Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-30 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hello Luis, On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:47:55 +0200 Luis Gutiérrez de Cabiedes lgcabie...@ono.com wrote: El 22/06/11 11:42, Tom Davies escribió: [...] Dear Tom. You seem to be one of the headers of this group. I'm triyng to unsuscribe with the links above, but it's imposible. Have you any good

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-29 Thread Luis Gutiérrez de Cabiedes
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Wed, 22 June, 2011 9:57:50 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Hi When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard, compared to html to move around the document. I would like to propose that an HTML version

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 25 June, 2011 6:55:33 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Andrew On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 01:27 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/23/2011 10:13 AM, Marc Paré wrote: We are essentially saying the same thing

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-25 Thread Tom Davies
-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On 06/23/2011 02:15 PM, planas wrote: You are missing the point - I do not need Acrobat to generate a pdf file. You can do it easily in LO. The pdf will open in Reader with no problems. LO has some bugs in this regard. Last couple of PDFA-1a that I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/25/2011 01:55 AM, planas wrote: Andrew I may be wrong, but I believe MSO 2010 and 2007? are able to open ODF files except for possibly Base I had heard (meaning way back when ever) that MS would support ODF before they supported their own proposed standard. I was reading ODF

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-25 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
:) From: Andrew Douglas Pitonyakand...@pitonyak.org To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 25 June, 2011 6:31:21 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On 06/23/2011 02:15 PM, planas wrote: You are missing the point - I do not need Acrobat

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-25 Thread Marc Paré
20:38:41 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Thanks for the link. Very adept at filing OOo bug reports, never opened one against LO. I only recently installed LO, and that was to test if they had integrated a bug fix that seriously affects me in OOo (it is fixed

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-24 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/23/2011 10:13 AM, Marc Paré wrote: We are essentially saying the same thing. For necessary files where the ODF cannot be read due to the inability of having LibreOffice installed to read ODF files then falling back on .pdf's is fine. If there is a need to create a quick and dirty ODF

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-24 Thread planas
Andrew On Sat, 2011-06-25 at 01:27 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/23/2011 10:13 AM, Marc Paré wrote: We are essentially saying the same thing. For necessary files where the ODF cannot be read due to the inability of having LibreOffice installed to read ODF files then

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version in PDF. I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version in PDF. I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea. -- David Nelson I will chime in as well. I would rather see the ODF

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Jean Weber
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:27, Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com wrote: Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version in PDF. I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 4:35 PM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Marc, please see my earlier note about the importance and necessity of providing PDFs. Yeah, I'd agree with Jean about it being important to provide PDFs. Past discussions on this list led to a consensus that ODF's .odt

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 9:27:00 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-23 04:35, Jean Weber a écrit : I will chime in as well. I would rather see the ODF versions first and the .pdf only if needed. We are, after all, telling people that we have the best office suite on earth, so let's prove it! It does work!. I would even go as far as not publishing any

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Le 2011-06-23 04:35, Jean Weber a écrit : I will chime in as well. I would rather see the ODF versions first and the .pdf only if needed. We are, after all, telling people that we have the best office suite on earth, so let's prove it! It does work!. I would

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Thursday, 23. June 2011 16:13:56 Marc Paré wrote: We are essentially saying the same thing. For necessary files where the ODF cannot be read due to the inability of having LibreOffice installed to read ODF files then falling back on .pdf's is fine. PDF has a different purpose: to show a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread C
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 16:55, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: So my statement would be: Stay with ODF as master (as long as there is not a more conveniant solution) and try to offer PDF /and/ HTML in addition. Ideally, the PDF and HTML conversion should be done as automatically as

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 04:27 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would be that the best format for guides is .odt, plus a publication of the user-ready version in PDF. I don't think an HTML version would really be a useful idea. --

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
From: planas jsloz...@gmail.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 16:16:48 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 04:27 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Tom :) From: Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 9:27:00 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Hi On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:09 +0200, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 16:55, Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: So my statement would be: Stay with ODF as master (as long as there is not a more conveniant solution) and try to offer PDF /and/ HTML in addition. Ideally, the PDF and HTML

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
from Tom :) From: Marc Parém...@marcpare.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 9:27:00 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Le 2011-06-23 02:30, David Nelson a écrit : Hi, My 2 cents would

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that OOo/LO users will have that extra functionality. What purpose do you want this functionality for?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that OOo/LO users will have that extra functionality. What

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
gschn...@swdetroit.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Thu, 23 June, 2011 17:53:12 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that OOo/LO users will have that extra

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread C
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 19:15, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: It may be a nice-to-have feature, but due to cost and OS restrictions, it will probably remain a nice-to-have. It costs the users absolutely NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, as long as any version of Adobe Reader that was

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 1:25 PM, planas wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnablgschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so that OOo/LO

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:53:12 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat Professional afterward, prior to release so

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 1:31 PM, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 19:15, Gary Schnablgschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: It may be a nice-to-have feature, but due to cost and OS restrictions, it will probably remain a nice-to-have. It costs the users absolutely NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING, as long as any

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 1:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:53:12 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 2:15 PM, planas wrote: Gary On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:43 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 1:25 PM, planas wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnablgschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
Gary On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 13:43 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 1:25 PM, planas wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 19:04 +0200, C wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 18:53, Gary Schnablgschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 1:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:53:12 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that every OOo/LO PDF file be so converted by Adobe Acrobat

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Thursday, 23. June 2011 19:50:49 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 1:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:53:12 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:31 PM, planas jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: Most places that have any kind of leaflet, posters or documentation to download want to have some control over the way it looks.  Sadly there is not an adequate Open Document Format so people use PDF.  Since PDF is so

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 14:18 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote: Having the Review and Comment functionality on a PDF (to be done with Adobe Reader) must be first imparted by Acrobat Pro to that file. Trust me... Gary is correct on this point. As for doing that, Gary states elsewhere that it's a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
On Thursday, 23. June 2011 20:29:38 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 1:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:53:12 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 12:44 PM, Nino Novak wrote: Hi Gary, On Thursday, 23. June 2011 18:35:27 Gary Schnabl wrote: Therefore, I suggest that

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/23/2011 5:08 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 14:18 -0400, Gary Schnabl wrote: Having the Review and Comment functionality on a PDF (to be done with Adobe Reader) must be first imparted by Acrobat Pro to that file. Trust me... Gary is correct on this point. As for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Tom Davies
[applauds] From: John Cleland j...@john-cleland.co.uk To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Fri, 24 June, 2011 0:30:23 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Hi I used LibO 3.3 to produce a PDF file on windows 7

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Nino Novak
It's pretty after midnight local time here, so a last answer for today... On Friday, 24. June 2011 01:00:38 Gary Schnabl wrote: On 6/23/2011 5:16 PM, Nino Novak wrote: ... [Offering enhanced PDF Manuals] So finally, why don't you just do it yourself? Duh! I did that--while I was

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread Gary Schnabl
and comments definitely save. It maybe that this is possible already without Acrobat Pro. Regards John -Original Message- From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:08 PM To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-23 Thread planas
definitely save. It maybe that this is possible already without Acrobat Pro. Regards John -Original Message- From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 10:08 PM To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2011-06-22, Gary Schnabl wrote about DocBook. My view, which I have expressed on several occasions: Using DocBook files (or anything other than ODT files) as source documents for our user guides would be counter-productive, for two main reasons: (1) It would exclude the vast majority of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Schnabl
On Wed, 2011-06-22, Gary Schnabl wrote about DocBook. My view, which I have expressed on several occasions: Using DocBook files (or anything other than ODT files) as source documents for our user guides would be counter-productive, for two main reasons: (1) It would exclude the vast majority of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Nino Novak
On Wednesday, 22. June 2011 09:15:52 Gary Schnabl wrote: A DTD (say, a DocBook 4.5 DTD--the last normative version, 03 Oct 2006) only deals with document structure--not formatting a document. So, you would have to employ something else for formatting purposes, much like CSS formats XHTML

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2011-06-22, Gary Schnabl wrote: I wrote about a DocBook DTD file in response to Nino's bringing it up, but nowhere in this thread did I advocate using it . A careful read of my post would lead one to believe that I was discouraging the use of it. So, you needed to address the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Schnabl
On Wednesday, 22. June 2011 09:15:52 Gary Schnabl wrote: A DTD (say, a DocBook 4.5 DTD--the last normative version, 03 Oct 2006) only deals with document structure--not formatting a document. So, you would have to employ something else for formatting purposes, much like CSS formats XHTML code.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Schnabl
Hi When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard, compared to html to move around the document. I would like to propose that an HTML version is produced. I would be happy to undertake the work. I am not sure what open source html producers/editors are available, but will

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-22 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/22/2011 5:42 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) It is interesting to hear about free stuff from MS. One always wonders what tricks, caveats, lock-ins and what traps are being sprung. Regards from Tom :) Use a little of this, a little of that... I am not a wide-eyed zealot, forcing myself to

[libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-21 Thread John Cleland
Hi When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard, compared to html to move around the document. I would like to propose that an HTML version is produced. I would be happy to undertake the work. I am not sure what open source html producers/editors are available, but will

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-21 Thread planas
John, On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:49 +0100, John Cleland wrote: Hi When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard, compared to html to move around the document. I would like to propose that an HTML version is produced. I would be happy to undertake the work. I am not

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-21 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:49 +0100, John Cleland wrote: When checking the PDF version of the Calc guide I found it hard, compared to html to move around the document. I would like to propose that an HTML version is produced. I would be happy to undertake the work. I am not sure what open

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-21 Thread Tom Davies
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides Hi Jean -Original Message- From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:21 PM To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On Tue, 2011-06-21

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides

2011-06-21 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/21/2011 6:32 PM, John Cleland wrote: Hi Jean -Original Message- From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2011 10:21 PM To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] HTML versions of the Guides On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 21:49 +0100, John