Draw Guide Chapter 8 Completely New Version

Hello

The original Chap 08 Tips & Tricks in version LO3.4 has been deleted. It did
not contain any tips or tricks, just instructions that have now been moved
to the following chapters:

Zoom and snap functions to Chap 03.
Duplication to Chap 05.
Color, drawing to scale, multiple layers and pages to Chap 09 Advanced Draw
Techniques.

With the deletion of Chap 08 Tips & Tricks, Chap 09 is renumbered to Chap 08
and Chap 10 is renumbered to Chap 09. File names are changed to reflect this
change of chapter number.

The name of this new Chapter 8 is now Connections, Flowcharts and
Organization Charts and the file name is now
DG3508-ConnectionsFlowchartsOrganizationCharts.odt

I will be correcting cross references in the other chapters to reflect these
changes.

Please review and comment on these changes.

Regards

PeterS

Forgot to add.

One completely new Chap 8 is now in the Draw LO3.5 drafts folder waiting for
review.

I think the documentation page in the LO website will have to be changed
slightly to accommodate these changes.

Regards

PeterS

Hi :slight_smile:
I think that when the wiki gets updated that automatically updates the official web-site's page too.  The official page uses the same link as the wiki.  Of course that is only going to work when updating existing chapters that have already been added to the official page.  New versions, such as the 3.6.x haven't been added to the official page yet so updating them on the wiki doesn't spill over onto the official page.

Errr, i think that's how it works?  Hopefully that clarifies things but i tend to find i only confuse people and get it wrong too!
Apols and regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hi :slight_smile:
Hmmm, a tips&tricks might be useful but obviously not if it's empty!  If the numbering changes then i can kinda deal with it on the wiki but it's not likely to be as tidy as i would like.  If the tips&tricks is going to vanish completely then i would like to create a new page for archived&current for the moment and then make it purely for archived after 3.6.x starts to appear on the official website's page

Wiki is
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Official is
http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/

Base would appear on both for the moment.

Ideally i would like to delay splitting the wiki until after the 3.6.x guides are linked to from the official page because then it would all be quite neat and wouldn't need to change much.  However life doesn't always go the way we want right? 
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Hello Tom

There are definitely no tips and tricks. The information contained in the
LO3.4 Chap 8 Tips & Tricks was confusing and poorly written. When I started
to upgrade it to LO3.5, I realised that all the information was just
instructions on how to do things in Draw. I did discuss this with Jean and
Jean did say OK to my suggestions.

So the LO3.4 Chap 8 Tips & Tricks has been deleted and will not appear in
LO.35 draw guide. The LO3.4 Chaps 9 and 10 are now LO3.5 Chaps 8 and 9.

Hope that helps.

Regards

PeterS

Tom, the official website page (unlike the wiki) no longer lists individual chapters. We'll have to amend the wiki page; I have some ideas on how to do that with minimal or no confusion to visitors. I encourage you to NOT make any changes immediately, please.

Jean

Hi :slight_smile:
Ok, i wasn't in a rush to change the wiki.

I do much prefer the wiki to the official page to the extent that i've stopped looking at the official page at all.
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

Peter,
Good reorganisation. Minor edits:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/draw-guide/feedback-lo3.5/dg3.5-ch8-connections-flowcharts-orgcharts/view

--Jean

Hello Jean

Chapter 8 now published on ODF Authors website and LibreOffice documentation website.

Regards

Peter Schofield
psauthor@gmail.com

Excellent, Peter. But don't forget to change the state of published
chapters on ODFAuthors to "Published".

I have just changed the ones you recently uploaded, while I was taking
copies of them.

--Jean