On 8/19/06, G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Just a comment. I do wish that there was more effort in producing content than in playing proof reader. In this case it was warranted as I had guests and did not take the extra time needed to fully check. Don't you, as members of the project, think that making the effort to create content is worthwhile? Puzzled.
We all have those kinds of moments. :-) Can't speak for others, but I think OOo documentation development is really important stuff. From my end, I lack the OOo expertise I had developed using WordPerfect because I am retired now and no longer use a word processor in my daily work to produce complex documents. I have, however, been looking for OOo features where my WordPerfect expertise can transfer most easily into OOo documentation, based on my experience figuring out how to do things in OOo that are bothersome for our law office "guinea pig" end users, if they can be done. Along those lines, I have been working sporadically on documenting some advanced techniques using the autotext feature that are of particular utility in a law office (and elsewhere, such as use by medical transcriptionists); e.g., using coherent, systematic, and mnemonic naming schemes for abbreviations, building libraries of boiler plate text using autotext abbreviations, switching abbreviation concordances, calling special characters as abbreviations using a naming scheme, etc. But I can't predict when that will get to the point of being ready to publish. During this summer I have been spread way too thin because of factors such as attention owed to my grandson and his friends (I work from home), increased work demands because others are vacationing, and the need to recover from some serious health issues earlier in the year, etc. Then too, there was the launch of Microsoft's next major ODF FUD campaign August 1, apparently prepatory to Office 2007's release. In short, it's been a lousy summer for doing anything well. :-) In any event, once kids are back in school, a deFUDing effort is coordinated, and my co-worker vacation index subsides, I'll be in a better position to assess what time I can budget to which projects. Best regards, Marbux
