Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread marbux
This is somewhat tangential from the subject of a development guide. And it is part documentation development and part software development. But there is a crying need for an enhancement to the OOo interface and related documentation. The root problem is that the OOo interface is way more cumbers

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Walter A. March
- provide translation of code source of the devGuide on the wiki into new languages (Basic, Python) in our own licence provided we're allowed to ...some info on this ? Now that's an idea. I was thinking more on terms of let's deal with a single aspect of the information needed for development

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Cor Nouws
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 21:09 +0200, Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Gerry What I said to Andrew. We need to look at what exists and decide what it is we can do. I have little to no programming skill at this level having never dived in so can only offer high level suppor

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 21:09 +0200, Laurent Godard wrote: > Hi Gerry > > > What I said to Andrew. We need to look at what exists and decide what it > > is we can do. I have little to no programming skill at this level having > > never dived in so can only offer high level support. > > as said pre

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Laurent, all, Laurent Godard wrote: Hi Gerry What I said to Andrew. We need to look at what exists and decide what it is we can do. I have little to no programming skill at this level having never dived in so can only offer high level support. as said previously bye someone else,i think t

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Alex, Alex Thurgood wrote: Laurent Godard wrote: Salut Laurent, all of this to be translated, working with NLC Not sure that the "working with" is enough ;-) I actually translated several pages of the old (1.1.x) dev guide into French about 18 months ago, but then got side-tracked in

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Alex Thurgood
Laurent Godard wrote: Salut Laurent, all of this to be translated, working with NLC I actually translated several pages of the old (1.1.x) dev guide into French about 18 months ago, but then got side-tracked into other stuff. I don't even know whether I 've still got it laying around somew

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Laurent Godard
Hi Gerry What I said to Andrew. We need to look at what exists and decide what it is we can do. I have little to no programming skill at this level having never dived in so can only offer high level support. as said previously bye someone else,i think this is waste of time targetting a brand

Re: [documentation-dev] Working with native lang communities

2006-09-30 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi Alex, Alex Thurgood wrote: Frank Peters wrote: Hi again, You don't need a masters in English for writing documentation. Most of the folks I met in Lyon have a sufficient knowledge of the language to at least write some raw material that can be brought into shape by native language review.

Re: [documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 13:27 -0400, Walter A. March wrote: > > There is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70010 for this > > project for anything you would like to attach for review and so on. I do > > not have your openoffice username so could not add it to the cc list of > > the tas

Re: [documentation-dev] Working with native lang communities

2006-09-30 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 19:43 +0200, Sophie Gautier wrote: > Hi all, > > G. Roderick Singleton wrote: > [...] > > > > >> Also, don't forget that translating some doc into another language implies > >> providing screenshots in the same language. This means that the > >> translation > >> effort

Re: [documentation-dev] Working with native lang communities

2006-09-30 Thread Sophie Gautier
Hi all, G. Roderick Singleton wrote: [...] Also, don't forget that translating some doc into another language implies providing screenshots in the same language. This means that the translation effort is quite similar to writing a doc from scratch. Having done that once for the OOo project

[documentation-dev] Adding myself to 70010 : Developer Guide task

2006-09-30 Thread Walter A. March
There is http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=70010 for this project for anything you would like to attach for review and so on. I do not have your openoffice username so could not add it to the cc list of the task. Please do this. I'll hop on board... not sure how much I'll be able

Re: [documentation-dev] Who wants to write up a Developer Guide?

2006-09-30 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 11:47 -0400, Andrew Jensen wrote: > Yes, that is the point - I am trying to volunteer to help. > Thanks. Please review the existing guide so you get an idea of what is involved. You can see this on-line at http://api.openoffice.org/DevelopersGuide/DevelopersGuide.html or as

Re: [documentation-dev] Who wants to write up a Developer Guide?

2006-09-30 Thread Andrew Jensen
Yes, that is the point - I am trying to volunteer to help. I might volunteer to help with the Dev Guide. While not a polished writer, I am fairly handy with a computer program and one of the things I have done is translate many of the examples in the current guide from Java to OOBasic. The transl

Re: [documentation-dev] Who wants to write up a Developer Guide?

2006-09-30 Thread G. Roderick Singleton
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 20:20 -0400, Andrew Jensen wrote: > Hello all, > > I have been reading along and I must say I am somewhat baffled. Why all this > apparent concern with secrecy - issues that can not be aired in public - > documents that are being worked on, but whose draft no one can see - ta

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2006-09-30 Thread sam
Quoting Christian Lohmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi *, > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:47:30AM +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote: > > ... > > > > > >>- Talking about other projects: do we also go through > > >> the developer projects to harvest what they write? > > > ^ > > >Hmm - I don't

Re: [documentation-dev] Working with native lang communities

2006-09-30 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi *, On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 10:47:30AM +0200, Andre Schnabel wrote: > ... > > > >>- Talking about other projects: do we also go through > >> the developer projects to harvest what they write? > > ^ > >Hmm - I don't think this is necessary in general. As you wrote in one of > >y

Re: [documentation-dev] Working with native lang communities

2006-09-30 Thread Andre Schnabel
Hi, ... - Talking about other projects: do we also go through the developer projects to harvest what they write? Hmm - I don't think this is necessary in general. As you wrote in one of your other posts, the IT language is english. So when it is technical documentation, then I don't