Hello! I have been thinking of the documentation that has been published by the community the last year, and have some thoughts to share with you all. Some thoughts have arisen when reading books on other areas aswell as Suns documentation for the StarOffice 8 product.
First off, typographical conventions are great. They make the content easy to read, prevent that meanings are interpreted wrong and increase the readability. It also makes the documentation look better and more professional. Our documentation today use some conventions in the content, but has there been a decision on this? Suns documentation is using good conventions and could be borrowed from. StarOffice 8 Getting Started Guide Please see page 9 http://docs-pdf.sun.com/817-7351/817-7351.pdf Secondly, I think that our documentation is lacking good formatting. Big margins, rows with a maximum of 75 characters and clear and minimalistic styles are improving the readability. The Sun documentation with its margins and simple formatting does this amaizingly well, and could maybe be studied more? Please look at the above document regarding this aswell. Third, in a little more than a year version 3 of OpenOffice.org will be released. Issues are running working with the logo and icons. Maybe the development of a clearer, fresher documentation could be a part of this effort? The clearer and less straggling that the design of the different material that is published by the community, the easier it is for the users to recognize the product, the community and it's values. Please give as much feedback as you can on this. Best, _______________________________________________________ Best Regards Per Eriksson Marketing Contact Sweden OpenOffice.org Phone: 0046 (0)70 560 10 33 Web: http://sv.openoffice.org/ E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
