On 3/19/2011 8:20 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
I am now turning my attention to the Calc Guide, which Barbara has rebranded
from the OOo version. I've started replacing images and checking for info
that is incorrect for LibO.
One question, regarding the path indicators (angle bracket versus arrow):
On 3/25/2011 6:27 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 3:05 AM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
On 3/19/2011 8:20 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
I am now turning my attention to the Calc Guide, which Barbara has
rebranded
from the OOo version. I've started replacing images and checking
On 3/25/2011 6:33 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Sat, Mar 26, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Shaun McCancesha...@gnome.org wrote:
Hi all,
I'm organizing the Open Help Conference this June. It's a gathering of
documentation and support people from various open source and community
projects. There are already
On 2/21/2011 8:33 PM, TomW wrote:
On 2011-02-21 12:39, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
Le 21/02/11 18:09, David Nelson a écrit :
Hi all,
Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended
to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before
someone checks it out,
On 2/19/2011 9:21 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
Pass. Maybe it's worth asking this question on the devs list. They'd
probably give you quick and helpful answers.
David Nelson
I submitted a bug report Jan 27:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33537
There's been no QA contact
On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberjeanwe...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote:
Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide chapter on master documents,
in
the section on splitting a document into
On 2/21/2011 3:07 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weberjeanwe...@gmail.comwrote:
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote:
Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide chapter on master documents
On 2/17/2011 10:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
What terms does the LibreOffice Help use? I thought that was our main
terminology selection criterion.
Hal
The things we're discussing here are, I think, too context-sensitive to be
readily searchable.
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On 2/19/2011 4:43 PM, JDługosz wrote:
I should point out that it doesn't have to be reviewed by one person or all
at once.
Anyone can flip through some of a chapter and double-check and accept all
the typo fixes and formatting fixes, like stray letters that have been set
as Times New Roman and
I have another problem with the enabled/disabled terminology -- I think it can easily be
misunderstood as modifiable/unmodifiable (available/grayed out). This terminology is not in common
use and I think it would be more confusing than helpful. Often click would be a reasonable
substitute, but
That's OK, too, for checkbox (tickbox?) items, and maybe radio buttons. I think our terminology list
needs to be updated and reviewed for the preferred way/ways to express this for the different UI
items. I doubt there's a one-size-fits-all solution, though for me select comes closest. I'll put
On 2/14/2011 6:11 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 03:34 -0800, JDługosz wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I have several tricks to get the pix visible again; if I find my notes,
I'll post them.
How about grabbing the Writer chapter I kicked back to drafts: One of them
has
On 2/14/2011 10:07 AM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 2/14/2011 6:11 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 03:34 -0800, JDługosz wrote:
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I have several tricks to get the pix visible again; if I find my notes,
I'll post them.
How about grabbing the Writer
On 2/13/2011 10:01 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi Barbara, :-)
If you look in the Various space, you'll see that there's a zip file
containing screenshots done by Ron Faile... Maybe they can be useful?
David Nelson
As I understand it, those screenshots were for a couple of early Writer chapters
On 2/14/2011 11:35 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
I haven't looked, I must admit. Are you on Windows, Mac or Linux, Barbara?
David Nelson
I'm on Windows 7, David. There are probably going to be a large number of graphics replacements
needed -- even beyond the OOo refs, there appear to be
In doing the initial pass on Chapter 2, I found some strange things. Many of the index entries were
blank, and several figures were also missing (though the frame was sized to contain them).
I checked against the OOo version on Alfresco, and there were blank index entries there, too. I
could
I've finished the first pass for the Calc Guide, doing all the mechanical things, except that
Chapter 1 is locked (by Jeremy, apparently). In addition to the previously mentioned blank index
entries in Chapter 2, there were none at all in Chapter 8.
One question that is belatedly occurring to
OK, all the files for the Calc Guide are in the LibO format now. I'll start working on the
screenshot verifications tomorrow, where I can.
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On 2/11/2011 3:03 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
On Sat, Feb 12, 2011 at 04:56, Jean Hollis Weberjeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
For some of the Calc Guide chapters, the ODFAuthors team has spreadsheet
files with data that can be used to reproduce and check the examples
given in the book. Later
In trying to verify the screen shots in Chapter 9, I keep getting bogged down because I don't
understand how to set things up and what is supposed to happen. When I can't see what the setup
expects, or the screenshot is different, I don't know if I've done something wrong or there's really
a
On 2/9/2011 11:15 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi John, :-)
I had a look at your revised template. My 2 cents about things would be this:
1) One of the first things I'd like personally to see done would be to
rename the OOo styles as LibO styles. I can't think of any reason for
*not* doing this.
On 2/5/2011 9:49 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote:
Hi Sophie!
Le 05/02/2011 16:29, Sophie Gautier a écrit :
May be you can work with Alex, he said on the FR list that he is going
to improve the Base documentation once he has finished to translate the
Guide for beginners? However I don't
Yes, please. Meanwhile, can we use the Discussion capability to indicate what's going on with
documents we can't deal with properly, or is that also going to come up against a rule? I don't know
exactly how Discussion works, but it could serve as a stopgap, I think.
On 2/5/2011 1:17 AM, David
Do I need to use an extension to make the Calc chapters apply the LibO template? And I got the
following message trying to Edit Offline for Chapter 9, no (Working Copy) was created, and the file
was not locked, though the download succeeded:
Please correct the errors below then click OK.
On 2/4/2011 6:41 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 2/4/2011 4:27 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 15:42:27 -0600
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
Do I need to use an extension to make the Calc chapters apply the
LibO template?
Yes. TemplateChanger.oxt is its name. I've uploaded
Now that all the Writer Guide chapters are in Review, should I start picking up chapters from the
Calc Guide for similar activity, or what?
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On 1/30/2011 10:04 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
My 2 cents would be that comments inside documents are more
immediately accessible to workers, and are more portable to wherever
the document goes. But Alfresco's discussion capability is more
appropriate if it's not just a conclusive comment
On 1/29/2011 10:26 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
What I've found is that the only step that takes significant amounts of
time is checking the figures -- I get through all the other stuff in less
than half an hour, and the majority
On 1/30/2011 3:36 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:22:05 -0600
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
Then, from the (Working Copy) in Review, Upload, then Check In, to
get the edited
I believe that would be check in, then use the find document dialog in
that process to upload
On 1/30/2011 4:50 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/30/2011 3:36 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 15:22:05 -0600
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
Then, from the (Working Copy) in Review, Upload, then Check In, to
get the edited
I believe that would be check in, then use
On 1/29/2011 2:51 AM, Hal Parker wrote:
I'm working on Chapter 4, Formatting Pages. I thought I'd be done by now,
but I've found what I think is a feature that's not in OOo: Format Title
Page, and I want to write it up.
Hal
You're right, the whole Title Page thing is new. There seem to be
On 1/26/2011 3:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
I've started a new thread for this, in response to Alex Thurgood's comments
on Base docs.
My opinion FWIW is that Base related stuff is desperately needed, including
a full Base Guide. We've been rebranding the OOo user guides as an initial
set for
On 1/24/2011 6:49 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011 21:15:15 -0600
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content
while on the Writer-Working display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It
apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea
-online.de
Hi @all,
Barbara Duprey schrieb:
There's some documentation of the intended workflow happening,
right?
would someone be so kind and send a link where to find this?
This documentation does not exist yet. Someone (Jeremy?) is writing
this document right now.
Sigrid
Working now
On 1/23/2011 9:15 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
I'm really embarrassed about this, but ... I went into Add Content while on the Writer-Working
display, and uploaded Chapter 13. It apparently went somewhere, but I have no idea where! It
belongs under Review with the other edited files, but I
On 1/22/2011 11:47 AM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
All,
The Alfresco site has now been tidied up. The easiest way to navigate
is choosing `Company Home/LibreOffice Documentation/catalog`. There you
will find 7 directories for each of our books. Within each of those
directories you will find 3
On 1/21/2011 4:41 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 8:23 AM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
I don't think this one can really be determined easily by grep, but I've
found some things that indicate user entry in the xxx box, and others that
use xxx field. I think the second is
:)
From: Sophie Gautiergautier.sop...@gmail.com
To: documentation@libreoffice.org
Sent: Mon, 17 January, 2011 11:08:45
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Another grep - Drop-down
Hi Barbara,
On 16/01/2011 22:31, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/16/2011 12:05 PM, Sophie
On 1/17/2011 2:46 AM, Kurt Stahl wrote:
can you explain to me, why I got 85 mails today from your organisation? It is
incredible!
Apparently, when you subscribed to the various lists you were unprepared for the volume of message
traffic you would receive, and that's unfortunate. But to stop
OK, which is used in the help -- drop-down, drop-down list, drop-down menu, ?
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On 1/16/2011 12:05 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Barbara,
On 16/01/2011 20:37, Barbara Duprey wrote:
OK, which is used in the help -- drop-down, drop-down list, drop-down
menu, ?
- drop-down alone is not used
- drop-down menu is used twice
- drop-down icon is used once
- drop-down list(s
I put together a document that I hope can be useful -- maybe somebody can tell me where it should go
(if anywhere) and how to get it there for collaboration. Right now, it's a document based on the
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On 1/15/2011 1:39 PM, Jeremy Cartwright wrote:
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 13:22:57 -0600
Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
I'd be glad to -- but I must be missing something very basic. When I
logged in and looked around, I saw no project-specific things at all
-- just what came preinstalled by
I'd definitely be glad to capture it somewhere. It seems like an extension of the to-do list
that's on the wiki -- is that on Alfresco, too? (I haven't gotten into Alfresco at all yet, sorry --
I've been working from the wiki.)
On 1/12/2011 8:38 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
It would be
On 1/13/2011 10:20 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi, :-)
On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 00:08, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
I'd definitely be glad to capture it somewhere. It seems like an extension
of the to-do list that's on the wiki -- is that on Alfresco, too? (I
haven't gotten into Alfresco at
On 1/12/2011 4:32 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Barbara,
On 12/01/2011 01:42, Barbara Duprey wrote:
[...]
OK, thanks. Sounds as if we should change that as we go. And we also
seem agreed on dialog rather than dialog box -- right?
That is what is used in the help files.
- For contextual
On 1/11/2011 3:40 AM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 1:15 PM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
On 1/10/2011 6:34 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:23 AM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other
On 1/10/2011 9:54 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 21:31 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with
that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs,
without
On 1/10/2011 11:48 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Jean, Barbara,
On 11/01/2011 06:31, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie and start with
that? It will probably contain most of the terms that the team needs,
without
On 1/11/2011 11:29 AM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
On 11/01/2011 19:41, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/10/2011 11:48 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
Hi Jean, Barbara,
On 11/01/2011 06:31, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/10/2011 8:22 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
Seriously, shouldn't you get the glossary from Sophie
On 1/9/2011 8:57 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/9/2011 8:22 PM, Ron Faile wrote:
On 1/9/2011 7:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
Are we using the term dialog or dialog box? The OOo books vary in usage:
Getting Started and Calc (and maybe Draw; I didn't check) use dialog while
the Writer Guide uses
Is some part of the process going to make active hyperlinks to other chapters, and into a glossary?
(I noticed an apparent link for heading in Chapter 9 of the Writer Guide, for example). Or should
we be doing that somehow?
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On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote:
I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the template
and replaced many of the screenshots, mostly using images from Ron's zip
file or from the Getting Started guide. I put the replacement file on both
the Alfresco site and the wiki.
On 1/9/2011 3:07 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 6:52 AM, Hal Parkerhalparke...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 5:26 AM, Barbara Dupreyb...@onr.com wrote:
On 1/9/2011 6:20 AM, Hal Parker wrote:
I have just finished editing Writer Guide Chapter 1. I updated the
On 1/9/2011 8:22 PM, Ron Faile wrote:
On 1/9/2011 7:43 PM, Hal Parker wrote:
Are we using the term dialog or dialog box? The OOo books vary in usage:
Getting Started and Calc (and maybe Draw; I didn't check) use dialog while
the Writer Guide uses dialog box.
The LibreOffice options use the
On 1/6/2011 12:36 AM, Ron Faile wrote:
On 1/5/2011 9:35 PM, Barbara Duprey wrote:
OK, I'd like to work on Chapter 9, Working with Tables. I see that I should put my wiki ID
(Dupreyb) in the Checkout column. The existing file already is using the template, so would there
still be a need
On 1/4/2011 1:57 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi Barbara, :-)
You could try telling us briefly about your degree of experience in
documentation-writing? We might be able to better advise you in that
case... ;-)
You could also take a look at [1], where you will see a list of
documentation still
On 1/4/2011 2:25 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 09:17 -0600, Barbara Duprey wrote:
On 1/4/2011 1:57 AM, David Nelson wrote:
Some people like to work on LibreOffice documentation via the
oooauthors site [2]...
(Surprised to see the reference to the oooauthors site, thought
On 1/4/2011 4:21 PM, David Nelson wrote:
Hi Barbara, :-)
Well, that's quite a resume you have, and you'd certainly be a
valuable asset for the docs team.
Thanks!
At the present time, there's not yet a great deal of hard organization
within the LibreOffice documentation project. This is
I'd be glad to help with documentation -- how can I start being useful?
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