On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 16:03 +0300, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi :) > > Yes, that's where it gets tricky. Could an introduction to the basics of > > macros > > be general enough? That's the question now i guess. If specifics for > > specific > > packages could help people grok macros better while only being a short > > paragraph > > or 2 in the chapter then it might work? Alternatively perhaps just 1 page > > or 2 > > added to the chapter in each of the apps? > > > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > @Jean: what's your POV about that, Jean?
The current Macros chapter (written by Andrew Pitonyak) in the Getting Started guide was intended to be fairly generic, though it does focus mainly on Writer. Andrew then wrote a variation for the Calc Guide, which focuses more on Calc-related usage. We didn't reuse the macros chapter from GS in the Writer Guide; at the time we were avoiding duplication of chapters. However, it would be easy to include the GS macros chapter in the Writer Guide if people wanted to. IIRC, we didn't think macros are much used in Impress or Draw, so we didn't bother with chapters for them. If we did want chapters in those books, we should ask Andrew for his opinion and see if he has some suitable material already written to use for examples of use. I suggest anyone interested in this topic have a look at the existing two chapters and see what is actually in them and the reuse potential of that material. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ 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
