Hi :) Yeh, sorry! I thougth we had 2 people working on the Base Handbook and that 1 of those was duplicating work that has already been done by Hazel where nothing new has been added since Hazel did her translation.
I didn't realise that redoing work that has already been done was not the problem and that it was ok to carry on redoing all the rest of the work that has also already been done. Regards from Tom :) On 30 August 2014 11:13, Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote: > Tom, please pay attention. Alan found a problem with references to the > Englsih Getting Started guide, which he did not realise has changed in > GSv4.2. Starting from scratch translating either the German 4.2 or 4.3 > Base Handbook into English would not solve the problem because > references from the Base Handbook to the Getting Started Guide would > still be wrong. > > I have just forwarded to the list three notes that I had written > earlier but failed to send as reply to all; instead I replied only to > Alan, so everyone else won't have seen them. In the third I mention > where the previous version of the Getting Started chapter is now > located, renamed as a tutorial. > > Robert, does the previous English GS chapter, which is now available > as a tutorial, cover the missing info? If so, Alan can just change the > references from GS to the tutorial. Or we could include that tutorial > in the Handbook as an Appendix; that would work too, perhaps better > than sending people to a separate document. But either of those > solutions depends on whether the tutorial covers the necessary info. > > --Jean > > On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 6:33 PM, Tom Davies <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi :) > > Ahh, i thought this was going to be done by only re-translating the bits > > that changed rather than starting from scratch each time? I think > starting > > from scratch occasionally might be a good idea to make sure everything > > really is covered. > > > > Now the question is whether to do the polishing off to Hazel's work on > the > > 4.2, or abandon that or to update her work for the 4.3 and then do the > > polishing off after the updating is done. > > > > I thought we had just agreed that the only change between the 4.2 German > > Handbook and the 4.3 is the addition of just 1 more full example? > > Regards from > > Tom :) > > > > > > > > On 30 August 2014 08:43, Robert Großkopf <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > >> Hi Alan, > >> > >> hope I understand most you have written the right way. My > >> English-knowledge is "very special". > >> > > >> > 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. > >> > >> I have written most of the Base-Handbuch. The "Getting Started with > >> Base" in German isn't the same as in English. Could be better to delete > >> anything which relates to "Getting started ..." > >> > >> And this is a special problem with most of the content here. Creating a > >> Database with wizards (incl. queries, forms ...) and creating databases > >> directly by using the GUI is declared in the German "Getting started > >> ..." This problem will be solved a littel bit with the German > >> Base-Handbuch 4.3. There is a example added. For the English > >> Base-handbook it would be better to add the German "Getting-started" as > >> attachment to the Base-handbook. > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Robert > > -- > 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 > -- 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
