Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide chapter 3 uploaded

2011-11-17 Thread Hal Parker
I can rescue this file, complete with images. give me a day or two. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Graphics - inserting and file naming convention

2011-11-17 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:20 PM, PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I want to place new screen shots in the Impress Guide so that the guide is updated to LO 3.4.4. Is there a file naming convention for graphics? No. What is the file format used for the different types of graphics?

[libreoffice-documentation] Announcement

2011-04-27 Thread Hal Parker
I guess it's now time for me to announce that I am Jean Weber's clone, created to allow Jean to work at LibreOffice without incurring the charge of conflict of interest from the Oracle folks (in particular) at OpenOffice.org. Now that Oracle is abandoning OOo, and I've pretty much done what I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation Team Leader?

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
I would like to hear from Barbara and Ron in response to Jean's original note, and anyone else on the English-language team, before I have my say. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide Review

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Simon simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: I have run through chaps 1-12 and fixed some typos and replaced/added new screenshots. Changed 7 of the documents in all. They are in the Drafts space on Alfresco. I annotated my changes using comment boxes. If I should

[libreoffice-documentation] Notes on rebranding?

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
I'm sure Barbara or someone summarised what needs to be done when rebranding OOo docs for LO, but I can't find the note. I can recreate the list of things to do (to help Simon and any other newcomers), but I'd prefer to avoid the extra work if someone has already done it. Hal -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide Review

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Simon simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: On 27 April 2011 02:15, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Simon simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: I have run through chaps 1-12 and fixed some typos and replaced/added new screenshots

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide (full book) now on the wiki

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
I've now uploaded the first edition of the full Writer Guide (ODT and PDF) to the wiki, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation As soon as I find time (may not be today), I'll add links to the wiki from the website page, http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ -- unless

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide Review

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:53 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Yes, please, Hal, a summary of the recent work would help us see clearer what needs doing next. I was referring to a summary of what needs to be done during rebranding, not what has been done recently or to date, so

[libreoffice-documentation] Ping David N: Alfresco timeouts

2011-04-26 Thread Hal Parker
Alfresco is timing out too quickly. You had fixed it to have a longer period before timeout, but it reverted when the site was rebuilt. Can the timeout be made a useful length, at least 10 hours, again? Would be much appreciated! Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Ping Simon: Rebranding etc

2011-04-22 Thread Hal Parker
-- From: Hal Parker Date: Friday, April 22, 2011 Subject: Ping Simon: Rebranding etc To: documentation@libreoffice.org I thought I had replaced all those pix, so you may have an old copy of that file. If so, probably I goofed and didn't upload the latest. It's also possible I missed some pix. I'll

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Ping Simon: Rebranding etc

2011-04-21 Thread Hal Parker
the chapters then a little later. On 20 April 2011 15:31, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: I left notes in the relevant chapters; checking... Chapter 10 is one. Can't recall now if there was in fact another. Hal On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:18 PM, Simon simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Would like to help with the documentation

2011-04-20 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 8:09 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 20, 2011, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 16:36:58 -0700 (PDT) SimonB simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find the toolbar to upload drafts so I'm assuming I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Simon: Rebranding etc

2011-04-20 Thread Hal Parker
. It would be a help if it was noted down which chapters may contain items that differ between Linux Windows builds but I don't mind finding them myself. On 20 April 2011 14:55, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: Some caveats about working on rebranding: 1) The preferred words document

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] application for document writer

2011-04-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Monday, April 18, 2011, parichaycomputer paricha...@gmail.com wrote: Dear Documentation Team Members, I want to offer myself as a member of documentation team and want to write and edit the documents about writer, calc, impress etc. I am a lecturer of computer science in an engineering

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Would like to help with the documentation

2011-04-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, SimonB simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: If you are still looking for people I would like to provide my help documenting LibreOffice. I have time to proof-read, take screenshots, and once familiar enough with the way you do things, maybe help creating new documentation

[libreoffice-documentation] I'm working on Calc Guide

2011-04-17 Thread Hal Parker
Just to keep people informed: I'm continuing to work my way through the Calc Guide, replacing pix and making minor wording changes to fit LibreOffice. I'm up to Chapter 10, although I've been unable to upload my work to the Alfresco site (lack of reliable web access on my part). That's actually

[libreoffice-documentation] Status of work on user guides?

2011-04-13 Thread Hal Parker
This list has been very quiet, so i'm wondering what others are doing. I've compiled the Writer Guide chapters into a book, but I'm not sure when I'll get a chance to upload it. In the process I caught a few errors which I've corrected in the chapter files. I'll upload them as well when I get a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Joining the documentation team

2011-04-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Monday, April 11, 2011, Mr Christian McGurl christian_mcg...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear LibreOffice documentation team, If you're still looking for contributors,  I'd very much like to get involved in documentation for your Open Source  project. I have a degree in English Literature, and

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide chapters now on wiki

2011-04-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Monday, April 11, 2011, davidj davidjmagnu...@yahoo.com wrote: Hal, Thanks, greatly, for posting the chapters of the writer guide chapters. Note, however, it appears that chapters 8 9 are identical.  It looks to me that the same file was inadvertently uploaded twice. Also, looking

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: about alfresco platform

2011-03-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:18 AM, jucasaca juancsa...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, Hal I'd like to be a user inthe Spanish secction too regards We would like to put your real name in the system. Is that okay? If so, what is it? Same question to CaStarCo. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] about alfresco platform

2011-03-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:32 AM, Daniel A. Rodriguez daniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote: You will need two things: an account for each person who wants access, and a Spanish section on the website. I am supposed to be able to set these up for you, but I have not learned how to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: about alfresco platform

2011-03-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 8:48 AM, CaStarCo casta...@gmail.com wrote: My real name is Andreu Correa Casablanca :) I have created accounts for you and the two Daniels. I think I now have to send each of you a private message with your automatically generated password, which you can change. I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] about alfresco platform

2011-03-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 7:01 AM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Daniel A. Rodriguez daniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'd like to know how can spanish community members can access to alfresco platform? You will need two things

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] about alfresco platform

2011-03-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Daniel A. Rodriguez daniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com wrote: I set up a Spanish space in Alfresco. I have not given anyone special permissions because I don't know how, so I hope that you can set up any of the subspaces that you need for the group. If

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide status question re angle brackets in paths

2011-03-25 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 3/19/2011 8:20 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I am now turning my attention to the Calc Guide, which Barbara has rebranded from the OOo version. I've started replacing images and checking for info that is incorrect for LibO

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide chapters now on wiki

2011-03-25 Thread Hal Parker
As foreshadowed in an earlier note, I have now put the chapters of the Writer Guide (in both ODT and PDF) on the wiki so ordinary users can get them easily. Please feel free to mention this on the users list or anywhere else you think appropriate, because I won't get around to it. I'm hoping that

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status

2011-03-19 Thread Hal Parker
I have made a pass through the chapters of the Writer Guide and replaced all of the pictures I could identify as showing OOo instead of LibO information or which were out of date in some other way, with one exception. If the only thing different was the icons used for different ODF files (i.e.,

[libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site offline again

2011-03-18 Thread Hal Parker
The Alfresco site appears to be down again. I think I have all the latest Writer Guide chapters, so I'll continue to do screenshots as I have the time, and upload them when the site it back again. (I've done Chapters 1, 2, and 3, but the site went down before I could get Ch3 uploaded.) When I had

[libreoffice-documentation] Missing (?) fields in Tools Options dialog

2011-03-16 Thread Hal Parker
I'm updating Chapter 2 of the Writer Guide, following John Długosz's review. John has mentioned some missing fields on two pages of the Tools Options dialog, but I do not see these fields in any of my installs (Mac, WindXP, Ubuntu). I'm wondering if perhaps they are only present under specific

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide recovery

2011-03-14 Thread Hal Parker
I have now recreated spaces for the stages of development and review of the Writer Guide in Alfresco and moved the recovered chapters into the relevant spaces. Chapters 1, 2, 3 are in Drafts and all the others are in Reviewed. I put all the files that appeared to be earlier versions (those with a,

[libreoffice-documentation] Screen captures for user guides

2011-03-14 Thread Hal Parker
When I've finished sorting out the user guide files on Alfresco -- or when I get bored, which may occur first -- I'll start doing screen captures using Ubuntu with a theme that looks much like WinXP silver. It's quite neutral, prints nicely in black and white, and is compatible with screen

[libreoffice-documentation] Ping: John Długosz re Writer Guide Chapter 4

2011-03-14 Thread Hal Parker
John, The last I noticed, you had Writer Guide Chapter 4 checked out. Are you working on it, and if so when might we expect it back? Thanks. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide recovery

2011-03-14 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: I have now recreated spaces for the stages of development and review of the Writer Guide in Alfresco and moved the recovered chapters into the relevant spaces. Chapters 1, 2, 3 are in Drafts and all the others

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site offline?

2011-03-09 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: I am such a packrat that I probably have copies of the latest iteration of every English-language chapter of the LibreOffice user guides (and many of the related files, such as the template, that were in the other

[libreoffice-documentation] Can't login to Alfresco site

2011-03-08 Thread Hal Parker
David, Now the Alfresco site is loading (unlike the last time I tried it, a few days ago), but I can't login. May be a password problem. Perhaps a p/w reset will fix? Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

[libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site offline?

2011-03-05 Thread Hal Parker
For several hours now, whenever I attempt to reach alfresco.libreoffice.org, I get a 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable message: The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-21 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) Pass. Maybe it's worth asking this question on the devs list. They'd probably give you quick and helpful answers. David Nelson Sorry, I'm not going to join the devs list (no time for another list), so I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-21 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberjeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-21 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 2/21/2011 3:07 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberjeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-21 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 12:33 PM, TomW tomw...@fairpoint.net wrote:Hello To create a list for a 'Listbox' or Combobox': On 'Control' toolbar select 'Design View' Right Click on Listbox control: Select 'Control' 'General' tab Scroll down to 'List Entries' Type in first entry. e.g. Tom

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:43 AM, JDługosz d6474gh...@snkmail.com wrote: I should point out that it doesn't have to be reviewed by one person or all at once. Anyone can flip through some of a chapter and double-check and accept all the typo fixes and formatting fixes, like stray letters that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Record macro not available?

2011-02-19 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:36 AM, JDługosz d6474gh...@snkmail.com wrote: I noticed that mentioned under Experimental. So, what have I been using in OOo all these years? The Record Macro feature was and still is a normal feature in OOo, which AFAIK doesn't have an experimental subset. This

[libreoffice-documentation] Record macro not available?

2011-02-18 Thread Hal Parker
Neither Barbara nor I have been able to access the Record macro command on the Tools Macros menu. Does anyone know why this is disabled (greyed out)? And, more importantly, how I can enable it? I have looked in my settings to see if some option is set to prevent using this feature, but I can't

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-18 Thread Hal Parker
From what I've seen, JDlugosz is doing a great job of suggesting improvements to the Writer Guide, but responding adequately to some of those suggestions (especially those regarding rewriting sections) will slow down production of the first edition quite a bit. I suggest that we make those

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-18 Thread Hal Parker
LibO 3.3.1 is a bugfix release. RC2 is now available. Is anyone on the Docs team using it? Should we be using it in preference to 3.3.0? As a bugfix release is it likely to have new features? Wish I had time to keep up with some of the other lists; I might know the answers to my own questions.

[libreoffice-documentation] Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-18 Thread Hal Parker
When attempting to define the list of items to appear in a List box form control, Barbara and I can't work out how to get the list items to be selectable in a drop-down list. The instructions in Chapter 15 of the Writer Guide don't work: the whole list appears on one line when the dropdown arrow

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Writer's Guide not on English pages, but in Spanish version

2011-02-17 Thread Hal Parker
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:47 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: - Forwarded Message From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com To: us...@libreoffice.org us...@libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 17 February, 2011 15:15:39 Subject:

[libreoffice-documentation] Guest access to draft user guides on Alfresco site?

2011-02-17 Thread Hal Parker
David or someone, please refresh my memory: Can people without logins to the working Alfresco site get to the draft user guide chapters? If so, how? I just tried logging in with username and password of Guest but could not view anything other than a Guest Home space. David, I know that you have

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-14 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:26 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 02:44, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: I'm on Windows 7, David. There are probably going to be a large number of graphics replacements needed -- even beyond the OOo refs, there

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-14 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 2:47 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 12:10, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: Fortunately, many of the screenshots are already from Linux (usually Ubuntu), and many others are o/s neutral (for example, bits

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-14 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:18 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On the same principle, I don't think we should delay the first edition of the Writer Guide only to update the screenshots; IMO we should publish the chapters ASAP and move on, returning to fiddle with pix

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Icon differences

2011-02-13 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 15:05 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going through the Writer Guide chapter on graphics, and I notice that Barbara

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] General Options documentation

2011-02-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 7:30 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) How would this work in practice on the Alfresco site? Where would the common files be stored, and (more importantly) how would they be referenced in the linked sections? And how would that work when

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] General Options documentation

2011-02-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 8:25 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 05:45, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: For me, a logical place would be a space called Common Files under en. OK, I set that up. I couldn't figure out how to determine

[libreoffice-documentation] Fonts, highlighting etc in user guides

2011-02-11 Thread Hal Parker
I haven't been closely following the details of the discussion on fonts, arrows vs , highlighting (italics, bold, etc), but I have some concerns to note. IMO the criterion should be: do the differences add GENUINE VALUE for the user, so the changes are genuinely worth the time it takes for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Quick reference cards

2011-02-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-02-12 00:40, David Nelson a écrit : Hi Marc, :-) http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:LibreOffice_Tri-fold_Reference.odt I guess it would be better to link directly to the content rather than a specific page?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Quick reference cards

2011-02-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 4:42 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 14:13, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Thanks for doing this. Should we be doing anything about this? Does this mean that there are now 2 copies, one of which could be updated and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / our role

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
I'm working on Chapter 4, Formatting Pages. I thought I'd be done by now, but I've found what I think is a feature that's not in OOo: Format Title Page, and I want to write it up. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Online help online?

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: On Saturday 29 January 2011 10:30, Hal Parker wrote: I'm sure I read recently that the online help is available online (wiki, perhaps?) but I've lost track of where it is. Can someone remind me where to find it, please

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: Hi Tom, *, there is a world outside Alfresco inside our OpenSource-Project! Am Samstag, 29. Januar 2011, 10:28:31 schrieb Tom Davies: Hi :) I think David and all have got Alfresco organised very well already and are

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / our role

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
want ;) Regards from Tom :) From: Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 29 January, 2011 9:20:59 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / our role Things like that, of substance, seem to me

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] login for Alfresco

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
Are you talking about the *website* or about Alfresco? I haven't used the website enough to know if it will allow me to stay logged in, but Alfresco (and the wiki) keep kicking me off. Hal On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 8:48 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hal, I stayed logged in to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] login for Alfresco

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
in so i can edit without having to do the login process ?? Weird but nice :) Regards from Tom :) From: Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 29 January, 2011 11:08:54 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] login for Alfresco

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
That explains why some of our recent exchanges have seemed to me to be a bit in different universes. Doesn't sound like you've been bad. David asked for help with the website, and you're helping. Silverstripe is what you/we use for editing the website. Alfresco is where the user docs (and a few

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / my role

2011-01-29 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: What I've found is that the only step that takes significant amounts of time is checking the figures -- I get through all the other stuff in less than half an hour, and the majority of that is changing the signs to arrows

[libreoffice-documentation] How to stop emails from CMS?

2011-01-28 Thread Hal Parker
Now that I have access to the website, I'm getting messages whenever someone changes any page. How can I stop these emails? Or at least restrict them to pages that I might choose to watch or have made changes to myself? Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-27 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:40 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi Michael, :-) On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:33, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: As soon as someone who knows how Silverstripe works fixes this I will publish your full document. Maybe leave this

[libreoffice-documentation] LibO Alfresco Bootcamp doc

2011-01-27 Thread Hal Parker
Jeremy, your bootcamp doc is extremely helpful. I haven't worked my way through all of it yet, but I did have one comment/question. Under Review a Document, you said: Submitting to Review and then Reviewing the same document is generally considered poor form and is not something LibreOffice

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-27 Thread Hal Parker
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: Having done this page, I don't think I will get very involved in website work. Learning to use Silverlight AND Alfresco AND LibreOffice itself is overloading my brain. ;-) So I'll concentrate my limited

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:10 PM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 8:00 PM, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: On 2011/01/11 9:05 PM David Nelson wrote: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 11:49 AM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi Hal, :-) I added you as author. Would you maybe like to work on your Mac install instructions? They're up there now, but could do with a bit of re-formatting... The instructions I see on the website are not the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-26 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:09 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 13:03, Michael Wheatland mich...@wheatland.com.au wrote: Not sure if you have noticed, but inserting images into the Silverstripe TinyMCE editor is fundamentally broken. I would

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 10:04 PM, Karl-Heinz Gödderz libreoff...@gukk-online.de wrote: Hi, I tried alfresco as a guest and found at Alfresco Explorer the content Item 0101GS3-IntroducingLibO_draft_RMF_20101031.odt on which I have a question. Where is the right place to post it? Or for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] question from alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Andreas Mantke ma...@gmx.de wrote: Am Sonntag, 23. Januar 2011, 20:59:51 schrieb David Nelson: Most/all active members of the LibreOffice documentation team now have an account there, and a workflow has been developed for the English documentation team.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It belongs under Review with the other

[libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site

2011-01-22 Thread Hal Parker
I'm confused about where to put things on the Alfresco site. Within the LibreOffice space, there is a space for Writer Guide 3.3, but also spaces for different stages of development, and there's also something named Catalog. Where do we put things? Is Catalog picking up info from elsewhere on the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Box/Field

2011-01-22 Thread Hal Parker
Hal = she. ;-) On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I agree with Hal about this now that he said it. Box does make more sense as being something for user-input. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide chapter 3?

2011-01-22 Thread Hal Parker
Someone appears to have Writer Guide Chapter 3 checked out on the Alfresco site, according to the Catalog but not according to the info under Writer Guide 3.3, and it's not marked out on the wiki. So, is anyone actually working on it, or is the Catalog entry just a test? Hal -- Unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site

2011-01-22 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 6:58 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Also, can the timeout on logins be changed? I get really irritated having to log on several times a day (and then having to find my way back to wherever I was) because I'm using the site only intermittently. Or

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco site

2011-01-22 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:42 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi, :-) On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 18:13, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: I have it, and it does, but I still get tossed back to the start of the Alfresco navigation and have to go through several levels

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Box/Field

2011-01-21 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:41 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I think this is another one that is good either way. I think leave them as they are? Box is more obvious to some people that have never used a computer or are new to it all. Field is used quite often too

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 1:55 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi Larry, :-) On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:24, Larry Gusaas larry.gus...@gmail.com wrote: I get real tired, smiley or no smiley of being told to do it myself when making suggestions to open source projects. People

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hyperlinks

2011-01-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 1/10/2011 6:34 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote: Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other chapters, and into a glossary? (I noticed

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Maximizing Value for Time Spent

2011-01-11 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 7:45 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: Which would be better right now -- concentrating on the basically mechanical rebranding activities for a chapter, or working on both those and the content? Obviously the second takes longer for turnaround but (at least in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] ALFRESCO: New space for user docs

2011-01-10 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:16 PM, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:26:27 +0800 David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Does anyone else have any thoughts on the subject? On Mon, 10 Jan 2011 20:27:49 +1000 Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote

[libreoffice-documentation] Indexing user guides

2011-01-10 Thread Hal Parker
Belatedly realised that some index entries in the user guide chapters will need to be changed, deleted, or added. We don't generate alphabetic indexes for the individual chapters, but when we put the chapters together into a book, we do generate an alphabetic index that is included in the book. I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] ALFRESCO: New space for user docs

2011-01-10 Thread Hal Parker
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:31 AM, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, 11 Jan 2011 06:50:22 +1000 Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: Jeremy, what file is that supposed to be? It's not a glossary. Wrong reference, perhaps? Hal I believe it was a spreadsheet

[libreoffice-documentation] Printed copy of Getting Started with LibreOffice

2011-01-10 Thread Hal Parker
A proof copy of the printed book arrived today, and it looks rather nice, if I do say so myself. ;-) I checked the index and found no embarrassing leftover OpenOffice.org entries. Either Ron caught them all, or they fixed themselves. That's a relief! Cheers, Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote: I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the template and replaced many of the screenshots, mostly using images from Ron's zip file or from the Getting Started

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Barbara Duprey b...@onr.com wrote: On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote: I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the template and replaced many

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Ron Faile rmfa...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 1/9/2011 1:26 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: There was a change to the Tip/Note/Caution tables, too, as I noticed in looking at the Getting Started with Writer chapter and working on Chapter 9 of the Writer Guide. All have

[libreoffice-documentation] Updated Writer Guide chapters 1 2

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Parker
I've now made the changes Ron listed to Writer Guide chapters 1 2. I have also added and changed some text in Chapter 2 (using the text from Chapter 2 of Getting Started), to make some topics correct for LibreOffice. I shall mark these chapters on the /Doc/Development page as ready for proofing.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 7:22 AM, Ron Faile rmfa...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 1/9/2011 1:26 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: There was a change to the Tip/Note/Caution tables, too, as I noticed in looking at the Getting Started

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] ALFRESCO: New space for user docs

2011-01-06 Thread Hal Parker
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 12:05 PM, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.comwrote: ... My question now is, even though there was no true folder system like that which Jean detailed on the documentfoundation website, there was a matrix that helped us (me? haha) envision a proper workflow.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-04 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 1:17 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.bizwrote: Hi guys, :-) *If* you feel up to trying to use Alfresco as a platform for your work, please don't feel shy... Although that is obviously entirely up to you. ;-) We talked a bit on this list a few days ago about

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-04 Thread Hal Parker
On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 9:28 AM, Rogerio Luz Coelho luz.roge...@gmail.comwrote: Ok just finished the Installation on Linux face lift to the wiki ... http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_LibreOffice_on_Linux Can anyone tell if there is a magic way to import my Chapter configuration

[libreoffice-documentation] ALFRESCO: New space for user docs

2011-01-04 Thread Hal Parker
David gave me the go-ahead, so I've created a space under Company Home for LibreOffice Documentation, and another space under that one for Writer Guide 3.3. I hope everyone with a login can see these spaces. ;-) Now anyone with a login should be able to upload Writer Guide chapters to that space,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started book: a question and an explanation

2011-01-02 Thread Hal Parker
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 1:56 PM, Ron Faile rmfa...@bellsouth.net wrote: Hal, Can you change the font of the book title to Liberation Sans in the template? And if possible, please use the versions of chapters that I uploaded yesterday. There were a few errors that I corrected. Thanks. Ron, I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started book: a question and an explanation

2011-01-02 Thread Hal Parker
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ron Faile rmfa...@bellsouth.net wrote: On 1/2/2011 3:58 PM, Hal Parker wrote: Ron, I have now changed the book title font (sorry for overlooking that) and I did pick up the latest version of the chapters, I hope. I have made some changes to Appendix B

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