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

2014-04-08 Thread Peter Schofield
Hello Had a quick look at the bottom three examples on the wiki page, the three that seemed to have the least number of errors. In my opinion, all three examples are not good enough to publish because of the formatting problems, for example: 1. No widow and orphan control 2. Headings not being

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Calc: Row(Numeric Value) & Column(Alphabet Value)

2014-04-08 Thread Rajiv Yadav
Sir, When we open the SpreadSheet the cell comes on the screen , when we select the cell it becomes active and cell location shown in the Name Value. Kindly tell where the source code or program for display of cell location. . regards Rajiv Yadav Pune Uni India -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: menu text background

2014-04-08 Thread Rajiv Yadav
-- Forwarded message -- From: Rajiv Yadav Date: Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:43 AM Subject: menu text background To: documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Sir, I have amened the file sc/uiconfig/scalc/menubar/menubar.xml to add my new button after Help menu button. Button got adde

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

2014-04-08 Thread Robinson Tryon
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:01 AM, PeeWee 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 are here: https://wi

[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 Elements

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. >

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 wrote: > Hi :) > There have been enquiries on the Users Maili

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

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There have been enquiries on the Users Mailing List about how to convert documents into ePub format and we just point them to external tools such as Calibre. I thought Caligra also did this better than LO? Heck, i think i've been getting muddled about the similarity between names but luckil

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Open Help Conference

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
I went one year. It's a good conference, very small. No "stalls" or other displays. I took some flyers and stickers, but everyone there knew about LO already and the public isn't involved. (I also gave a talk about the work of the LO Docs team.) So... if someone from LO Docs can go, I think it's w

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Open Help Conference

2014-04-08 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I've just spotted this conference on the Ubuntu Mailing Lists and thought it would be fantastic for LibreOffice if people here could go. My guess is that the Marketing Team already have it on their calendars but it sounds like it's mainly aimed at documentation teams? Is anyone here already

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

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Googlemail wrote: > On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:44:10 +1000 > Jean Weber wrote: > >> 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 encou

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] Base Handbuch v4.2?

2014-04-08 Thread Googlemail
On Tue, 8 Apr 2014 09:44:10 +1000 Jean Weber wrote: > 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 encourage > people to translate them into English, or at least th

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

[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: http://wiki.document

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] WG Chapter 3

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 8:28 AM, John Smith 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 else to review (man

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 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 encourage >> peo

[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 r

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

2014-04-08 Thread Jean Weber
On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Robinson Tryon 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 about so many notes in r