Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to log in to ODFAuthors?

2013-03-05 Thread Gary Schnabl
My Detroit username did not pass muster. Gary On 3/4/2013 11:48 PM, Jean Weber wrote: I've received reports that people can't log in to the updated ODFAuthors website; they're getting a message that their username cannot be found. it's an issue with the migration of the user accounts to the

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?

2013-03-05 Thread Marc Paré
Le 05/03/13 10:26 AM, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : Marc Paré schrieb: Do we use open-source or open source or opensource ? Hi, http://opensource.org/ might be a reliable reference, they write open source CU Rainer Bielefeld Thanks, but I am just trying to coordinate our marketing

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?

2013-03-05 Thread Gary Schnabl
A popular general-purpose American style guide--The Chicago Manual of Style--would likely prefer using the hyphenated form when used as an adjective (such as in general-purpose in this sentence). Otherwise, not. Gary On 3/5/2013 10:48 AM, Marc Paré wrote: Le 05/03/13 10:26 AM, Rainer

RE: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?

2013-03-05 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
It is a local style agreement of course. Open source almost always works. In some English language practice, hyphenation is sometimes used when the term is placed as a single adjective, as in formerly open-source software. Confusion is unlikely in the open source case, and the OSI makes no

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?

2013-03-05 Thread Jean Weber
We have a style guide (Chapter 5 of the Contributors' Guide) , and open source (two words, no hyphen) is in it. (See the section titled Commonly used words.) Yes, I'm aware that the entire contributors' guide needs to be updated and some bits of it expanded. That's next on my To Do list, after I

[libreoffice-documentation] Print edition of Getting Started with LO4.0

2013-03-05 Thread Jean Weber
For anyone who might be thinking of buying a printed copy of the new Getting Started with LO4.0 book, Lulu.com is having a 3-day sale: 20% off any order using coupon code SPARK. Offer ends 8 March 2013. Direct link to the book is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to log in to ODFAuthors?

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Barton
Original Message From: Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2013 07:27:43 -0500 My Detroit username did not pass muster. Gary On 3/4/2013 11:48 PM, Jean Weber wrote: I've received reports that people can't log in

[libreoffice-documentation] Chapter 2 of Docs Contributors' Guide updated

2013-03-05 Thread Jean Weber
I have revised Chapter 2 of the Docs Contributors' Guide, Producing LibreOffice User Guides. I removed the section on disabling autosave, revised the section on using the template manager, and made some other changes. One section (about compiling a book using a master document) still needs

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to log in to ODFAuthors?

2013-03-05 Thread Dan Lewis
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[libreoffice-documentation] Re: How do you spell open source ?

2013-03-05 Thread Marc Paré
Hi Jean, Le 05/03/13 11:58 AM, Jean Weber a écrit : We have a style guide (Chapter 5 of the Contributors' Guide) , and open source (two words, no hyphen) is in it. (See the section titled Commonly used words.) Yes, I'm aware that the entire contributors' guide needs to be updated and some bits