Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > but very few people write tutorials for more complex user tasks or giving > specific usage examples (so much in OOo is easy but not obvious).
Throwing my two cents in here. Writing tutorials for "complex" user tasks is non-trivial. Two immediate things that would be author has to face are: * Time it takes to write the tutorial; * Number of people that will use the tutorial; Two examples: _Stylist: The Functions and their Attributes_. There are 11 different types of artefacts that have styles associated with them. Collectively, there are roughly 100 different functions for those styles. The offered attributes, and their behaviour, depends upon whether or not "Complex Language Support", and/or CJKV support is enabled, or disabled. The macros that one has installed, can also affect the behaviour of the styles. Is spending the 200 or so hours it takes to write it, justified by the size of the potential user population? _OOo in a Multi-Lingual Environment_ I don't remember how long it took me to write the versions that were publicly available. What I do know, is that I never received any feedback about it. I had long since decided that providing public updates was a losing proposition. I'd document things, as I needed solutions, and leave it at that. It wasn't until February of this year --- or roughly four years after it was removed from the OOoAuthor's site, that it looked like some sections of it, might be useful for other people. Is spending even 100 hours to update a document that maybe ten others will use, worthwhile? Only if the point is to outdo Daniel's & Bright, in the number of writing systems in a single book, that were generated by computer. jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
