Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I had a couple of people at SCALE and a handful of other people in the past few months ask about ePub versions of our manuals. I'd run into problems converting our ODTs - ePub in the past using Calibre,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 2:58 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 12:48 AM, toki toki.kant...@gmail.com wrote: On April 7, 2014 8:54:09 PM PDT, Robinson Tryon wrote: version of the manuals alongside the ODT and PDF versions on the wiki?

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Robinson Tryon bishop.robin...@gmail.com wrote: Would it be possible to adjust the workflow to export/upload an ePub version of the manuals alongside the ODT and PDF versions on the wiki? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Sorry

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread PeeWee
Hello I agree with Jean about converting the guide files into ePub format about getting a good-looking result. I have tried a couple of times to convert a document file into an ePub format and iBooks format. By their very nature, ePub formats have to be very flexible to account for different

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Handbuch v4.2?

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Robert Großkopf rob...@familiegrosskopf.de wrote: Am 08.04.2014 01:44, schrieb Jean Weber: Robert, I see chapters of Base Handbuch v4.2, dated February 2014, here: http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb/ Are these published or still in development? I want to

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] WG Chapter 3

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:28 AM, John Smith clicks...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi This chapter uploaded to ODF in the Writer Drafts v4.2 folder. JohnS I have now been through this, accepted John's changes, and done some further editing. The result is in the Writer Feedback v4.2 folder, for someone

[libreoffice-documentation] Getting Started v4.2 Chapters 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11 published

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
Six more chapters of GS4.2 have been published and are ready for Milos to clean up. --Jean -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Handbuch v4.2?

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The internal HsqlDb appears to have lost data for quite a few people in just normal database usage. Is Firebird also likely to lose data for people? Base only appears robust when using an external back-end. Have bug-reports been filed against the Firebird back-end? Does the handbook help

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Handbuch v4.2?

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, it is great to see documentation that helps people through and that seems to have greatly helped loads of people on the Users Mailing List. Congrats to all for translating and modifying it. It is MUCH appreciated. It also seems to have helped attract more attention to it and enabled

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
Tom, All of that is somewhat irrelevant to the issue that Peter and I are talking about. The conversion tool (whatever it is) has to use the ODT produced by LO as its starting point. --Jean On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:33 PM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) There have been

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Handbuch v4.2?

2014-04-08 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi *, first let me write down: you mustn't set me in CC. I'm reading this list. The internal HsqlDb appears to have lost data for quite a few people in just normal database usage. Is Firebird also likely to lose data for people? Base only appears robust when using an external back-end.

[libreoffice-documentation] GS4209

2014-04-08 Thread Martin Saffron
Hello, I've made some changes to the 6Apr edit of GS4209. It can be found here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/getting-started/feedback-lo4.2/gs4209-getting-started-with-math-1/view Interestingly, upon opening Math in Windows 8.1 (LO 4.2.2.1) both the Elements Dock and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Manuals in ePub format?

2014-04-08 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:01 AM, PeeWee psaut...@libreoffice.org wrote: Hello I agree with Jean about converting the guide files into ePub format about getting a good-looking result. I've run a few baseline tests using LibreOffice, Calibre, and a couple of extensions that output EPUB. Results