On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 13:13 +1200, Perry Spiller wrote: > hello, Rick, Jean et al. > > (I'm supposed to be doing some wiring in the barn, so I'm back > and forth to the keyboard, somewhat, presently.) > > > Earlier, you commented: > > Good to see you here and welcome to OOoAuthors... > > Thanks > > > > If you have the ability (basically the disk space, about 200mb) to > > run a > > concurrent version of the OOo version 2 beta, download the latest > > release from here: > > http://download.openoffice.org/680/index.html > > There are good instructions there on how to set it up, and it is a > > snap > > with Windows...the Linux setup (rpm based) is not that great. > > I can do it on my PC (Windows 2k). Space is not an issue. > However, when I went to the link you provided, I was a bit > confused. I thought that I read on a page - yesterday - that > only stable builds were being used for Manual purposes. Am > I missing something? Your comment (above) refers to a beta. > Please clarify that for me before I download the wrong file! > > > > > This page, > > http://oooauthors.org/en/authors/userguide2/contribute#review, has > > all > > the info you will need to get started, but you will still need some > > help...I did, but that's what the mailing list is for. > > I'll have a look-see later. > > > One comment: I have abundant ignorance available. (Not joking) > I have always found that s/ware analysis is best done by an idiot. > As in someone confronting the program for the first time. A user > with experience has too many sub-conscious presumptions. I have > used OO a few times, but that's all. If I can start on v2 from > scratch, > I'm more likely to spot lapses in instructional sequences. > > An analogy is trying to proof-read one's own prose compositions: > very difficult. The mind "sees" what the eyes don't. > > Perry
Hi Perry... Do you need any help with the wiring? I am a pretty good electrician, but I am an excellent plumber and carpenter. Of, course I'll need a lift from California if you want my assistance. ;-) I am using Win 2k for my doc writing, it is much more stable and less of a resource hog than XP. The betas will install fine, and they are generally stable. I do seem to have a transient crash happening when I leave my PC with OOo 1.9.104 running. Unfortunately I am never around to see it happen. But this has not been a "show-stopper" bug. We are writing our docs for version 2, and the betas are all we have to work with. At this point there should be very few changes that affect the User Guide, just things like fixing the broken macro recorder (and the like). Build 1.9.104 was released a few days ago and may be updated at any time. They say on the website every two weeks, but the releases have been sooner then that. I have a graduate degree in MIS, which makes me a systems analyst, and in turn makes me the wrong person to test software. You are right newbies do come up with the best test cases... -- Rick Barnes www.nostabo.net ************************************************* There are 10 kinds of people, those that can read binary numbers and those that can't... --> Sent via Evolution 2.2.1 running on a Linux 2.6.11 Gentoo kernel.
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