Re: [documentation-dev] Changes to the FAQ

2007-09-26 Thread Clayton Cornell
John Meyer wrote: I don't know if this is the right list, but where exactly do you submit proposed changes to the Frequently Asked Questions area. Specifically, someone said that the "Why is there no equivalent of MSAccess" reflects 1.0 and not 2.0. If so, then I would definitely suggest modify

[documentation-dev] Changes to the FAQ

2007-09-26 Thread John Meyer
I don't know if this is the right list, but where exactly do you submit proposed changes to the Frequently Asked Questions area. Specifically, someone said that the "Why is there no equivalent of MSAccess" reflects 1.0 and not 2.0. If so, then I would definitely suggest modifying or deleting it.

Re: [documentation-dev] Tutorial effort started at NLC SV

2007-09-26 Thread John Meyer
A suggestion from the peanut gallery: If you are starting to create tutorials I would suggest you test them by getting together with some people who know nothing or little about OpenOffice and ask them to complete the task in the tutorial. If they can do it without any live help from you, then I y

Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag

2007-09-26 Thread John Meyer
I would agree. I like the idea at least in theory, but a lot of questions have to be settled both big and small. The issue of file format, while relatively small, will influence who will read your magazine and who won't. Also, are you going to solicit submissions? Are they going to be paid? Are

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Jensen
Ah, I was just having a little fun - at your expense... Truth is those are good points, but this is Mariano's show and therefor his call on something like that. Not too mention, if it weren't for feature creep we would be having this conversation by chiseling glyphs in a slab of stone and hurling

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread Joe Smith
Andrew Jensen wrote: LOL - Joe in the software development world we would call that feature creep! Ouch. Well at least it was good for a chuckle.

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Jensen
LOL - Joe in the software development world we would call that feature creep! On 9/26/07, Joe Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Jensen wrote: > > ... > > Finally, there should be some mention of the fact that Base is not > > actually married to the embedded HSQLdb engine at all. The fact

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread Joe Smith
Andrew Jensen wrote: ... Finally, there should be some mention of the fact that Base is not actually married to the embedded HSQLdb engine at all. The fact that it ships with this is more a matter of convenience, the design of the module is such that additional database engines could be supporte

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Jensen
Not a problem at all. There is a section on this in the HSQLdb users manual - a somewhat outdated version of which can be found on-line at http://hsqldb.org. The document included with the HSQLdb distribution package is actually more current then the wed site, and I will email a copy the latest on

Re: [documentation-dev] Mid-level base tutorial

2007-09-26 Thread mcasanova
Frank has set up a OOo Docs Wiki where I intend to publish more polished work. In the meantime I will accept Andrew's offer and will ask him for details once I am ready to submit any material. Thank you all for your help and interest in this work! Andrew, I would like some help undewrstanding the

Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag

2007-09-26 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
+1 A request for comments tends to lead to digressions like the one on PDF, landscape, etc -- not to be taken as criticism of the choices made by the person who started the thread. I usually try to remember to change the subject line when replying to a digression, but forgot to do so this tim

[documentation-dev] Tutorial effort started at NLC SV

2007-09-26 Thread Per Eriksson
Hi Frank, The tutorials will reside on our wiki: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Sv.openoffice.org And is linked from there with a little grey box: | Guides | Learn something new fast with our guides. | Go there >> I was maybe a little unclear, but it doesn't affect the documentation

Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag

2007-09-26 Thread Andrew Jensen
+1 On 9/26/07, marbux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go for it David, > > Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it. > > Best regards, > > Marbux > > On 9/26/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be

Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag

2007-09-26 Thread marbux
Go for it David, Them what has the energy to do the work get to decide how to do it. Best regards, Marbux On 9/26/07, David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be > decided later on. At the moment I'm just getting the hang of Scrib

Re: [documentation-dev] OOo mag

2007-09-26 Thread David
Guy's chill. The mag is pdf what format (portrait or landscape) will be decided later on. At the moment I'm just getting the hang of Scribus. And yes A4 as I live in the UK and I'm the guy doing the work on it so I'm doing to my setup it's easier for me. It can always have a letter format for those

Re: [documentation-dev] Tutorial effort started at NLC SV

2007-09-26 Thread Frank Peters
Hej Per, > The Swedish project under NLC has just begun to coordinate the work to > develop tutorials for OpenOffice.org. > > Right now it only contains two tutorials covering Word Count and PDF > Export, but will hopefully expand soon in the future as we have several > interested contributors.

Re: [documentation-dev] Tutorial effort started at NLC SV

2007-09-26 Thread KAMI
Can you provide more information? Are they videos? Or documentation? I am thinking about traning videos, where the mosue movement keystrokes are recoreded, so every NLC can reshot it it with their UI. I konw it hard to be platform independent. KAMI Per Eriksson írta: Hello, The Swedish pr

[documentation-dev] Tutorial effort started at NLC SV

2007-09-26 Thread Per Eriksson
Hello, The Swedish project under NLC has just begun to coordinate the work to develop tutorials for OpenOffice.org. Right now it only contains two tutorials covering Word Count and PDF Export, but will hopefully expand soon in the future as we have several interested contributors. :.:.:.:.:.:.: