On 06/28/2015 03:33 AM, David Allen wrote:
> “* Excluding people whose legal residence is in a jurisdiction that
> prohibits them to do these tasks, unless they are being paid to do so.”
> What does that mean?
>Someone somewhere in the world would be legally prohibited from
volunteering?
In a n
I'm glad you did send it here. It's useful feedback.
Your other note is also very useful. Thanks. It's long past time for
the project to look carefully at the intersection of what users want
and what we can provide.
FWIW, some other history: the main reasons we've been focusing on the
user guides
Hi all,
Below (far below) is a compilation of answers to several questions I had
about LibreOffice's documentation and processes. I have a few remarks at
this time (more later):
A couple of people (those from the User group as well), talked about
video. I have to say that I think that thinking
Hi All,
Sorry, I meant to send my last email to the users group, not here. I will
send it there now.
David
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Hi All,
Sorry, but this is a rather long email. It's a loose compilation of
answers to the following four questions:
1) Does anyone EVER look at the pdf documentation? If not, why not?
2) Does anyone EVER click the F1 key for help? If not, why not?
3) Do you see any overall issues concerning
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 7:36 AM, Jean Weber > wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:10 AM, toki > wrote:
>> On 06/26/2015 07:52 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>>
>>> wiki help is supposed to allow an easier transition into allowing
>>> volunteers to write help documentation, but again, knowing where to put
On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 5:10 AM, toki wrote:
> On 06/26/2015 07:52 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>
>> wiki help is supposed to allow an easier transition into allowing
>> volunteers to write help documentation, but again, knowing where to put
>> stuff, and learning to use mediawiki is an extra hurdle f
On 06/26/2015 07:52 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
> wiki help is supposed to allow an easier transition into allowing
> volunteers to write help documentation, but again, knowing where to put
> stuff, and learning to use mediawiki is an extra hurdle for a lot of
I had forgotten that it used MediaWiki.
Hi all,
Le 25/06/2015 03:14, toki a écrit :
> On 06/25/2015 12:40 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
>
>>> How it is created
>> Painfully :)
>
> Going by the comments in email list about creating the helpfile, I
> suspect that "painfully" is a major understatement.
We are reviving the old extension to hand
On 06/25/2015 12:40 AM, Dave Barton wrote:
>> How it is created
> Painfully :)
Going by the comments in email list about creating the helpfile, I
suspect that "painfully" is a major understatement.
> The dev guide to creating help files can be found here:
> https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/H
My responses are given in-line with your original message.
Original Message
From: David Allen
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:44:57 -0400
> Hi Jonathon and Jean (and everyone else),
> I've been using LibreOffice for years as a PortableApp (fr
On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 8:44 AM, David Allen wrote:
> Hi Jonathon and Jean (and everyone else),
>I've been using LibreOffice for years as a PortableApp (from
> PortableApps.com), and I never knew there was local online help. It
> apparently doesn't install with the Portable version.
>Do ei
On 06/24/2015 10:44 PM, David Allen wrote:
> and I never knew there was local online help. It apparently doesn't install
> with the Portable version.
If Ann-ology hadn't writing "what documentation?" in her comment, I
wouldn't have thought to toss that paragraph about the Online Help into
my res
Hi Jonathon and Jean (and everyone else),
I've been using LibreOffice for years as a PortableApp (from
PortableApps.com), and I never knew there was local online help. It
apparently doesn't install with the Portable version.
Do either of you (or anyone else) know where this online help comes
On 06/24/2015 04:37 PM, David Allen wrote:
>Jonathon, you mentioned "a good test of the functionality of the Project
Management tools for Lib0". Are you talking about a specific piece of
software?
Over the years, individuals and organizations have submitted extensions
and/or templates that o
Hi Jonathon and Jean,
Thanks for your replies.
Sorry, I don't know German. Or any other language (Just a few words in
Chinese; I lived in Taiwan for seven years).
I found the _Using Assistive Technology in LibreOffice_ document. It's
labeled "draft 2". Do either of you know if this is this
On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 5:33 AM, David Allen wrote:
> I've seen the page titled "User Guide Tasks" (
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development), but it's
> essentially empty. Is it maintained by anyone in particular? If not, how is
> it updated?
The User Guide Tasks page
(htt
On 06/23/2015 07:33 PM, David Allen wrote:
> I've seen the page titled "User Guide Tasks" (
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development), but it's
> essentially empty. Is it maintained by anyone in particular?
That page is more a description of how things are done, than what
Hi all,
I have a lot of time on my hands and so wish to contribute to LibreOffice's
documentation.
I have a background in publishing, computer support, database application
programming, and, most recently, as Senior Technical Writer for Trend Micro
for seven years. I was responsible for some of Tr
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