Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > While answering the question about the chapter on Data Sources, which I > haven't seen yet but sounds like Dan Lewis has actually written > specifically about Base, I realised that none of the other components > (Writer, Calc, Draw, Impress) has its own chapter in the Getting Started > book. Now I'm wondering if perhaps they should!
+1 I like the idea. > As you all may know, the books we are producing will be available as free > PDF downloads from the OOo website, and we will also be producing and > selling printed copies. A printed Getting Started book (including a CD of > OOo) would be particularly good to sell at trade shows as well as other > outlets. ... and the funds will be use to support OOo in small ways (e.g. make banners, bring flyers, etc), as discussed a while ago. > In that case, having the book cover a brief intro to each > component would be good. On the negative side, we can't say much about most > components in one chapter, and we don't want the book to grow too big > (around 200 pages max is my goal). I think that can be acomodated. One small introductory chapter for each component. The chapter should try to make it evident that there is a whole other guide available for that component. (how to do that is left as an exercise for the reader :) > Maybe I need to go back to the original idea of a "Common Features" guide In all honesty, I don't like a "common features" guide. I never did, really. But I am ecstatic over a getting started guide. Cheers, -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org |
