Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Martina Waller wrote: With respect to search functions for example I would recommend to - use more indices in printed material, I am happy to report that the third edition of the Writer Guide from OOoAuthors (due to be published later this week) includes an index. (At last!) The draft index

Re: [documentation-dev] Tutorials For OpenOffice website

2007-02-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 11:57 -0700, Walter Hildebrandt wrote: > We are in the process of developing our website. > www.tutorialsforopenoffice.orgHave you any suggestions as to how we > might work better together? How we might supplement each other better? > Walter, I will let you choose

[documentation-dev] Tutorials For OpenOffice website

2007-02-12 Thread Walter Hildebrandt
We are in the process of developing our website. www.tutorialsforopenoffice.orgHave you any suggestions as to how we might work better together? How we might supplement each other better? Walter Hildebrandt Denver CO -

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hello, Uwe Fischer schrieb: Hi, Ain Vagula wrote: Frank Peters wrote: There is an issue for the broken full text search engine. Development is aware of that and currently working on a reimplementation. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45826 and http://www.openoffice.org/

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 14:38 +0100, Martina Waller wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:05 +0100, Martina Waller wrote: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft > >> Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Off

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Ain Vagula
Martina Waller wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:05 +0100, Martina Waller wrote: Hi all, Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice). Underlying analysis criteria

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Uwe Fischer
Hi, Ain Vagula wrote: Frank Peters wrote: There is an issue for the broken full text search engine. Development is aware of that and currently working on a reimplementation. http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=45826 and http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=38553 a

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Martina Waller
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:05 +0100, Martina Waller wrote: Hi all, Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice). Underlying analysis criteria were languages, docum

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:51 +0100, Frank Peters wrote: > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > > >> - allow search for similar words, > > > > This needs explaining too. Entering, say lin, in the search box > > currently presents help items that start with this sequence thus giving > > users the opportun

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Ain Vagula
Frank Peters wrote: G. Roderick Singleton wrote: - allow search for similar words, This needs explaining too. Entering, say lin, in the search box currently presents help items that start with this sequence thus giving users the opportunity to select further. - repair the full text search,

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Frank Peters
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: - allow search for similar words, This needs explaining too. Entering, say lin, in the search box currently presents help items that start with this sequence thus giving users the opportunity to select further. - repair the full text search, Repair? Enhance su

Re: [documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:05 +0100, Martina Waller wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft > Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice). > Underlying analysis criteria were languages, documentation types > (printe

[documentation-dev] analysis of competitor documentation

2007-02-12 Thread Martina Waller
Hi all, Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice). Underlying analysis criteria were languages, documentation types (printed and online), search functions, information types, visualization,