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Martina Waller
Technical WriterTel
Hi Chris,
Two style guides are available
one for editing the wiki documentation:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide
and another for editing the oooauthors guides. You can find the link at
On 12/02/09 01:22, Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
I'm not sure if the online_help list is still in use, as no one has
posted to it since March 2008. So I'm posting here as well as there.
I've been trying to work out some details about image maps. The
ImageMap Editor does not have a Help button, so
.
Thanks Clayton. I added the process description to the Wiki Editing
Policy. As long as we have no other solution, it's at least documented
now somewhere.
Martina
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there, and to delete
the Linking_to_localized_pages under General_Editing_Work.
Martina
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On 09/15/09 01:06, T. J. Frazier wrote:
Nino Novak wrote:
What I meant is that if you put a template inside a numbered wiki
type list (between two consecutive items), it breaks the sequence of
numbering. At least in my (endless) trials:
#
#
{{Documentation/Note|Note on step 2...}
#
is shown
]]
As far as I can see this template only exists in the article I
mentioned. So I will replace it by the other template. Could you please
delete the obsolete template?
Martina
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Hi,
In the ooo Wiki we have two templates related to Windows:
[[Documentation/AppliesToWindows]], as for ex. in
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos/Automatic_Installation_on_Windows
[[Documentation/Windows]] as for ex. in
Karl Weber wrote:
(3) All headings in the DevGuide start at level 3, i.e., they are given as
=== Heading ===. The headings of other documents of the OOo Wiki start with
level 1 or 2, respectively . I think the text is much easier to read if the
headings start out at level 1. I didn't find
T. J. Frazier wrote:
Martina Waller wrote:
T. J. Frazier wrote:
The recent Announce included the following links to the blog of
Solveig Haugland:
http://openoffice.blogs.com/openoffice/2009/01/how-to-insert-graphics-in-openoffice-writer-that-are-reasonably-manageable.html
I already kept
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Martina Waller wrote:
I just added some content to the Working on Guides section in
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Wiki_Editing_Policy.
But I am not an expert for writing guides. So, I would be very happy
if one of you guys could add
T. J. Frazier wrote:
Clayton wrote:
I am detailing my intended procedure, because I didn't see the steps
spelled out anywhere. If you think it worthwhile, I might be persuaded
:-) to add a Help page with this information, expanded.
You are welcome to add missing content to the Wiki Editing
Hi,
I noticed that we have a new How to about em and en dashes in our wiki.
Jean, as you are the author, I hope you don't mind that I put the
license link at the end of the page as it is stated in the Wiki Editing
Policy.
For everyone who wants to write How Tos or doing other editing work
Frank Peters wrote:
cking wrote:
Thank you, Frank, for pointing out the distinction between licensing and
copyright.
On another matter related to licensing, I notice that not all of the
pages
in the http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/How_Tos
Spreadsheets section include a
Clayton schrieb:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I installed OOo on four new user's computers in the past week during
the course of a project we are working on. Of those four, two
downloaded the User's Guides for Open Office 1.x from this page:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/index.html
I
Hi all,
if you look at our Wiki documentation page you will find that we have
already a nice collection of How Tos. However, as these How Tos come
from different writers they do not present a uniform style. As the
OpenOffice.org Style Guide and the OOoAuthors Style guide mainly cover
printed
Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Martina,
Martina Waller schrieb:
Hi Regina,
(...) I will try to include your comments into the help style guide
as far as it is possible.
I have looked at the changes and found
no quotes, except if they are literal
=DATE(00;1;31) yields 1/31/00 if the cell format
Joe Smith wrote:
Martina Waller wrote:
Hi Regina,
Regina Henschel wrote:
...
These are all good points although most of them are more related to
the contents than to the style of the help. I will try to include
your comments into the help style guide as far as it is possible.
True
Hi all,
as you may know we have various inconsistencies in the Calc functions
help (see also issue 54559). In order to eliminate these I am proposing
a new help style guide for the Calc functions on
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Dashboard/Help_Style_Guide.
If you
Hi Regina,
Regina Henschel wrote:
Hi Martina,
Martina Waller schrieb:
Hi all,
as you may know we have various inconsistencies in the Calc functions
help (see also issue 54559). In order to eliminate these I am
proposing a new help style guide for the Calc functions on
http
Gary Schnabl schrieb:
Martina Waller wrote:
Hi all ,
in order to create a style guide for our help files I am currently
sifting through the existing help files. I have set up a wiki page
where I am collecting irregularities of the help style:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki
Hi all ,
in order to create a style guide for our help files I am currently
sifting through the existing help files. I have set up a wiki page where
I am collecting irregularities of the help style:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Help_Style_Guide
If you know of
Uwe Fischer wrote:
Hi,
Martina Waller wrote:
Hi Uwe,
we have two types of invisible search words or cross-references in
the index:
First, the see cross-references that teach the users to use the
correct term during searches (ex.: frames, see borders).
Second, the see also cross-references
Hi Uwe,
we have two types of invisible search words or cross-references in the
index:
First, the see cross-references that teach the users to use the
correct term during searches (ex.: frames, see borders).
Second, the see also cross-references that invite the user to extend
the search to
Hi all,
the complete competitive analysis which I have been discussing with you
for a while is now available on our wiki:
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Competitive_Documentation_Analysis#Recommendations_for_OpenOffice
Please have a look at it and let me know if you
Peter Hillier-Brook schrieb:
Martina Waller wrote:
[cut]
Hi Peter,
Yes, I meant an edge length of 0.16. This is the size that would not
change the leading. An other solution would be to increase the font
size of the body text. But that would have other disadvantages, for
example more
Hi,
Frank and Scott asked me to look into the style guide at
http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList and to
make some recommendations. Here is what I found:
For the title page the style guide requests the version information to
be named twice: in the title line and
Jean Hollis Weber schrieb:
Martina Waller wrote a note that deserves a more thorough and
thoughtful answer than I have time for right now, but I do have a
question.
Martina said,
Reduce the icon size in the documents. Their actual size constrains the
flow of reading because they get too
Frank Peters schrieb:
Scott Carr wrote:
We have a Style guide. If you want to look it over, and make
recomendations:
http://documentation.openoffice.org/servlets/ProjectDocumentList
It hasn't been updated in a bit.
Martina, can you go over the style guide and make
suggestions? We
felipe gutierrez schrieb:
No se si alguien le ha pasado pero cuando escribo con en WRITER 2.0 me borra
la palabra y me escribe NOC como puedo cortar eso??
Hola Felipe,
Esta lista es para discutir problemas que están relacionados con la
producción del software y los miembros de esta
Hi all,
A good contents organization means that the information in a
documentation is structured according to the context of use. So, if you
answer the question Can you find the desired information quickly and in
a reliable manner with yes, the documentation has a good contents
organization.
Hi all,
Going through our documentation, both printed and online, you will find
different information types:
- instructional information
- conceptual information (clarification of terms and context)
- functional descriptions
- examplary information
In the online help we are trying to reduce
Jean Hollis Weber wrote:
Martina Waller wrote:
With respect to search functions for example I would recommend to
- use more indices in printed material,
I am happy to report that the third edition of the Writer Guide from
OOoAuthors (due to be published later this week) includes an index
Hi all,
Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft
Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice).
Underlying analysis criteria were languages, documentation types
(printed and online), search functions, information types,
visualization,
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:05 +0100, Martina Waller wrote:
Hi all,
Recently, I analyzed the documentation of several competitors (Microsoft
Office, WordPerfect Office, SoftMaker Office, GNOME Office and KOffice).
Underlying analysis criteria were languages
Frank Peters wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
Frank Peters wrote:
I submitted a first suggestion for a new main page for doc.oo.o. ...
let me know what you think.
The basic idea was to emphasize the structuring into users looking
for quick help, users wanting to browse existing docs, and
contributors.
Hola Felipe,
Esta lista es para discutir problemas que están relacionados con la
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hablan castellano.
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Hi all,
My name is Martina Waller and I am a member of the Technical Writer team
at Sun Microsystems
in Hamburg, Germany. I am assisting Uwe Fischer, our lead help author,
to keep the
OpenOffice help files up to date. But my main concern is the index of
our help.
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