Hello Bill, Have you thought of contributing at OOoAuthors ?
http://oooauthors.org This is the main development site for documentation. We are working on the OOo user guide. The team is large, active, and very friendly. Go to the website and take a look. Feel free to make an account and play with it. Once our documentation is "published", it gets copied to the documentation project: http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/ Scroll down and you'll see that OOoAuthors is quite active :-) The stuff you see is the "published" documentation. If you include the chapters we're working on, the list would be much longer. If you can't install OOo2.0 that's alright. It's not imperative. The primary form of contribution at OOoAuthors is reviewing. To ensure high quality, each chapter is reviewed by several different authors. If you don't have OOo you obviously can't verify the accuracy of the file. But you can still verify that the language is clear, the instructions are undersandable, and if you're into grammar, you can verify that also. In other words, there's tons for you to do there. And we'd love to have you. We really need more volunteers. Writing a complete, professional quality, user guide, is a major undertaking. Good reviewers is what makes the difference between a passable document, and an excellent one. All the instructions to join are right on the OOoAuthors home page. Cheers, Daniel. On Thu, Mar 17, 2005 at 11:41:01AM -0400, William T. Marchant wrote: > Hi all, > In my message to GRS of 27 Feb, I offered to assist with documentation > for OpenOffice. I have been following the messages on this link ever > since, and wondering just how to begin. > I have down loaded the beta version of 2.0 (which turns out to be > 1.9.79), and installed it on my Mandrake 10.1. I find that all the > menus are missing, except for their initial letters. I used rpm to > install each piece separately. Must these be done in some special > order? The install simply reported itself complete without complaint of > any kind. > I notice with interest that matters of format and punctuation in the > documentation are still being debated. While OOo2.0 is a new product > (relatively speaking), I would have thought that these matters had > already been solved in previous documents. (Please this is not a > criticism, just an observation). Other questions related to this arise > in my mind. vis. Spelling: American, Canadian, British, Australian, or > whatever. > I do wish to help. At this point I am not still sure where I can fit > in. > Bill Marchant > -- > William T. Marchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel Carrera | I don't want it perfect, Join OOoAuthors today! | I want it Tuesday. http://oooauthors.org | --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
