Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread marbux
On 6/20/07, Frank Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oh, if there is a way to view/download/print the entire "manual", there wouldn't be a need for PDF per se. All I'm saying is that we need an offline delivery channel that will enable users to download and print a manual (collection of pages). I

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Scott Carr
Frank Peters wrote: Per Eriksson wrote: I personally agree this is better than uploading files to issues. To be honest, I don't like the fact that we use issues to track docs anyway. Issuetracker is bulky and obscure. I would strongly vote for having a readily visible dashboard with links to p

[documentation-dev] Attendants for OOoCon 2007

2007-06-20 Thread Frank Peters
As you may know, this year's OOo Conference will take place in Barcelona, Spain (http://marketing.openoffice.org/ooocon2007/) I would really like to take this opportunity to meet as many of you as possible, so please let me know if you will be attending the conference. I hope many of you will.

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Joe Smith
Frank Peters wrote: ... Joe, thank you, thank you for bringing that up and pointing to the elephant. There is much truth to what you write and actually I think we need to revisit the documentation "strategy" for OOo, meaning how will we produce, maintain, and publish documentation. ... Readin

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Frank Peters
Jim, Frank, when you have time, please elaborate a bit for everyone about the conditions / situation ("case"), and reasons, you "still think that in this case, PDF is the way to go", specifically, the source (online) system and the benefits gained from the extra work of maintaining PDFs (perhaps

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Frank Peters
Jean Hollis Weber wrote: I agree that topic size may actually be an issue. If you split books by chapter, the individual chapters may get too big to handle via wiki. Maybe you need to get more granular. I've started splitting some of the larger chapters of the OOoAuthors guides into sub-chapt

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Harris
Frank, when you have time, please elaborate a bit for everyone about the conditions / situation ("case"), and reasons, you "still think that in this case, PDF is the way to go", specifically, the source (online) system and the benefits gained from the extra work of maintaining PDFs (perhaps on

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Jim Harris
I think you missed the part where I said "(or printed)". Jim >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6:36:17 PM 6/19/2007 >>> Frank Peters wrote: > Jim Harris wrote: > > > In "... many users still value a [book-type] manual that they can download, > > print out and read offline. So there is still the need for

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-20 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Martina Waller wrote a note that deserves a more thorough and thoughtful answer than I have time for right now, but I do have a question. Martina said, Reduce the icon size in the documents. Their actual size constrains the flow of reading because they get too much attention. Do you mean "ic

Re: [documentation-dev] Documentation Look and Content

2007-06-20 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Frank Peters wrote: I agree that topic size may actually be an issue. If you split books by chapter, the individual chapters may get too big to handle via wiki. Maybe you need to get more granular. I've started splitting some of the larger chapters of the OOoAuthors guides into sub-chapters,

Re: [documentation-dev] Pregunta sobre Writer

2007-06-20 Thread Martina Waller
felipe gutierrez schrieb: No se si alguien le ha pasado pero cuando escribo "con" en WRITER 2.0 me borra la palabra y me escribe "NOC" como puedo cortar eso?? Hola Felipe, Esta lista es para discutir problemas que están relacionados con la producción del software y los miembros de esta l

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-20 Thread Martina Waller
Frank Peters schrieb: Scott Carr wrote: We have a Style guide. If you want to look it over, and make recomendations: http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList It hasn't been updated in a bit. Martina, can you go over the style guide and make suggestions? We should