Re: [authors] PING: Jean Hollis Weber - Formatting Pages
Lou Iorio wrote: This is the first chapter I've reviewed for OO, so let me know if I've done to little or too much, or if I simply did something wrong. I found this document to be very well organized and written, and I didn't change much. I think you did a good job. I'm relieved to see that you didn't make a lot of copy-editing changes, as that suggests the previous reviewers and editors did a good job. But you did catch a few things that we all missed, so that's good. BTW, the copyright statement is not to be changed at this point, as it is boilerplate for all the chapters and books. We can consider amending it for future editions, and I've added your suggestion to my enhancements list. I spent most of my time checking the doc against OO 2.0. Nearly all was correct. Great! That's what was needed most, the checking against OOo2.0. I changed what I thought needed updating. My changes are visible. Thank you. I'll update the chapter as soon as I can. I should also say that I spent a lot of time using this document to learn the product, and in this regard, it worked very well for me. This is one of several chapters that were written by a committee, so it's especially good to hear that it worked for you. If what I've done is appropriate and useful, please let me know, and I'll review another chapter. Yes and yes! Thanks again. Cheers, Jean
Re: [authors] Sentences Style Capitalization
maybe we should use BLOCK LETTERS ... ? Lou Iorio schrieb: Please include all of the text of my email when you rebut my opinion. It's easy to make your point when you leave out what I wrote. A motherboard manual? Are you kidding? Was it called How to use a motherboard?. Would you suggest this as a model for technical documentation? indeed, I would. mine says KV7ZA USER MANUAL ;-) Jean has said she's not home right now, while a powerful argument, does not sway me. I have been given good reasons for using this style, but an editor's vacation is not one of them. I skipped nothing about having something else that's easy to get wrong, I simply stated that providing what readers expect was worth doing. You said you picked a book at random, and it used sentence style capitalization for titles. I was polite before, but this is just ridiculous. I will now state that it's impossible to pick a book at random that uses sentence style capitalization in America. You can argue for a new way to do things, but to say that either way is proper or common is just spin. in my opinion the word style is omitting all attempts to define any absolute measure - what's left is to argue about which 'style guide' may be right and proper for our project. it never gave ME a strange feeling to accept what everybody else seemed to have agreed upon. You respect my opinion? You have a funny way of showing it, I have no respect for yours. thanks in advance ;-) Best regards, Lou Daniel Carrera wrote: Lou Iorio wrote: My opinion is simply that: an opinion. You are not stating it as an opinion. You are saying that this is the one and only correct way. You have yet to mention a single title of a book that uses sentence style capitalization. I just grabed a user guide for a motherboard manual, and it uses sentence style. You have yet to mention a single style guide that endorses sentence style capitalization. Jean has said that she's not home right now. So, no, I have not been given any justification. And you also skipped the bit about having something else that's easy to get wrong, the extra work for reviewers, and the lack of justification for capitalizing extra words. Now, you just said you were just stating an opinion. Fine. I respect your opinion then. Cheers, Daniel. cheers erich -- erich christian, vienna, austria __/ __/ __/ __/ __/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [authors] Sentences Style Capitalization
Please take any further discussion on this topic offlist, unless it involves the issue at hand (capitalisation) and not the way people have responded to each other about the issue. As one of the list moms here, I ask everyone to follow the conventions of good list etiquette. I don't care who started the personal side of this discussion or who perpetuated it, I want it to stop now. And if you want to flame me about that, do it offlist. Regards, Jean
Re: [authors] Request for author role
Robert Heym wrote: I'm more than willing to chip in some of my time and ability to advance this worthwhile project. Thanks! Bob, Welcome. Good to see you here! Please provide your username at OOoAuthors so we can grant you the author role. Cheers, Jean
Re: [authors] Request for author role
Done! You'll find lots of introductory info about what we're doing and how we do it on the first page of the English part of the OOoAuthors website at http://oooauthors.org/en/ and the pages linked from that. Please feel free to ask questions on the list. Everybody new always has questions! ;-) If I'm not around to answer you, someone else knowledgeable will be able to help. Cheers, Jean Robert Heym wrote: Oh yes, my username is rheym. Sorry! Jean Hollis Weber wrote: Robert Heym wrote: I'm more than willing to chip in some of my time and ability to advance this worthwhile project. Thanks! Bob, Welcome. Good to see you here! Please provide your username at OOoAuthors so we can grant you the author role. Cheers, Jean
Re: [authors] Spreadsheet to database conversion
Rick wrote: I would encourage you to write this guide. Ill dd it to my to do list. Since I am trying to figure out the easiest way to convert a spreadsheet to a database, it probably will be written sooner, rather than later. Of course, what I am trying to do, is a worst case example. [Spreadsheet needs to be at least four, and possibly six tables in a database.] As a stand alone document it might get lost, but as a chapter of one of the Guides, I'm not sure how or where it would fit. nothing already available in the how-to's, including those on the database development pages at OOo (and I don't think there is anything written yet). I haven't found anything. OTOH, I missed things before that were blatantly obvious to other people. Such a document could be adapted for several different purposes (perhaps a how-to at Docs as well as a chapter in one of both of the Calc and Base guides). If a write a main how to, will somebody else adapt it for the other purposes? xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?
