On Fri, 2011-02-25 at 09:53 -0600, Judy Darby wrote: > I'd like to retract and work on a Calc chapter, but my time to review and > edit is limited to spurts of an hour or so a day. What is the average time a > volunteer keeps a chapter out of circulation while working on it? >
Around a week, sometimes longer, although it depends on how much of a rush we're in and how big a change you expect to do. Major revisions, such as rewriting sections and/or adding new examples of use, can reasonably take quite a lot longer than copy-editing. Major revisions are typically done in the time between the quick-and-dirty updates needed to cover program changes and (recently) rebranding. So... let us know what chapter you're working on, and take whatever time you need to do a good job. > I work on a Mac. I notice that screen shots might look slightly different in > some cases. For example, Close, Minimize and Maximize are buttons above the > menu bar at the top of a page and are on the left, rather than on the right > where they are on a PC. Will that be too confusing for a reader? IMO it's okay to use Mac screenshots, as long as you have the "Use OpenOffice.org dialogs" option selected in Preferences > Options > General > Open/Save dialogs, to minimize differences other than the placement of the Close, Minimize, and Maximize buttons. The placement of those on the left instead of the right may confuse the more clueless among Windows users, but there is enough variation from one version of Windows to another that there is no way to ensure that our screen shots exactly match what people see. BTW, I note that some recent Linux installations (such as Ubuntu) have moved those buttons to the left in the default installation (it's configurable: people can choose which side they're on, and it may also depend on the theme a person has selected). Lastly, I think we need to add a note (perhaps in a Preface, along with the table of Mac keystroke and menu differences, and anything else that might be necessar) to remind people that the dialogs they see may look a bit different from the ones in the book because [yadda yadda]. I'm also going to amend the bit about closing OOo that's in Chapter 1 of Getting Started and Ch1 of Writer Guide. Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] with Subject: help
