Hi :) My thought was (once the 3.5.x branch guides start appearing) to shrink the 3.4.x column in the same way as most of the 3.3.x are at the moment.
I think it's a good idea for the most recent legacy guides. When the 3.6.x branch guides start appearing the 3.3.x can be shrunk down even more without losing the guides themselves. Even old CRT screens in 4:3 aspect ratio (like mine) could hold quite a few branches attractively fairly easily. Unlike with the Dvd Project there is no need to worry about byte-wise size within reason and i think it's important for us to keep the beautiful guides, particularly the 1st set, for historical interest. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 10/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]> wrote: From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Proposal for official documentation page To: "Tom Davies" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2012, 22:26 The icons Tom lists is part of the "theme" set created by the LO server/web-site team, and was copied for the NA-DVD web pages to show what the MIME type of the file linked. Sometimes it does not work correctly, and sometimes the system causes problems during page editing. BUT, it is a nice touch that the TDF/LO web site developers created in the CSS system for the page theme. I am working on the 3.5.x documentation page so it works well for me and my potential DVD and web site users. I really need to have some good column indications that help with showing which links are for which version of the documents. As for the colors, well I chose the most least-offensive ones without going deal into custom color options in Kompozer the WYSIWYG HTML editor which I use as my default web page editing software on Ubuntu/Windows. It is free and sometimes you see an update to it. Later I might change the colors to the "official" colors of the LO project as listed in one of the LO marketing pages. To be honest, it would be nice to see the LO documentation wiki page having some way to separate the "columns" for the 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and the 3.5.x line documents. What will happen when you add a forth column for the 3.6.x docs? For me I will just add another color column and remove the 3.3.x one when all for the chapters of the 3.4 line is filled in. Then will remove the 3.4 column when all of the 3.5 doc chapters are filled in. The "-2d" part of the documentation page is for the fact that this is a work in progress and not the default documentation page, YET. But that will come soon, as I work out a few things in the editing process this week, as I have the time. On 06/10/2012 02:57 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I really like this page created by Tim of Kracked-Press fame for the North American Dvd Project. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html I particularly like the little Odt icons and the back-ground colour-coding. On our current wiki-page we use colour-coded backgrounds too but it grew organically and i am not sure the colour choices are still relevant. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Green was originally just to show that you had completed those chapters when the team was racing to complete 3.3.x guides. The tan colour was taken from other wiki-pages that looked quite attractive. The tan seemed to go well with that particular shade of green. My thought for the official page http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ would be to have 1 column instead of 3 but it would be different colours for different guides. At the moment the Calc Guide can only show the 3.3.x At the moment i think the official page looks good because it's very simple and avoids confusing people. I'm not sure we should offer separate pages there because that does make things much more confusing for people. My proposal for copying Tim's NA Dvd page does assume that we want to show individual chapters but now i am not so sure we do. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 10/6/12, Tim Lungstrom <[email protected]> wrote: From: Tim Lungstrom <[email protected]> Subject: tell me what you think of this documentation page? To: [email protected], "Tom Davies" <[email protected]> Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2012, 19:10 Here is an idea for the NA-DVD documentation page. This format sure makes it easy for you to know which version the files are for. http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html The colors do make the different version stand out. I also added my "modified" PDF files of the New Features and Fixes pages, to the documentation page. I will be tweaking this page before It goes as the actual online/DVD documentation page. When I get more documents for the 3.4/3.5 lines, I will create a version 2 for the 3.5.4 DVD. I am waiting now for Erich to get the 3.5.4 .iso file on the main servers and add the 3.5.4 ISO page to the list, since it only has: debian-repo - Recommended 3.5.3 3.4.6 listed on that page http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=box I have no idea why the "debian-repo" is shown, since I sure would not want to download all the files listed on that page separately and then go from there for the install. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] 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
