Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-29 01:41, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : Hi Javier, *, On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:40:46 -0400 Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez wrote: On 06/28/2011 11:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-28 23:07, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 00:27,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Sigrid Carrera
Hi Javier, *, On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:40:46 -0400 Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez wrote: > On 06/28/2011 11:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > > Le 2011-06-28 23:07, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : > >> On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: > >>> Le 2011-06-22 00:27, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-29 00:40, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : On 06/28/2011 11:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-28 23:07, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 00:27, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : I would like to help updating and then

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez
On 06/28/2011 11:17 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-28 23:07, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 00:27, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : I would like to help updating and then translating the Impress documentation to Spanish. How do

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-28 23:07, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 00:27, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : I would like to help updating and then translating the Impress documentation to Spanish. How do I get access to the files in Alfresco? htt

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Impress Documentation sign up

2011-06-28 Thread Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez
On 06/25/2011 09:32 PM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-06-22 00:27, Javier Oscar Cordero-Pérez a écrit : I would like to help updating and then translating the Impress documentation to Spanish. How do I get access to the files in Alfresco? http://alfresco.libreoffice.org/alfresco/faces/jsp/dashboards/

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Gary Schnabl
On 6/28/2011 8:16 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 06/28/2011 05:06 PM, David Paenson wrote: I wonder why professors of computer science don't support OOo and other open source projects together with their students. They're all Microsoft addicts? For the most part, the products are avail

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi, Anyway, it's great work you've been doing, Jean. A big thanks for that on behalf of all of us. -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://list

Re: OT RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein One of my all-time favorite authors great books read nearly all of them when I was a kid... -- David Nelson -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.lib

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need HELP texts for changed feature

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi, On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 4:54 AM, David Nelson wrote: >> I'm currently working on a fix for bug #30800. >> >> The fix will include a minor change in the options dialog. Waht the >> implementation will look like is documented at the wiki: >> >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Andreschna

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need HELP texts for changed feature

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
2011/6/28 André Schnabel : > Hi, > > I'm currently working on a fix for bug #30800. > > The fix will include a minor change in the options dialog. Waht the > implementation will look like is documented at the wiki: > > http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Andreschnabel/Spec_Calc_grid_lines_on_co

Re: OT RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
My partner and I were just commenting on that last night. There were other sf authors doing the same in those days. And I used to do that when I was publishing a magazine for technical writers. --Jean On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:23 -0700, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > Science fiction writer Robert

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 00:13 +, toki wrote: > On 28/06/2011 21:47, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > > > T It's what Lulu passes on to us. > > Why are you using Lulu? > > It doesn't cost that much more to setup an account with LSI, which will > give the material far more credibility. There is no co

OT RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
Science fiction writer Robert A. Heinlein was so prolific that he often filled an entire issue of the early Astounding Science Fiction magazine. Editor John Campbell and RAH cooked up pseudonyms so that it looked like there were more writers. Heinlein also found this useful in distinguishing s

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/28/2011 04:58 AM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: If I had the time, I could post tons of stuff on the blog... under several different names. --Jean O, I just had an idea -- Andrew Pitonyak My Macro Document: http://www.pitonyak.org/AndrewMacro.odt Info: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 06/28/2011 05:06 PM, David Paenson wrote: I wonder why professors of computer science don't support OOo and other open source projects together with their students. They're all Microsoft addicts? For the most part, the products are available at little to no cost. Many of their products are ve

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread toki
On 28/06/2011 21:47, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: > T It's what Lulu passes on to us. Why are you using Lulu? It doesn't cost that much more to setup an account with LSI, which will give the material far more credibility. >I suspect this number will increase as more people discover them. Not with

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 23:06 +0200, David Paenson wrote: > 95 USD? I "make" 1500 USD every year selling my 50 page A4 coloured > OpenOffice.org documentation to the students of our department every year. > Mind you, the money, 2 Euros per copy, doesn't even cover the costs of > printing, but still.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Time is a crucial factor here. The documentation has not been on sale for the full year. The fact that ANY income has been generated is awesome. Regards from Tom :) - Original Message > From: David Paenson > To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org > Sent: Tue, 28 June, 20

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread David Paenson
95 USD? I "make" 1500 USD every year selling my 50 page A4 coloured OpenOffice.org documentation to the students of our department every year. Mind you, the money, 2 Euros per copy, doesn't even cover the costs of printing, but still. I wonder why professors of computer science don't support OOo a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Need HELP texts for changed feature

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure where you need 'better' wording. It all looks good to me. It's difficult to think of something that could be more elegant in the drop-down box. The different options are very different lengths. I think it is good to approach the docs team with stuff like this and hopeful

[libreoffice-documentation] Need HELP texts for changed feature

2011-06-28 Thread André Schnabel
Hi, I'm currently working on a fix for bug #30800. The fix will include a minor change in the options dialog. Waht the implementation will look like is documented at the wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/User:Andreschnabel/Spec_Calc_grid_lines_on_colored_background What I'm currently mi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Bruce_Martin
Dear Jean: Your remark about the lack of visibility of accepted protocol in regards to guest bloggers is right, and may sometimes be inauspicious. Notwithstanding, a lot of posts that plague blogging, and are more in the line of "negative rants" have made blogging in general more difficult t

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
What Jean says is my experience of how blogs keep going: when it is irresistible to blog [;<). One thing that I see is missing is anything on the blog about how one can become a (guest) poster there, and who are the authorized posters in the seed community. - Dennis -Original Message

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I have no idea how to develop a WordPress place and I have no desire to do so. I have too much to work on already. - Dennis My only WordPress blog was done to preserve the forced-retirement of one I had on Windows Live: . It is interesting that I was ill in Apr

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Marc Paré
Le 2011-06-28 05:36, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : Thought you might like to know that the LibreOffice Documentation Team has made approximately USD95.00 from book sales this year. Details to be published eventually when I get the end-of-year bookkeeping done for Friends of OpenDocument, Inc., the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: Cross-references in complex documents

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi Tom, On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I forwarded this to the Documentation Team as there might be more experience > there in dealing with books and long documents and referencing and stuff. > > Also the guide for posting feature requests and bug-reports is here > h

[libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Feature request: Cross-references in complex documents

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I forwarded this to the Documentation Team as there might be more experience there in dealing with books and long documents and referencing and stuff. Also the guide for posting feature requests and bug-reports is here http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Regards from Tom :) -

[libreoffice-documentation] Book sales, 2010-2011

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Thought you might like to know that the LibreOffice Documentation Team has made approximately USD95.00 from book sales this year. Details to be published eventually when I get the end-of-year bookkeeping done for Friends of OpenDocument, Inc., the publisher. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 11:42 +0300, David Nelson wrote: > Hi, > > Well, I didn't say anything at the time, but I must admit that I did > not think it was yet the right time to start a blog. Too much > fundamental organization of existing documentation content and > development of workflow to be don

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 09:46 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > [...] If I had the time, I could post tons of stuff on the blog... under several different names. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.document

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi again :) Sorry for double-post. Dennis, don't worry if you don't have time to develop the WordPress space. It has never really been meant as a high-activity place as it's a side-issue for the documentation team. It would be nice if more people posted things there. Sometimes people write

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread David Nelson
Hi, Well, I didn't say anything at the time, but I must admit that I did not think it was yet the right time to start a blog. Too much fundamental organization of existing documentation content and development of workflow to be done. If I'd had my druthers, I'd have waited a few months yet. But I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Where have all the bloggers gone?

2011-06-28 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think links to blogs by non-lurkers is a good idea, or any other relevant links. Anyone that contributes anything to documentation or people that post on the WordPress site is likely to be interesting to people visiting the WordPress space. Dennis it sounds as to you have good ideas