[libreoffice-documentation] sorry for the recent silence
i still want to help out with the docs, i just started a new contract as a tech writer for wind river. but i'll still do what i can in my copious free time. :-) rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice
Quoting Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk: Hi :) Lol. Why all this change of direction? and why did this suddenly occur moments AFTER Jean left for a couple of weeks? Ignoring the advice of legal experts based on a quick read of a children's fairy story does not make any sense to me. From a quick google search http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom http://en.swpat.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._TomTom_%282008,_USA%29 MS sued a company for using fat32, not even the more advanced Ntfs, and won. Fat32 is pretty much the standard system used by the vast majority of people on external storage devices. Being unaware of court actions and being unaware of the strategy MS uses (such as buying-up software patents) does not make us safe from those issues. It would be really paranoid to think that Gary might be an MS employee but he is using fairly standard tactics that would normally be designed by a competitor to disrupt a community-led group. http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/07/05/2012229/Microsofts-Hottest-New-Profit-Center-Android?utm_source=slashdotutm_medium=twitter rday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] wanting clarification on how to start submitting(?) updates to docs
after a quick perusal of the last few days of posts on this list, i just want to make sure i'm starting off the right way in reviewing the current docs and noting content that could be updated. as i read it, with my brand new alfresco account, i can go here: http://alfresco.libreoffice.org/ log in, then go to Company Home - English Content - Documentation and select, say, the Getting Started Guide. i can see that the various chapters of that guide are individual .odt files so once i got confident, i could check one out, make changes, then check it back in (not prepared to do that just yet). for example, say i was perusing the SettingUpLibreOffice chapter, where i notice a couple of things: * a couple references to LibraOffice rather than LibreOffice, which i assume are simple typoes * there's also a reference to the Help formatting option (allegedly under LibreOffice-General) which i simply don't see in my 3.4.1 writer session. is that the sort of thing that one starts off doing -- just some simple fixes? or have i misread something? thanks. rday p.s. i also see a reference to Enable systray quickstarter on Linux but i don't see that anywhere in my linux session. perhaps i just didn't look hard enough. -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] Remove personal information on saving?
one more trivial observation before i have to head for actual work -- again, in the SettingUpLibreOffice doc in the alfresco repository, there's this explanation in the security options section: Remove personal information on saving Select this option to always remove user data from the file properties when saving the file. To manually remove personal information from specific documents, deselect this option and then use the Delete button under File → Properties → Genelra but if i go under that submenu, i see no Delete button. am i simply not in the right place, or not seeing it? rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] does updating web pages fall under documentation?
i notice that here: http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/installation/ the versions listed are still 3.3. is that the sort of thing that should be updated given that 3.4.1 is out? and does pointing out that sort of thing on the libreoffice.org web pages fall under the mandate of documentation? thanks. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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] getting involved with helping with LO docs
On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Jean Weber wrote: The working copies are held in our Alfresco CMS. If you want to get properly involved, you should get an account on that site (just ask here for one to be set up for you). ok, consider yourself asked. :-) Also, do look on the wiki for links to draft copies of several chapters in our Contributors' Guide (for the Documentation Team), which should answer some of your questions and point you in the right direction. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development great, thanks, i'll pop over there shortly. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
