Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Missing words and spelling errors in manuals and other LibreOffice texts
Because it's powered by a group of volunteers working countless hours to provide a free product...are you interested in helping to correct the errors? Best, Joel On 05/13/2015 07:51 AM, Marcus Mackaku wrote: > Hello > > Why are there missing words and spelling errors in some LibreOffice > manuals/texts? Are these drafts? > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Missing words and spelling errors in manuals and other LibreOffice texts
Hi :) More to the point, is it possible to point out some of the alleged errors? Is it just one of the published guides, such as the first iteration of the Base Handbook? It's very rare to hear of any errors with the published guides as found on these pages; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ These guides are often found to be by far the best documentation for LibreOffice. If you are referring to the inbuilt help then it makes more sense because those are carefully written to make it easier to translate into man different languages. The work for those is done by a tiny team of non-English speakers and they tend to be a little geeky sometimes. Similarly with the wiki-pages which tend to focus on just achieving a task rather than necessarily being perfect English, if such a thing exists anyway. This is a truly multinational and multilingual project. People at all levels come from a wide variety of countries, backgrounds and levels of English. If you would rather see documentation in your own language then you will find the in-built help tends to be far better - and the main website is available in a multitude of different languages too Regards from Tom :) On 13 May 2015 at 15:52, Joel Madero wrote: > Because it's powered by a group of volunteers working countless hours to > provide a free product...are you interested in helping to correct the > errors? > > > Best, > Joel > > On 05/13/2015 07:51 AM, Marcus Mackaku wrote: > > Hello > > > > Why are there missing words and spelling errors in some LibreOffice > > manuals/texts? Are these drafts? > > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Missing words and spelling errors in manuals and other LibreOffice texts
On 13/05/2015 14:51, Marcus Mackaku wrote: > Why are there missing words and spelling errors in some LibreOffice > manuals/texts? Which _specific_ manuals/texts are you referring to here? Some of the publicly available is at has been through multiple copy-edits, style edits, and line edits. Most of the documentation is somewhere between those two points. 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
Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Missing words and spelling errors in manuals and other LibreOffice texts
Due to my semi-retirement and other time constraints, I haven't done any LO editing anytime recently. However, my guess for any "missing" words and such in LO's working documentation could be related to some conditional or hidden text being used. LO Writer is somewhat limited in its conditional text, though. So, it's likely that there is none. When I was a technical editor at Motorola (and its Freescale Semiconductors subsidiary), working on their firmware-developer user guides for the assemblers, compilers, linkers, and SDKs for the numerous, various families of their embedded microcontrollers, they employed master working documents using Adobe FrameMaker conditional text for almost all of those developer manuals, some of which had over two dozen output versions, depending upon with semiconductor family was covered. If viewing a master document that was not properly set up for viewing any conditional text, that document would have literally thousands voids of "missing" text--or if set up differently (showing all of the conditional text simultaneously), that document would cover all the variations of conditional text for all those semiconductor families--one huge jumble of multicolored text, in numerous, separate colors for each output version. HTH, Gary On 5/15/2015 9:36 PM, toki wrote: On 13/05/2015 14:51, Marcus Mackaku wrote: Why are there missing words and spelling errors in some LibreOffice manuals/texts? Which _specific_ manuals/texts are you referring to here? Some of the publicly available is at has been through multiple copy-edits, style edits, and line edits. Most of the documentation is somewhere between those two points. 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
