Eric Beversluis wrote: > I'm curious about the relation between the OOo Users Guide and > the various Writers Guides. Are the latter more detailed > versions of the relevant parts of the former? Or are they > different, such that one should be reading both? Thanks.
I have seen two "Writer Guides". One (listed on the Support page at OOo) is for OOo1.x -- I don't recall who produced it.
The Writer Guide found on the Documentation Project's website is produced by the OOoAuthors team. (There is a version for OOo 1.x and another for 2.x.) This book (available in separate chapters and as a single book) takes a somewhat different approach from the OOo Users Guide and goes into more detail on many topics. Different approaches serve the needs of different people, so my recommendation is to look at both of them and see which suits your needs best. It may be that both together are best.
BTW, the OOo Users Guide is still in draft form, and some parts of it may not be fully up to date with OOo2.0. The Writer Guide is up to date for 2.0 (but may, like all documentation, contain some errors), and we are progressively updating chapters to 2.0.2 and including better explanations of difficult topics such as Mail Merge. As each chapter is updated, it is posted to the Docs website. The full book is recreated less often, so it may not contain the very latest updates found in the chapters.
The other books produced by OOoAuthors are much the same: different approaches to the same material found in the OOo Users Guide. The Getting Started book, btw, was just reissued, fully revised and with an index.
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