The main differences between macOS and Windows/Linux dialogs are the Print dialogs. The other dialogs have minimal differences and should not cause a problem for macOS LO users
Also the keyboard shortcuts are different and the main difference is Command for Mac and Ctrl for Windows/Linux. The keyboard shortcuts are covered in Appendix A. I use macOS version, but have a Linux version of LO running in Ubuntu. Doing it this way I can capture Linux screenshots, but has also given me the experience of working in the different versions. I think adding macOS instructions would complicate the user guides and make it more difficult to upgrade the user guides to the latest versions of LO. I disagree with adding specific macOS instructions to the user guides and I do not think it is necessary to produce macOS user guides. Regards Peter Schofield psaut...@gmail.com Technical Writer, LO Documentation Team > On 2 Jan 2022, at 13:17, Ilmari Lauhakangas > <ilmari.lauhakan...@libreoffice.org> wrote: > > On 2.1.2022 13.44, Olivier Hallot wrote: >> Em 02/01/2022 06:38, flywire escreveu: >>> On Sun, Jan 2, 2022 at 1:09 PM Jean Weber <jeanwe...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> ... Would the team like to have this book as part of the documentation >>>> set? I am unlikely to update it very often, and I am unlikely to >>>> produce a macOS edition of any other books except possibly the Getting >>>> Started Guide - if I have time. >>>> >>> >>> There should be a better way to meet the needs of mac users than a macOS >>> edition in https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/english-documentation/. >>> Other applications manage to produce one set of docs for different >>> OSs, even if linux screenshots look a bit strange to say Windows users. It >>> will leave mac users with a general feeling of discontent there are no >>> current guides for their application/language. I suggest it should be >>> independent of current guides and the documents should be reviewed in the >>> context of better meeting macOS needs. >>> >>> The whole guide preparation process is pretty impressive. Maybe OS-specific >>> keys and screenshots could be scripted in future guides for custom editions >>> but I doubt it is justified. >>> >> If we add a control variable that hides or show sections/paragraphs >> depending on the OS, documents will go into a very complex and fragile >> management scheme where mistakes (e.g. deletion of a controlled paragraph) >> are easily introduced and unnoticed. Debugging a long document like our >> guides will be unpleasant at best. >> Technically speaking, LibreOffice has all tools for document management >> (version control, fields, track-changes...) but our team must get used to >> and it is also a entry barrier for newcomers. >> The Help has a control scheme (<switch>, <switchinline>) for macOS where >> Ctrl key is changed to Command key and the menu "Tools-Option" is changed to >> "LibreOffice - Preferences". Those are 99.99% of all differences in Help >> between OS versions. > > In the future I will try a Help build patch where the switch/switchinline are > ignored. I suggest to add the macOS-specific information into the guides > rather than produce separate guides. > > Ilmari > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
