Regarding the Base Handbook (translated from German). On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 11:35 PM, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Mark, > > I 'm the person, who had written most of the German Base-Handbuch. > > Don't know where the English chapters of the old Handbook could be > downloaded. ODF-Autors, I think. The english version is made with of the > German Base-Handbuch 3.5. Only the chapter for the reports is from > version 4.0. I have seen, there is a version 4.0 - but it seems to be > the same.
Yes, the English Base Handbook v4.0 is identical to the v3.5-3.6 Handbook; due to lack of time, we did not translate the changes made in the German version. The source ODT files for the English version are here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-handbook/published Thank you, Robert, for the links below to the v4.1 German files and your spreadsheet of changes. > I have created a Calc-document, which shows the difference between the > versions (only the chapters, which had been added) and, marked by > comments, the chapter, where you could find the new functions of Base in > version 4.1. This new functions are a "must be" for a book for version 4.1. > > This document, together with the whole LO 4.1-Handuch, you can find here: > http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb/ > The docoment, which show the difference, is > http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb/Vergleich_Base_Handbuecher.ods > > All these documents are written in German. But when I would try to > translate it could be I don't find the right words for the content.... > So could be better that someone will translate, who speaks English very > well. Whoever does the translating can decide whether to with the existing English translation and update it with the v4.1 changes, or start from the German 4.1 and do a complete new translation. This decision might vary depending on the chapter; some may have more changes than others. I have not yet had time to look at Robert's spreadsheet. In addition to translating, we might want to rewrite some material (such as examples) to suit English-speaking audiences better. This was done in a few places in the v3.5 handbook. IMO the goal should be to get a usable document done as quickly as possible and then amend it later if we want to. That's what we did with the v3.5 book. A more long-term goal is to combine the handbook material with work being done on the Base Guide. I will write more about the Base Guide in a separate note. BTW, we have a system for tracking who is doing what on each book, but unfortunately not everyone keeps it up to date. (I am as guilty of this as anyone; I get busy and forget.) It's on this page: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks --Jean --Jean -- To unsubscribe 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
