Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents do strange things

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

Hi :)
The Documentation Team get around it by having a simple table of Mac-equivalents at the bottom of one of the early pages, perhaps page 2?  

There are a few other differences because Mac keyboards are  different and there didn't used to be a right-button on their mice so right-clicks are still avoided.  I think the table has about half a dozen things listed.  Then the guides follow the Windows-and-Gnu&Linux way leaving Mac users to refer back to that table if they find they can't do a certain thing.  

Of course the guides are given in Odt format as well as Pdf so Mac users could use search&replace to make their version specific to Mac.  Even if there were enough people in the Docs Team it would still be tricky to have separate versions of the guide for even 2 different platforms let alone for different OSes.  

Regards from
Tom :)


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From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Documents do strange things
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Sunday, 27 May, 2012, 15:30

On 05/26/2012 06:52 PM, Tinkerer wrote:
> Something went wrong there.
> 
> I should have said:
> There is no Tools>  Options for LO in the Mac system.
> To make the correction you need: Libre Office>Preferences>Writer etc.
> 
> Tink.
> 

I wonder why Mac systems use a different set of Menu options for Writer/etc..

That would make it a problem for the documentation people to "demonstrate" how to do something in Writer/etc. when there are different Menus and Option names in the sub-Menus in Mac, Linux [between distros and desktop environments], and Windows.  With different Menu names and options, then you will have to have a different documentation for each OS and desktop that has a different menu version than the "normal" one.




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