[libreoffice-documentation] The apostrophe

2012-04-23 Thread PeeWee
Hello Gary and Tom Many people make the mistake about its and it's, even the English. I have found over the years that it is always best to avoid the apostrophe when writing. This makes it better when someone has to translate English into another language. For example: It's - always write as

[libreoffice-documentation] instructions for preperation of the books for documentation

2012-04-23 Thread klaus-jürgen weghorn ol
Hi Jean, I/we on German ml need some help resp. instructions: You made the whole books out of the individual chapters. Now we want to do this for our Erste Schritte-Handbuch. Did you make it as a gobal document or did you do it in an other way? And are there some mantraps on which we should have

[libreoffice-documentation] Printed copy of LO 3.4 Getting Started guide now available

2012-04-23 Thread Jean Weber
Printed copy of LibreOffice 3.4 Getting Started guide is now available from Lulu.com, http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/libreoffice-34-getting-started/12820113. If you would like a printed copy of this book, now is a good time to buy, because Lulu.com is having a sale. Between now and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] instructions for preperation of the books for documentation

2012-04-23 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 18:34, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol o...@sophia-louise.de wrote: Hi Jean, I/we on German ml need some help resp. instructions: You made the whole books out of the individual chapters. Now we want to do this for our Erste Schritte-Handbuch. Did you make it as a gobal

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [Typo] a weird sentence in ch1, writer guide.

2012-04-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
Committing a grammatical mistake within a grammar discussion always (de)merits a gotcha. I know, demerit is not really a verb... Gary On 4/22/2012 4:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Nice one! :) Yes, i do a whole load of weird and wrong things in emails. I think that particular mistake is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] The apostrophe

2012-04-23 Thread Jay Lozier
Peter On 04/23/2012 03:21 AM, PeeWee wrote: Hello Gary and Tom Many people make the mistake about its and it's, even the English. I have found over the years that it is always best to avoid the apostrophe when writing. This makes it better when someone has to translate English into another

[libreoffice-documentation] LO Writer Guide: Introduction to styles

2012-04-23 Thread Hazel Russman
p.173. Select the paragraph by clicking anywhere in the paragraph. That doesn't read well. Would it be possible at this late stage to amend it to Select the paragraph by clicking anywhere within it.? p.175 4) styleand. p.178. should be removed should say must be removed. p.187. Reference to

[libreoffice-documentation] [OT] Please help set The Debian Administrator’s Handbook free!

2012-04-23 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This is somewhat off-topic, although about free software documentation and a funding model to freely license a book I consider specially important for many system administrators that will also be taking care of LibreOffice large deployments sometime

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference Sprints

2012-04-23 Thread Shaun McCance
Hi all, I just wanted to follow up on this. I'm the conference organizer, and a long-time contributor to GNOME documentation. Open Help has two days of presentations and open discussion, followed by three days of multiple-team sprints. Last year we had some great presentations, but amazing

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference Sprints

2012-04-23 Thread Jean Weber
Friends of OpenDocument Inc could help fund travel and accommodation expenses for someone suitable to attend this event as a representative of the LibreOffice Docs Team. Unfortunately, most of the active members of the team (that I'm aware of) are not located in North America, so the time and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference Sprints

2012-04-23 Thread Jay Lozier
On 04/23/2012 05:06 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Friends of OpenDocument Inc could help fund travel and accommodation expenses for someone suitable to attend this event as a representative of the LibreOffice Docs Team. Unfortunately, most of the active members of the team (that I'm aware of) are