Hi Daniel, :-) I proofread your document and uploaded it to the wiki [1]. I inserted comments at various places in the doc to explain my changes, and to make some suggestions. I slightly altered the English for what, IMHO, would be better for an international reader base, but no major rewrites. I reformulated some sentences, added bits, etc. Anyway, you'll see all that.
IMHO, it's a nice draft. If it was for the LibreOffice documentation set, I'd suggest "Power Users Guide" for the title. That's the audience it fits, and it doesn't have much content that makes it really specific to technical writers. A few ideas: maybe you could address the subject of bibliography a bit more, for example? (Even if not in too much detail.) Same thing for fields? Also, maybe you could cover MACROS (macro recording, if not macro programming), and the advanced aspects of find-and-replace? (Regular expressions is what I'm thinking of.) Anyway, IMVHO, it's nicely written and packs a lot into a small manual, so that more-advanced users can get up to speed quickly without having to read large volumes of documentation. I understand you have a size constraint to comply with. If you don't have time or if you can't write much more (because of your project rules), maybe I could help you develop the above suggestions. It would make a nice little project for me, too! :-) I, for one, will certainly pay personal attention to maintaining it in the future, if you don't have time to work on it yourself. Anyway, Thanks for your work. Great job, and I hope you get good marks. You and your co-authors certainly deserve it. :-) HTH. [1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Guide_for_technical_writers-draft.odt David Nelson -- E-mail to [email protected] for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available at http://www.libreoffice.org/lists/documentation/ All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
