Hello Mark,
I 'm the person, who had written most of the German Base-Handbuch.
I've written documentation for programs that I've written. I've been
writing test scripts quite a lot recently. Are there test scripts for
LO Base? Maybe that might be a good use of my time.
What Do you mean with "test scripts"? Could it be you are looking for
example-databases? There are some databases already translated to
english, but some other examples aren't. The examples of the
Base-Handbuch 4.1 you will find here together with the chapters of the
whole Base-Handbuch.
I'm no C programmer so I don't think I've got a lot to offer with
coding. I'm assuming that LO Base is primarily written in C.
I have a son who speaks German so maybe I can ask him to help me
translate the German Base documentation into English.
Don't know where the English chapters of the old Handbook could be
downloaded. ODF-Autors, I think. The english version is made with of the
German Base-Handbuch 3.5. Only the chapter for the reports is from
version 4.0. I have seen, there is a version 4.0 - but it seems to be
the same.
I have created a Calc-document, which shows the difference between the
versions (only the chapters, which had been added) and, marked by
comments, the chapter, where you could find the new functions of Base in
version 4.1. This new functions are a "must be" for a book for version 4.1.
This document, together with the whole LO 4.1-Handuch, you can find here:
http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb/
The docoment, which show the difference, is
http://robert.familiegrosskopf.de/lo_hb/Vergleich_Base_Handbuecher.ods
All these documents are written in German. But when I would try to
translate it could be I don't find the right words for the content. My
favorite website with a whole traffic when reporting bugs is
http://www.dict.cc/
So could be better that someone will translate, who speaks English very
well.
Regards
Robert