On Tue, Sep 9, 2014 at 11:53 AM, Alan Cook <alanc...@gmail.com> wrote: > The reason that there's both a Guide and a Handbook is that the German > documentation team got tired of waiting around for the English team to > finish the Base Guide, so they took the draft chapters, translated them, > finished the book, and published it as the Base-Handbuch. That document was > then translated back into English as the Base Handbook.
Why the difference in name? Is the Handbook written in a different style than our other guides? > Contrary to what Tom D. indicated, the Handbook is /not/ shorter or less > thorough than the Guide. Each is intended to be a complete and comprehensive > user manual; the difference is that the Handbook is finished (although not > up-to-date in English.) The current German version of the Handbook has 448 > pages in 11 chapters; the plan for the Guide includes 10 chapters, of which > only 3 are complete. Hmm... if they're roughly the same type of manual, then perhaps name/content harmonization would help avoid confusion. (Apologies if there's already been a conversation on this matter; please feel free to point me at it) >...Moreover, this needs to be done by someone who's > running Base on Linux. For reasons I don't understand, screen captures don't > always work correctly when done using Windows, and Windows is what I'm > running. IIRC, most projects take screenshots in GNU/Linux for 1) Consistency 2) Avoiding any question about including screenshots of a proprietary WM Best, --R -- Robinson Tryon QA Engineer - The Document Foundation LibreOffice Community Outreach Herald qu...@libreoffice.org -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
