On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:32 -0500, Jessica McCurdy Crooks wrote:
> I want to start with the Indexing, but need some help finding my way around.

Not sure which of the many possibilities you're asking about, so I'll
mention several.

We index our books by embedding index entries into the ODT files and
then compiling the index; all of this is done with Writer's indexing
tools. If you are not familiar with them, Chapter 12 of the Writer Guide
explains how to use them. You can get it in ODT or PDF from here:
http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/writer3/wg3.2-published

To index a chapter, you need to pick one that is on the Review List (so
you know that no one else is editing it), "retract" it, then download it
and work on it. Rename it and upload it to the Feedback folder for that
book when you're done. Details on how to do all those things are linked
from the first page of the English section of the website. 

Ask questions if you need help (everyone has questions, especially at
first), and I hope someone else will answer fairly quickly since I
probably won't be available for quick responses until the end of the
month. And the more specific the question, the better for getting a
useful reply.

As for which book to work on, most of the Calc Guide chapters have few
or no index entries already in them. Draw Guide chapters mostly have
some existing entries (carried over from the v2.x version of the book)
which may be incomplete or incorrect for v3.x. Impress Guide chapters
have some existing index entries. (Getting Started and Writer Guide have
been published, so we won't update their index entries until the next
round of updates.)

--Jean


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