On 02/25/2011 04:53 PM, 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?
As long as they need to, or until someone else asks about it :-) As long as it's not checked out for months and months, and we're not pushing hard for a release, you should be OK.
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?
You will find differences like this between all operating systems - in Ubuntu, you find the close/minimise/maximise buttons on the left, in openSUSE, they are on the right, in OSX, they are on the left, in Windows, they are on the right... and so on.
For screenshots, we generally try to do them all in one operating system. So far most (all?) screenshots have been done using Windows XP and the silver color theme (this follows the general documentation rule to keep colors as neutral as possible). You will also notice that where it makes sense the operating system titlebars are not shown - only the relevant parts of OOo are shown, and these tend to be identical across all operating systems. This takes away that possible OS confusion factor (in my experience though, most Linux and OSX users are aware of the differences in their OS vs Windows).
If you find you need to replace screen caps, and you are using OSX or Linux, I suggest you use VirtualBox (similar to Parallels on OSX, but VirtualBox is free) and install WinXP. Then you can re-do any screenshots and keep them consistent with the rest of the document.
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