Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Dan Lewis
On 4/18/20 10:10, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Rob, seems I don't understand enough English to get the right words for it. Could be it is only a problem in the translated book. I have had a look at the German original and couldn't find any problematic content there. Regards Robert I am not

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Pulkit Krishna
Hello Peter and Rob, I thought about Peter when I first read Rob's message. Perhaps, if Rob does the first review of the chapters of the base guide 6.4 then Peter can take them for their second review and make sure good English is used. That way both tasks would be fulfilled- database errors would

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Rob Westein
Hi All, On 19-04-2020 09:25, Peter Schofield wrote: I do not have the Base skills as I have only cretics very simple databases in past. However, I think my English skills are good and could always help. The question is time available. The same goes for me: Time availability for now I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Pulkit Krishna
Hello Jean, Not only you but Dan and Drew have also reviewed the chapters. But Rob is welcome to do the review of the 6.4 chapters. Pulkit Krishna On 19 Apr 2020 5:44 a.m., "Jean Weber" wrote: > Because I am mentioned in this discussion, I will respond here. I > noticed the lack of figure

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Jean Weber
Peter, For the record: I disagree that *all* figures need a caption (with a figure number), nor do all figures need a reference in the text, but yes *most* of them do need one or both. Jean On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 at 17:25 Peter Schofield wrote: > Jean you mentioned figures for Base in one

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-19 Thread Peter Schofield
I do not have the Base skills as I have only cretics very simple databases in past. However, I think my English skills are good and could always help. The question is time available. Jean you mentioned figures for Base in one message. To me figures should always be numbered and captioned. That

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Jean Weber
On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 12:21 AM Rob Westein wrote: > > Hi Robert, > > On 18-04-2020 16:10, Robert Großkopf wrote: > > Hi Rob, > > > > seems I don't understand enough English to get the right words for it. > > Could be it is only a problem in the translated book. I have had a look > > at the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Jean Weber
Because I am mentioned in this discussion, I will respond here. I noticed the lack of figure numbers and captions, but I did not recommend adding them in the v6.x versions of the book because we were in a hurry to get the book done. I was going to suggest that for v7. Also, my knowledge of

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Rob Westein
Hi Robert, On 18-04-2020 16:10, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Rob, seems I don't understand enough English to get the right words for it. Could be it is only a problem in the translated book. I have had a look at the German original and couldn't find any problematic content there. I already

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Rob, seems I don't understand enough English to get the right words for it. Could be it is only a problem in the translated book. I have had a look at the German original and couldn't find any problematic content there. Regards Robert -- Homepage: https://www.familiegrosskopf.de/robert --

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Rob Westein
On 18-04-2020 14:53, Robert Großkopf wrote: Hi Rob, For example at the top on page 14 of "Introduction to Base (6.2)" chapter it says "The field names forename (first name), surname (last name), and birthday are likely to be clear. In addition, a field called ID was added. This field will

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Großkopf
And now the example: Create a table in the internal HSQLDB. Fields: "forename" and "surname" - both VARCHAR(50) Save this table with name "table_without_pk", ignore the warning for PK Go to Tools > SQL INSERT INTO "table_without_pk" ("forename","surname") VALUES ('Robert','Großkopf') ... and

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Pulkit, >> Also the primary key is used on tables in all sorts of >> databases. It is not only valid for Embedded databases. > This line means that primary key is not only used in embedded database but > also in external Database. You cannot add records to a table using base > without a

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Pulkit Krishna
Hello Robert, > Also the primary key is used on tables in all sorts of > databases. It is not only valid for Embedded databases. This line means that primary key is not only used in embedded database but also in external Database. You cannot add records to a table using base without a primary key,

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Robert Großkopf
Hi Rob, > > For example at the top on page 14 of "Introduction to Base (6.2)" > chapter it says "The field names forename (first name), surname (last > name), and birthday are likely to be clear. In addition, a field called > ID was added. This field will later take a value which is unique for >

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Rob Westein
Hello Pulkit, On 18-04-2020 13:37, Pulkit Krishna wrote: Hello Rob, . The chapter was reviewed by Dan and Jean. So there is very less chance of error. I'm a bit disappointed on ignoring my improvements of the text and suggestion to have a better look at database-related text... /Rob

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] LibreOffice Base Guide Quality and images

2020-04-18 Thread Rob Westein
Hi Pulkit, Maybe I used the wrong words... By index I mean "Table of contents" at the beginning of each chaper and book. If you need to update the table of Contents you choose command "Update index" that is where the confusion came from. /Rob On 18-04-2020 13:38, Pulkit Krishna wrote: