Every time I look at the lists of things that have changed in LO over the past few releases, I am reminded that the features lists don't necessarily give the level of detail that needs to be included in the books (or don't make it obvious where that detail needs to be mentioned). So we need people to check the lists *and* go through the program itself and note where changes are needed. For example, the details in the Tools > Options dialog pages change in subtle ways. Often these changes need to be mentioned in more than one book, though not necessarily in exactly the same way.
We've talked about ways to reuse information, but any method requires that people actually know about it *and* apply it. With volunteers, this simply does not happen, for a lot of reasons that are too tedious to discuss again. The exceptions are PeterS, who maintains two books (Draw and Impress) that have very similar content, and JohnS, who has on several occasions updated chapters (such as those on styles and templates, printing, and graphics) in several books. Meanwhile, I'm convinced that many changes simply get overlooked and some topics of importance to users don't get mentioned at all or are mentioned in ways that are less useful than the might be. Researching this isn't difficult, but it is time consuming. I don't have time to do all of it, or even very much of it, much as I would like to. Surely some of you can do bits of this work? Ideally, you'll both find things that need updating *and* do the updating, but it would be extremely helpful if people just found things and made notes on what needs doing and (preferably) which chapters in which books might be affected. Those of you with some techwriting background know about this need. Those of you with aspirations to have a career in techwriting need to learn this skill if you're not already experienced at it. --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
