Hi :) Welcome in :-bd The priority at the moment is to complete documentation for the 3.3.x series as that is the stable branch aimed at corporate users. Within that the priority is re-branding and replacing screen-shots, especially ones done in Windows. Once the full set is done then that would be a good time to branch out in various ways.
The work is usually done in Alfresco. David or Jean will send you a personal email once they have set your account up. If you have a good suggestion for a user-name there then please tell the list asap otherwise they might just go with something obvious. Afaik the idea is to download a guide and sign it out to let people know you are working on it. Then edit off-line, change version number (?) and re-upload to the relevant section of Alfresco. There have been various good instructions posted to this list but i have lost the best one. I did find this follow-up from David <quote> When you're using the Alfresco Share interface (at http://documentation.libreoffice.org therefore), you go to the space containing the document you want to "check out" (edit offline). Hover your mouse over the document and you will see a menu appear to the right of the document name. Click on the "More..." item and a further menu opens. Click on "Edit Offline" and you'll be prompted to downloada working copy of the document. Beware! You will have been whisked away from the space you were previously in, and will have been taken to a space called "Documents I'm Editing (working copies)". If you want to return to the space you were previously in, you can use the "Repository" tree structure of folders (spaces) on the left-hand side and get back there in probablyone click. To "check in" the working copy you've edited, you would return to the document's space (or your "Documents I'm Editing" space), hover yourmouse over the document, and click on "Upload New Version". We'll get this properly documented very, very soon. </quote> The guides that need working on at the moment are Draw, Impress, Math although people are working on parts of those (i think) so co-ordinating with them through the sign-in/out sheet in Alfresco would be good. The documentation for Base is really bad, practically non-existent although a couple of people have managed to pull a few things off the website. Hopefully they are stored in Alfresco ready to pull together. Base is a bit awkward as there seems to be regressions and quirkiness that is completely different between 1 release and another. There are no devs working on it right now although hopefully that might change at some point. Sorry for such a verbose email! Welcome in Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: Gary Schnabl <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, 1 July, 2011 14:03:03 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] getting involved with helping with LO docs 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 -- Gary Schnabl Southwest Detroit, two miles NORTH! of Canada--Windsor, that is... Technical Editor forum <http://TechnicalEditor.LivernoisYard.com/phpBB3/> -- 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 -- 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
