Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

For Draw, only the ones in Drafts should need image updates. DO NOT
use the Chapter 1 file that is in Drafts; it's marked as "superceded"
but that may be easy to overlook. Also, check the "Discussions" for
each of the other chapters; some have notes I made about other things
that need to be done in some of the chapters.

If you feel like doing something more ambitious than Draw, the Impress
Guide needs reviewing as well as some image updates.

--Jean

Not necessarily. The main indicator is what space the files are in;
for Draw, the ones in Drafts have not had image updates done, while
the ones in Reviewed have been updated.

Modification dates may have changed for files I checked out, made some
minor changes, decided I didn't have time to finish, and checked back
in again with a note of things remaining to be done.

For some other books (Getting Started, Writer, Calc), files in
Reviewed or even Published may need image updates because that didn't
get done for the first edition.

--Jean

Hi :slight_smile:
Thanks Jean :slight_smile:
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi,

Tried my best, but I could not add my name to the contributor list.. :slight_smile: When I do an Enter, it always go down one space extra...

Thanks

Hi Jaimon,

Hi,

Tried my best, but I could not add my name to the contributor list..  :-) When I do an Enter, it always go down one space extra...

If it's OK with you, can you check the document back in, please, and
I'll try adding your name for you.

Use Shift+Enter for a line break, not a new paragraph.
--Jean

Thanks Jean :slight_smile:

Hi David,

Thanks. I have added my name and checked in the documents again.

That point should still be explicitly described in the exposition that is contained in all the various flavors of templates, no?

Gary

Hi :slight_smile:
Shift and Enter compared to just Enter is a standard cross-platform feature in
many many different apps. It's not specific to LibreOffice. It's a bit like
knowing that Ctrl V pastes. 'Everyone' knows it. I only found out about it a
few months ago.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

The OOo/LO template exposition concerning the contributor names included the advice to use Shit+Enter (similar to <br /> in XHTML) as a forced line break between names, so that question of the original poster need not have been made--assuming that the instructions in the template exposition were followed.

But again, there is no harm in asking...

As to pasting: the unformatted paste (Ctrl+Shift+V) is often more useful when pasting the clipboard contents from different documents, especially if different apps were used.

Gary

Hi,

Yeah. I should have gone through it more carefully. I got it now, but I have a doubt about the Impress guide. The images had been updated by Song with Ambiance theme, so they need to be updated with windows xp theme now?  Sorry for being too doubtful..

Regards,
Jaimon

Hi Jaimon,

Yeah. I should have gone through it more carefully. I got it now, but I have a doubt about the Impress guide. The images had been updated by Song with Ambiance theme, so they need to be updated with windows xp theme now?  Sorry for being too doubtful..

I don't see any particular reason to do anything to Song Chuan's
work... Unless you have a particular idea in mind? If not, the idea
would simply be to continue working on what is left to be done.

That would be my 2 cents...

@Song Chuan: Song Chuan, would you have any comments or suggestions?

Hi :slight_smile:
+1
Even tho it might not be the theme we eventually agreed on at least they are not
Windows screen-shots so there is no real need to change them this time. The
"Windows xp theme" is the silver(ish) one on Ubuntu?
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

There are some errors of both omission and commission (plus some copyedit errors) in the OOo/LO template exposition. I am working on them. Probably, I will get back to that sometime this week and finish it. Good for you--your reading of it.

Gary

I believe those in Chapter 1 were done with the Radiance theme, which
is a theme with poor contrast. It may not be worth the time now to
redo them with a better theme, but they will need to be done in a
better-contrast theme (such as XP-Silver) at some point.

IMO it's more important now to continue through all the chapters
getting rid of Windows pix -- and (very important) reviewing for
differences between LibO and OOo -- but please don't use Radiance for
the theme. I see that Chapter 2 has used XP-Silver for the
replacements. Chapter 3 seems to have some in Radiance, others in
ClearLooks, and still others in XP-Silver. I haven't looked at the
others.

--Jean

Dave: Perhaps, Jaimon would prefer doing what he likes to do... After all, he is not simply an employee who needs to be ordered around. His working as a volunteer on whatever he wants to do should not be of much concern to you.

Any time a reviewer/editor goes over the OOo/LO documents, there are very likely many overlooked errors that could be corrected--in addition to filling in gaps left undone in prior work..

That would be my dos centavos...

Gary

Hi Jaimon,

Yeah. I should have gone through it more carefully. I got it now, but I
have a doubt about the Impress guide. The images had been updated by Song
with Ambiance theme, so they need to be updated with windows xp theme now?
 Sorry for being too doubtful..

I don't see any particular reason to do anything to Song Chuan's
work... Unless you have a particular idea in mind? If not, the idea
would simply be to continue working on what is left to be done.

That would be my 2 cents...

@Song Chuan: Song  Chuan, would you have any comments or suggestions?

Dave: Perhaps, Jaimon would prefer doing what he likes to do... After all,
he is not simply an employee who needs to be ordered around. His working as
a volunteer on whatever he wants to do should not be of much concern to you.

Jaimon asked for advice. David and I gave our opinions. No one is
ordering him or anyone else around.

Any time a reviewer/editor goes over the OOo/LO documents, there are very
likely many overlooked errors that could be corrected--in addition to
filling in gaps left undone in prior work..

We have encouraged everyone to do more than just screenshots, if they want to.

I'll add that no one is required to work on the user guides, if they
prefer to do something else. That's been said several times before,
too.

--Jean

The OOo/LO template exposition concerning the contributor names included the
advice to use Shit+Enter (similar to <br /> in XHTML) as a forced line break
between names, so that question of the original poster need not have been
made--assuming that the instructions in the template exposition were
followed.

People reviewing chapters in the user guides probably won't have read
the exposition in the template, because they will have had no reason
to open the template and discover that there is useful information
there.

When you have finished revising the expostion, we can copy it into a
planned chapter of the Contributors' Guide. That way people are more
likely to discover and read the information.

But again, there is no harm in asking...

As to pasting: the unformatted paste (Ctrl+Shift+V) is often more useful
when pasting the clipboard contents from different documents, especially if
different apps were used.

Thanks for the reminder. I forget about that keystroke combination, a
very useful one.

--Jean

There was no really good reason (on legal copyright grounds) not to use the Windows XP screen captures because Microsoft would routinely insert their boilerplate copyright notices, although Microsoft would never waste its time and effort going after those who used screenshots with any Windows O/S theme. Even for a competing product like OOo/LO.

Eventually, I might repackage (and rewrite them a bit) the LO documents according to my own specifications in US Letter page size. When doing so, I might reinsert the XP silver theme (or, perhaps, use another theme) for any screen captures, primarily to get some practice using some proprietary screen-capture apps.

Gary