On 02/15/2013 02:19 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
Greetings,
Some time ago, it was suggested I offer to help out with the
LibreOffice documentation. I have looked at the documentation guides
and I think I have an understanding of how to proceed. My focus is
with the Base documentation, since I believe that is the most immature
and in most need of support. My Base experience is with the external
database server, MySQL on Linux. I have two mainly inventory
databases containing over 11 main tables and 33 subtables. Several of
the main tables have over 1000 records and increasing. I have also
created over 20 forms for data entry and maintenance. I stopped using
Oracle Report Builder (ORB) for my reports because it just doesn't
work for me. I am now using a 3rd-party report builder called
DataVision until ORB gets fixed. I am currently creating queries for
my forms in order to add some calculated fields to the forms.
Obviously, I have already signed up for this forum and have been
monitoring the messages for a few weeks to try to get a feel for the
processes. I am now actively offering to help. I downloaded the
draft copies of chapter 2 and 3 of the Base guide yesterday and after
reading the first 10 pages of chapter 3 with red pencil in hand, I
made several corrections to it. I now believe my help may be needed
as far as the Base documentation is concerned.
If the team wants me to help, I believe the next step is to get an
ODFAuthors account so I can access the original documents and get to
work proofreading/correcting them. I also will need to know which
files the Base team needs me to look at.
I should add that I am using LO version 3.6.4.3, not the latest 4.x.
I have a computer policy of never installing any software which has a
version ending in zero. Therefore, I cannot help much with the 4.x
documentation until 4.1+ or at least 4.0.6 is released. That said, I
can help with the older 3.6 documents until then.
Looking forward to helping out.
Girvin Herr
Want you to help ???? I'm absolutely delighted!!! You are the very
person that we have been looking for. I'm look forward to seeing your
corrections.
I do have a request. When you are reviewing these chapters, please
turn on changes. (Edit > Changes > Record) Please also do this: Edit >
Changes > Show. This shows my original text and the changes you have made.
When you finish making your corrections, you need to upload the
chapter to the Base Draft folder in the ODFAuthors website and notify
this list. Uploading the file requires you getting a user name and
password. Most likely, Jean will be doing that later today when she gets
up. She lives in Australia where it is about 5:30 AM tomorrow. She will
have more information for you as well.
There is not very much new being added to Base. The differences
between LO 3.6.5 and 4.0.0 is two bugs have been fixed.
--Dan
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