Results

[libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-07 Thread Robinson Tryon
Hi guys, I had a couple of people at SCALE and a handful of other people in the past few months ask about ePub versions of our manuals. I'd run into problems converting our ODTs - ePub in the past using Calibre, but I just updated Calibre from the Ubuntu PPA and was successful at converting the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-07 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:48 AM, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On April 7, 2014 8:54:09 PM PDT, Robinson Tryon wrote: version of the manuals alongside the ODT and PDF versions on the wiki? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Wouldn't it be simpler to use

[libreoffice-documentation] US/Canada folks: Document Freedom Day meetup in NH on March 29th

2014-03-22 Thread Robinson Tryon
Hiya, Tom suggested that the Documentarians might be interested in what's going on with Document Freedom Day :-) For anyone not in the US, events are planned all over the world. See here: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events/2014/Document_Freedom_Day

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LinuxQuestion.org Members Choice Awards -48hrs left to vote

2014-02-03 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: If you are using Linux and wish to participate, there are only 48hrs left to vote for the Members Choice Awards for 2013 ... especially the Office Suite Award. You need to register to vote! Feel free to join in on the vote and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LinuxQuestion.org Members Choice Awards -48hrs left to vote

2014-02-03 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Feb 3, 2014 at 12:20 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I had an LQ account, but didn't find my credentials, so I re-registered. I've tried to follow the steps to make it possible to respond to the poll (e.g. creating my first post to the introduce-yourself

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Changes to front cover and copyright notice required for user guides to go on Amazon

2014-01-29 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 7:03 AM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak and...@pitonyak.org wrote: On 01/26/2014 07:15 AM, Robinson Tryon wrote: Couple of points: 1) I don't believe the LibreOffice Documentation Team is a legal entity, so I'm not sure that it can hold copyright (at least not in the US). 2

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Changes to front cover and copyright notice required for user guides to go on Amazon

2014-01-27 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Jan 27, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Marina Latini mar...@studiostorti.com wrote: +1 Robinson. I think that the LibreOffice Documentation Team isn't a legal entity. So, what about: This document is Copyright © 2014 by The Document Foundation. You may distribute or modify it under the terms of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Changes to front cover and copyright notice required for user guides to go on Amazon

2014-01-26 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: For distribution through Amazon etc, the front cover of the book must include the name of the author of the book, and that name must match the name given in the copyright statement and in the metadata we provide to Lulu.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Copy documentation from OpenOffice.org?

2013-12-02 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 6:12 AM, C smau...@gmail.com wrote: Screenshots are considered to be derivative works under US Copyright Law (refer to the US Copyright Act of 1976, Section 101 if you want details). There is nothing wrong with including screenshots (as part of your documentation) of an

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I'm not a spammer!

2013-11-30 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Glen Reesor g...@jenniferandglen.ca wrote: Hello Robinson / Cloph Just wondering if there's any progress on this. Since sending this email I've been able to make only one change on the wiki. The rest of the time I get throttled. Hi Glen, I'm unable to repro

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Copy documentation from OpenOffice.org?

2013-11-29 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) If we did copy the worst case scenario is apparently that we get served with a Cease and Desist or a Take down notice ... Plus the chance of being caught out is very small... .. If we don't copy and DO the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Copy documentation from OpenOffice.org?

2013-11-28 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:20 PM, Glen Reesor g...@jenniferandglen.ca wrote: I'm working on translating the Math FAQ from French to English and noticed that very good English versions of these questions exist athttps://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/FAQ/Formula div Given that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I'm not a spammer!

2013-11-27 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Glen Reesor g...@jenniferandglen.ca wrote: Hello Robinson, I'm also getting throttled as an anti-spam measure. However I haven't made any other changes today (or yesterday). I'm trying to create the Math link at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Hi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I'm not a spammer!

2013-11-21 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: We've been running into some problems with the wiki lately, and I've been working with cloph to try to remedy them asap. ... I'll ping back to the Docs list once I have more information for you. Cloph has

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I'm not a spammer!

2013-11-21 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com wrote: I decided to spend this afternoon doing some intensive editing of the Calc wiki. After about two hours, the site throttled me and refused to accept another page as an anti-spam measure. It said to try again in a

[libreoffice-documentation] Upcoming Bugzilla Migration

2013-11-17 Thread Robinson Tryon
Hullo Documentarians! As some of you already know, QA is migrating the project's bugtracking activities to a separate instance of Bugzilla: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/Bugzilla/LibreOffice_Bugzilla_Proposal All user accounts, data, etc... will be transfered-over, and we expect that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Upcoming Bugzilla Migration

2013-11-17 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Offhand I can't think of any mentions in the user guides, but I'll check. Great! I'm sure there are some mentions on the Docs wiki somewhere, or Based on a quick search, I found (and fixed) just a single reference to

[libreoffice-documentation] Wikihelp/Help Wiki/Online Help/etc... needs one clear name

2013-11-12 Thread Robinson Tryon
Hiya, I've been doing some prep work for our upcoming Bugzilla migration and I've noticed that we have a few different names for the same online help/wiki resource, and that's confusing. I suggest that we pick one name and standardize on it everywhere. Here are a sampling of some of the names

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] White Paper

2013-10-29 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 4:03 PM, dbclinton dbc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've completed a draft of my white paper making the business case for LO over MS Office. For now, for want of a better solution, I've branded it as part of the LibreOffice Document Foundation and put it in its own folder

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Filling the EN FAQ

2013-05-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:40 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) It's also been given as a link directly when people ask questions about Base as it's been about the only viable documentation about it. Good to know -- we often get people with Base-related questions on the Ask

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Looking to Get Involved

2013-03-08 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 9:20 AM, Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com wrote: How is the Base Handbook getting along? I could perhaps do another chapter of this or have a look at the French FAQ. Please do another chapter

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] IRC Channel?

2013-02-21 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:45 PM, Kieran Peckett crazyske...@gmail.com wrote: Is there an IRC channel on freenode for the Documentation team? The only mention of IRC on the Get Involved/Documenters page at the website is to do with the #documentfoundation channel, which is just for general TDF

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] De-geeking BugReport on Wiki

2013-02-16 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 1:22 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I like the changes. Actually i prefer someone to bug-triager and person to developer While the more precise definitions are important to us and we might 'naturally' understand what the terms ,eam those

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] De-geeking BugReport on Wiki

2013-02-16 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 3:18 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) wrt coloured backgrounds a pale yellow often helps some people with dyslexia. So, i kinda like the simplicity of green for users, amber for more technical pages or internal pages such as minutes of meetings and

Re: Liaison across 'lists', was: Fw: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-15 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/02/2013 13:47, Charles-H. Schulz wrote: Tom We have a liaison list since the beginning, it's the projects@ list. We had it since the beginning. Yes this list serves for cross communication between NL

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Good figures showing the power of LibreOffice

2013-02-12 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 7:43 AM, C. H. D. LibreOffice Docs webofht-libofficedoc...@yahoo.com.hk wrote: Hello! Documentation Team! I recently downloaded some files to test whether they would open in LibreOffice 4. Neat! When I downloaded 400 .doc files, I opened 399 files in LibreOffice.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Version 4.0 - Enjoying it?

2013-02-12 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 2:27 PM, John Robertson j...@flippers.com wrote: I am unhappy that 4.0 doesn't seem to support OSX - saw a note that NONE of the developers have an OSX machine. Tried 4.0 (beta), found many issues (for OSX users) and went back to 3.6 I hope I am wrong, but for now

[libreoffice-documentation] Request: Update help file/docs to reflect current capabilities of Calc re: charts on separate sheets

2013-02-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11775/how-can-i-put-a-chart-on-a-separate-sheet-in-calc/ From the user: I know that the help file specifically states that charts cannot be on their own sheet. As pointed out in the Answers, the functionality does currently exist, we just need to make sure

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: When I first went to the odfauthors.org site, I thought that it was a site for end-users because of the highly-prominent links to books for sale, but now I believe that the website is largely focused on internal production.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Although the wiki pages themselves are CC-BY-SA, most of the user guide chapters use CC-BY 3.0 (not CC-BY-SA) due to their historical origin as OOo guides. I have never heard of any of the contributors to those chapters

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Request: Update help file/docs to reflect current capabilities of Calc re: charts on separate sheets

2013-02-11 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: http://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/11775/how-can-i-put-a-chart-on-a-separate-sheet-in-calc/ I've filed this as https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60711 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-10 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 12:20 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: The specific case here has been dealt with, so I consider that issue resolved. In the more general case, I guess the question is When linking to content, what documentation resources will be least susceptible to link rot?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
Apologies for not responding sooner -- I've been spending my spare moments since Thursday dealing with questions and bugs relating to 4.0. On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: The FAQ section was indeed changed to the About Us section after a discussion on the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Questions galore!

2013-02-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: * What's the status of documentation for LO 4.0? We're doing it as fast as we can (very small team of active members), starting with the Getting Started guide. ... When we can is the only answer to schedules and estimated

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Questions galore!

2013-02-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Hi! Bear in mind that there are only around 4ish documenters to cover the work of 500 devs. Also MS Office only has 1 branch every 4 years (ish) whereas LibreOffice has 2 per year. I've heard the same story

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Questions galore!

2013-02-09 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Thu, Feb 7, 2013 at 9:04 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: IMO, it would be better to find the instances of the links and remove them. There could not be that many as surely, the Ask.LibreOffice.org site would have either escalated that particular answer with the link to the top of