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

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

Hi :)
Thanks Jean.  It's a new work-in-progress and Tim only let me see it quietly behind-the-scenes to proof-read it or something.  I don't think he was expecting it to be broadcast far-and-wide!  Ooops! :)

Still, i thought it was ready.  There are a few things i would want to change but mostly it makes me want to upgrade the wiki a little.  I don't know how to add tiny icons elegantly.  In my experience it's usually been a Pita trying to add just 1 tiny pic to a website and involves floating frames and just a ridiculous amount of fuss otherwise the pic just pushes all the text down a bit and looks messy.  

Regards from
Tom :)  


--- On Mon, 11/6/12, Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Jean Weber <jeanweber@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Proposal for official documentation page
To: documentation@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Monday, 11 June, 2012, 0:39

I agree, it's a nice page and has some features we could use or adapt
for either the wiki page or the official website page
(get-help/documentation), in particular the ODT icons (something I've
been intending to add to the website page). I don't think the website
page should like the individual chapters, as it did originally. I
think it should be as short as possible, but have essential
information. It does need work, though, to cut down on talk and make
links easier to identify and follow. Tim's page provides some
excellent ideas. Tom, thanks for pointing it out.

--Jean

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 4:57 AM, Tom Davies <tomdavies04@yahoo.co.uk> 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
>
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>        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.
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>        http://libreoffice-na.us/English-3.5-installs/documentation-2d.html
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>        The colors do make the different version stand out.
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>        I also added my "modified" PDF files of the New Features and
>        Fixes pages, to the documentation page.
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>        I will be tweaking this page before It goes as the actual
>        online/DVD documentation page.
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>        When I get more documents for the 3.4/3.5 lines, I will create a
>        version 2 for the 3.5.4 DVD.
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>        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:
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>        debian-repo - Recommended
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>        3.5.3
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>        3.4.6
>
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>        listed on that page http://www.libreoffice.org/download/?type=box
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>        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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