On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 19:12 -0600, Larry Gusaas wrote: > On 2011/01/12 6:49 AM Alexander Thurgood wrote: > > I agree, however, that completely rewriting the documentation / guides, > > etc, just to take into account the specificities of Mac vocabulary is > > not a route that I am going to go down. If Larry wants to make Mac > > specific guides just for that platform then he is quite welcome to do so > > as far as I'm concerned :-)) > > I am not and am not about to become a documentation writer. However, it is > very important to > have correct terminology for users learning a program. > > I have lost count of the number of times Mac users on help forums have stated > they can not find > "Tools/Options" after being referred to that setting by a user guide or help > file (or a non Mac > user trying to give support). The correct location is > "OpenOffice.org/Preferences". An > experienced Mac user will probably figure it out for themselves since that is > the usual > location for preference settings on a Mac. But a new Mac user will not know > that.
The OOo docs team are putting the common Mac menu and keystroke differences in a table in every chapter of the OOo user guides, and I believe the LibO docs team are keeping those tables. We (the OOo team) will expand those lists as needed, if someone who uses a Mac brings the differences to our attention. It may not be an ideal solution, but I believe it is a definite improvement. The inclusion of the Mac menu/keystroke info came about because someone finally joined the team who (a) is a Mac user and (b) specifically mentioned these issues. I at least am very happy this occurred. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
