RE: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-05 Thread Narayan Aras
Jeff Prater wrote: In my opinion, we should only have a single version of documentation for both web, print, and the built-in help. I agree with what Andrea says. In addition, the help file is supposed to explain the product screen-by-screen and control-by-control. The reason is the user

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-04 Thread Jeff Prater
- Jeff Prater On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Just to be clear: I don't think ODT is the best medium for providing docs to users, but I do think it is the best medium to use as the source documents from which a variety of outputs (PDF, wiki,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-04 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Jeff, Am Sat, 4 Dec 2010 11:49:40 -0500 schrieb Jeff Prater j...@thoughtreactor.com: - Jeff Prater On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I never thought about people with limited bandwidth--I guess I don't have to worry about

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-04 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 13:59 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 08:40 +0530, Narayan Aras wrote: prediapress is running a successful Print-on-Demand business out of printing books from wikis. ... Each book is nothing but an exported pdf from wiki So

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 20:53 +0530, Narayan Aras wrote: Hi all, I do not know if this is the right forum (and the right time) to put this idea, but why are we circulating odt/pdf files for proofreading? I have written a 380-page user manual in odt; and also written several help docs in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Leo Moons
Hello Narayan, Op 3/12/2010 16:23, Narayan Aras schreef: Hi all, I do not know if this is the right forum (and the right time) to put this idea, but why are we circulating odt/pdf files for proofreading? I have written a 380-page user manual in odt; and also written several help docs in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jeff Prater
I'm probably the only other person here to say this, but I agree with Narayan on how initial documentation should be developed. I work for a rather large county government and all of our documentation is developed and maintained on our intranet website. All of our documentation is web-based, and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 20:07 -0500, Jeff Prater wrote: ... I agree with Narayan on how initial documentation should be developed... I understand the desire to create these ODT files since it's an intuitive method to showcase the capabilities of LibreOffice, but I believe our time could be

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Narayan Aras
IMO for the first release of LibO, ideally we would have PDFs and printed books available, as well as info on the wiki. Started from the ODTs is the fastest way to do all of that. For future releases, the method could be quite different. --Jean Thanks Jean for bringing out this

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jeff Prater
I think the best way to start the process would be to copy the completed, published LibO documents. I wouldn't start from scratch since all of the work has already been compiled and only minor changes are required to convert the documents from OOo to LibO. But I wouldn't start the transition until

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sat, 2010-12-04 at 09:17 +0530, Narayan Aras wrote: IMO for the first release of LibO, ideally we would have PDFs and printed books available, as well as info on the wiki. Started from the ODTs is the fastest way to do all of that. For future releases, the method could be quite

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How about creating manuals in mediawiki (and then export to odt and pdf when required)?

2010-12-03 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Jeff, thanks for that clarification. Some comments interleaved below. --Jean On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 23:10 -0500, Jeff Prater wrote: I think the best way to start the process would be to copy the completed, published LibO documents. I wouldn't start from scratch since all of the work has already