On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:19 +0200, Frank Peters wrote: > Marko Moeller wrote: > > >> Again I agree. However, I think that even an announcement of new > >> works would be a good thing. For example, Sophie's announcement or > >> the ref cards as a work in progress has raised some interest for > >> something similar in English. We, at the doc project, also have > >> works in progress. The important one, a complete rewrite of the VBA > >> to OOo cross-reference, is not yet ready for its first editorial > >> review, let alone letting others look. :-( But here you have > > Why not? Let other contributors take a peek sufficiently early > to get some peer review feedback.
Why have a specific list if it is not being used? I think we have way too many lists and having an unused one is a waste of resources and time for those of us who must maintain these. e.g. moderation. So in the meantime I will change the moderator of the online_help list to you. Okay? > > >> something that might be of interest since it will be somewhat > >> technical and likely an easy target for translation or rewrite. As > >> to Calc to Base, this will be covered in Chapter 7 of the User > >> Guide along with all the other stuff one hopefully needs. > >> Unfortunately, the Guide lives in a issue and started as a sole > >> project so it is awkward to manage. > >>>> I see what you mean. I know that I am stretching it now but > >>>> should we have documentation guidelines available for other > >>>> projects that > > would > >>>> help us to leverage existing docs created in other projects? > >>> Yes, I second that. > >> > >> Me too. I had hoped when we started the Setup Guide project for 2.0 > >> that it would be included in the distribution like the 1.1.x guide. > >> However ... > > I had this hope too. But the reality is that we will not get the > > setup guide to the install sets as binary documents because the main > > argument is that we should use the same (string based) system as the > > help system. > > I had tried to show the difference between complex documents and > > short help phrases but this has no effect... > > I don't know about the discussion there but everything that goes > into the install sets is limited by the requirements of the build > processes. So either we can change the doc processes to match these > or we distribute them via the web and let people know that they're > out there. > > How about adding notes on the front pages of the help sections > pointing to the sites where those guides are, or a menu entry > in the help menu? > > Frank > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- G. Roderick Singleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenOffice.org
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