Re: [documentation-dev] Where to begin??

[Scott Carr]

William T. Marchant wrote:
	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.
 

Welcome to the fold.  ;-)
	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.
 

Have you searched IssueZilla to see if this has been reported?  If you 
need some help

	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.  
 

You can find a guide for Format and Punctuation under the downloads area 
for the project:

<http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList>
There is a style guide and a template.  Of course, these are general 
guidelines, and if you have ideas, please bring them up on the list.  
(Which is probably what you have been seeing.  ;-) )

	I do wish to help.  At this point I am not still sure where I can fit
in.  
 

There are numerous documentation fronts being done.  Mainly:
*  Setup Guides being done on Documentation.  (Sounds like an area you 
can help with, if you are installing on Mandrake.)
   See Issue # 37513 
<http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=37513>
*  User Guides for OOo 2.x.  There are two. 
   OOoAuthors.org is seperated out by chapter, so there are several 
different documents that will be put together to make the full guide.
      See http://www.oooauthors.org for more information
   The Documentation project has a guide that needs to be updated as well.
      See Issue # 29679 
<http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=29679>
*  Individual How To's.  Please look at the Task List, provided on the 
main page of the project.  These cover a wide range of topics, and 
usually take about a day to complete.

--
Scott Carr
OpenOffice.org
Documentation Co-Lead
http://documentation.openoffice.org 

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