On 27 April 2011 02:54, Hal Parker <halparke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Simon <simonbry...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 27 April 2011 02:15, Hal Parker <halparke...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 6:59 AM, Simon <simonbry...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I have run through chaps 1-12 and fixed some typos and replaced/added > new > > > screenshots. Changed 7 of the documents in all. They are in the Drafts > > > space > > > on Alfresco. I annotated my changes using comment boxes. > > > > > > If I should have placed the updated documents elsewhere, or used > another > > > method for annotating my changes, please let me know and I'll sort that > > > out. > > > > > > > > > Hi Simon, I'll be looking at your changes soon. Thanks for going through > > all > > those chapters. Are you planning to do the other chapters as well? Did > you > > do any fact-checking other than the screenshots? > > > > One thing I keep spotting in some chapters, but forget to look for > > specifically, is references to "earlier versions of LibreOffice". These > > need > > to be removed, and sometimes the rest of the sentence or paragraph needs > to > > be reworded a bit as well. These errors arise because of the rebranding > > from > > an OpenOffice.org book which refers to earlier versions of OOo. > > > > Hal > > -- > > > > Hi Hal, > > > > I was mainly looking at the screenshots and finding typos but I will go > > through chaps 1-12 > > again to see if I can find references to "earlier versions". If there's > > anything else to look out for let me know. One extra thing I did notice > was > > an inconsistency with US/British spelling but I didn't change anything as > I > > assumed it isn't considered major or no consensus has been made. > > > > I am planning to finish running through the Calc chapters and appendices > at > > some point this week then find some time next week to look at helping > with > > the Writer chapters. It would be good to get some feedback about what I > > have > > done so far though if you or anyone else has some time but no rush. > > > > Simon > > > > > > AFAIK, we've agreed to use American spelling. Please do correct any British > spelling that has managed to slip through the earlier reviews. > > The first edition of the Writer Guide has been published, so the next set > of > chapters to be done are those in the Draw Guide. The first step for that is > the rebranding. Barbara has been doing an admirable job with the first pass > of rebranding, but I don't know if she plans to work on the Draw Guide; > haven't heard from her in awhile. > > I'll compile a summary of what needs to be done, if no one responds to my > recent note asking if anyone's already done such a summary. > > I'm looking forward to having all the books rebranded and a first edition > published, so we can start improving them (as well as updating to > LibreOffice 3.4, due out very soon). > > Hal > -- > > Sorry I mentioned Writer from memory of someone mentioning it was needing focus, I must have been mistaken.
I read your note about the summary and will follow it and anything else related. Thanks for the information about spelling too. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
