Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Elliot Re: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?
Okay, I'll just give you a quick update on my progress in general since I've joined. This is just to reassure you that I am still planning to follow through on things I mentioned last week. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore and continue on with the fabulous work you're doing. There's no need to reply. 1. I've been looking over the documentation we have, both for users and documentation noobs like me. This is so that I don't make any further mistakes like I did on my first assignment. (Sorry that this has taken so long with the other things I'm doing outside of libo) 2. After the Impress Guide I plan to work on a blog-post for creating a macro to highlight common spelling errors that spell check won't pick up on. Example: quite / quiet, him / hem, tank / thank... The intent being a practical introduction to macros for writers. 3. I'll also begin going through the published documents we have and highlighting the artwork that needs rebranding. Thanks again for checking up! ~Elliot On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: It will take awhile to get through all the chapters, so please be sure to check them out as you are working on them and then check them back in again as soon as you are done, so if anyone else wants to help (or do the next step) they'll know which chapters are up for grabs. Thanks! --Jean On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:23, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to it tonight. Sorry it took me longer to get to it than it should have. And thanks for the push. ~Elliot On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Elliot, What's the status of the rebranding of the Impress Guide chapters? Last we heard (see below), you were going to redo them. Have you done so, or are you still working on them, or did I miss a follow-up note from you, or ?? Thanks! --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 19:00 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: (1) What I did do was overwrite the existing document's styles with the styles from a document that was already published. Since this didn't automatically adjust the footer, I'm going to redo it using the correct method just in case there are other things I've missed. Don't worry. I have a clear idea now of what I did incorrectly and what I need to do to fix it. Again, thank you. (2) LOL. Okay, I'll start working on that as well. ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Two topics: (1) Impress Guide rebranding. Have you been using the Template Changer extension to assign the LibO template to the rebranded Impress Guide chapters? If not, please do that at some point. Assigning a template takes care of all the style changes, the footer on the copyright page, and other things, though a few items need to be done manually (like the cover page graphic). (2) Fixing published chapters of other books. If you work on the published books but can't do screenshots, you can insert a comment at each image you notice that needs to be replaced; that will help whoever does the screenshots. Please put the revised or annotated chapters into the Drafts space for the relevant book on Alfresco. You'll find some inconsistency in where the published chapters are stored on Alfresco, and what the file names are. (Writer Guide chapters are, I think, in the WG Reviewed space, not the Published space. Getting Started Guide chapters have interim file names, not the proper ones that you'll find on the wiki.) This is dpartly due ue to a combination of us making all this up as we go along and recovering from a crash, then not finding time to reorganise things properly. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:45 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Oh, there's a Resources section on Alfresco. Okay, I'll review the items you mentioned and redo the documents. Unfortunately I won't be able to do screenshots on anything other than Windows until I can switch to Linux. Someone else will need to take that torch if it needs to be done soon. Sorry. Thanks for the assist, Jean. :) ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: That was certainly an oversight if any remained in a published doc, and will need to be fixed in the next update. The Getting Started book in particular was done in a great rush and has far too many uncorrected images in it. If you want to start redoing them, you are very welcome to do so. --Jean On 13/05/2011, at 0:28, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I just noticed that the published document I'm working from as a template
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Elliot Re: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?
On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 00:19 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Okay, I'll just give you a quick update on my progress in general since I've joined. This is just to reassure you that I am still planning to follow through on things I mentioned last week. If you're not interested, feel free to ignore and continue on with the fabulous work you're doing. There's no need to reply. 1. I've been looking over the documentation we have, both for users and documentation noobs like me. This is so that I don't make any further mistakes like I did on my first assignment. (Sorry that this has taken so long with the other things I'm doing outside of libo) 2. After the Impress Guide I plan to work on a blog-post for creating a macro to highlight common spelling errors that spell check won't pick up on. Example: quite / quiet, him / hem, tank / thank... The intent being a practical introduction to macros for writers. 3. I'll also begin going through the published documents we have and highlighting the artwork that needs rebranding. Thanks for the status report. I really appreciate it, and your plans sound excellent. I'm sure we all understand (I certainly do) how other things in one's life can slow down work on LibO docs, so it's good to know when people haven't totally disappeared leaving a job half done. I'll try to get the rest of the info for the docs team done this week and hope that helps everyone. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Elliot Re: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?
I'm going to it tonight. Sorry it took me longer to get to it than it should have. And thanks for the push. ~Elliot On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Elliot, What's the status of the rebranding of the Impress Guide chapters? Last we heard (see below), you were going to redo them. Have you done so, or are you still working on them, or did I miss a follow-up note from you, or ?? Thanks! --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 19:00 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: (1) What I did do was overwrite the existing document's styles with the styles from a document that was already published. Since this didn't automatically adjust the footer, I'm going to redo it using the correct method just in case there are other things I've missed. Don't worry. I have a clear idea now of what I did incorrectly and what I need to do to fix it. Again, thank you. (2) LOL. Okay, I'll start working on that as well. ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Two topics: (1) Impress Guide rebranding. Have you been using the Template Changer extension to assign the LibO template to the rebranded Impress Guide chapters? If not, please do that at some point. Assigning a template takes care of all the style changes, the footer on the copyright page, and other things, though a few items need to be done manually (like the cover page graphic). (2) Fixing published chapters of other books. If you work on the published books but can't do screenshots, you can insert a comment at each image you notice that needs to be replaced; that will help whoever does the screenshots. Please put the revised or annotated chapters into the Drafts space for the relevant book on Alfresco. You'll find some inconsistency in where the published chapters are stored on Alfresco, and what the file names are. (Writer Guide chapters are, I think, in the WG Reviewed space, not the Published space. Getting Started Guide chapters have interim file names, not the proper ones that you'll find on the wiki.) This is dpartly due ue to a combination of us making all this up as we go along and recovering from a crash, then not finding time to reorganise things properly. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:45 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Oh, there's a Resources section on Alfresco. Okay, I'll review the items you mentioned and redo the documents. Unfortunately I won't be able to do screenshots on anything other than Windows until I can switch to Linux. Someone else will need to take that torch if it needs to be done soon. Sorry. Thanks for the assist, Jean. :) ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: That was certainly an oversight if any remained in a published doc, and will need to be fixed in the next update. The Getting Started book in particular was done in a great rush and has far too many uncorrected images in it. If you want to start redoing them, you are very welcome to do so. --Jean On 13/05/2011, at 0:28, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I just noticed that the published document I'm working from as a template has the same issue. It's Chapter 7 Working With Styles, file 0207WG3 under the writing tuts. I'm seeing OOo and OpenOffice.org in some of the tabs and links for the screenshots. Is this an issue? On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: I've already overwritten the styles, replaced the brands at the tops and deleted the footers on the second page. But does this project also include creating the new screenshots for the tuts? Many of them have OOo specific headings in their windows. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: This looks easy enough. I'll have it done later today. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 05:28 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: I'm game. First though, I'll be needing an Alfresco account. No? Do you have the super powers to set that up, Jean? Sure do. And it's done. Look for private mail from me with login info, coming in a few minutes. --Jean ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 5:00 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide? We need *you*! This job is perfect for someone who doesn't feel knowledgeable enough to tackle writing just yet. --Jean --
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Elliot Re: Is anyone working on rebranding the Impress Guide?
It will take awhile to get through all the chapters, so please be sure to check them out as you are working on them and then check them back in again as soon as you are done, so if anyone else wants to help (or do the next step) they'll know which chapters are up for grabs. Thanks! --Jean On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 14:23, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: I'm going to it tonight. Sorry it took me longer to get to it than it should have. And thanks for the push. ~Elliot On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: Hello, Elliot, What's the status of the rebranding of the Impress Guide chapters? Last we heard (see below), you were going to redo them. Have you done so, or are you still working on them, or did I miss a follow-up note from you, or ?? Thanks! --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 19:00 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: (1) What I did do was overwrite the existing document's styles with the styles from a document that was already published. Since this didn't automatically adjust the footer, I'm going to redo it using the correct method just in case there are other things I've missed. Don't worry. I have a clear idea now of what I did incorrectly and what I need to do to fix it. Again, thank you. (2) LOL. Okay, I'll start working on that as well. ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:20 PM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Two topics: (1) Impress Guide rebranding. Have you been using the Template Changer extension to assign the LibO template to the rebranded Impress Guide chapters? If not, please do that at some point. Assigning a template takes care of all the style changes, the footer on the copyright page, and other things, though a few items need to be done manually (like the cover page graphic). (2) Fixing published chapters of other books. If you work on the published books but can't do screenshots, you can insert a comment at each image you notice that needs to be replaced; that will help whoever does the screenshots. Please put the revised or annotated chapters into the Drafts space for the relevant book on Alfresco. You'll find some inconsistency in where the published chapters are stored on Alfresco, and what the file names are. (Writer Guide chapters are, I think, in the WG Reviewed space, not the Published space. Getting Started Guide chapters have interim file names, not the proper ones that you'll find on the wiki.) This is dpartly due ue to a combination of us making all this up as we go along and recovering from a crash, then not finding time to reorganise things properly. --Jean On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 16:45 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: Oh, there's a Resources section on Alfresco. Okay, I'll review the items you mentioned and redo the documents. Unfortunately I won't be able to do screenshots on anything other than Windows until I can switch to Linux. Someone else will need to take that torch if it needs to be done soon. Sorry. Thanks for the assist, Jean. :) ~Elliot On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: That was certainly an oversight if any remained in a published doc, and will need to be fixed in the next update. The Getting Started book in particular was done in a great rush and has far too many uncorrected images in it. If you want to start redoing them, you are very welcome to do so. --Jean On 13/05/2011, at 0:28, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: Actually, I just noticed that the published document I'm working from as a template has the same issue. It's Chapter 7 Working With Styles, file 0207WG3 under the writing tuts. I'm seeing OOo and OpenOffice.org in some of the tabs and links for the screenshots. Is this an issue? On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 8:22 AM, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: I've already overwritten the styles, replaced the brands at the tops and deleted the footers on the second page. But does this project also include creating the new screenshots for the tuts? Many of them have OOo specific headings in their windows. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:34 AM, Elliot Turner sf.freela...@gmail.com wrote: This looks easy enough. I'll have it done later today. On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 6:02 AM, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.comwrote: On Thu, 2011-05-12 at 05:28 -0600, Elliot Turner wrote: I'm game. First though, I'll be needing an Alfresco account. No? Do you have the super powers to set that up, Jean? Sure do. And it's done. Look for private mail from me with login info, coming in a few minutes.
