All:
Has anybody converted and distributed the Libreoffice documentation as
an audio book?
If so:
* What was the experience in creating the audio book?
* What was the audience reception to the audio book?
jonathon
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On 2020/12/01 19:53, Paul Sutton wrote:
Would it, from freedom / privacy perspective be better if videos where just on
peertube,
The more places you put them, the more exposure they will have.
as it raises the profile of these free platforms,
there is also zero advertising, Plus perhaps
On 2020/11/28 15:26, Paul Sutton wrote:
Hi
Adding a section on how to change the page orientation, the method
shown does this globally, how would I do this for a single page within
a document so I get, for example
portrait
portrait
landscape
portrait
In LaTeX I would just use
On 2020/12/02 15:17, Paul Sutton wrote:
a) Can you leave a space, either at the top, or bottom of the video
"page", that is not part of what is being demonstrated in the video/part
of the subject of the video, to be used for either open-captioning, or
closed-captioning?
Do you mean on the
On 2020/11/20 14:13, Dan Lewis wrote:
A language pack contains spell checking, hyphenation, thesaurus, and one more
thing I have just forgotten.
Either the auto-text or auto-correct files is the forgotten file.
For some languages, the language pack includes the help pages, and UI in
the
On 2020/09/30 14:59, LibreOfficiant wrote:
I fully support Jean-François statement regarding documentation location:
- The extensions site is *not* the right place for LibreOffice documentation
content
Over the last five or so years, there has been a subtle encouragement to
migrate
On 4/23/20 5:51 PM, Kenneth Hanson wrote:
>the current names of those buttons don't really make any sense. Note how the
>"No Format" button clears both.
That is the normal and expected behaviour.
No format should leave the text with the default font, size, and colour.
jonathon
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On 4/23/20 5:08 PM, Toni B wrote:
>Can anyone explain the difference between an attribute and a format in
>"beginner" or "layperson" language?
Format is presentation markup.
Attribute is the specific quality associated with the presentation markup.
Presentation markup is the stuff to use to
On 05/03/2018 03:51 PM, Olivier Hallot wrote:
> Options:
>
>1. Remove all multimedia from Help either online and offline:
> 1. Problem vanish.
Keep existing content on YouTube.
However, look into migrating that content to a site controlled by _The
Document Foundation_.
On 04/27/2018 12:00 PM, Ilmari Lauhakangas wrote:
> LibreOffice development does not follow the agile methodology.
Unless you really want a 25,000 word essay on the subject, I'll skip my
essay on Waterfall and relations, including derivatives v Agile and
relations, including derivatives, and how
On 04/26/2018 07:12 AM, Martin Srebotnjak wrote:
>>> I'm only sad that we are not part of the discussion when we are highly
>>> concerned.
>> That probably has as much to do with where and when the discussions are
>> held, as anything else.
> you miss the point. Changing help (documentation
On 04/25/2018 10:50 PM, Sophie Gautier wrote:
>> Why on earth are there videos in the help files?
>> That smacks of being a Section 508 violation.
>> Could you elaborate on this,
_Section 508_ is a US Law.
This is the federal regulation (^1) that requires government agencies,
and organizations
On 04/25/2018 05:21 PM, Sophie wrote:
> Some videos have been embedded in the help files.
Why on earth are there videos in the help files?
That smacks of being a Section 508 violation.
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On 03/19/2018 08:31 PM, Cor Nouws wrote:
> Will look at that too and let you know if there are ideas for improving.
I don't know if it was by accident, or by design, but users can create
more classification levels than BAILS defines. (IMNSHO, leave that
functionality in.)
I've also run into a
On 05/29/2017 07:18 AM, André MALLET wrote:
> There is even no specific help available from F1 !
Unlike the other components of LibO, Base can be used as either a
client, or a client-server. This makes writing documentation for it more
complex than for the other components.
Compounding that
Steve wrote:
>Probably not the practical solution, but both.
That makes writing the Calc guide slightly more difficult, but not
enough to not do so.
>I found writing instruction manuals you need a comprehensive manual
(your b)), but to avoid a higher incidence of customers making mistakes
a
All:
With the release of LibreOffice 5.2, there is a comprehensive set of
security options for LibreOffice, based upon digital signatures,
metadata, and various other tools, techniques, and standards.
Question:
* Would a single document on these security options be more appropriate,
than
Nina wrote:
>I wonder if/how the LibreOffice documentation could take benefit from
DITA. Has this been considered/discussed already?
What has been periodically discussed, is listing topics for which
articles of 500 - 5,000 words, as appropriate, are written. The idea
being that the articles
Oliver wrote:
>This sample shows us that the software is download by many thousands but
the books are by hundreds.
Is there a breakdown by either language, or country, or both, for
downloads of LibreOffice?
jonathon
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Jean wrote:
>If this is mentioned in the user guide, I missed it. If it's not mentioned,
I'll add it.
The list of features that are turned on, or off, by checking
"Experimental features" changes with each release. As best as I've been
able to determine, there is no central list of these
On 19/04/2016 15:39, Roger wrote:
>decided that best way to learn how to use LibreOffice is by writing a manual
>for Writer (complex projects)
Are you married to the idea of writing documentation for Writer?
If not, I'd recommend writing documentation for Draw, Impress, Base,
Math, or Calc.
>
On 21/03/2016 12:38, Lera Goncharuk wrote:
> Maybe someone from the authors team of Guide can answer my question. When
> can we wait a release of the Writer Guide and the Calc Guide for 5.*?
The Lib 5.3 Calc Guide will probably be available with the release of
LibreOffice 5.3, on 30 January
On 30/03/2016 00:03, Tom Davies wrote:
> Apparently the quality of all the translations is currently FAR
> higher than the quality of the English original! This appears to be due to
> the long-term lack of resources invested in the English "built-in help".
More precisely, it is the result of a
On 24/03/2016 07:02, K-J LibreOffice wrote:
> are there any new informations?
_Maak je Mooiste werkstuk met LibreOffice Writer_.
I either got side tracked by another project, or else my dissociative
kicked into high gear.
An English translation?
A couple of pages into translating it, I
On 24/11/2015 12:32, ptoye wrote:
>> To supplement those guidelines, it recommends:
>> * _The Chicago Manual of Style_. University of Chicago Press;
>> * _Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry_. Sun
>> Microsystems;
>> * _The Modern Language Association (MLA) guidelines_;
>
On 30/10/2015 21:24, Yousuf 'Jay' Philips wrote:
> as a possible, a help writer's guidelines needs to be created to guide users
> who modify help to write in a particular style.
There is _Chapter 5 Style Guide_ in _The LibreOffice Contributor's Guide_.
To supplement those guidelines, it
On 07/21/2015 07:15 PM, Robert Großkopf wrote:
I 'm not able to translate the handbook from German to English. My
English isn't good enough for this.
What is the name of that tool that integrates with LibreOffice, to do
automated machine translation?
I'm thinking that the LibO documentation
On 06/28/2015 03:33 AM, David Allen wrote:
“* Excluding people whose legal residence is in a jurisdiction that
prohibits them to do these tasks, unless they are being paid to do so.”
What does that mean?
Someone somewhere in the world would be legally prohibited from
volunteering?
In a
On 06/26/2015 07:52 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
wiki help is supposed to allow an easier transition into allowing
volunteers to write help documentation, but again, knowing where to put
stuff, and learning to use mediawiki is an extra hurdle for a lot of
I had forgotten that it used MediaWiki.
On 06/25/2015 12:40 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
How it is created
Painfully :)
Going by the comments in email list about creating the helpfile, I
suspect that painfully is a major understatement.
The dev guide to creating help files can be found here:
On 06/24/2015 04:37 PM, David Allen wrote:
Jonathon, you mentioned a good test of the functionality of the Project
Management tools for Lib0. Are you talking about a specific piece of
software?
Over the years, individuals and organizations have submitted extensions
and/or templates that
On 06/23/2015 07:33 PM, David Allen wrote:
I've seen the page titled User Guide Tasks (
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development), but it's
essentially empty. Is it maintained by anyone in particular?
That page is more a description of how things are done, than what is
On 02/06/2015 04:19, Jean Weber wrote:
Is there a tutorial somewhere that explains how to place icons in styles
I don't know. I could write one, unless Bruce Byfield has written it
Until I looked at how that style was constructed, I had completely
forgotten that one could use any image as an
On 02/06/2015 11:26, Ruth Ann wrote:
You can take screen shots with Windows.
If memory serves me right, there is either a formal, or informal policy
of not using screenshots from any Microsoft platform, because Microsoft
claims that usage to infringe upon their copyright.
jonathon
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On 31/05/2015 01:09, Jean Weber wrote:
Icons can be changed later if we want different ones.
In the United States, Gold Stars are typically viewed as something
positive --- an outcome that is desirable.
Consequently, I'd suggest changing that icon to something else.
I do like not having to do
On 28/05/2015 13:38, Marcus Mackaku wrote:
Why do we not rather create one standard template for all versions or that
can be used across all versions?
A little more than a decade ago, somebody, probably Jean, made a
template for OpenOffice.org Documentation. Over time, that template has
been
On 28/05/2015 04:55, Jean Weber wrote:
We really should publish at least the Getting Started Guide for v5.0
reasonably close to the time the program is released, don't you agree?
Is the LO4.4 chapter template (draft) going to be the standard template
for LibO v5?
jonathon
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On 28/05/2015 07:20, Jean Weber wrote:
Content updating should proceed using the new template so that the style
names of the new files are correct.
Thanks.
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This is when find and replace for character styles would be nice to
have. OTOH, for the documentation I've been looking at, the
On 13/05/2015 14:51, Marcus Mackaku wrote:
Why are there missing words and spelling errors in some LibreOffice
manuals/texts?
Which _specific_ manuals/texts are you referring to here? Some of the
publicly available is at has been through multiple copy-edits, style
edits, and line edits.
On April 13, 2015 8:57:26 AM PDT, Joel Madero wrote:
It's becoming a constant theme that people actually cannot find the
paid support easily so I think that having a link in the manual to a
Finding the page is the minor challenge.
The major challenge is finding contact information for the
On April 7, 2014 8:54:09 PM PDT, Robinson Tryon wrote:
version of the manuals alongside the ODT and PDF versions on the wiki?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Wouldn't it be simpler to use the export to ePub extension option for LibO,
than use Calibre?
Jonahon
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On 05/30/2012 02:36 AM, Jean Weber wrote:
unless they are unusually outstandingly helpful.
What makes an extension unusually outstandingly helpful?
A list of objective criteria.
We do have a generic statement that people can get extensions from
various places.
Could a list of sites that
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On 16/04/12 10:57, Tom Davies wrote:
I think they are just asking permission to take screen-shots
Microsoft has an official policy of claiming copyright of all
screenshots on a Microsoft platform.
I guess they don't understand copy-left licenses
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On 28/11/11 22:30, italovignoli wrote:
- before deciding to use CC BY-NC-SA for all my licensed documents (mostly
presentations).
Most of the lawsuits involving CC Licenses have involved the meaning of
the CC-BY-NC-SA license.
Look at the
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On 22/11/11 11:58, Jean Weber wrote:
there are several possible ways to do it, including Calibre (my preferred
tool).
Calibre doesn't handle images very well. OTOH, PDF is the only ebook
format that can do images properly, without a lot of down
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On 09/07/2011 12:16 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
It's still Tuesday here. Ooops, scratch that!
_Jewel of the Nile_
Isn't that function next Tuesday
Today is next Tuesday
jonathon
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On 09/06/2011 09:42 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
is it possible to copypaste the config folder from Windows to GnuLinux
As a general rule of thumb, yes.
The major exceptions are:
* executable and quasi-executable files. (Mainly, but not exclusively
On 08/05/2011 04:07 AM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
I remain concerned about TDF's abandoning it, with the result that it slowly
falls apart with each release,
For all practical purposes, the database component of OOo was treated
like the red haired stepchild. Under the TDF, LibO has simply continued
On 08/05/2011 07:26 PM, Tom Cloyd wrote:
Go forward with using Base as frontend to sqlite (which looks really
wonderful, and has a nice admin. addon available in Firefox), and use it
as long as Base works.
The only thing that _SQLite Manager_ is good for, is eye candy.
Databases can only have
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
On 21/06/2011 00:13, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Hmm, interesting. What constitutes doing business in a state?
That literally depends upon the state.
It can range from attendance at a trade show, to having an office with
employees, a bank account, and an in-state telephone.
most of ODFAuthors
On 19/06/2011 23:02, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Possibly relevant information: because ODFAuthors as an organisation has
no legal standing,
FWIW, Under US Law, ODFAuthors is an unincorporated non profit
organization. A separate legal entity from _Friends of Open Document,
Inc_.
Precisely what
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On 09/06/2011 21:38, Jean Weber wrote:
I don't know what this will mean for us in the OOo and LibO docs groups, but
I am concerned about the potential for further fragmentation of a small group
of docs people into working on several
projects.
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On 10/06/2011 12:21, Renata Marques wrote:
Beyond the Klaibson's ebook, we have another book about completion of course
work formatting (like monographys). I think can be a good idea translate it
to English, if don't exists another similary. It is
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On 10/06/2011 16:40, Renata Marques wrote:
I'm talking about the Faça seu TCC usando o BrOffice Writer (Make your
completion of course work using BrOffice Writer).
When I read it, I instantly thought cheat sheet.
IMNSHO, the only addition it
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On 02/07/2011 09:36 AM, John M. Dlugosz wrote:
Is there a tool to show what fonts are being used in the document?
TestFonts can generate a list of fonts used in a document. That doesn't
mean that it catches fonts used in the wrong place, thought.
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