Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Open Help Conference

2011-03-25 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 3/25/2011 6:33 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Shaun McCance wrote: Hi all, I'm organizing the Open Help Conference this June. It's a gathering of documentation and support people from various open source and community projects. There are already participants who con

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide status & question re angle brackets in paths

2011-03-25 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 3/25/2011 6:27 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 3/19/2011 8:20 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I am now turning my attention to the Calc Guide, which Barbara has rebranded from the OOo version. I've started replacing images and checking for info

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide status & question re angle brackets in paths

2011-03-25 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 3/19/2011 8:20 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I am now turning my attention to the Calc Guide, which Barbara has rebranded from the OOo version. I've started replacing images and checking for info that is incorrect for LibO. One question, regarding the path indicators (angle bracket> versus arrow): t

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-22 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/22/2011 11:44 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/21/2011 6:36 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/21/2011 6:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] RESOLVED Re: Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-22 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/21/2011 8:33 PM, TomW wrote: On 2011-02-21 12:39, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 21/02/11 18:09, David Nelson a écrit : Hi all, Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before someone checks it out, esp

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-22 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/21/2011 6:36 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/21/2011 6:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weber

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/21/2011 6:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: Barbara, in your review of the Writer

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/21/2011 3:07 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberwrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide chapter on master documents, in the section on

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Barbara D: Writer Guide Master Doc chapter

2011-02-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberwrote: On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide chapter on master documents, in the section on splitting a document into master and subdocs, youl

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/21/2011 11:39 AM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 21/02/11 18:09, David Nelson a écrit : Hi all, Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before someone checks it out, especially if it doesn't fall in the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/19/2011 9:21 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) Pass. Maybe it's worth asking this question on the devs list. They'd probably give you quick and helpful answers. David Nelson I submitted a bug report Jan 27: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33537 There's been no QA contact assi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Writer Guide reviews

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/19/2011 4:43 PM, JDługosz wrote: I should point out that it doesn't have to be reviewed by one person or all at once. Anyone can flip through some of a chapter and double-check and accept all the typo fixes and formatting fixes, like stray letters that have been set as Times New Roman and w

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: "selecting" is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/18/2011 2:08 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Most documentation just confuses people so copying what they use probably wont help us. If we are going to look at documentation then a community edited one would be better, such as Ubuntu's but it would need to be regularly edited bynoobs rather th

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: "selecting" is not enough!

2011-02-19 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/17/2011 10:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: What terms does the LibreOffice Help use? I thought that was our main terminology selection criterion. Hal The things we're discussing here are, I think, too context-sensitive to be readily searchable. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentat

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Terminology: "selecting" is not enough!

2011-02-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/17/2011 8:36 PM, JDługosz wrote: Barbara Duprey wrote: I have another problem with the enabled/disabled terminology -- I think it can easily be misunderstood as modifiable/unmodifiable (available/"grayed out"). This terminology is not in common use and I think it would be more

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Terminology: "selecting" is not enough!

2011-02-16 Thread Barbara Duprey
That's OK, too, for checkbox (tickbox?) items, and maybe radio buttons. I think our terminology list needs to be updated and reviewed for the preferred way/ways to express this for the different UI items. I doubt there's a one-size-fits-all solution, though for me select comes closest. I'll put

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Terminology: "selecting" is not enough!

2011-02-16 Thread Barbara Duprey
I have another problem with the enabled/disabled terminology -- I think it can easily be misunderstood as modifiable/unmodifiable (available/"grayed out"). This terminology is not in common use and I think it would be more confusing than helpful. Often "click" would be a reasonable substitute, b

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-14 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/14/2011 11:35 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) I haven't looked, I must admit. Are you on Windows, Mac or Linux, Barbara? David Nelson I'm on Windows 7, David. There are probably going to be a large number of graphics replacements needed -- even beyond the OOo refs, there appear to be si

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-14 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/13/2011 10:01 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Barbara, :-) If you look in the Various space, you'll see that there's a zip file containing screenshots done by Ron Faile... Maybe they can be useful? David Nelson As I understand it, those screenshots were for a couple of early Writer chapters -

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Calc Chapter 2 Mysteries

2011-02-14 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/14/2011 10:07 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/14/2011 6:11 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 03:34 -0800, JDługosz wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have several tricks to get the pix visible again; if I find my notes, I'll post them. How about grabbing the W

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Calc Chapter 2 Mysteries

2011-02-14 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/14/2011 6:11 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 03:34 -0800, JDługosz wrote: Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I have several tricks to get the pix visible again; if I find my notes, I'll post them. How about grabbing the Writer chapter I kicked back to drafts: One of them has ser

[libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete

2011-02-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
OK, all the files for the Calc Guide are in the LibO format now. I'll start working on the screenshot verifications tomorrow, where I can. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts

[libreoffice-documentation] First pass complete -- except Chapter 1

2011-02-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
I've finished the first pass for the Calc Guide, doing all the mechanical things, except that Chapter 1 is locked (by Jeremy, apparently). In addition to the previously mentioned blank index entries in Chapter 2, there were none at all in Chapter 8. One question that is belatedly occurring to m

[libreoffice-documentation] Calc Chapter 2 Mysteries

2011-02-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
In doing the initial pass on Chapter 2, I found some strange things. Many of the index entries were blank, and several figures were also missing (though the frame was sized to contain them). I checked against the OOo version on Alfresco, and there were blank index entries there, too. I could ma

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide

2011-02-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/11/2011 3:03 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 04:56, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: For some of the Calc Guide chapters, the ODFAuthors team has spreadsheet files with data that can be used to reproduce and check the examples given in the book. Later today I will look for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide

2011-02-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/10/2011 9:08 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) My 2 cents would be that it's probably more productive to just do what you can easily do, as you say, and then flag it as needing further attention (start a discussion on Alfresco, leave comments in the file, or whatever). David Nelson Thanks,

[libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide

2011-02-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
In trying to verify the screen shots in Chapter 9, I keep getting bogged down because I don't understand how to set things up and what is supposed to happen. When I can't see what the setup expects, or the screenshot is different, I don't know if I've done something wrong or there's really a pro

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Template Thoughts and Update

2011-02-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/9/2011 11:15 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi John, :-) I had a look at your revised template. My 2 cents about things would be this: 1) One of the first things I'd like personally to see done would be to rename the OOo styles as LibO styles. I can't think of any reason for *not* doing this. Can

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Template Thoughts and Update

2011-02-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/7/2011 3:36 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote: I updated LibO3_3_chapter_template.ott in various. I left change tracking on, so you can see what I proposed. * It already mentions that names of books and such should use the Emphasized style. Although I recall from grade school treating the names

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Misc. Documentation Notes

2011-02-07 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/6/2011 11:21 PM, John M. Dlugosz wrote: On 2/6/2011 12:58 PM, Barbara Duprey Barb-at-onr.com |LibreOffice Documentation Mailing List/Allow to home| wrote: I summarized what the template itself had to say about the use of styles (see Terminology and Styles under "various") -- I n

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Misc. Documentation Notes

2011-02-06 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/6/2011 6:29 AM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: John ... I guess if you are already doing this, so you could start it the way you choose, later if we have a need to change it, we could always change your template. You already are working with building a template, so just keep on doing that, and i

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Completed Review of 0203WG3-WorkingWithText.odt

2011-02-06 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/5/2011 5:09 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi John, :-) On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 19:36, John M. Dlugosz wrote: I completed my pass of 0203WG3-WorkingWithText.odt, but I still cannot Update it! So please take heed that I have a lot of work on this that is in limbo, and don't edit the same file.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Use of Nabble and/or Mail to Thread Discussion ?

2011-02-06 Thread Barbara Duprey
1 at 02:09, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/5/2011 2:00 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote: I'm following these discussions and doing the documentation editing on my laptop, which is not my "main computer" where I have my email set up. I can't "Reply" using Nabble, since it says I d

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Use of Nabble and/or Mail to Thread Discussion ?

2011-02-05 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/5/2011 2:00 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote: I'm following these discussions and doing the documentation editing on my laptop, which is not my "main computer" where I have my email set up. I can't "Reply" using Nabble, since it says I don't have permission (why?). I can send out a top-level me

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Problems Updating in Alfresco

2011-02-05 Thread Barbara Duprey
Yes, please. Meanwhile, can we use the Discussion capability to indicate what's going on with documents we can't deal with properly, or is that also going to come up against a rule? I don't know exactly how Discussion works, but it could serve as a stopgap, I think. On 2/5/2011 1:17 AM, David N

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-02-05 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/5/2011 9:49 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Hi Sophie! Le 05/02/2011 16:29, Sophie Gautier a écrit : May be you can work with Alex, he said on the FR list that he is going to improve the Base documentation once he has finished to translate the Guide for beginners? However I don't kno

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Template Use

2011-02-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/4/2011 6:41 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 2/4/2011 4:27 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:42:27 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: Do I need to use an extension to make the Calc chapters apply the LibO template? Yes. TemplateChanger.oxt is its name. I've uploaded a co

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Template Use

2011-02-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 2/4/2011 4:27 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:42:27 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: Do I need to use an extension to make the Calc chapters apply the LibO template? Yes. TemplateChanger.oxt is its name. I've uploaded a copy to the various space. To add, go to

[libreoffice-documentation] Template Use

2011-02-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
Do I need to use an extension to make the Calc chapters apply the LibO template? And I got the following message trying to Edit Offline for Chapter 9, no (Working Copy) was created, and the file was not locked, though the download succeeded: Please correct the errors below then click OK. Unab

[libreoffice-documentation] What's Next?

2011-02-03 Thread Barbara Duprey
Now that all the Writer Guide chapters are in Review, should I start picking up chapters from the Calc Guide for similar activity, or what? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Comments in documents

2011-01-31 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/30/2011 10:04 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) My 2 cents would be that comments inside documents are more immediately accessible to workers, and are more "portable" to wherever the document goes. But Alfresco's discussion capability is more appropriate if it's not just a conclusive comment

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fixing screwy chapter

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/30/2011 9:05 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 20:54:06 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, my version is there now -- but it's only available through version history, the original version is still the one that appears directly in the folder. None of the actions seem t

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fixing screwy chapter

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/30/2011 4:50 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/30/2011 3:36 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:22:05 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: Then, from the (Working Copy) in Review, Upload, then Check In, to get the edited I believe that would be check in, then use the find document

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fixing screwy chapter

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/30/2011 3:36 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:22:05 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: Then, from the (Working Copy) in Review, Upload, then Check In, to get the edited I believe that would be check in, then use the find document dialog in that process to upload the new

[libreoffice-documentation] Comments in documents

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
As I've worked on chapters, I've used a number of comments. The first is essentially my own checklist of things to do/done, which is also info for the reviewer to see if the right bases have been covered, but there are others relating to the need to replace figures, or questioning the best way t

[libreoffice-documentation] Fixing screwy chapter

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
In my earlier attempts to get Chapter 14 into Drafts, I apparently ended up with the original rather than my changed version there. As I read BootCamp, I should go to the Review folder, bring up Details for that chapter, and use Check Out (I have the edited copy on my own computer and don't want

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Another cyclone coming

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/30/2011 5:40 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Today's cyclone (Anthony) is just far enough south to have missed bringing us wind and rain, but the next one is likely to be a different story. TC Yasi is due here around Thursday, and it's BIG. --Jean We'll cross our fingers for you and everybod

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / my role

2011-01-30 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/29/2011 10:26 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: What I've found is that the only step that takes significant amounts of time is checking the figures -- I get through all the other stuff in less than half an hour, and the majority of th

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / our role

2011-01-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/29/2011 2:51 AM, Hal Parker wrote: I'm working on Chapter 4, Formatting Pages. I thought I'd be done by now, but I've found what I think is a feature that's not in OOo: Format> Title Page, and I want to write it up. Hal You're right, the whole Title Page thing is new. There seem to be som

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide status / my role

2011-01-29 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/29/2011 2:43 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Hal, :-) On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 11:38, Hal Parker wrote: The one thing I am definitely NOT doing is changing the borders and the row colours in tables of data. Now that the OOo books have their tables in black, white, and gray, I can't see the need

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibO Alfresco Bootcamp doc

2011-01-27 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/27/2011 5:12 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 08:08:29 +1000 Hal Parker wrote: Jeremy, your bootcamp doc is extremely helpful. I haven't worked my way through all of it yet, but I did have one comment/question. Under "Review a Document", you said: "Submitting to Review an

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/26/2011 3:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote: I've started a new thread for this, in response to Alex Thurgood's comments on Base docs. My opinion FWIW is that Base related stuff is desperately needed, including a full Base Guide. We've been rebranding the OOo user guides as an initial set for LibreOf

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco Workflow Documentation

2011-01-25 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/25/2011 4:57 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: All; Here is a link to the rough draft of a guide for LibreOffice's Alfresco workflow. You might have to be logged in to Alfresco to follow it. https://documentation.traduction.biz/alfresco/d/a/workspace/SpacesStore/8118043c-c936-4d29-92a9-b0695f73

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-24 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/24/2011 8:11 PM, Rogerio Luz Coelho wrote: 2011/1/24 Barbara Duprey On 1/24/2011 10:51 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:51:02 +0100 Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Karl-Heinz, 2011/1/24 Karl-Heinz Gödderz Hi @all, Barbara Duprey schrieb: There's

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-24 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/24/2011 10:51 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 16:51:02 +0100 Sigrid Carrera wrote: Hi Karl-Heinz, 2011/1/24 Karl-Heinz Gödderz Hi @all, Barbara Duprey schrieb: There's some documentation of the intended workflow happening, right? would someone be so kind and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-24 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/24/2011 6:49 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:15:15 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea wher

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/23/2011 9:15 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It belongs under Review with the other edited files, but

[libreoffice-documentation] Managing Alfresco Files

2011-01-23 Thread Barbara Duprey
I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It belongs under Review with the other edited files, but I was never asked where to put it and I can't find it.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-22 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/22/2011 11:47 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: All, The Alfresco site has now been tidied up. The easiest way to navigate is choosing `Company Home/LibreOffice Documentation/catalog`. There you will find 7 directories for each of our books. Within each of those directories you will find 3 sub

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Box/Field

2011-01-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/21/2011 4:41 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: I don't think this one can really be determined easily by grep, but I've found some things that indicate user entry in the xxx box, and others that use xxx field. I think the second is

[libreoffice-documentation] Box/Field

2011-01-21 Thread Barbara Duprey
I don't think this one can really be determined easily by grep, but I've found some things that indicate user entry in the xxx box, and others that use xxx field. I think the second is preferable, right? By the way, I've now done Chapters 9 - 12 of the Writer Guide, and I'm working on Chapter 1

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Another grep - Drop-down

2011-01-20 Thread Barbara Duprey
n easy link to it, if it exists? Regards from Tom :) From: Sophie Gautier To: documentation@libreoffice.org Sent: Mon, 17 January, 2011 11:08:45 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Another grep - Drop-down Hi Barbara, On 16/01/2011 22:31, Barbara Duprey wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] unsubscribe

2011-01-17 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/17/2011 2:46 AM, Kurt Stahl wrote: can you explain to me, why I got 85 mails today from your organisation? It is incredible! Apparently, when you subscribed to the various lists you were unprepared for the volume of message traffic you would receive, and that's unfortunate. But to stop r

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Another grep - Drop-down

2011-01-16 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/16/2011 12:05 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Barbara, On 16/01/2011 20:37, Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, which is used in the help -- drop-down, drop-down list, drop-down menu, ? - drop-down alone is not used - drop-down menu is used twice - drop-down icon is used once - drop-down list(s) is

[libreoffice-documentation] Another grep - Drop-down

2011-01-16 Thread Barbara Duprey
OK, which is used in the help -- drop-down, drop-down list, drop-down menu, ? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[libreoffice-documentation] Dialog/Dialog Box

2011-01-15 Thread Barbara Duprey
I started making this change (in Chapter) but backed it out -- right now it's apparently consistently used and appears in index entries, so having a mix across the document would be apparent and confusing. Agree? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List arc

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Terminology and Styles

2011-01-15 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/15/2011 1:39 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote: On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:22:57 -0600 Barbara Duprey wrote: I'd be glad to -- but I must be missing something very basic. When I logged in and looked around, I saw no project-specific things at all -- just what came preinstalled by Alfresco

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Terminology and Styles

2011-01-15 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/15/2011 12:41 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Barbara, :-) On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 01:44, Barbara Duprey wrote: I put together a document that I hope can be useful -- maybe somebody can tell me where it should go (if anywhere) and how to get it there for collaboration. Right now, it

[libreoffice-documentation] Terminology and Styles

2011-01-15 Thread Barbara Duprey
I put together a document that I hope can be useful -- maybe somebody can tell me where it should go (if anywhere) and how to get it there for collaboration. Right now, it's a document based on the chapter template. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/13/2011 10:20 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi, :-) On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 00:08, Barbara Duprey wrote: I'd definitely be glad to capture it somewhere. It seems like an extension of the "to-do" list that's on the wiki -- is that on Alfresco, too? (I haven't gotten

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] xkcd: Good Code

2011-01-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/12/2011 7:31 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: This applies to documentation as well. Cheers, Jean http://xkcd.com/844/ Love it! Thanks for the pointer, looks like a fun site. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-13 Thread Barbara Duprey
n wrote: Hi, :-) It would be interesting to see how Sophie's offered content could be incorporated into the Alfresco site, to make it a reference resource available to docs workers. Would you have time for and feel like investigating that, by any chance, Barbara? David Nelson On Thu, Ja

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/12/2011 1:22 PM, Gary Schnabl wrote: On 1/12/2011 1:14 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, it seems that "context menu" is the preferred choice. Thanks! Sometime around twenty years ago, Microsoft and Apple employed differing forms--context versus contextual--in their documentation

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-12 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/12/2011 4:32 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Barbara, On 12/01/2011 01:42, Barbara Duprey wrote: [...] OK, thanks. Sounds as if we should change that as we go. And we also seem agreed on "dialog" rather than "dialog box" -- right? That is what is used in the h

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/11/2011 11:29 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote: On 11/01/2011 19:41, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/10/2011 11:48 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Jean, Barbara, On 11/01/2011 06:31, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophi

[libreoffice-documentation] Maximizing Value for Time Spent

2011-01-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
Which would be better right now -- concentrating on the basically mechanical rebranding activities for a chapter, or working on both those and the content? Obviously the second takes longer for turnaround but (at least in theory) makes the chapter better in addition to rebranding. I took the fir

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/10/2011 11:48 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote: Hi Jean, Barbara, On 11/01/2011 06:31, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs, wi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/10/2011 9:54 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 21:31 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs, wi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hyperlinks

2011-01-11 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/11/2011 3:40 AM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/10/2011 6:34 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other chapters, and into a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] pop-up is generic

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs, without lengthy debate. Jean I agree. What I was thinking about is a compilation not just of the terms, but also of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hyperlinks

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/10/2011 6:34 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other chapters, and into a glossary? (I noticed an apparent link for "heading" in Chapter 9 of the Writer Guide, for ex

[libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide Chapter 9 Edited

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
I've returned this chapter after editing, hope this is what you're looking for. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***

[libreoffice-documentation] Hyperlinks

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other chapters, and into a glossary? (I noticed an apparent link for "heading" in Chapter 9 of the Writer Guide, for example). Or should we be doing that somehow? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Dialog or dialog box?

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 8:57 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/9/2011 8:22 PM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/9/2011 7:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote: Are we using the term "dialog" or "dialog box"? The OOo books vary in usage: Getting Started and Calc (and maybe Draw; I didn't check) use "

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-10 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 8:01 PM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/9/2011 7:04 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: The only Liberation font that shows up in my font selection list is Liberation Sans Narrow, although all the text still has the Liberation Sans font. I should probably install both of these fonts, but where should

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Dialog or dialog box?

2011-01-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 8:22 PM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/9/2011 7:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote: Are we using the term "dialog" or "dialog box"? The OOo books vary in usage: Getting Started and Calc (and maybe Draw; I didn't check) use "dialog" while the Writer Guide uses "dialog box". The LibreOffice options use

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 3:22 PM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/9/2011 1:26 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: There was a change to the Tip/Note/Caution tables, too, as I noticed in looking at the Getting Started with Writer chapter and working on Chapter 9 of the Writer Guide. All have the line color changed to Gray 40

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 3:07 PM, Hal Parker wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Hal Parker wrote: On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote: I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the template and replaced many of the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-09 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote: I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the template and replaced many of the screenshots, mostly using images from Ron's zip file or from the Getting Started guide. I put the replacement file on both the Alfresco site and the wiki. Ho

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-06 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/6/2011 12:36 AM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/5/2011 9:35 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote: OK, I'd like to work on Chapter 9, Working with Tables. I see that I should put my wiki ID (Dupreyb) in the Checkout column. The existing file already is using the template, so would there still be a nee

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-05 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/4/2011 9:35 PM, Ron Faile wrote: On 1/4/2011 9:02 PM, Hal Parker wrote: Barbara, Ron Faile has been taking the lead on the user guides, and I've been contributing a bit, along with at least one other person. The Getting Started book is pretty much done (except for making corrections and fil

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/4/2011 4:21 PM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Barbara, :-) Well, that's quite a resume you have, and you'd certainly be a valuable asset for the docs team. Thanks! At the present time, there's not yet a great deal of hard organization within the LibreOffice documentation project. This is somet

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/4/2011 2:25 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:17 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 1/4/2011 1:57 AM, David Nelson wrote: Some people like to work on LibreOffice documentation via the oooauthors site [2]... (Surprised to see the reference to the oooauthors site, thought

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-04 Thread Barbara Duprey
On 1/4/2011 1:57 AM, David Nelson wrote: Hi Barbara, :-) You could try telling us briefly about your degree of experience in documentation-writing? We might be able to better advise you in that case... ;-) You could also take a look at [1], where you will see a list of documentation still need

[libreoffice-documentation] Contributing

2011-01-03 Thread Barbara Duprey
I'd be glad to help with documentation -- how can I start being useful? -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***