On Thursday March 22 2007 4:04 am, Michele Zarri wrote:
> On 3/22/07, Jean Hollis Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello team!
> > It's been a year since the second edition of the Getting Started
> > guide was published, so I'm doing a quick&dirty update.
> >
> > I'll put the chapters on the Review List as I update them. I
> > would be grateful for anyone to check them to see what I forgot
> > or goofed up. If you know of things needing to be added or
> > changed to chapters I haven't got to yet, please feel free to
> > tell me now and/or edit the relevant files yourself.
> >
> > I want to have this book up to date for OOo 2.2 before
> > publication, so if you have the release candidate, that would be
> > great. Otherwise, 2.1 should be fine for checking, because 2.2 is
> > supposed to be bug fixes, not new features.
> >
> > This is not the time for major rewrites, but of course if you
> > find unclear sentences, grammatical errors, or inconsistencies,
> > do correct them.
> >
> > Note especially to US Americans: most of this book is written
> > using international (aka "British") English spelling and
> > punctuation conventions, with the exception of "color", "dialog"
> > and "program".
> >
> > Thank you.
> > --Jean
>
> Hello Jean,
>
> I think this is an excellent initiative. Since I received several
> complaints about the Getting Started with Impress, do you think it
> may be possible to perform a bit more substantial intervention on
> this chapter? what are the deadlines for providing something for
> review?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Michele
When you get information that might improve one of the chapters
of any of the guides, you should let others know that what you have
discovered. If it concerns only a small section of the chapter, you
could send that information to this mailing list so that the
maintainer can work with that information. Otherwise, feel free to
download the chapter from the OOo Author site, modify it while making
sure you record your changes. Upload the modified file to the
feedback folder for the guide containing the chapter. Then notify the
list you have done so.
As the maintainer of the Getting Started with Impress chapter, I
was not aware of these criticisms. If I had known, I possibly could
have incorporated the changes in the chapter already.
Jean: I am about to make some major revisions in the Getting
Started with Base chapter. This includes revising the tables,
defining relationships between tables, and creating two forms in the
place of the four presently in this chapter.
Dan
