More progress: I went through Hazel's cut down version of the
Getting Started with Base Chapter. I have accepted most of the
suggestions. This chapter has gone from 1.8MB to 1.3. My cutting down of
the Introducing Base has taken it from 1.8MB to 1.1.
I have decided that the GS chapter is not the place for the list
boxes. So that is my next project: move that to chapter 3, Data Input
and Removal, and replace a couple of screenshots.
FYI, any SQL single or double quotes must be U+0027 and
U+0022, respectively. Base will not recognize anything else.
Now I will end my day, and let others read this in the morning.
--Dan
On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 19:49 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
> Progress report: I have the Introducing Base down to 38 pages now
> excluding the Report section. It is 12.5 pages in length with many
> screenshots. I will be looking at Helen's suggestions on the Report
> section in the Getting Started with Base to get some hints as to how to
> keep my Report section much less verbose. Tomorrow has to many other
> things to do to work on this. Wednesday will be another day at this.
>
> --Dan
>
> On Mon, 2012-02-06 at 13:41 +0000, Hazel Russman wrote:
> > On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 08:10:43 -0500
> > Dan Lewis <elderdanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Yes, that would be a good solution too. I have put a cut-down version
> > of the existing GS chapter in the feedback folder along with the edited
> > full-length version, just for people to look at. It does no harm to
> > provide alternatives!
> >
> > > I would prefer to cut down Introducing Base and making it the
> > > Gettting Started with Base chapter. It could be reduced to using only a
> > > flat database with its single table created by the Tqble Wizard., a
> > > form, one or more queries, and one or more reports.
> > > Presently, the Getting Started chapter uses a relational database
> > > which is more involved than the flat database. That seems to make it a
> > > better candidate for the first chapter of the Base Guide. Even then it
> > > probably could use some cutting down as well.
> > > Hazel: the section that I sent you on copying a table from Calc
> > > should really be a part of chapter 5. So, if you have not done anything
> > > with this, don't.
> > >
> > > --Dan
>
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