Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-11-03 Thread Maho NAKATA
Hi Andrea We japanese team have just published its translation. cf. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/ja/news/graduation.html http://www.openoffice.org/ja/news/graduation.html (not yet up) Thanks Nakata Maho From: Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org

Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
In the first three months after graduation a project is supposed to report to the Board on a monthly basis. So our reports will be due in November 2012, in December 2012, and then on a quarterly basis (Jan-Apr-Jul-Oct). I started a first draft of this month's report (which is still using the

Re: OpenOffice graduation: translations of press release

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:56 AM, Maho NAKATA m...@apache.org wrote: Hi Andrea We japanese team have just published its translation. cf. https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/ooo-site/trunk/content/ja/news/graduation.html http://www.openoffice.org/ja/news/graduation.html (not yet

[DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread RGB ES
On the help files, you find numbers written like 1.79769313486232 x 10E308 This is wrong: it should be either 1.79769313486232 x 10^308 or 1.79769313486232E308 what do you think? Regards Ricardo

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
RGB ES wrote: On the help files, you find numbers written like 1.79769313486232 x 10E308 This is wrong: it should be either 1.79769313486232 x 10^308 or 1.79769313486232E308 what do you think? Yes, it's wrong and your first proposal is correct and more readable than the second one. Then I

RE: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It appears that all three forms are correct as notations for the same numerical value where . is recognized as a decimal point. I agree that there should be consistency. I think context of the numeral is important. In particular, which is most likely to be easily recognized and understood

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread jan iversen
May I politely as a mathematician point out that there is a major difference in the 2 proposals. Number 1 is a mathematical expression whereas number 2 is a number. Now I do not know where it is used, but if I copy both suggestions into Calc, it believes it is text. Should we not have a format

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread jan iversen
ups, our calc does not like . if it is setup for e.g. en-GB, so actually calc accepted the second notation if I changed it to , Would it be possible to have a macro or something for . so it appears in , for me . signals 1000 (1.000) Jan. On 3 November 2012 18:29, Dennis E. Hamilton

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-03 Thread Ian Lynch
On 2 November 2012 20:34, Alexandro Colorado j...@oooes.org wrote: On 11/2/12, Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 November 2012 08:40, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: On 01/11/2012 robert_weir wrote: We (IBM) have consulted with customers, internal users, other IBM

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread RGB ES
2012/11/3 jan iversen jancasacon...@gmail.com May I politely as a mathematician point out that there is a major difference in the 2 proposals. Number 1 is a mathematical expression whereas number 2 is a number. I'm physicist :) The first number is the traditional scientific notation

RE: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I believe the original comment is about documentation of the Basic language used with OpenOffice. See https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=121307. In those cases, the correct notation (with multiplication sign and exponents) is shown in some languages for the page and different

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread jan iversen
When it is in the part that is being translated localizers will take care of , versus .. I know the x10 is a scientific notation and I use it and like it, but since our calc does not accept it, I would prefer the E notation, so people does not get confused. Jan. On 3 November 2012 19:14, RGB ES

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Fisher
On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 01/11/2012 robert_weir wrote: We (IBM) have consulted with customers, internal users, other IBM product teams, on what our (IBM's) development priorities should be for the next AOO release. Obviously, we're not the only ones with

Re: AOO.Next IBM Priorities

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 2:55 PM, Dave Fisher dave2w...@comcast.net wrote: On Nov 2, 2012, at 1:40 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: On 01/11/2012 robert_weir wrote: We (IBM) have consulted with customers, internal users, other IBM product teams, on what our (IBM's) development priorities should be

Re: [DOCUMENTATION]Wrong use of scientific notation

2012-11-03 Thread Juan C. Sanz
El 03/11/2012 19:25, jan iversen escribiĆ³: When it is in the part that is being translated localizers will take care of , versus .. I know the x10 is a scientific notation and I use it and like it, but since our calc does not accept it, I would prefer the E notation, so people does not get

Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Dave Fisher
LGTM, thanks! Regards, Dave On Nov 3, 2012, at 1:14 AM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: In the first three months after graduation a project is supposed to report to the Board on a monthly basis. So our reports will be due in November 2012, in December 2012, and then on a quarterly basis

Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Kay Schenk
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: In the first three months after graduation a project is supposed to report to the Board on a monthly basis. So our reports will be due in November 2012, in December 2012, and then on a quarterly basis (Jan-Apr-Jul-Oct).

Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Kay Schenk wrote: ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Nov Feel free to edit it. It should cover September 2012 and October 2012. Good that you put it on the wiki. When is the due date? I received no deadline, since officially we only report on Jan-Apr-Jul-Oct and

Re: Presentation

2012-11-03 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Galileo, you are welcome. Galileo Teco JuƔrez schrieb: hi i am new .. my name is Galileo. I am Chiapas Mexico I join the list of partners to contribute to the OpenOffice Suite as part of my university course. I have knowledge in: Java, C, C + +, GNU / Linux, Windows XD, other things. I

Re: Draft Board report for November

2012-11-03 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Andrea Pescetti pesce...@apache.org wrote: Kay Schenk wrote: ... https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/OOOUSERS/2012+Nov Feel free to edit it. It should cover September 2012 and October 2012. Good that you put it on the wiki. When is the due date? I