On 06/24/2015 10:44 PM, David Allen wrote: > and I never knew there was local online help. It apparently doesn't install > with the Portable version.
If Ann-ology hadn't writing "what documentation?" in her comment, I wouldn't have thought to toss that paragraph about the Online Help into my response to her comment. > Do either of you (or anyone else) know where this online help comes from? The developers of the project. That isn't as bad, or as bizarre as it sounds. When Sun purchased StarOffice, there were one or two people, whose job was to convert the specs used by the developers, into the content that is in the help file. Today, the remnants of those spec sheets can be found scattered throughout different parts of both the LibO and AOo websites. There is also a lot of what can be termed "institutional knowledge". Things that are known to people who have worked on the project for years, and, in most cases, has documented somewhere in the project, but nobody else is even aware of that body of knowledge, regardless of public accessibility of the documents with that knowledge. ### Going back to project management, one of those spec sheets included a fairly comprehensive guideline on how to implement a project management component into OOo. > Who is responsible for it? > How it is created? I don't know who is currently responsible for its creation. Multiracio dispensed with PDFs, with the expectation that users will hit F1. Consequently, the helpfile in EuroOffice, for Linux, is more accurate, and much more useful than that of either AOo or LibO. As far as help on Android goes, the built in help from both EU and AnOo is not very helpful. > It's totally different from the pdfs. The PDF documentation is created on a trial and error basis. Try something out, and if it works, it goes into the documentation. If it doesn't work, it probably won't go into the documentation, unless it does major damage to the document being edited. The HelpFile documentation was originally created more or less according to what those spec sheets say, with, what appears to me, to be minimal testing of whether or not the implementation is congruent with those specification sheets. jonathon -- 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
