RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith

2020-10-19 Thread Chris
Hi Dave, Thank you for the follow up e-mail. I will await further instructions regarding the SSO account. In the meantime I’ll look over the software and current documentation so that I’m more familiar with LibreOffice. sp; I have also subscribed to the mailing list, so I’m currently

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Math Guide 7.0 upload to NextCloud

2020-10-19 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hello Jean I have approved all your comments except the one that mentions ask.libreoffice.org, which is an important website for community support. I filled the missing Greek letters in the tables. I added your name to the contributors for your kind review of the Guide. I also saved the file

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Question: Direct Formatting documentation?

2020-10-19 Thread Dave Barton
Direct formatting is not separately documented and deprecated is not the correct terminology, it would be more accurate to say it is discouraged. Nevertheless, there are endless possibilities for Writer to be used in "Typewriter" fashion, which requires little, if any, explanation to place an

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Question: Direct Formatting documentation?

2020-10-19 Thread Luke Kendall
I wouldn't argue very much with that Dan, but that wasn't my main question. I'm asking where (if) DF is documented. If your answer indicates it's not documented because it's deprecated, then there's a much bigger problem. I think the design and semantics of DF is Writers' biggest usability

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith

2020-10-19 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Chris [mailto:csmith94...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020, 22:45 UTC To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Introduction-Chris Smith > Hi, > > My name is Chris Smith, I just recently discovered

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [VOTE] On changes to documentation workflow.

2020-10-19 Thread Dave Barton
as the standard. We are an > international team and we all have different ways of writing the date. Using > MMDD (for example 20201019) as the date format is the best way forward in > my opinion. > > I will look at the naming conventions and make corrections. I presume that it

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [VOTE] On changes to documentation workflow.

2020-10-19 Thread Peter Schofield
Hello Dave Definitely agree about the date and using ISO 8601 as the standard. We are an international team and we all have different ways of writing the date. Using MMDD (for example 20201019) as the date format is the best way forward in my opinion. I will look at the naming conventions

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Question: Direct Formatting documentation?

2020-10-19 Thread Dan Lewis
Using direct formatting is a left over from using a typewriter to create text. It is much slower than using styles. Furthermore, it makes editing a very labor intensive task.  Personal example: I was hired by a lady to format the text in a project of hers. During our collaboration, she changed

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Impress Guide

2020-10-19 Thread Samantha Hamilton
Hi! Chapter 7 has been reviewed and uploaded to the Work in Progress folder (filename IG7007--01-PS-SH). Updates made to the spreadsheet. Have a great week everyone! Sam. On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 10:38 AM Samantha Hamilton < samanthahamilton0...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, Team, > > I've

[libreoffice-documentation] Question: Direct Formatting documentation?

2020-10-19 Thread Luke (gmail)
I've been slowly learning about Direct Formatting in LibreOffice over the years. I joined this list with the intention of helping document this area of functionality, and in the coming months I may finally have some time to do so. Is there somewhere I can read up on the topic?  My feeling is