On Fri, 2010-11-19, David Nelson wrote: > 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. :-) >
David, You may be interested in this list of topics I put together for a proposed longer document aimed at techwriters: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Tutorials/Targeted I believe Daniel and his fellow students picked a few topics from that list, since their assignment had a 20-page limit. --Jean -- 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
