Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Published chapters of Getting Started and Writer Guide

2011-11-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It feels like a team again. Good work John, Jean (always) and everyone :)  Is there anyone in this team that doesn't feel like c#@% after 1 or 2 things have gone slightly wrong even tho they have done an awesome job on a ton of other things and got their result out there?  Regards from

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Requesting access to ALFRESCO web site

2011-11-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't think that you can reset your own password. I had some trouble trying that myself so a few of us try to set passwords that are non-trivial to start with. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 29/11/11, Lailah lailah...@gmail.com wrote: From: Lailah lailah...@gmail.com Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide - Chapter 1 - Draft - New Version

2011-11-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can upload attachments to Nabble but a better place for the screenshots might be just Afresco alongside your uploaded document? Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 29/11/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2011-11-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Do. Please ignore my lengthy previous email! Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 27/11/11, Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote: From: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents To:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Licensing for NEW documents

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's probably better to avoid contacting the BoD.  They are supposed to be representing us.  This is NOT meant to be a top-down organisation.  It's a grass-roots up (or bottoms-up, if you have a sherry near to hand).  We keep them informed of what we are doing.  The only reason

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Help for Alfresco implementation

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That all sounds good to me too.  I am still not a proper member and haven't been able to get as involved as i had hoped but i don't feel unwelcome here despite the frustrations and disappointments people doubtless feel. A very few people do a lot of work and even a few hours a month could

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch!  Errr, could it be argued that we are just using their licence without actually being an ASF project and therefore the contributor to their project is the Team rather than individuals within the team?  As individuals you are not contributing to the ASF OOo.  It's the documentation

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Licensing for NEW documents

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ok, the human-readable explanation claims that individuals within an external organisation would have to each sign their own individual CLA's with ASF.  However the legalese in the contract doesn't seem to insist on that at all http://www.apache.org/licenses/cla-corporate.txt 1.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Guide copyright and contributors

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Simplifications can help us understand and build-up until we really know what's going on. It was a good starting point and discussion has helped clarify. I am still not sure who currently owns the copyright on the books. I think i am getting there tho. Feedback from the ASF and from

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco web site

2011-11-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats, nicely done :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 27/11/11, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: From: David Nelson li...@traduction.biz Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Alfresco web site To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 27 November, 2011, 0:18

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: GS with LibO in ePub on Lulu.com

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is excellent and looks tidy too!! Thanks Jean!  Being able to read a guide on one screen while doing work on another is a good step forwards.  I have a different system but i can imagine people really liking this as it greatly increases flexibility.  I think the 1st paragraph on that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: GS with LibO in ePub on Lulu.com

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
be creating (through Lulu) ePubs for the full books, not the individual chapters. Of course, others can do whatever they want if they have a tool to do a decent job. --Jean On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 19:15, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) It is excellent and looks tidy too!! Thanks

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hello

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Welcome in :)  It sounds as though your help would be much appreciated.  I keep losing my Alfresco login but someone will hopefully be able to set-up an Alfresco account for you :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 25/11/11, Gabo gabo.xan...@gmail.com wrote: From: Gabo

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Licensing for NEW documents

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) A big +1 to that!  It might help this team be the upstream team which could be advantageous.  It would also be good to know that you guys were producing things that could easily be useful to our Apaches buddies.  The change would allow people to modify and redistribute wouldn't it?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Instructions for installing templates?

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Someone on the Users List has been having trouble trying to set-up a Style that can be used on lots of documents.  Would something like this trick do the job or should he just try the normal documentation about styles? Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 19/11/11, Dan Lewis

thx :) Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Instructions for installing templates?

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
at 05:18, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Someone on the Users List has been having trouble trying to set-up a Style that can be used on lots of documents.  Would something like this trick do the job or should he just try the normal documentation about styles? Regards from

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Guide copyright and contributors

2011-11-25 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Perhaps they could have brackets under their name like Zoltan (Apache) or something like that if they are adamant about restricting themselves to just 1 project? Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 25/11/11, Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [VI] Art work for User Guide covers

2011-11-24 Thread Tom Davies
about these cover designs. Now if the team would just get the content updated to put between the covers, we'd be in great shape. ;-) Tom, I see logos for all the apps on the GS Guide cover. (Perhaps Drew uploaded a new one after you wrote?) --Jean On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 06:41, Tom Davies tomdavie

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [VI] Art work for User Guide covers

2011-11-23 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!! I really like those :)  On the GS Guide would it be good to have the logos for all the apps?  Perhaps top-right corner or in the centre?  I saw an excellent wallpaper once but i'm not sure it would scale well.  Anyway, i like the GS one as it is now, err as the draft design is now

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS with LibO in ePub on Lulu.com

2011-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The Marketing list were recently talking about starting up some sort of on-line store for 'merchandising' type stuff (t-shirts, coffee mugs, perhaps paper-aeroplanes).  I don't know if they have approached the Websites list about it yet tho. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 22/11/11, Jean

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS with LibO in ePub on Lulu.com

2011-11-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I don't think the guides in Pdf format looked any different using ereader (or whatever) on GnuLinux compared to Adobe Reader on Windows Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 22/11/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation]

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide in Portuguese (pt-br)

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's best to keep moving forwards.  The last of the 3.3.x branch has been released already http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan So, although we still have to support the 3.3.x i don't think we really need to worry about making those guides any better than they already are

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide in Portuguese (pt-br)

2011-11-18 Thread Tom Davies
: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Guide in Portuguese (pt-br) To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 18 November, 2011, 22:37 2011/11/18 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Congrats!! :) Good work :)  Could i edit the wiki page a bit and see if i can make the table look

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Workflow for production of User Guides

2011-11-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's best to stick with the current system but obviously the documentation that describes it needs to be updated.  I tend to think that new people who have a lot of questions are likely to be the ones in the best position to really get that documentation right.  People who

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Chapter 1: Introducing Base

2011-11-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fantastic to see work on Base being done.  I have heard it's a bit of a nightmare and so we haven't had a first release out yet.  Whichever branch (3.3.x or 3.4.x) you are doing it's great to hear about it :) Thanks Dan!! :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 15/11/11, Dan Lewis

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide chapter 3 uploaded

2011-11-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) You can open the file with an archive manager.  In Windows change the file-ending from .odt to .zip.  There should be a folder labelled images or pictures or something.  All images 'should' be in there (or not if they are missing) I'm guessing one or both have already tried this tho.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started chap 2 uploaded

2011-11-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Did ch2 of the GS guide get it's new screen-shots? Sorry, i'm trying to catch up with what's going on Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 18/10/11, Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [libreoffice-documentation]

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Impress Guide

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Again i think contact the Design Team or post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport If you are going to post to the Design Team it might be better to use the Nabble interface  so that you only need to get mails from the single thread.  Errr you might need to subscribe

[libreoffice-documentation] Liaising with other lists

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) At a guess i think most people here are subscribed to more than 1 list and i was wondering if we could use that to help us liaise with the other lists a bit better? If something relevant crops up on another list it would be nice to have the relevant mail forwarded to here so that we

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Impress Guide

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the easiest way to deal with it is to just post a bug-report http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 12/11/11, PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: From: PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Impress Guide To:

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Chapters

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
--- On Fri, 11/11/11, August Brooks got...@gmail.com wrote: From: August Brooks got...@gmail.com Subject: Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Chapters To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Date: Friday, 11 November, 2011, 17:15 Maybe later, but for now I'm just gonna have to do

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] LO 3.4.4 (Writer): make comment refer to selected text rather than cursor point

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not sure if anyone here can help with these 3 questions.  Please CC answers to the users list if you can help. Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 12/11/11, Stephen Anderson sander8...@gmail.com wrote: From: Stephen Anderson sander8...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-users]

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] [ping Jean] Writer chapter 3: very few figures!

2011-11-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, now that i have re-read your post i think i am talking about something different.  Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 12/11/11, Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] [ping Jean]

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: UserProfile Guide for LibreOffice

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) With many thanks to Hagar for allowing me to basically copypaste (and modify a little) his rather useful thread about the user-profile. https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/UserProfile It is interesting to see the way the wiki interpreted some of the spaces and things.  Looks

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide

2011-11-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Sounds like you are doing a good job already.  Many thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 11/11/11, PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: From: PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Guide To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Friday, 11

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Vote: Elect Jean Weber as Documentation team lead

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ouch.  It is fair enough.  I think one problem was Sun's mastery but it's good to hear that the problems we are having are not new.  In England it is a particularly difficult time to recruit volunteers as a lot of charities are having their funding pulled away so they are all clamouring

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] My work on the Getting Started Guide; I have questions

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 Particularly the point about the Calc Guide Inserting new sheets working with sheets and then Deleting Sheets Seems a good logical flow for the chapters. Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 9/11/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide chapter 1: Introducing Writer

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have been having troubles at work so i have been kinda off-line until today.  A lot of catching-up to do.  Hazel i think your emails are getting through, certainly some of them are.  Jean has a good point tho lol.  How about checking the Nabble forum to see if your posts are there?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] how to type %

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If you can't find it on the keyboard then try the menus Insert - Special character Then depending on which font is selected the % might be about 6th across the top? Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 8/11/11, lsq lsq...@gmail.com wrote: From: lsq lsq...@gmail.com Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] My work on the Getting Started Guide; I have questions

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Brief is good!  Most topics can be expanded endlessly but the Getting Started Guide is just a brief taster to encourage people to either check the other guides, find out on-line, ask around or explore for themselves. Good stuff!  It's great to get your feet wet again after so long dealing

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibO Documentation

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Lol, i thought we were going to have to fight them (the devs) to try to wrest control away from them, once people had time to start working on the Help files! Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 7/11/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibO Documentation

2011-11-10 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Translating is not a trivial word-for-word replacement.  Some of the ideas and concepts might not make much sense and so there might be better ways of saying things so that they do make sense more easily.  Some words have implications and nuances in some languages that they don't have in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibO Documentation

2011-11-07 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Neither. Alfresco is the place. This is an old guide that needs updating ... http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#First_steps_with_the_Documentation_team Hopefully someone will set you up with an Alfresco account soon. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 7/11/11,

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] how-to or howto

2011-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that those terms might be very familiar to geeks, GnuLinux users and some people that have quite technical understanding of computers but not to 'normal' mainstream people. We have an opportunity to introduce people to those terms gently but also to help push the language to

Fw: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Screen Shots

2011-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :( Aaargh, i forwarded the wrong email last time so i have made a real mess of the threading and the contents was a bit crazy too. Please just ignore my previous email so it can die quietly! This one should have broken the topic out into a new thread. Apols and regards from Tom :) --- On

Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Screen Shots

2011-11-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it is not such a big deal now. Back when Oracle owned OpenOffice and were being hostile it was prudent to get ahead of any potential threat. I think it's still worth avoiding using Windows screen-shots. MS are unlikely to cave-in so easily! Mac don't have a competing product.

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB in Athens, Greece -- 11-13 Nov 2011

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) MariaDb is an excellent back-end for Base and we might be able to build up the team that is working on Base by building up some sort of relationship with them. MariaDB is to MySql as LibreOffice is to OpenOffice except that MySql is still owned Oracle so the relationship is not

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Help with the wiki

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
wrote: From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Help with the wiki To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 13:40      I think that Tom Davies suggestion of a specific wiki page we could use to discuss how to organize

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Get origin and unit of a page in Draw in a Basic macro

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's amazing that we haven't managed to snaffle Regina into the docs team. She would be a great asset! Possibly as much as Hazel. She tends to give the best answers out of anyone on the Users List and it's usually a sigh of relief when she takes an interest in someone's problem

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Vote: Elect Jean Weber as Documentation team lead

2011-11-05 Thread Tom Davies
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Saturday, 5 November, 2011, 22:17 On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 23:03 +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Would this page be useful? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Team/JobDescriptions If so then it might be great if people could write in a few

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Vote: Elect Jean Weber as Documentation team lead

2011-11-04 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Would this page be useful? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Team/JobDescriptions If so then it might be great if people could write in a few ideas and then i might be able to tidy some formatting ready for Jean If the page name is a bit rubbish then we could always create

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Noise Re: About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) From the few chats i have had with exclusively Apache people i think they are quite happy for people to be in both communities. I think the licensing of your work is different but that's about it. Apparently Oracle got a bit stuffy about higher ranking people in 'their' community

links seem to work now :) Re: [libreoffice-documentation] A table of contents in http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

2011-11-03 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The page is looking MUCH better and a quick test of a few links showed that plenty do work. Nicely done :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 2/11/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] A table of contents

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Noise Re: About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions

2011-11-02 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Base is notoriously tough to write for. A few people have tried and vanished. I think there are some chapters and a few loose knit bitsbobs in Alfresco for it that might need pulling together. Hopefully the OOo guide might give people a good start? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Guide Chapter 10 uploaded

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Great. Good to see you flying through these. It is much appreciated by those of us that don't get anything much done here at all. Many thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Wed, 26/10/11, Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Hazel Russman hazeldeb...@googlemail.com

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu

2011-10-26 Thread Tom Davies
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 25 October, 2011, 9:48 Le 24/10/2011 23:41, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I found it!  I dunno where i found it as i installed a ton of stuff.  I can't

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I really like the Radiance theme in oranges and reds. It seems to be available on a lot of different distros but not at all in Windows without considerable work. Silver is good and seems more familiar cross-platform-wise. Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 23/10/11, Jean Weber

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Ping Gary S: Your edited copy of 0210WG34

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It's just that renaming the old one or deleting it forces LO to create new fresh folders and files. Renaming the entire profile is a bit of a sledge-hammer approach, roughly equivalent to what most people expect from a re-install of the program, but it also works for sub-folders within

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Ping Gary S: Your edited copy of 0210WG34

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
in the UI __in my version 3.4.x). So, what is the version 3.4.x manner for doing that? Gary On 10/24/2011 12:53 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It's just that renaming the old one or deleting it forces LO to create new fresh folders and files.  Renaming the entire profile is a bit

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
theme, which has blue highlighting in menus but otherwise looks almost identical to our XP-Silver theme. It also looks very similar to one of the standard Mac themes. I'll post a sample on the wiki when I get a chance (may not be that soon). --Jean On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 00:46, Tom

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
, assuming that option is still available. Must confess I'm not spending much time on Linux these days, having switched to a Mac for day-to-day work. --Jean On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 06:41, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I only tried the 11.10 in a VM as a LiveCd.  I liked

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Installing the XP-Silver theme in Ubuntu

2011-10-24 Thread Tom Davies
today. --Jean On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 07:02, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I am going to try to stay with Unity on the VM install if i can.  It's not easy to work out how to do things except open Firefox and LibO. Ok, i installed 11.10 (on the VM) and opened

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: openoffice user guide for students

2011-10-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Fantastic. The Documentation Team has occasionally discussed aiming documentation at specific groups. Students were one of those groups identified as being an important one to reach. Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 20/10/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] First edit since February: Working with Templates (Writer Guide Chapter 10 source)

2011-10-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Great. Good work chap :) Thanks and regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 20/10/11, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: From: Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] First edit since February: Working with Templates (Writer Guide Chapter 10 source)

[libreoffice-documentation] bugs and work-arounds

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it has already dealt with by having a fixed set of documentation for the 3.3.x branch and now making the newer release for the 3.4.x branch. See the gap at the right-hand-side of http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Smart eh? Some people may continue to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hi Jean, Tom and David

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
, 7:33 Hi Tom Thanks for that.  Nabble makes life easier when reading through email. Regards John -Original Message- From: Tom Davies Sent: Saturday, October 15, 2011 7:23 PM To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hi Jean, Tom

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Appearance of dialogs: re earlier remarks

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the silvery theme was carefully chosen to almost match one of the standard Windows ones. We can't cover each and every theme. It's better to aim for being consistent within the documentation. Also the silvery one is clearer for accessibility purposes. I don't know the name, i

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] bugs and work-arounds

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
fixed, so after the bugs are fixed, the kludges should be eliminated in favor of better writing or editing practices. Gary On 10/19/2011 2:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think it has already dealt with by having a fixed set of documentation for the 3.3.x branch and now making

minor issue re: words Re: [libreoffice-documentation] bugs and work-arounds

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
band-aid approach due to a bug being present. Bugs generally get fixed, so after the bugs are fixed, the kludges should be eliminated in favor of better writing or editing practices. Gary On 10/19/2011 2:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) I think it has already dealt with by having a fixed

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] bugs and work-arounds

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
arise. IOW, keep the kludges, if any get used, and their documents together--such as inserting marginal comments at the closest location of any workarounds. Gary On 10/19/2011 7:40 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) The 3.3.x branch was initial publicised as having one year's support

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Gary: BAU file for LO template

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks Jean :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 20/10/11, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: From: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Gary: BAU file for LO template To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Thursday, 20 October, 2011,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started chap 2 uploaded

2011-10-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the plan is to keep the chapters that are already published as the 3.3.x branch. So we don't update the 3.3.x unless there is something really really badly wrong. People will keep using the old 3.3.0 and 3.3.1 waaay past the end of their shelf-life. I know the 3.3.4 and 3.3.5

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] wiki main page

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
16, 2011 at 10:22, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Alex has made an excellent and fairly hefty start to an FAQ section and put it on the main documentation page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation Could i move it to a sub-page such as http

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Chap 1 proofed.

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats :) Good to hear Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 16/10/11, Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Hazel Russman hazel_russ...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started Chap 1 proofed. To: LibreOffice documentation@global.libreoffice.org,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41737] LOCALHELP: Indentation and colors missing in BASIC code examples

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry i completely lost track again. Has this bug-report been dealt with already? Regards from Tom :) --- On Thu, 13/10/11, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: From: David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41737] LOCALHELP:

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Calc crash when I try format cells

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Otacilio gave us something that would be nice to slip into the Faq just to have something to help BSDers :) Regards from Tom :) --- On Sun, 16/10/11, Otacílio otacilio.n...@ee.ufcg.edu.br wrote: From: Otacílio otacilio.n...@ee.ufcg.edu.br Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41737] LOCALHELP: Indentation and colors missing in BASIC code examples

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Sorry i completely lost track again.  Has this bug-report been dealt with already? No, nor even commenced... it's waiting for willing hands to the pumps David, I'm not a willing hand on that chore, but can you remind us

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41737] LOCALHELP: Indentation and colors missing in BASIC code examples

2011-10-16 Thread Tom Davies
41737] LOCALHELP: Indentation and colors missing in BASIC code examples To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 16 October, 2011, 23:41 On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 08:31, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Tom, On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:19 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Hi Jean, Tom and David

2011-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Welcome back John :) It might be easier to catch-up using Nabble http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Documentation-f1645240.html Regards from Tom :) --- On Sat, 15/10/11, John Cleland j...@john-cleland.co.uk wrote: From: John Cleland j...@john-cleland.co.uk Subject:

[libreoffice-documentation] wiki main page

2011-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Alex has made an excellent and fairly hefty start to an FAQ section and put it on the main documentation page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation Could i move it to a sub-page such as http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Faq I think it would be good to allow a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] wiki main page

2011-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
: Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] wiki main page To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Sunday, 16 October, 2011, 1:59 On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 10:22, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Alex has made an excellent and fairly hefty

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer Ch10

2011-10-14 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) We have established Open systems that are not completely dependant on any single individual.  Even if David left it wouldn't be a catastrophe except in terms of losing a valued colleague, perhaps even friend.  It would hurt but it wouldn't block people from continuing with the day-to-day

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation for new Devs :) Fw: Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-12 Thread Tom Davies
be taking a closer look at the developer docs, to do some re-branding, and hopefully get acquainted with the API enough to help out.  Is there anything specific you would like someone to look at? Robert On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 6:51 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) At last we

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] user name ,PW

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :( Grrr, me too :(  I tried all the usual sorts of things and misspellings but couldn't figure my Alfresco password. Sorry David. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 11/10/11, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: From: Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com Subject:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] user name ,PW

2011-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
volunteers already... Just set up the account system (and whatever...) intelligently; then step back and leave it run by itself alone (i.e., quit meddling), unless it really requires any further intervention. Gary On 10/11/2011 10:33 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :( Grrr, me too :(  I tried all

[libreoffice-documentation] Documentation for new Devs :) Fw: Re: [steering-discuss] Candidacy for Board: Michael Meeks

2011-10-10 Thread Tom Davies
sometimes.  Anyway to make things a bit more open i am forwarding to you guys my response to Michael Meeks along with his statement.  Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 10/10/11, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: From: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [steering-discuss

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41350] UI: Option Expand Single Word should only be shown active for Last line: Justified

2011-10-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry.  Did this one get resolved?  Regards from Tom :) --- On Fri, 30/9/11, David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz wrote: From: David Nelson comme...@traduction.biz Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: [Bug 41350] UI: Option Expand Single Word should only be shown active for Last

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions

2011-10-01 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, That page ;) lol I thought it was good and had been editied recently.  I think that one might be best split into a few short sub-pages such as Debian Ubuntu other Debian family distros Mageia / Mandriva and family Redhat family distros openSUSE distros Slackware Arch Many of those

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Questions from Users List to do

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahah, i hadn't thought of that.  Also, as David pointed out, it would be a huge task.  Are the screen-shots in the Guides lower resolution than the original screen-shots and if so did anyone keep the originals?  Almost everyone seems really happy with our screen-shots so i'd like to stay

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Publishing_extensions.odt is ok for review

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Has anyone heard whether the Extensions website testing is going well or not? Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 13/9/11, David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: From: David Nelson li...@traduction.biz Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Publishing_extensions.odt is ok for review To:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Graphics for Developer guide?

2011-09-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think that is rebranding work isn't it?  Does this guide help at all? http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#What_To_Do_When_Rebranding Errr, that guide might be slightly out-of-date, along with this one!  (this one is a download)

[libreoffice-documentation] Questions from Users List to do

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There are a couple of questions in the Users List at the moment that people here might be able to solve easily. 1. Someone accidentally used Crtl Enter a LOT of times and now wants to use findreplace (or something) to get rid of them.  I know \n is a normal enter but is there a

[libreoffice-documentation] merging documents

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is it possible to merge 2 different documents, both odt, so that the 1st is the title page and the 2 is the contents?  The 1st page has photos.  I'm trying to get about 6 documents together for the End-of-Year Report at work. Regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] merging documents

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
-documentation] merging documents To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 28 September, 2011, 17:26 Hi Tom, On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Is it possible to merge 2 different documents, both odt, so that the 1st is the title page

All good now :)) Re: [libreoffice-documentation] merging documents

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Davies
, On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Is it possible to merge 2 different documents, both odt, so that the 1st is the title page and the 2 is the contents?  The 1st page has photos.  I'm trying to get about 6 documents together for the End-of-Year Report

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation in spanish

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sylvia = Done :)  Your account details have been sent to you in an off-list email.  Juan = :( sorry i don't know how to change permissions Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 27/9/11, Sylvia Sánchez lailah...@gmail.com wrote: From: Sylvia Sánchez lailah...@gmail.com Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation in spanish

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
juancsa...@hotmail.com wrote: From: Juan C. Sanz juancsa...@hotmail.com Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation in spanish To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tuesday, 27 September, 2011, 22:48 El 27/09/2011 23:35, Tom Davies escribió: Hi :) Sylvia = Done :)  Your account

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation in spanish

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It is all good at the moment imo.  I usually have trouble reading documentation anyway.  Usually the only way i can really learn a thing is to play around with it and see what my options are.  Then i worry about whether i really can try the options without breaking something.  I'm getting

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation in spanish

2011-09-27 Thread Tom Davies
@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 28 September, 2011, 0:21 Hi Tom, On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I'm getting somewhere with Alfresco and it seems quite painless :). I'm working on a couple more improvements, and hope to have good news to give about that fairly

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Linux installation guide uploaded

2011-09-26 Thread Tom Davies
hi :) A lot of things were initially thrown together quite hastily just to get stuff out there.  We still don't have a guide for Base although that is a very tough challenge, perhaps even impossible at this point.  Guides to help people that are new to the documentation list have been a very

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