Re: [libreoffice-projects] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Meeting Minutes - Doc team meeting of 5/21/2020

2020-05-25 Thread jonathon
size your documents. The Delete-Styles Macro has extremely useful for me, in deleting unused styles. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + mo

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Writing techniques

2020-03-28 Thread jonathon
ds (for example: don’t becomes do not; won’t becomes will not, and so on) 5. Never use Latin abbreviations (for example: etc becomes and so on; e.g. becomes for example; i.e. becomes that is). jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https:/

[libreoffice-documentation] Using OmegaT for translation

2019-05-16 Thread jonathon
All: If the LibreOffice Documentation Team is going to eat its own dogfood, would it not be appropriate to use Anaphraseus, rather than OmegaT? https://extensions.libreoffice.org/extensions/anaphraseus jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Styles in Guides

2019-05-16 Thread jonathon
ation projects specifically banned screen shots from Microsoft products, because of that copyright issue. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] May I change the License within the Simple-Chinese version book (Getting Started Guide6.0) ?

2019-05-06 Thread jonathon
to CC-BY-SA. I don't know Chinese (PRC, ROC, Hong Kong, Macau,Tibet, Xinjiang) law. Things may play out there, differently. I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] REMIND: Documentation team call is today at 19:00 *New York Time*

2019-02-27 Thread jonathon
l the program you need, to use this site." jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquet

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Updated proposal to support minor updates of published guides, more detail on I10N support added

2018-11-22 Thread jonathon
distributed by Lulu? Even Amazon has started to shun Lulu. Brick and mortar stores started doing that more than a decade ago. CreateSpace for Amazon, and Ingram Select for brick and mortar stores. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? ht

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] DOC Meeting Minutes 2018-11-21

2018-11-22 Thread jonathon
(I think) style changes within the document; * I've got several multi-page tables in these documents. In one document, there was a table that was 150+ A4 pages long. Would like copies of these documents? FWIW, the content is codes for languages, writing systems, countries, and political subdi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] What baffles users? What help do they need?

2018-11-22 Thread jonathon
ompany has done a multi-million dollar launch for a product that multiple surveys, and focus groups said are highly desirable, only to end up in a crash and burn scenario. ^7: In academia, a reference book is roughly 120 pages, or 10 chapters, or 50,000 words long. Thus, 5,000 words per chapter

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide 6.x

2017-11-29 Thread jonathon
Now wondering how I managed to get 2500 functions in Calc. And more importantly, what do those functions do. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide 6.x

2017-11-28 Thread jonathon
opy of it. Basically, I'm looking for a checklist, to more easily determine what is completely gone, and what is merely hiding in the "Advanced Configuration Setting". jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreo

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Calc Guide 6.x

2017-11-27 Thread jonathon
s that not every feature change/addition/removed gets listed anywhere. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundati

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Report on FR documentation project

2017-11-13 Thread jonathon
for downloading? If so, what is the URL? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Community-vote for the new ‘Getting Started Guide’ cover

2017-11-09 Thread jonathon
On 11/09/2017 10:19 AM, Olivier Hallot wrote: > We invite the community to vote for the new book cover. Is the same cover going to be used for all of manuals for LibO 6.x? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? ht

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How-tos and tutorials

2017-08-19 Thread jonathon
How-Tos, Documentation etc, by major release number: * OOo 1.x; * OOo 2.x; * OOo 3.x; * LibO 3.x; * LibO 4.x; * LibO 5.x; * LibO 6.x; I'm listing OOo, specifically because there are a couple of How-Tos/Tutorials/Documentation for them, which, AFAICT, has not yet been updated. jonathon -- To u

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Wiki cleanup

2017-08-15 Thread jonathon
hem. jonathon -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/glo

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Efforts to Clean Wiki

2015-05-10 Thread jonathon
uot;easy hack" for somebody starting out with documentation is ready. I don't have the disk space to pull the entire wiki onto my laptop, and throw my tools at it, to determine which pages fall into which categories. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.l

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Efforts to Clean Wiki

2015-05-03 Thread jonathon
ere any interest of getting a IRC channel together for documentation? What would the function/purpose of the channel be? How would it integrate into the existing work-flow? Maybe provide examples of how dev and QA use it. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Efforts to Clean Wiki

2015-05-03 Thread jonathon
t with material on another page; * Good but not current material; * Both good and current material; Then once those determinations had been made, material can be re-written, updated, etc. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.l

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] guide for scholars

2015-03-27 Thread jonathon
On 26/03/15 10:16, Daniel A. Rodriguez wrote: > Is there an hybrid pdf version available? What is the virtue of a hybrid PDF? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscr

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] guide for scholars

2015-03-27 Thread jonathon
#x27;t remember what it was, and a quick reread doesn't remind me. :( ^1: For the broader user community, it might be more useful to have a stand alone guide, or series of guides, of how to correctly implement the criteria of the various styles guides and manuals, in LibO. jonathon

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] guide for scholars

2015-03-23 Thread jonathon
y perspective, that is all that matters. jonathon -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] guide for scholars

2015-03-23 Thread jonathon
to add it there. Thanks. > Is that fine for you to proceed? Yes. Thanks for the copies. I don't know how soon I will be able to translate it. (That's what, six documents in my to-be-translated queue.) jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.li

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] guide for scholars

2015-03-18 Thread jonathon
the wrong place? If so, where is the right place to look? jonathon -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netique

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fonts, Font Substitutions, Languages, Graphite, Justification, etc.

2015-03-12 Thread jonathon
reator) paved the way with low-cost/gratis Pan-unicode fonts. I think most of the glyphs are "ugly", but it was all that available then. And for some sub-sets, it still is the only thing that is available. I'd like to think that typographers are now focusing on "pretty&q

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fonts, Font Substitutions, Languages, Graphite, Justification, etc.

2015-03-12 Thread jonathon
compares I don't know if Code2000 is still available. The creator disappeared from the Internet several years ago. Unifont is an extremely extensive pan-unicode font. I don't remember the specific license it is distributed under, but it is Libre, and Gratis. (Look for it your *Nix repository u

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fonts, Font Substitutions, Languages, Graphite, Justification, etc.

2015-03-11 Thread jonathon
weight.) > earlier posting from a year or so ago to whatever resources the doc team > might eventually use to document font usage in LO?? Thanks. Almost convinced me to find your material from last year, and add it to this, then post it to my LibreOffice blog. I've been meaning to restart it,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fonts, Font Substitutions, Languages, Graphite, Justification, etc.

2015-03-11 Thread jonathon
sionally, functional equivalents, tests, and other useful things. It probably is still floating around, somewhere. Nothing useful if one was writing documentation, to explain how to use the software, though. jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Prob

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fonts, Font Substitutions, Languages, Graphite, Justification, etc.

2015-03-08 Thread jonathon
ood idea for various other reasons. > I apologize (really) if this sounds petulant, but is there any source for > documentation on how this genre of stuff is supposed to work? AFAIK, not that non-programmers can understand. > And which of the substitution mechanisms are best suite

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Manual of Style

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
egards to the User Interface? jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUyDE/AAoJEKG7hs8nSMR7qj8P/14MIDzWNJ8NlbTuDKL5PYnL NjZMGooIo6Hesdht7a3xSHwy25Sp3+Ohl0e12hBTZJqMCgU7kwprQMTO8FHMH98a ZA

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
lable in a few > days. I'll wait for it then. > The German Base-Handbook will show a little bit more examples than > the older versions. +1 > There will be also a package of example-databases for special > solutions with an own description. +1 jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNAT

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Manual of Style

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
the documentation template that Jean constructed/maintains. jonathon * English - detected * English * English -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUx/dzAAoJEKG7hs8nSMR7xIUQAJK/MaRJ/GdcK7sLiRnIhCq9

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2015-01-27 Thread jonathon
there nothing for using Base with LibreOffice 4.4, in _any_ language? jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1 Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJUx+lPAAoJEKG7hs8nSMR7BjsP/2XeOgpa+iByUnnZ4bJ

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I HAVE A VERY FRUSTRATING PROBLEM that I hope you can help me with!

2014-12-15 Thread jonathon
that this was possible in any way in LO, That "feature" popped up several years ago. I see it as one of those "just before you can, does not mean that you should" features. It is the same process as embedding audio, or video in Impress, but with slightly less predictable results. jon

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] problem w/Base Handbook

2014-08-30 Thread jonathon
entation, but to which explicit reference is made; My recommendation is Option # 2. jonathon -- Your documents. Your language. Your way. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscri

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice in a Multi-Lingual Environment.

2014-08-22 Thread jonathon
rget language? IOW, bilingual documentation. FWIW, my forte is reading the languages, not writing them, and definitely not speaking them. Furthermore, I am rusty in some of these languages, and writing systems. jonathon -- ODF: Your documents, your language, your way. -- To unsubscribe e-mail

[libreoffice-documentation] LibO in a Multi-Lingual Environment

2014-07-11 Thread jonathon
LibO 4.0. jonathon -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive:

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LO Math Help

2013-11-15 Thread jonathon
Would it be possible to both include that content in the help files, and also as a stand-alone downloadable document? jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Postin

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] White Paper

2013-10-30 Thread jonathon
ft Office; * The localization of Microsoft Office; * Which update packages have been installed; * A list of installed MSO extensions; jonathon -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] White Paper

2013-10-30 Thread jonathon
or other pages. jonathon -- 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.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreof

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice Branding and Documentation

2010-11-05 Thread jonathon
figure that sticks in my mind, is 50K installed fonts for some Linux distros, but majority can handle 100+K installed fonts. jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzUyNcACgkQ

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice Branding and Documentation

2010-11-05 Thread jonathon
g fonts > which provide for a better user experience. It seems like it would When an OS blows up because of too many fonts, the effect is the same as if the OS had been hit by a virus. jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG w

[libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Branding and Documentation

2010-11-03 Thread jonathon
OOoAuthors template; @ Do we do something else; jonathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzRp8wACgkQaC1raifmCuEY4ACaAmHyl7tjUky5rUrgqIhEwa3W KqEAn0WmgpeizpQkz/Wnxyk72RPJxf0K =h9ln -END PGP

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Need of a documentation framework for LibreOffice?

2010-11-01 Thread jonathon
additional notes/documentation to their copy. My perception is that having the ODF makes it slightly easier for people to grok creating and using styles. # FWIW, I've started to transcribe and update _OOo in a Multi-Lingual Environment_ at http://libreoffice-environment.blogspot.com/. jon