Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-14 Thread Cathy Crumbley
HI Milos, Thank you for taking the time to explain this. It is quite helpful. From what you describe, this is what I gather about how it works. * When a word is selected for an index entry, that word/phrase is automatically inserted in the Entry field in the Insert Index Entry dialog.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-14 Thread Drew Jensen
Howdy Milos, Ďakujem! Všetko najlepšie. Drew On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 8:28 AM Milos Sramek wrote: > Dear Cathy and Drew, > as the terminology is unclear, I've prepared a document with explanation > and screenshots: http://sospreskoly.org/~milos/indexentry.odt > I hope it helps > > Drew: It is

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-13 Thread Cathy Crumbley
oops. I meant to say that I am *NOT* questioning the rationale. On 11/13/2018 10:20 AM, Cathy Crumbley wrote: Hi Martin, I understand the need and certainly want to make sure that your needs are met. I am questioning the rationale. Rather, I am just trying to understand how it works.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-13 Thread Cathy Crumbley
Hi Martin, I understand the need and certainly want to make sure that your needs are met. I am questioning the rationale. Rather, I am just trying to understand how it works. Specifically: 1. How does simply clicking before a word or phrase rather than selecting it give the result you

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-12 Thread Drew Jensen
right you are - I was reading the email alone and not thinking about what was in the How To doc. On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 11:01 PM Cathy Crumbley wrote: > I was trying to get clarification about the instructions on pages 11 and > 12 of Chapter 2 of the Documentation Contributors' Guide. The

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-12 Thread Cathy Crumbley
I was trying to get clarification about the instructions on pages 11 and 12 of Chapter 2 of the Documentation Contributors' Guide. The instructions are clear. It is the rationale behind them that I am trying to understand. On 11/12/2018 10:06 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Hi, Reading along and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-12 Thread Drew Jensen
Hi, Reading along and having Writer open trying to do what you seem to be asking and to be honest I am totally confused. Here is what I think you are looking for. You want me index a space character and give that a tag, which I suppose is us typing in the word that we didn't just select before

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-12 Thread Cathy Crumbley
HI Milos, Thank you for taking the time to explain.  For editing Writer documentation, I needed to learn about Hunspell, so understand the issue you are facing. To help me understand this better, I have some questions: Is it correct that you want only the singular nominative form of nouns

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-08 Thread Jean Weber
Olivier, the question is about (alphabetic) index entries, which are not the same thing as number range fields. Jean On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 at 01:30 Olivier Hallot wrote: > > Em 08/11/2018 04:12, Jean Weber escreveu: > >> Chapter 2 provides guidelines for indexing. On page 11, the guidelines > >>

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-08 Thread Cathy Crumbley
Are you saying that an issue arises when there is a custom number field inside an index entry? That seems highly unlikely.  Perhaps I am not following what you are saying. On 11/8/2018 10:29 AM, Olivier Hallot wrote: Em 08/11/2018 04:12, Jean Weber escreveu: Chapter 2 provides guidelines for

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-08 Thread Olivier Hallot
Em 08/11/2018 04:12, Jean Weber escreveu: >> Chapter 2 provides guidelines for indexing. On page 11, the guidelines >> say: "The translators have requested that we do NOT create index entries >> that surround words or phrases in the text. Instead, we need to create >> entries that are embedded

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-07 Thread Jean Weber
Hi Cathy, Several people contributed to the Contributor Guide, and some parts of it are out of date, as you know. Some comments inline below. On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 3:18 PM Cathy Crumbley wrote: > > Hi All, > > The Contributor Guide is extremely helpful and I deeply appreciate that > someone

[libreoffice-documentation] Indexing Clarification Needed

2018-11-07 Thread Cathy Crumbley
Hi All, The Contributor Guide is extremely helpful and I deeply appreciate that someone --presumably Jean--invested the time and energy to create it. I would just like a little bit of clarification. Chapter 2 provides guidelines for indexing. On page 11, the guidelines say: "The translators