On 7/1/2011 8:34 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
hi, my name's rob day and since i'm about to dive into LO 3.4.1 in a
big way, i figured i might as well offer to help out with the docs.
besides being a linux person, i also have a history of editing,
proofreading, reviewing, etc. most recently, i was the technical
editor of the book "linux kernel development (3rd ed)" by robert love,
as well as the pre-pub reviewer of at least a dozen other technical
books.
i just this morning installed LO 3.4.1 on my ubuntu 11.04 system so
my first question is -- is there corresponding documentation for
3.4.1, since the docs i find here:
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/
all seem to be based on 3.3.3. or is that the documentation that's
currently being updated?
rday
p.s. in terms of submitting suggestions/corrections/whatever, what's
the standard way? it would be easy for me to just mark up the current
ODT files and pass them back where someone is welcome to peruse my
added comments and decide what to do with them. or is there another
way? thanks again.
The OOo-based, rebranded LO docs are not updated anywhere as often or
are as precise as to incremental-version updates as you think they are.
The major differences between their underlying, original OOo documents
are mostly their being rebranded from the OOo documents with newer LO
screen captures and their original OOo references changed to those of LO.
Perhaps, you might care to review and rewrite the various user guides in
whole or in part more critically? I am in the process of making the
current 3.3.2 template more usable, with fewer errors. Perhaps, you
might care to critique it.
As to markup: One thing a reviewer or technical editor should do is to
first update the latest version of the subdocument you are working on
onto the most current template version, if necessary. Then, with
edit-tracking toggled on (via Edit > Changes), set both recording and
showing the changes on, and then edit, rewrite, or whatever you choose
to change. Also, you could add some comments (aka the notes in MS Word)
via the Insert and View menus. (You can also add other comments via the
Edit > Changes > Comment command to the edit tracking items.)
Gary
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