[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Proposal for official documentation page

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>]

Hi :)
My thought was (once the 3.5.x branch guides start appearing) to shrink the 3.4.x column in the same way as most of the 3.3.x are at the moment.  

I think it's a good idea for the most recent legacy guides.  When the 3.6.x branch guides start appearing the 3.3.x can be shrunk down even more without losing the guides themselves.  Even old CRT screens in 4:3 aspect ratio (like mine) could hold quite a few branches attractively fairly easily.  

Unlike with the Dvd Project there is no need to worry about byte-wise size within reason and i think it's important for us to keep the beautiful guides, particularly the 1st set, for historical interest.  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Sun, 10/6/12, webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com> wrote:

From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: Proposal for official documentation page
To: "Tom Davies" <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>, marc@marcpare.com
Cc: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2012, 22:26


  

    
  
    

    The icons Tom lists is part of the "theme" set created by the LO
    server/web-site team, and was copied for the NA-DVD web pages to
    show what the MIME type of the file linked.  Sometimes it does not
    work correctly, and sometimes the system causes problems during page
    editing.  BUT, it is a nice touch that the TDF/LO web site
    developers created in the CSS system for the page theme.

    

    I am working on the 3.5.x documentation page so it works well for me
    and my potential DVD and web site users.  I really need to have some
    good column indications that help with showing which links are for
    which version of the documents.

    

    As for the colors, well I chose the most least-offensive ones
    without going deal into custom color options in Kompozer the WYSIWYG
    HTML editor which I use as my default web page editing software on
    Ubuntu/Windows.  It is free and sometimes you see an update to it.

    

    Later I might change the colors to the "official" colors of the LO
    project as listed in one of the LO marketing pages.

    

    To be honest, it would be nice to see the LO documentation wiki page
    having some way to separate the "columns" for the 3.3.x, 3.4.x, and
    the 3.5.x line documents.  What will happen when you add a forth
    column for the 3.6.x docs?  For me I will just add another color
    column and remove the 3.3.x one when all for the chapters of the 3.4
    line is filled in.  Then will remove the 3.4 column when all of the
    3.5 doc chapters are filled in.

    

    The "-2d" part of the documentation page is for the fact that this
    is a work in progress and not the default documentation page, YET. 
    But that will come soon, as I work out a few things in the editing
    process this week, as I have the time.

    

    

    

    On 06/10/2012 02:57 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
    
      
        
          
            Hi :)

              I really like this page created by Tim of Kracked-Press
              fame for the North American Dvd Project.  

http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html

              

              I particularly like the little Odt icons and the
              back-ground colour-coding.  

              

              On our current wiki-page we use colour-coded backgrounds
              too but it grew organically and i am not sure the colour
              choices are still relevant.  

https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications

              Green was originally just to show that you had completed
              those chapters when the team was racing to complete 3.3.x
              guides.  The tan colour was taken from other wiki-pages
              that looked quite attractive.  The tan seemed to go well
              with that particular shade of green.  

              

              My thought for the official page

              http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

              would be to have 1 column instead of 3 but it would be
              different colours for different guides.  At the moment the
              Calc Guide can only show the 3.3.x 

              

              At the moment i think the official page looks good because
              it's very simple and avoids confusing people.  I'm not
              sure we should offer separate pages there because that
              does make things much more confusing for people.  

              

              My proposal for copying Tim's NA Dvd page does assume that
              we want to show individual chapters but now i am not so
              sure we do.  

              Regards from

              Tom :)  

              

              

              --- On Sun, 10/6/12, Tim Lungstrom <timothy@lungstrom.com>
              wrote:

              

                From: Tim Lungstrom <timothy@lungstrom.com>

                Subject: tell me what you think of this documentation
                page?

                To: marc@marcpare.com, "Tom Davies"
                <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk>

                Date: Sunday, 10 June, 2012, 19:10

                

                
                   

                        Here is an idea for the NA-DVD documentation
                        page.

                        This format sure makes it easy for you to know
                        which version the files are for.

                        

                        http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html

                        

                        The colors do make the different version stand
                        out.

                        

                        I also added my "modified" PDF files of the New
                        Features and Fixes pages, to the documentation
                        page.

                        

                        I will be tweaking this page before It goes as
                        the actual online/DVD documentation page.

                        

                        When I get more documents for the 3.4/3.5 lines,
                        I will create a version 2 for the 3.5.4 DVD.

                        

                        I am waiting now for Erich to get the 3.5.4 .iso
                        file on the main servers and add the 3.5.4 ISO
                        page to the list, since it only has:

                        

                        debian-repo - Recommended

                        3.5.3

                        3.4.6

                        

                        listed on that page http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=box

                        

                        I have no idea why the "debian-repo" is shown,
                        since I sure would not want to download all the
                        files listed on that page separately and then go
                        from there for the install.

                        

                       
                
              
            
          
        
      
    
    

  

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