I failed to send this to the list. On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > The reason for the discrepancy is that the Getting Started chapter has > changed since that was written. The previous chapter is now a > standalone document, which should be referenced here instead of the GS > chapter. It should be, but isn't, listed on the Publications page of > the wiki. I'll find where it's gone, and let you know. And I'll list > it on the wiki page. > > Thanks for catching this. > > --Jean > > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 8:44 AM, Alan Cook <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I'm updating the English translation of the Base Handbook from 3.5 to 4.2, >> and have run across a problem concerning which I'd appreciate some advice >> and feedback. >> >> In Chapter 3, "Tables," the section following the heading *Creating >> Tables/Creation using the GUI* begins as follows: >> >> "Database creation using the GUI is described in detail in Chapter 8, >> "Getting Started with Base," in the /Getting Started with LibreOffice/ book. >> Therefore only the main sources of error are described here." >> >> The problem is that [the first sentence of] that statement is just plain >> false. >> >> The GUI offers two ways of creating tables: Use Wizard to Create Table and >> Create Table in Design View. The /Getting Started/ chapter only provides >> instructions for using the Wizard. The Wizard only provides database >> templates with preexisting table and field names. If you want to design a >> database for any purpose other than the ones that the templates cover, it's >> useless. >> >> So far as I can tell, there are no instructions provided anywhere in our >> documentation on how to create a table in Design View, which seems to me to >> be the method that most users are likely to use. (I could well be wrong >> about this, but if those instructions exist, they aren't located in the most >> logical place to look for them.) >> >> Moreover, the /Getting Started/ chapter explains only how to create a flat, >> single-table database. (I'm not sure why you'd want to do that rather than >> just use a spreadsheet, but . . . .) The material in the handbook, on the >> other hand, assumes that you're building a relational database with multiple >> tables. >> >> The reason I can't just ignore the problem is and go on is: The section that >> follows this introduction contains some new material in the German that >> needs to be translated. Translated super-literally, it doesn't make much >> sense. Good technical instructions are directed at the particular situation >> in which the user is going to need those instructions and tailored to the >> user's preexisting knowledge. That context is exactly what the current text >> doesn't provide, and what I need in order to put this stuff into >> comprehensible English. >> >> Any and all advice appreciated. >> >> Thanks, >> Alan >> >> -- >> 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
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