Re: [libreoffice-documentation] proofread read me file

2010-11-29 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:52 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 18:47, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: David, you can turn View Changes on at your end, whether or not it Sigrid had it activated. Or are you saying you did that, but

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Workflow requirements

2010-12-16 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 5:46 PM, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) Sometime between Christmas and New Year, I'm going to set up Alfresco on my own server. I'll invite you guys to take a look... If there is positive feedback about it, I'll ask Christian if he can install us

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-10 Thread Jean Weber
Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs, without lengthy debate. Jean On Tuesday, January 11, 2011, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) The term I have always used in my own work

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Translated Guides publication

2011-02-04 Thread Jean Weber
Yes to all your questions. Jean On Friday, February 4, 2011, Sophie Gautier gautier.sop...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Jean, Sigrid, Andreas, * We (FR native-lang team) are going to have the translated ODFAuthor guides published by an open source editor and I've some questions: - is it possible to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Joining the Documentation Team

2011-02-04 Thread Jean Weber
IMO the best place to begin is with the chapters of the Writer Guide, which are in the Review space for that book. These chapters have been through the rebranding cycle and are ready for proofreading. The Calc chapters have not yet been rebranded, figures updated, etc. Jean On Friday, February

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] General Options documentation

2011-02-09 Thread Jean Weber
On Thursday, February 10, 2011, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 19:51, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: The plan for the OOo docs is to put common material into files which are then linked into the chapters in various books, so any edits would

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-15 Thread Jean Weber
Later chapters have a lot of Linux pix. Jean On Wednesday, February 16, 2011, JDługosz d6474gh...@snkmail.com wrote: Everything I've seen in the Writer document has been done on Windows (Vista or 7). If we want to avoid using MS's elements, useful screen shots like showing what's on a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] volunteering

2011-02-26 Thread Jean Weber
On Sunday, February 27, 2011, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Marc, :-) On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 03:51, Marc Grober m...@interak.com wrote: I was talking about the dialog in LO 3.3 for chaning the features of the footnote area...  all the tabs for that dialog are in one row,

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

2011-04-12 Thread Jean Weber
On Tuesday, April 12, 2011, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 12 Apr 2011 08:40:23 +1000 Hal Parker halparke...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for reporting this problem. Which file is wrong? Is it wrong on the wiki or only on the LO website? Can someone else on the Docs team

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

2011-04-18 Thread Jean Weber
Tom, there is such a document but i don't have the URL handy. I'll look it up later today. it needs some work but was written for the many newcomers to OOo docs. --Jean On Tuesday, April 19, 2011, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi again :) Of course it would be ideal if Jean could

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

2011-04-19 Thread Jean Weber
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 don't have permissions to do so. I have downloaded the chapter template and

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

2011-04-23 Thread Jean Weber
On Sunday, April 24, 2011, Simon simonbry...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry, loaded up Ubuntu and the current screenshots look correct. Will just go ahead and have a stab at making some changes then attach them here and/or on Alfresco. Please do NOT send files to the list. I don't recall whether the

[libreoffice-documentation] Draft how to produce LO user guides

2011-04-25 Thread Jean Weber
I'm working on a document summarizing some items to do with producing LO user guides: things like guidelines for screenshots. It will tie in with Jeremy's Alfresco boot camp doc and the preferred word list and other contributor resources we've been accumulating. My idea is to eventually put them

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Documentation Team Leader?

2011-04-25 Thread Jean Weber
On Saturday, April 23, 2011, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: I think that I'd prefer just to talk of a role acting as a responsive central contact rather than a team leader as such. I think we need both, and the two roles need not be done by the same person. When I get home I'll

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Manual

2011-04-27 Thread Jean Weber
On Thursday, April 28, 2011, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: I am planning to put together a Base manual, starting next. That's excellent news! OO does not have a current manual that I could find. I will base the manual on OO information I can find and any other information I can find.

[libreoffice-documentation] Announcement

2011-04-27 Thread Jean Weber
On Thursday, April 28, 2011, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.com wrote: I knew it. You slipped a week or so ago and signed an email from Hal --Jean. I was wondering if anyone had noticed! Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines +

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress with sound?

2011-04-30 Thread Jean Weber
On 30/04/2011, at 10:38 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Do we have any draft documentation or anything about trying to use sound files in Impress? Particularly worried that it seem to be broken on Windows but is there something that might help someone get sound working in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Printed copy of Writer Guide now available

2011-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On 02/05/2011, at 12:19 AM, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: Hi Jean, On Sunday 01 May 2011 12:34, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: The printed edition of the LibreOffice Writer Guide is now available from Friends of OpenDocument, Inc. The direct link is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco doesn´t work?

2011-05-01 Thread Jean Weber
On 02/05/2011, at 3:17 AM, Juan C. Sanz juancsa...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been exploring the repository in documentation.libreoffice.org, and I´ve discover that I can explore the English's and German's folders but I cannot explore the Portuges do Brasil nor the Español folders. Are

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: First draft of Producing LibreOffice User Guides

2011-05-04 Thread Jean Weber
On Thursday, May 5, 2011, Jeremy Cartwright vardomes...@gmail.com wrote: All spaces in Company Home/Documentation now have the same sub-space structure. Drafts Reviewed Proofread Published. A simple workflow has been implemented where you can approve to progress the document to the next

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Weber
Replacing the screenshots definitely needs to be done, either at this point or during the review to see what else may need to be changed because of differences between OOo Impress and LibO Impress. So please do so if you want to and have time. If you do replace screenshots, please note that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-12 Thread Jean Weber
That was certainly an oversight if any remained in a published doc, and will need to be fixed in the next update. The Getting Started book in particular was done in a great rush and has far too many uncorrected images in it. If you want to start redoing them, you are very welcome to do so.

[libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts

2011-05-13 Thread Jean Weber
I notice that the last two posts on our blog have as one of their tags The Document Foundation and I wondered why. Neither post has anything to do with TDF. Was this a mistake, or am I still confused about what tags are for? --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Tutorials and Howtos

2011-05-13 Thread Jean Weber
Tossing out some thoughts for discussion... 1) In addition to the user guides and the blog, IMO we need to develop a set of tutorials or howtos. Videos would be great for many topics, but that is outside my area of expertise, so I'll talk here about written ones (some of which could be used as

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Tags on blog posts

2011-05-13 Thread Jean Weber
it from being ticked by default. On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I notice that the last two posts on our blog have as one of their tags The Document Foundation and I wondered why. Neither post has anything to do with TDF. Was this a mistake, or am I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Categorising posts on the Docs blog

2011-05-13 Thread Jean Weber
of the authors and do not express official policy of The Document Foundation nor LibreOffice. *John Shabanowitz http://libodocs.wordpress.com We're recruiting, come join us.* On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: We also need a copyright statement (the CC-BY-SA

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Video Screen Shot Software

2011-05-14 Thread Jean Weber
On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 21:32, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 07:16 -0400, John Shabanowitz wrote: Hello all, Years ago there was a program, part of the MS Office suite, called Microsoft Recorder or similar. It allowed you to capture in video, your desktop,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Elliot Re: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?

2011-05-16 Thread Jean Weber
until I can switch to Linux. Someone else will need to take that torch if it needs to be done soon. Sorry. Thanks for the assist, Jean. :) ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: That was certainly an oversight if any

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] checking in a rebranded Impress Guide?

2011-06-01 Thread Jean Weber
I sent instructions recently to this list for someone else who had asked. You can probably find them in the list archives. Is this info not in the document on Using Alfresco in the Resources space? It's not importing, it's checking in. Did you check out the doc before working on it? The

[libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Alfresco groups

2011-06-01 Thread Jean Weber
Hi David, As far as I can determine, the only group with the permissions needed for uploading files and doing some other things is the Admin group, so if people aren't added to that group, they can't do much even though they have a login. I may be mistaken, of course; there's a lot about

[libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Alfresco workflows

2011-06-01 Thread Jean Weber
While I'm on the subject of Alfresco, we really need to have the workflows reestablished, so the necessary links are available to move (promote or demote) files from one space to another. Jeremy wrote a very good description in his bootcamp document, but unfortunately the actual process doesn't

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Want to contribute to documentation..

2011-06-02 Thread Jean Weber
I set up a table weeks ago but no one has put any info in it. It's on one of the docs devel pages. And now I rally am going into the wilds. See you in a few days. Jean On 03/06/2011, at 6:58, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, :-) On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 23:58, Rogerio Luz

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide (Chapter 1)

2011-06-05 Thread Jean Weber
it's probably best to be consistent with what is already being used even if that has turned out to be different from agreements that i often misinterpret or remember wrongly anyway. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Alfresco workflows

2011-06-05 Thread Jean Weber
Davis, Thanks for the update. Much appreciated. Jean On 05/06/2011, at 22:23, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 02:38, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: While I'm on the subject of Alfresco, we really need to have the workflows reestablished

Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Alfresco workflows

2011-06-05 Thread Jean Weber
Heh, that previous note from me should have said David, not Davis. The perils of typing in the dark. Jean Begin forwarded message: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Date: 6 June 2011 7:05:27 ACST To: documentation@libreoffice.org documentation@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools

2011-06-06 Thread Jean Weber
I think this info, with screenshots, is in Chapter 3, Working with Text, in the Writer Guide, but I could be misremembering the chapter. It definitely is in the Writer Guide somewhere, because I remember writing it! Tom, I believe he is asking about the way to mark certain passages as one

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools

2011-06-07 Thread Jean Weber
On Tuesday, June 7, 2011, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, In LibO 3.3, highlight the text you want to format, then go to Format Character Font then open the Language dropdown list and choose the desired language. HTH. -- David Nelson Although that works, that's a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools

2011-06-08 Thread Jean Weber
From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com To: documentation@libreoffice.org documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 7 June, 2011 22:25:12 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools If you

Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-marketing] do you know where is the documentation is . . . for marketing it to schools

2011-06-08 Thread Jean Weber
Also, we are often working on documentation for a version of LibO that is still in development, using the developers' builds or betas, or that has recently been released and is not yet in the repos. Jean Begin forwarded message: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Date: 9 June 2011 7:39:56

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc: sheet name font size

2011-06-09 Thread Jean Weber
I don't think the Calc Guide has anything on this. I've been reading the discussions on the OOo forum http://user.services.openoffice.org/en/forum/ (search for openoffice calc sheet tabs font size or similar). This problem appears to depend on the o/s and can sometimes be solved by changing the

[libreoffice-documentation] Apache OpenOffice.org

2011-06-09 Thread Jean Weber
Rob Weir reports that there are 75 proposed committers signed up for the Apache OpenOffice project. http://wiki.apache.org/incubator/OpenOfficeProposal I don't know what this will mean for us in the OOo and LibO docs groups, but I am concerned about the potential for further fragmentation of a

[libreoffice-documentation] My plans

2011-06-11 Thread Jean Weber
I am no longer interested in doing the organizing, coordinating, and other admin work that the documentation team needs to be done, and after all these years I am tired of trying to either do the user guide updates or get people to do them. So when I get back from this trip in a few days I plan

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki

2011-06-11 Thread Jean Weber
On 12/06/2011, at 8:27, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: On Saturday, 11. June 2011 12:23:22 Jean Weber wrote: On Saturday, June 11, 2011, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: The TDF Wiki you can use right away, but AFAIK there is no Documentation section yet (I mean where knowledge bits

Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki

2011-06-11 Thread Jean Weber
Begin forwarded message: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Date: 12 June 2011 8:54:25 AEST To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki On 12/06/2011, at 8:27, Nino Novak

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] documentat...@libreoffice.org not working?

2011-06-12 Thread Jean Weber
On 12/06/2011, at 13:51, Jaimon Jacob jaimon_jacob2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I checked my spam folder and there they were.. all the mails I sent over the last 3 days..bounced back... so is this the new mail ID? Thanks, Jaimon Yes, the mail address for the list changed yesterday. Jean

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki

2011-06-12 Thread Jean Weber
On Monday, June 13, 2011, David Paenson davepo...@googlemail.com wrote: Over the past three years have been writing a documentation specifically aimed at students (and authors in general) in German. It is available at:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Collecting small things in the Wiki

2011-06-14 Thread Jean Weber
Google Translate can be useful for us to decide whether a document in another language is much the same as an existing doc (and thus may not be worth the effort to translate and edit). Jean On Wednesday, June 15, 2011, David Paenson davepo...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi David, I think I'll do it

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] My plans

2011-06-15 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 00:46, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 18:42, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I am no longer interested in doing the organizing, coordinating, and other admin work that the documentation team needs to be done

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] ODFauthors

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 16:09, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/06/2011 00:13, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Hmm, interesting. What constitutes doing business in a state? That literally depends upon the state. It can range from attendance at a trade show, to having an office with

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] signing on...

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
Tom, have you found the Getting Started with Base chapter? That's one of the few docs we have on Base. There's also Mariano's Base tutorial, linked from here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation#Other_Documentation_and_Resources Jay can no doubt point you to other bits of info,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to get to PDF Options on Ubuntu

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 17:21, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: I'm using the version of LibO that came with Ubuntu 11.04. When I create a PDF, it does not give me the PDF Options dialog. Does

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Libreoffice 3.4 Quickstarter Problem

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 17:31, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jaimon, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 10:25 AM, Jaimon Jacob jaimon_jacob2...@yahoo.comwrote: I am using Ubuntu 10.10 and Liberoffice 3.4.0. as I mentioned in my previous mail. The problem is Ubuntu 10.10 came with

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Problem checking out files

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 17:41, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I have just attempted to check out 0300CG3-CalcGuideLibO3-1.odt and 0300CG3-CalcGuideLibO3-1.pdf; in each case I received the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to get to PDF Options on Ubuntu

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 18:00, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, David. This was an upgrade, and I've had a lot of odd problems with various programs. If it were Windows, I'd suspect malware

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING David Nelson: Problem checking out files

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 18:01, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 17:41, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Jean, On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 9:05 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I have just attempted to check out 0300CG3-CalcGuideLibO3-1

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Jean Weber
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:27, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version in PDF. I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting started guide - chapter 1

2011-06-26 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 08:47, Sigrid Carrera sigrid.carr...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, while translating, I found the following note in this chapter: Under Microsoft Windows you can use either the LibreOffice Open and Save As dialogs or the ones provided by Microsoft Windows. See “Using the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [Fwd: Proposal for major revision of Getting Started guide]

2011-06-30 Thread Jean Weber
You might also look at some of the files in the English Resources space, which includes (among other things) 4 draft chapters of the Contributors' Guide for the LibreOffice Documentation Team: * Joining the LibreOffice Documentation Team * Producing LibreOffice User Guides * Style Guide for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Impress, Master Slides and Custom Animations

2011-06-30 Thread Jean Weber
Forgot to say... LibreOffice may have some extra functionality in this area that OOo lacks (I don't know). It's one of the things that someone needs to verify when updating the OOo Impress Guide for LibO. Tom, I'm not subscribed to the users list, and won't do so until late July (after my

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] getting involved with helping with LO docs

2011-07-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 22:34, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote:  hi, my name's rob day and since i'm about to dive into LO 3.4.1 in a big way, i figured i might as well offer to help out with the docs.  besides being a linux person, i also have a history of editing, proofreading,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco maintenance: moved some stuff around

2011-07-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 02:23, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi, I moved the Resources and Samples spaces into Repository English [en - English] Content Documentation. @Jeremy: you created the Samples space. I don't see a purpose for it at this time... Can I delete it? (I won't

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Parallel install (was: Unable to get to PDF Options on Ubuntu)

2011-07-01 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 07:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 14:32 +0200, Nino Novak wrote: On Monday, 20. June 2011 13:33:45 Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-20 at 13:16 +0200, Nino Novak wrote: Jean, On Monday, 20. June 2011 03:57:51 Jean

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Weber
For Draw, only the ones in Drafts should need image updates. DO NOT use the Chapter 1 file that is in Drafts; it's marked as superceded but that may be easy to overlook. Also, check the Discussions for each of the other chapters; some have notes I made about other things that need to be done in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 01:46, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Does the modification datetime help identify the right ones to work on? Not necessarily. The main indicator is what space the files are in; for Draw, the ones in Drafts have not had image updates done, while the ones in

[libreoffice-documentation] Master document files for user guides

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Weber
I'm collecting (and, where necessary, updating) the master document (.ODM) files for the user guides and will add them to Alfresco later today. Should I put them all into Resources or into the spaces for the individual books? If the latter, which subspace should they go into? Published? (I can

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Draw Guide

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Weber
I am making corrections and updates to all the master documents, and to the book (not chapter) template, so your copies will soon be out of date. I'll let the list know when I have uploaded the revisions. The changes came about because I kept noticing anomalies and errors while putting together

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Draw Guide

2011-07-03 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 10:24, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Richard, On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 2:41 AM, Richard richard.h...@gmail.com wrote: Look forward to being able to checkout from the actual Getting Started repository to avoid duplication of effort. Please could you give

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-04 Thread Jean Weber
Use Shift+Enter for a line break, not a new paragraph. --Jean On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 04:17, Jaimon Jacob jaimon_jacob2...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Tried my best, but I could not add my name to the contributor list..  :-) When I do an Enter, it always go down one space extra... Thanks --

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] wanting clarification on how to start submitting(?) updates to docs

2011-07-04 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 05:06, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: On Mon, Jul 4, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Robert P. J. Day rpj...@crashcourse.ca wrote: p.s.  i also see a reference to Enable systray quickstarter on Linux but i don't see that anywhere in my linux session.  perhaps i just didn't

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 02:24, Jaimon Jacob jaimon_jacob2...@yahoo.com wrote: I have a doubt about the Impress guide. The images had been updated by Song with Ambiance theme, so they need to be updated with windows xp theme now?  Sorry for being too doubtful.. I believe those in Chapter 1

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 07:19, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: On 7/5/2011 3:15 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Jaimon, On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:24 PM, Jaimon Jacobjaimon_jacob2...@yahoo.com  wrote: Yeah. I should have gone through it more carefully. I got it now, but I have a doubt

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-05 Thread Jean Weber
Schnablgschn...@swdetroit.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Tue, 5 July, 2011 4:32:39 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice On 7/4/2011 4:39 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Use Shift+Enter for a line break, not a new paragraph. --Jean On Tue

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 07:17, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: better-contrast theme (such as XP-Silver) at some point. And just to make sure everyone knows what I'm referring to: it's the XP-Silver theme *for Ubuntu* (a theme that provides a somewhat WindowsXP lookalike screenshot

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING Song Chuan Low Re: Impress Guide

2011-07-28 Thread Jean Weber
On 29/07/2011, at 0:14, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Song Chuan, On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 5:12 PM, ~*Low Song Chuan*~ song8...@yahoo.com.sg wrote: I currently not able to commit time for any work. Sorry about this. OK, I perfectly understand. So we should check the files

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: More Documentation online

2011-07-29 Thread Jean Weber
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 21:32, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I am quite happy to put the dates on the wiki initially. I am delighted to defer to you on that chore, Tom! --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Chapters 1 and 2 reviewed

2011-07-30 Thread Jean Weber
On Saturday, July 30, 2011, John Cleland j...@john-cleland.co.uk wrote: Is there a standard way of referring to things, for example Toolbar,toolbar or ToolBar. QuickStarter, Quickstarter. AutoRecovery or Auto Recovery. Yes, but we haven't listed them all in the style guide yet. The general

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Repeating Chapters

2011-08-02 Thread Jean Weber
On 02/08/2011, at 22:11, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Would it make sense for the Chapters on each specific app to be repeated as an overview chapter in each of the guides dedicated to that app? The GS chapter on Getting Started with Writer would be the same as the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS Macro Chapter replacement

2011-08-02 Thread Jean Weber
Yike! I'll fix that today, I'd no one else gets to it first. Thanks for the head's-up, Tom. Jean On 02/08/2011, at 23:40, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) The Macros chapter's Pdf needs replacing fairly quickly. At the moment it shows editing changes with deleted text

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS Macro Chapter replacement

2011-08-02 Thread Jean Weber
OK, something's wrong; the wiki may be pointing to the wrong filename, not the file I just uploaded. I found this problem on a couple of other GS chapters in the past; the wiki has some old files on it that are not being updated as they should. The website simply points to the wiki, so yes there

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Impress Guide status

2011-08-10 Thread Jean Weber
On Wednesday, August 10, 2011, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Is the Impress book ready for Lulu? Is it an easy 5min job? If not then next week is plenty soon enough. Regards from Tom :) No the Impress Guide has not been compiled into a book yet. I forget who was doing that. It

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS Macro Chapter New Version Ready but....

2011-08-13 Thread Jean Weber
On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 18:08, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Andrew, I've uploaded your file into English Content [en - English] Documentation Getting Started Guide Drafts There seems to be an issue uploading new .odt content via the Share interface at

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS Macro Chapter New Version Ready but....

2011-08-13 Thread Jean Weber
at 18:18, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 18:08, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Andrew, I've uploaded your file into English Content [en - English] Documentation Getting Started Guide Drafts There seems to be an issue uploading new .odt content

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] List of updates for Getting Started with Libo 3.4.x

2011-08-22 Thread Jean Weber
Richard, Not surprisingly, I agree with you. ;-) I was looking at your work and thinking that we really should go in that direction when we have a bit of time to do a proper job of it. My list of suggested changes for v3.4 is subject to change as I learn more, and you may find other things

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Chapter 1

2011-08-27 Thread Jean Weber
On Sunday, August 28, 2011, Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I have downloaded this chapter from the proofread folder of Impress but I still haven't managed to find the icon for checking out and locking it. The impress Guide and all the other guides for v3.3 have been published. I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide errors.

2011-08-30 Thread Jean Weber
John, Thank you for sending your corrections and suggestions for the Writer Guide. We've just started updating it for the new release of LibreOffice (V3.4.x), so this is excellent timing. As was probably apparent, that book was originally converted to LibreOffice in a hurry and some things were

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide errors.

2011-08-31 Thread Jean Weber
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 20:47, Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:53:28 +1000 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: As was probably apparent, that book was originally converted to LibreOffice in a hurry and some things were missed in the process. So we're

[libreoffice-documentation] LO 3.4.3 has been released

2011-08-31 Thread Jean Weber
In case you missed the announcement, LibreOffice 3.4.3 has been released. If you're working on updating the user gudies for the LO 3.4.x series, you'll want to get this version. (If you have 3.4.3 RC2, you don't need to download the final.) It's a bug-fix release. I'm hoping to hear soon from

[libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-04 Thread Jean Weber
Is anyone working on 3.4.x updates for any of the chapters in any of the books? I don't see anything checked out. I know it's a long weekend in the USA, and it's probably still summer holidays in much of Europe, so perhaps that's the reason? Or perhaps you're doing more research before checking a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone working on 3.4.x updates for any of the chapters in any of the books? I don't see anything checked out. I know it's a long weekend in the USA, and it's probably still summer holidays in much of Europe, so perhaps that's the reason? Or perhaps

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 18:09, Martin Fox i...@mjfox.ch wrote: Jean I am working through Pivot Tables (Previously DataPilot) from Ch 8 of the Calc Guide at present. There will be quite some confusion as not all the strings have been changed from DP to PT - for example the first layout screen

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 19:05, Martin Fox i...@mjfox.ch wrote: But my point is, we have all this really good _basic_ information contained in the Guides. What about the power users? Who addresses their needs? Do we need some sort of cookbook of ideas/FAQs or whatever in a Wiki format?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:01, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: There has been some discussion about a power-users guide in here about a month ago.  It stalled when a few of us argued that the macro chapters that are already in the guides should stay there even tho it edges into the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
examples for particular target audiences. But again, there's no one to do it. --Jean On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:08, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:01, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: There has been some discussion about a power-users guide in here about

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Broken links to documentation on documentation Wiki Page

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Nino beat me to it. Thanks, Nino! --Jean On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:22, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the heads-up. I'll revert some recent edits (by someone with the username Sanyii) and I hope then it will be okay. --Jean On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:12, Ian Leyton leyto

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Broken links to documentation on documentation Wiki Page

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:26, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: Am Montag, 5. September 2011, um 13:22:51 schrieb Jean Weber: Thanks for the heads-up. I'll revert some recent edits (by someone with the username Sanyii) and I hope then it will be okay. --Jean Oops, sorry for interference

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Broken links to documentation on documentation Wiki Page

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Special:RecentChanges On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:34, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Is it possible to see recent changes done throughout the wiki?  In Ubuntu Community Docs there is this page

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] collaboration between AOOo and LO

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 21:47, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I thought ODFauthors were trying to organise collaboration between OOo and LO documentation? I don't think this should be 1 person's responsibility to organise.  I think there are a few people here from ODFauthors

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] collaboration between AOOo and LO

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 22:15, Martin Fox i...@mjfox.ch wrote: On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:47:15 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I thought ODFauthors were trying to organise collaboration between OOo and LO documentation?  I don't think this should be 1 person's

[libreoffice-documentation] My main machine is now a Mac

2011-09-05 Thread Jean Weber
Just to let you know (not that it's relevant to much of anything)... my main machine is now a MacBook Air. I've still got the Ubuntu and Windows machines and plan to use the Ubuntu setup for screenshots, but will be doing most of my work on the Mac. Very glad that I can get Mac versions of almost

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] My main machine is now a Mac

2011-09-06 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 18:53, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Good to hear :)  Does it have the regular Mac keyboard or does it still have a Windows key?  Mouse with 2 keys? Mine is a MacBook Air, but most of the time I use it with a full-size external Mac keyboard (which is

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