Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-21 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Jim Harris wrote: ...I don't think we should waste resources producing PDFs anyway. Jim, our resources are volunteers like me, and we work on whatever is most interesting or important to us. If I want PDFs (which I do, for the printed books), I'm going to make PDFs, whether the project as a

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-21 Thread Jim Harris
I agree SVG is a very good way to go for graphics/icons (probably the best way), and there are programs for converting icons (almost invariably bit-mapped images) into vector-based files, but they are not fully automatic and all I have seen are expensive. Also, I don't think they work very wel

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-21 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Martina Waller wrote: 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 b

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-21 Thread Martina Waller
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 muc

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-20 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
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 much attention. Do you mean "ic

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-20 Thread Martina Waller
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 should

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Scott Carr
Gary Schnabl wrote: Frank Peters wrote: 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. That style guide (its US version) has a number of formatt

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Gary Schnabl
Frank Peters wrote: 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. That style guide (its US version) has a number of formatting specs that are n

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Frank Peters
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 should also with moving more con

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Scott Carr
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. Jim Harris wrote: Hi, Martina, and thanks for these thoughts, well-based (apparently) and well-presented. It appea

Re: [documentation-dev] Visualization in ooo documentation

2007-06-19 Thread Jim Harris
Hi, Martina, and thanks for these thoughts, well-based (apparently) and well-presented. It appears to me that your suggestion is based on the foundation that OOo documentation should follow (a) a consistent and logical pattern, discernable on inspection of any page (perhaps aided by first