Hi Alan,
hope I understand most you have written the right way. My
English-knowledge is very special.
I'm updating the English translation of the Base Handbook from 3.5 to
4.2, and have run across a problem concerning which I'd appreciate some
advice and feedback.
In Chapter 3, Tables,
Hi :)
Ahh, i thought this was going to be done by only re-translating the bits
that changed rather than starting from scratch each time? I think starting
from scratch occasionally might be a good idea to make sure everything
really is covered.
Now the question is whether to do the polishing off
Hi Tom,
Ahh, i thought this was going to be done by only re-translating the bits
that changed rather than starting from scratch each time? I think starting
from scratch occasionally might be a good idea to make sure everything
really is covered.
Now the question is whether to do the
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:02 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
The reason for the discrepancy is that the Getting Started chapter has
changed since that was written. The previous chapter is now a
standalone document, which should be referenced here
On August 29, 2014 3:44:14 PM PDT, Alan Cook wrote:
The reason I can't just ignore the problem is and go on is: The section
that follows this introduction contains some new material in the German
that needs to be translated. Translated super-literally, it doesn't
make much sense. Good technical
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:41 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
Found it. I had turned it into a tutorial, titled Creating a
Relational Database using Base, and it was listed in the HowTo and
Tutorial section of the Publications page. I have now
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On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 10:21 AM, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote:
The GS with Base chapter for LOv4.0 (available on the Publications
page of the wiki) does cover the Table Design View, but the one for
v4.2 does not. A quick solution to your immediate
Tom, please pay attention. Alan found a problem with references to the
Englsih Getting Started guide, which he did not realise has changed in
GSv4.2. Starting from scratch translating either the German 4.2 or 4.3
Base Handbook into English would not solve the problem because
references from the
Hi Jean,
Robert, does the previous English GS chapter, which is now available
as a tutorial, cover the missing info? If so, Alan can just change the
references from GS to the tutorial. Or we could include that tutorial
in the Handbook as an Appendix; that would work too, perhaps better
than
Whew! I'm afraid it's going to take me a little while to process this
whole discussion. Thanks, everyone, for your input.
Alan
On 8/30/2014 10:45 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote:
Hi Jean,
Robert, does the previous English GS chapter, which is now available
as a tutorial, cover the missing info? If
Hi :)
Yeh, sorry! I thougth we had 2 people working on the Base Handbook and
that 1 of those was duplicating work that has already been done by Hazel
where nothing new has been added since Hazel did her translation.
I didn't realise that redoing work that has already been done was not the
Hi,
I have a problem with this mailing list: I get each message at least
twice, but sometimes even 5 times. The copies do not come together, but
over a poeriod of a few hours. I am on several TDF mailinglists, but
only this one has the problem.
Do you observe the problem too?
thanks
Milos
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