On Thu, 2011-06-30 at 04:42 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: > Le 2011-06-30 03:29, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : > > Le 30/06/11 09:13, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : > > > > Hi Jean, > > > >> Have you seen his website and his book? They are good resources for > >> people who want serious info on macros. (Shameless plug for Andrew) > >> > >> http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php > >> http://www.pitonyak.org/book/ > > > > Just as a side remark, and hijacking this thread somewhat, it has always > > amazed me how fragmented the market for books on OOo, and now LibO, has > > been. From just the references I know of : > > > > English language books : editors I have seen range from Lulu (individual > > authoring), Sam's, the "for Dummies" series, probably a few others of > > which I've not heard. > > > > French language : a plethora of small publishing houses by different > > authors, mostly OOo/LibO module-centric, e.g. Eyrolles is perhaps the > > most well-known publisher. They also produce the excellent book on Macro > > programming by Laurent Godard and Bernard Marcelly (in French only alas). > > > > > > German language : books by Thomas Krumbein, covering each module of the > > suite. There are others I have seen on my travels to Germany. > > > > In my experience, it is fairly rare to see one editor publish in > > multiple languages, the exception possibly being the "for Dummies" book. > > > > I am at a loss to understand why this might be, after all, there are a > > fair number of talented technical translators out there, but I suppose > > that translation costs inevitably eat into editors' margins. > > > > > > Alex > > Hi Alex > > Being new to the project (I have only been involved with LibreOffice and > was not at OOo), from what I see, and, I'm sure that I am stating the > obvious, it just looks like it is mostly for the lack of help. There are > a few of the "front line" contributors outside of the dev team, and not > enough of the (what I would call) "second line contributors" whose main > task is to translate documentation into various languages. There are > just too few people contributing. Plus, the front line contributors also > take care of too many peripheral tasks that distract from their main > contribution areas.
I thought Alex was talking about commercial publishers (though he used the term "editors"), who have their own criteria for deciding what might sell enough to cover their costs and make a profit. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
