-------- Original Message -------- From: Dave Barton <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:17:18 +0000
> Hi Drew, > > -------- Original Message -------- > From: Drew Jensen <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 12:54:56 -0500 > >> Great. Well the changes I made to Chaper 2 and Chapter 3 (other email >> on that) are simply what was talked about in the meeting and just a >> start, which is why it went straight back to the server. > > No problem, it's all work that needs to be done, so thank you. > >> I won't touch Chapter 5, given you have started already. > > Chapter 5 & 6 kinda' overlap' with each other. When we have consensus > on the template, I will try to get both updated. > >> Hmmpf - is there a Chapter 4 somewhere? > > No. A very long time ago I asked the same question of Jean and she > explained what her intention for chapter 4 was. I am sure I kept her > answer, but I will have to scratch around in my archives and post back > later. > >> Thanks, >> >> Drew > > Cheers > Dave I managed to dredge the following extracts up from my archives. Back in 2011 Jean wrote: > The chapters I have planned for this book are as follows. Suggestions > for other topics, and volunteers to write Chapter 4 and 7, are > welcome. I can hurl together a first draft of Chapter 5 from > pre-existing material, and Chapter 6 is essentially what's in the user > guide chapter template. > > 1) Joining the Documentation Team (this chapter) > 2) Producing LibreOffice User Guides (draft available in Resources) > 3) Using Alfresco (being updated from Jeremy's "bootcamp" doc) > 4) Blogging and social media > 5) Style guide for writers (including preferred terminology) > 6) Using the documentation templates (includes list of paragraph and > character styles and when to use them, plus other info currently part > of the user guide chapter template itself) > 7) Producing other documentation (tutorials, howtos, administrators’ > guide, etc.)  In reply to my question about Chapter 4 in 2017 Jean wrote: > Ch4 was, I think, intended for info about the wiki, or using social > media, or something else about contributing other than to the user > guides. When I started revising the guide last year, I took it out and > renumbered Ch5 & 6 to be 4&5, but never got around to revising them. > The draft of Ch7 is, I think, now obsolete. > > I think the guide should have info on contributing to the Help system, > and something on how the Docs team fits into the overall LO project. Regards Dave -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
