Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Gary Schnabl wrote,
However, there is a need to spare users from entering some areas
where the conversions to/from OOo and other apps fail. As I mentioned
before, that should be the primary impetus for having such a guide.
And having that guide's advice changed afterwards to relate to the
evolving development of OpenOffice and the other apps/suites.
IOW, practical advice and workarounds, mostly. No charts, any
longer--please! Charts are only so informative. My IQ is at the 99.9+
percentile, but still I find charts with an X or three or their
absence to be a needless mental exercise when I want to know out
whether something works or not. I'm sure that our people and also
lurkers could suggest material for a useful, current Migration Guide.
There is training (learning, how-to) material, and there is reference
material. Comparison tables may or may not be useful for training, but
I believe they can be quite useful as "quick reference" material, and
some people really like that sort of thing. Of course, that doesn't
mean the Migration Guide is the place to put it.
I'm keen on task-oriented rather than reference material as a priority
for users, and I've agreed all along that what you want to add to that
book is definitely important and needed, so I don't mind at all if you
dump the comparison tables in the Migration Guide. If the "Cluesheets"
people update their quick reference cards to v3, then the info is
available, just not from us.
Am I correct that you're also in favour of dumping the comparison
tables in Chapter 1 of the Getting Started book? Is there anything
else in GS Ch1 that you recommend not including in the v3 book? I'm a
bit dubious about the value of a "New features" list, which I don't
think is all tht useful to anyone unfamiliar with an earlier version
of OOo.
--Jean
I so far have not commented much (if at all) concerning anything
specific, content-wise, to anything in Getting Started other than the
need for (nested) list design concepts. I'm content now to sit back and
watch others making their comments.
However, I am entertaining thoughts pulling the embedded graphics out of
the guides and having them linked to other companion documents for the
embedded figures or alternatively having the graphic images linked
altogether from an allied folder. The first way, it's easier to format
the chapters without having to be concerned about the graphics taking up
so much page (and file) space. If the readers desire to view the
graphics, they can link to them. The Lulu documents could have their
figures embedded prior to being printed.
Gary
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