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From: Jean Hollis Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com>
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Sent: Thu, 28 July, 2011 22:00:15
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Proposed Revision of Writer Guide
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 16:03 +0300, David Nelson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Tom Davies <tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Yes, that's where it gets tricky. Could an introduction to the basics of
>macros
> > be general enough? That's the question now i guess. If specifics for
>specific
> > packages could help people grok macros better while only being a short
>paragraph
> > or 2 in the chapter then it might work? Alternatively perhaps just 1 page
> > or
>2
> > added to the chapter in each of the apps?
> >
> > Regards from
> > Tom :)
>
> @Jean: what's your POV about that, Jean?
The current Macros chapter (written by Andrew Pitonyak) in the Getting
Started guide was intended to be fairly generic, though it does focus
mainly on Writer. Andrew then wrote a variation for the Calc Guide,
which focuses more on Calc-related usage. We didn't reuse the macros
chapter from GS in the Writer Guide; at the time we were avoiding
duplication of chapters. However, it would be easy to include the GS
macros chapter in the Writer Guide if people wanted to.
IIRC, we didn't think macros are much used in Impress or Draw, so we
didn't bother with chapters for them. If we did want chapters in those
books, we should ask Andrew for his opinion and see if he has some
suitable material already written to use for examples of use.
I suggest anyone interested in this topic have a look at the existing
two chapters and see what is actually in them and the reuse potential of
that material.
Jean
Hi :)
I had forgotten that we had already discussed all that. I had not read the
macro chapters until after reading Jean's post. The one in the GS Guide looks
excellent and very generic. If it is easy to have that in all the guides then
i
think it makes the books sold by Lulu more complete.
The Calc Guides' chapter on Macros demands that people read the one in the GS
Guide first. I think it would be better to include the GS chapter in the Calc
Guide being sold at Lulu now that we have a neat way of doing that without
risking fragmentation.
Macros are possibly more heavily used in Calc than in any other of the apps
(apart from Base, possibly) so having 2 chapters there for it makes sense.
With
the other 4 apps it would be nice to include the same chapter that is in the GS
"just in case". I don't think they need anything more than that.
Just my first thoughts tho, I'm fairly sure most people have thought about it
a
lot more than me.
Regards from
Tom :)
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