Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-31 Thread Olivier Hallot
Hello Peter If you are comfortable with the help files, then the bug#80430 [1] has a list of missing help files that LibreOffice need. Everything written for the help files can (and will) be reused in the Guides books and vice versa, modulo some adjustments. There is a big overlap of contents

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-31 Thread ptoye
Hi Sophi, It's a bit confusing as there are two threads involved here. The first one is http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Use-of-quot-allow-to-quot-in-documentation-td4167829.html but a second thread got started about "cosmetic" changes. Does this help you? Most of my comments really should

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-31 Thread Sophie
Hi Peter, Sorry I didn't follow the all thread (difficult to read and get its context, also) Le 31/03/2016 11:32, ptoye a écrit : > TomD, > > Thanks for all of this. I must say that is was a bit disheartening to > be first welcomed into the community and then left dangling for 3 > months.

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-31 Thread ptoye
TomD, Thanks for all of this. I must say that is was a bit disheartening to be first welcomed into the community and then left dangling for 3 months. Especially as now the days are getting longer I don't have the dark evenings to work at it. And I'm also in the throes of buying a house, which

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-30 Thread toki
On 30/03/2016 00:03, Tom Davies wrote: > Apparently the quality of all the translations is currently FAR > higher than the quality of the English original! This appears to be due to > the long-term lack of resources invested in the English "built-in help". More precisely, it is the result of a

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-03-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry!! I feel really bad about all that! :( Yes. Go ahead. :) I did ask the international translators mailing list and there were some suggestions and discussion but there didn't seem to be any conclusion. So the international translators have been told there might be many

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2016-01-01 Thread ptoye
Thanks Regina - got it. I have to admit that at 249 pages it's not going to be my bedtime reading, though - Peter -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Help-files-Large-scale-cosmetic-changes-tp4169547p4170541.html Sent from the Documentation mailing list

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2015-12-31 Thread ptoye
Jean Weber wrote > Free copy of PDF available here: > http://www.jeanweber.com/newsite/wp-content/uploads/ITHH_Ebook.pdf Dear Jean, I get an error 404 from this link. Peter - Peter -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2015-12-31 Thread ptoye
Jean, I tried again and got this again: Not Found The requested URL /newsite/wp-content/uploads/ITHH_Ebook.pdf was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request. I don't think it's my browser (Firefox)

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2015-12-31 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Peter, try this www.jeanweber.com/books/ITHH_Ebook.pdf Kind regards Regina ptoye schrieb: Jean, I tried again and got this again: Not Found The requested URL /newsite/wp-content/uploads/ITHH_Ebook.pdf was not found on this server. Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2015-12-31 Thread Jean Weber
Thanks, Regina, for posting the correct link before I had a chance to check it. I would edit my earlier note if I could! --Jean On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 8:47 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Peter, > > try this > www.jeanweber.com/books/ITHH_Ebook.pdf > > Kind regards >

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Help-files: Large-scale 'cosmetic' changes

2015-12-19 Thread ptoye
Tom (and others), I'm not sure that "allow to" is such an enormous problem with the help files. There are only 8 help files which use "allow to" or "allows to", and only one of them has more than one occurrence, so manual change is easily possible - no automation needed. A far larger problem is