Perhaps you could provide a small wiki (or other publicly editable page)
consisting of a two column table. The first column would be the name of the
language. The second column would be a link to the document in that
language. This column would be editable by the folk maintaining that
document. The English document would contain a link to this page with a
brief explanation in, say, English, French, German and Spanish (add more to
taste). Possibly each language would be allowed several entries, for
different topics. Perhaps a minimum of one entry per component of
OpenOffice - writer, calc, base, impress and draw.
If you provided the wiki then it would be the responsibility of each
language group to ensure its links didn't break. Each language group could
also decide how it wanted to organise its section of the table so that you
wouldn't need to enforce a strict format. For example, the French group
might want to include a link to the French language discussion forum but
some other group/s might not.
The wiki itself would be yours, so you could ensure the link to it didn't
break.
Harold Fuchs
London, England
----- Original Message -----
From: "Uwe Fischer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: openoffice.users
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:13 AM
Subject: [users] Linking OOo Help and OOo community documentation
Hi,
we (the authors of StarOffice and OpenOffice.org Help) would like to give
more links from the (F1) Help to the documentation on
documentation.openoffice.org. May be to other Web sites, too.
However, there are possible problematic areas:
- we really don't want to get broken links (addresses should stay
unchanged over several years, including file names, or there must always
be a valid redirection)
- we can only give a link to one document in one language; there is no
automatic language context switching as for many Web sites, and most
documents are available only in one language anyhow.
What do you think?
Regards
Uwe
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StarOffice - Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Hamburg, Germany
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