Regarding the Base Handbook (translated from German).
Hello Mark,
I 'm the person, who had written most of the German Base-Handbuch.
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.
Yes, the English Base Handbook v4.0 is identical to the v3.5-3.6
Handbook; due to lack of time, we did not translate the changes made
in the German version.
The source ODT files for the English version are here:
http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-handbook/published
Thank you, Robert, for the links below to the v4.1 German files and
your spreadsheet of changes.
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....
So could be better that someone will translate, who speaks English very
well.
Whoever does the translating can decide whether to with the existing
English translation and update it with the v4.1 changes, or start from
the German 4.1 and do a complete new translation. This decision might
vary depending on the chapter; some may have more changes than others.
I have not yet had time to look at Robert's spreadsheet.
In addition to translating, we might want to rewrite some material
(such as examples) to suit English-speaking audiences better. This was
done in a few places in the v3.5 handbook.
IMO the goal should be to get a usable document done as quickly as
possible and then amend it later if we want to. That's what we did
with the v3.5 book. A more long-term goal is to combine the handbook
material with work being done on the Base Guide. I will write more
about the Base Guide in a separate note.
BTW, we have a system for tracking who is doing what on each book, but
unfortunately not everyone keeps it up to date. (I am as guilty of
this as anyone; I get busy and forget.) It's on this page:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development/UserGuideTasks
--Jean
--Jean