Re: [libreoffice-documentation] What to do next
Thanks, Jean! Eventually I'll get the hang of the process. For now, I'll do some reading, as suggested. David Blymire On 04/06/2012 06:47 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Sat, Apr 7, 2012 at 08:00, David Blymire wrote: Hi everyone, Is there a part of the update to Writer's Guide 3.5 that hasn't been claimed? I was thinking that since I just spent some time in Chap. 13, I could go back and work on making the screen shots look more consistent, if no one else has already got it. But there might be something else more pressing. Please let me know how and where I can help. David Blymire No one has "claimed" any of the Writer Guide updates for v3.5, so please feel free to pick any chapter and go for it. You'll need to look at the list of new features to see what might need to be done: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/3-5-new-features-and-fixes/ IMO making screenshots look more consistent is way down the priority list, in the "nice to have" category. Updating content and correcting actual mistakes are at the top of the list, in the "essential" category. I'm not saying "don't do low priority things", just asking for people to do higher priority things if they feel comfortable doing so. You could spend an hour or two having a quick look through the PDF of the compiled Writer Guide v3.4 that I created, checking it for errors. I posted a note a day or so ago about what to look for in particular. --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] What to do next
Hi everyone, Is there a part of the update to Writer's Guide 3.5 that hasn't been claimed? I was thinking that since I just spent some time in Chap. 13, I could go back and work on making the screen shots look more consistent, if no one else has already got it. But there might be something else more pressing. Please let me know how and where I can help. David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Ch 13 of Writer's Guide...
Jean, There is one other issue with the master document dialog box (under File-Send) -- the click box for "automatic file name extension" in Figure 1 is no longer included as a user option. Is this related to some other change that needs to be described in the copy, or do I simply delete the reference to it? David Blymire On 04/02/2012 07:37 AM, David Blymire wrote: Jean, Since I'm all "warmed up" on how to do screenshots, I can make the changes. David Blymire On 04/02/2012 01:12 AM, Jean Weber wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 07:46, David Blymire wrote: ... has been uploaded to ODF Authors. I checked the instructions and replaced images referencing OOo with new ones. Thanks for your patience! I do have one question about Figure 1. The old version referred to the "separated by" list (where the user can choose how to separate a document into subdocuments). In my versions (3.4 and 3.5) this has changed to "styles." I was able to figure out that these were the same thing, but if you want an update, I have a newer screen shot to replace the old one. The text just above Fig. 1 would have to be changed, as well. Maybe this can wait for a future update. David Blymire Oh, excellent catch. Yes, let's revise/correct the text and picture now, while we're finalising the chapter. You want to do that and replace the copy, or send me the newer screenshot to drop into the file? (I haven't had a chance yet to look at your other changes.) --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Ch 13 of Writer's Guide...
Jean, Since I'm all "warmed up" on how to do screenshots, I can make the changes. David Blymire On 04/02/2012 01:12 AM, Jean Weber wrote: On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 07:46, David Blymire wrote: ... has been uploaded to ODF Authors. I checked the instructions and replaced images referencing OOo with new ones. Thanks for your patience! I do have one question about Figure 1. The old version referred to the "separated by" list (where the user can choose how to separate a document into subdocuments). In my versions (3.4 and 3.5) this has changed to "styles." I was able to figure out that these were the same thing, but if you want an update, I have a newer screen shot to replace the old one. The text just above Fig. 1 would have to be changed, as well. Maybe this can wait for a future update. David Blymire Oh, excellent catch. Yes, let's revise/correct the text and picture now, while we're finalising the chapter. You want to do that and replace the copy, or send me the newer screenshot to drop into the file? (I haven't had a chance yet to look at your other changes.) --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] Ch 13 of Writer's Guide...
... has been uploaded to ODF Authors. I checked the instructions and replaced images referencing OOo with new ones. Thanks for your patience! I do have one question about Figure 1. The old version referred to the "separated by" list (where the user can choose how to separate a document into subdocuments). In my versions (3.4 and 3.5) this has changed to "styles." I was able to figure out that these were the same thing, but if you want an update, I have a newer screen shot to replace the old one. The text just above Fig. 1 would have to be changed, as well. Maybe this can wait for a future update. David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Writer's Guide Questions
Jean, I reloaded the file from ODF Authors and discovered a substantial difference (500KB) in the size of the original file and the reloaded file. So that seems to account for the vanishing images -- they were not present in the file the first time. So I can finish the review by Monday or earlier (eastern US time). David Blymire On 03/31/2012 12:51 AM, Jean Weber wrote: David, Unless you are already doing so, I will update the images that I flagged in that chapter as needing work. Perhaps after I do that, as a side-effect the file will behave itself better. --Jean On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 06:31, Jean Weber wrote: Once the file loses the figures completely, the only thing you can do is get a fresh copy of the file and start over, or copy the figures into the working copy. To tell if the figures are actually gone, look at the file size. If it's conspicuously smaller than the original file, the pix are gone. --Jean On 31/03/2012, at 4:32, David Blymire wrote: Jean, I seem to be experiencing the vanishing images problem only in this file. I had previously configured the settings under tools-options for memory, etc., and I can seemingly open any other file and see the images. I tried Chapter 13 from version 3.3 and found all the images with no problem. So, either there is some setting I'm missing, or the images really are not there. Could the file have become corrupted in download? My only other alternative is to open the chapter from both 3.4 and 3.3, side by side, and compare the settings, which I'm about to do. I had created a master document with subdocuments to check the instructions, and they work just fine. Its not knowing the state of the figures. David Blymire On 03/30/2012 07:03 AM, Jean Weber wrote: David, How are you doing with that chapter? Have you got the problems with the figures sorted out? --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Writer's Guide Questions
Jean, I seem to be experiencing the vanishing images problem only in this file. I had previously configured the settings under tools-options for memory, etc., and I can seemingly open any other file and see the images. I tried Chapter 13 from version 3.3 and found all the images with no problem. So, either there is some setting I'm missing, or the images really are not there. Could the file have become corrupted in download? My only other alternative is to open the chapter from both 3.4 and 3.3, side by side, and compare the settings, which I'm about to do. I had created a master document with subdocuments to check the instructions, and they work just fine. Its not knowing the state of the figures. David Blymire On 03/30/2012 07:03 AM, Jean Weber wrote: David, How are you doing with that chapter? Have you got the problems with the figures sorted out? --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] Writer's Guide Questions
Jean, I've been reviewing Chapter 13, "Working With Master Documents." Most of it is good, but I do have a couple of questions: 1). About 2/3 of the screen shots needed for the figures are missing (not just invisible, but actually not there according to my navigator panel). I would be happy to work on that. Is it necessary for my Ubuntu version of LO to be 3.4.5? I'm running 3.5 in Ubuntu and 3.4.5 in Windows XP, but the XP version is visually not consistent with the screen shots that are already there. 2). I have noticed one issue on page 18 "creating one file from a master document and its subdocuments." Figure 19 looks completely different in Windows. And,in the tip box below Fig. 19; there is no "links" command at all. I guess my larger question is: How do we typically deal with differences across platforms? Regards, David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] re-branding
I'm on it.
David Blymire
On 03/08/2012 02:20 PM, Jean Weber wrote:
Several chapters in Getting Started and Writer Guide are still needing review.
:-)
Jean
On 09/03/2012, at 1:29, David Blymire wrote:
Meanwhile, I should have no trouble finding something else to do!
Thanks,
David Blymire
On 03/08/2012 10:23 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Ouch, sorry for the timing there! It's always good to check these things so
i'm glad we did!
Thanks Dan :)
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Thu, 8/3/12, Dan Lewis wrote:
From: Dan Lewis
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
To: "Tom Davies"
Cc: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 15:15
BIG PROBLEM: I am presently completing Chapter 2 of the Base Guide for
LO.
--Dan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:58 +, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
That would be great, if you are up for the challenge!
At a guess i think the Base chapters are waiting in the relevant
folders in ODFAuthors. Good luck and regards from
Tom :)
--- On Thu, 8/3/12, David Blymire wrote:
From: David Blymire
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 13:34
Tom,
I know I'm a week behind in responding, but I'd be
interested
in giving this a whirl if you still need help.
David Blymire
On 03/01/2012 06:35 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Is anyone fairly new and looking for a challenge? An area
that is often avoided 'only' needs some re-branding work in
it's chapter 2. It's would help a new person gain an insight
into the work the docs team did in producing the 3.3.x guides.
I think Base Chapter 2 needs re-branding but the rest of the
heavy lifting has already been done.
> It needs a 2nd pair of eyes but since Dan wrote it you don't
need to have any idea of how Base works nor iof how the team
works. It's an excellent opportunity to learn a little about
Base and complete a task that people will appreciate.
> Somewhere there is a wiki-page describing what needs to be
done during re-branding. I think Jean covered most of it in
her email about choosing which theme (if you are up for doing
screen-shots at the same time) and downloading the right
version of LibreOffice but there are other helpful pointers
listed somewhere.
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
Meanwhile, I should have no trouble finding something else to do!
Thanks,
David Blymire
On 03/08/2012 10:23 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
Ouch, sorry for the timing there! It's always good to check these things so
i'm glad we did!
Thanks Dan :)
Regards from
Tom :)
--- On Thu, 8/3/12, Dan Lewis wrote:
From: Dan Lewis
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
To: "Tom Davies"
Cc: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 15:15
BIG PROBLEM: I am presently completing Chapter 2 of the Base Guide for
LO.
--Dan
On Thu, 2012-03-08 at 14:58 +, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
That would be great, if you are up for the challenge!
At a guess i think the Base chapters are waiting in the relevant
folders in ODFAuthors.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)
--- On Thu, 8/3/12, David Blymire wrote:
From: David Blymire
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Thursday, 8 March, 2012, 13:34
Tom,
I know I'm a week behind in responding, but I'd be interested
in giving this a whirl if you still need help.
David Blymire
On 03/01/2012 06:35 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> Is anyone fairly new and looking for a challenge? An area
that is often avoided 'only' needs some re-branding work in
it's chapter 2. It's would help a new person gain an insight
into the work the docs team did in producing the 3.3.x guides.
I think Base Chapter 2 needs re-branding but the rest of the
heavy lifting has already been done.
> It needs a 2nd pair of eyes but since Dan wrote it you don't
need to have any idea of how Base works nor iof how the team
works. It's an excellent opportunity to learn a little about
Base and complete a task that people will appreciate.
> Somewhere there is a wiki-page describing what needs to be
done during re-branding. I think Jean covered most of it in
her email about choosing which theme (if you are up for doing
screen-shots at the same time) and downloading the right
version of LibreOffice but there are other helpful pointers
listed somewhere.
> Good luck and regards from
> Tom :)
>
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Re: [libreoffice-documentation] re-branding
Tom, I know I'm a week behind in responding, but I'd be interested in giving this a whirl if you still need help. David Blymire On 03/01/2012 06:35 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is anyone fairly new and looking for a challenge? An area that is often avoided 'only' needs some re-branding work in it's chapter 2. It's would help a new person gain an insight into the work the docs team did in producing the 3.3.x guides. I think Base Chapter 2 needs re-branding but the rest of the heavy lifting has already been done. It needs a 2nd pair of eyes but since Dan wrote it you don't need to have any idea of how Base works nor iof how the team works. It's an excellent opportunity to learn a little about Base and complete a task that people will appreciate. Somewhere there is a wiki-page describing what needs to be done during re-branding. I think Jean covered most of it in her email about choosing which theme (if you are up for doing screen-shots at the same time) and downloading the right version of LibreOffice but there are other helpful pointers listed somewhere. Good luck and regards from Tom :) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Finished reviewing Chapter 2 of Writer Guide
Jean, At the bottom of Page 11, the text reads: "Alternatively, click the Edit button to open the Color dialog box, shown in Figure 11." It looked as though it should read "Figure 10," but maybe I misunderstood. Another thing I wasn't clear about was that in my version of LO, (version 3.4.5 in Win XP), there were numerous gray shaded blocks randomly scattered through the text and in some captions. Was I seeing the remnant of previous editing marks? Just curious, for future reference. -- David B. On 03/07/2012 03:25 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 04:35, David Blymire wrote: Jean, I have reviewed and uploaded Chapter 2 of the Writer Guide, "Setting Up Writer," to the ODFAuthors "feedback" section. I hope the upload was done correctly! Yep, you did it correctly. I do have one question: in the comments on the upload, you said, "Minor issues highlighted on pages 8 and 11." I found the one on page 8 (good catch) but not on page 11. What am I missing? Thanks! --Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] Finished reviewing Chapter 2 of Writer Guide
Jean, I have reviewed and uploaded Chapter 2 of the Writer Guide, "Setting Up Writer," to the ODFAuthors "feedback" section. I hope the upload was done correctly! Thanks, David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Newbie question
I think I answered my own question! I found what I was looking for after reading the instructions a little more closely. Thanks, David Blymire On 02/29/2012 03:59 PM, David Blymire wrote: Hello, I'm not clear on where I should go to find items that need to be reviewed. I've seen references to a drafts folder as well as a review list. I can see the review list on ODFAuthors, but nothing about drafts (after I click on LibreOffice and English). Which one should I use and how do I get there? Also, when a reviewer clicks on something to read it, does that lock it out so that someone else can't work on the same file at the same time? On a positive note, most of the info I've read so far is very clear. I just read through the Producing LibreOffice User Guides file, and found it very straightforward. Thanks for your patience. David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] Newbie question
Hello, I'm not clear on where I should go to find items that need to be reviewed. I've seen references to a drafts folder as well as a review list. I can see the review list on ODFAuthors, but nothing about drafts (after I click on LibreOffice and English). Which one should I use and how do I get there? Also, when a reviewer clicks on something to read it, does that lock it out so that someone else can't work on the same file at the same time? On a positive note, most of the info I've read so far is very clear. I just read through the Producing LibreOffice User Guides file, and found it very straightforward. Thanks for your patience. David Blymire -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] Writer guide chapter 7
Jean and Tom, I'll give the Getting Started chapters a look. David Blymire On 02/28/2012 04:37 PM, Jean Weber wrote: John, I will be returning a file containing my edits and updates on top of your edits to Chapter 6 (Intro to styles) later today. I'd like to have you go over my changes, which may include some questions. Then I plan to work on your version of Ch7. I probably have some additions and updates to that one as well. I really like what you've done, with a few minor exceptions. Tom, because I expect to make further changes to Ch7, I think it would be best for others to wait until I've done that. There are several chapters in Getting Started that really could use someone to go over, and a newcomer could very usefully contribute to them. Jean On 29/02/2012, at 2:06, John Smith wrote: Hi Tom Well, it's been updated from 3.3 to 3.4. Only 1 graphics replacement. Some added content. A couple of queries regarding the Scenario frame as I'm unsure of the formatting for it. The layout is a little questionable, I didn't want to alter stuff I knew too little about. Probably (?) best for someone in the know to deal with it as I'm new to all this stuff too! :-[ Regards John On 28/02/2012 13:18, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Nicely done :) Which stage is it in? Does it need proof-reading? Could a new person do the proof-reading? Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 27/2/12, John Smith wrote: From: John Smith Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Writer guide chapter 7 To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org Date: Monday, 27 February, 2012, 22:36 Hi Writer chapter 7, LO3.4 uploaded to ODFAuthors. Zipped graphics uploaded to Writer guide graphics folder on ODF. John -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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 -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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] May I introduce myself...
Thanks Jean. I guess I'll start with Getting Started and Writer Guide. Usually, my next question on such occasions would be "what's the deadline?" but maybe I don't need to lose any sleep over it? :-) David B. On 02/24/2012 04:14 PM, Jean Weber wrote: On 25/02/2012, at 3:41, David Blymire wrote: I'm interested in getting started as a documentation volunteer contributor. As a former newspaper journalist with more than 10 years' experience, my strengths would be in writing, editing, proofreading, researching, etc. I've been using OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for several years, mainly Writer and Calc. While I have little formal training in a technical field, I do have experience explaining complex and technical issues to a general audience. I'm very interested in giving something back to the community that keeps this worthwhile enterprise moving forward. I'd be happy to contribute in any way you think is appropriate to my background. After reading the Contributor's Guide and this forum, I'm not clear whether you're using ODFAuthors or Alfresco, or both, so some guidance would be appreciated. Thank you, David Blymire (pronounced with long-i sounds and emphasis on the first syllable.) Welcome, DavidB (to distinguish from DavidN and any other Davids who may be involved). Several parts of the Contributor's Guide are a bit out of date. In particular, we've been using the ODFAuthors website while Alfresco was being fixed. DavidN has just given us the good news that Alfresco is available again, so the active team members need to decide whether to move back. You'll have seen the other thread on that topic Meanwhile we can continue to use the ODFAuthors website. IMO, the most helpful thing you could do right now is review the chapters in the Drafts folders for Getting Started and Writer Guide. Both books are nearing completion for LO v3.4. I did a quick-and-dirty pass through them and marked some some screenshots that need replacement and some things that I know need to be checked, but they also need a more thorough review than I gave them. Review in this context means checking against the 3.4 software to see if instructions and screenshots are still correct and any important new features are covered. We'll leave other enhancements (structure, wording) for the v3.5 version of those books. (We've been doing incremental improvements with each revision.) BTW, work on the other books is going directly to v3.5. You are welcome to help there, particular with Calc, if you prefer. You are also welcome to work on anything else that interests you; we have a lot of miscellaneous documents that could use some work. I can point you to some of them. One that I'd really like to see updated is a tutorial on using Xforms, but there are others. Jean -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
[libreoffice-documentation] May I introduce myself...
Hello, I'm interested in getting started as a documentation volunteer contributor. As a former newspaper journalist with more than 10 years' experience, my strengths would be in writing, editing, proofreading, researching, etc. I've been using OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice for several years, mainly Writer and Calc. While I have little formal training in a technical field, I do have experience explaining complex and technical issues to a general audience. I'm very interested in giving something back to the community that keeps this worthwhile enterprise moving forward. I'd be happy to contribute in any way you think is appropriate to my background. After reading the Contributor's Guide and this forum, I'm not clear whether you're using ODFAuthors or Alfresco, or both, so some guidance would be appreciated. Thank you, David Blymire (pronounced with long-i sounds and emphasis on the first syllable.) -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@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
