Hi Daniel,
I proofread your document and uploaded it to the wiki [1]. I inserted
comments at various places in the doc to explain my changes, and to
make some suggestions. I slightly altered the English for what, IMHO,
would be better for an international reader base, but no major
rewrites. I reformulated some sentences, added bits, etc. Anyway,
you'll see all that.
IMHO, it's a nice draft.
If it was for the LibreOffice documentation set, I'd suggest "Power
Users Guide" for the title. That's the audience it fits, and it
doesn't have much content that makes it really specific to technical
writers.
A few ideas: maybe you could address the subject of bibliography
a bit more, for example? (Even if not in too much detail.) Same thing
for fields? Also, maybe you could cover MACROS (macro recording, if
not macro programming), and the advanced aspects of find-and-replace?
(Regular expressions is what I'm thinking of.)
Anyway, IMVHO, it's nicely written and packs a lot into a small
manual, so that more-advanced users can get up to speed quickly
without having to read large volumes of documentation.
I understand you have a size constraint to comply with. If you don't
have time or if you can't write much more (because of your project
rules), maybe I could help you develop the above suggestions. It would
make a nice little project for me, too!
I, for one, will certainly pay personal attention to maintaining it in
the future, if you don't have time to work on it yourself.
Anyway, Thanks for your work. Great job, and I hope you get good
marks. You and your co-authors certainly deserve it.
HTH.
[1] http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/File:Guide_for_technical_writers-draft.odt
David Nelson