Re: [libreoffice-website] when will NA-CMS add the Calc and Impress Documentation

On 08/18/2011 11:02 PM, drew wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 10:02 -0400, webmaster for Kracked Press
> <snip>
> > Been real sick since late last week,
> Hoping you have continued to feel better..
Still a little fuzzy half the time, but I am starting to recover.  Have 
a triple nerve block scheduled on Wed. of next week to help with the 
pain from the "scar tissue" growing next to my spine.  The Docs are no 
longer allowed to remove it, according to the insurance companies.  
Bummed out about that, since 5 years ago they did just that.  That 
pain/nerve/scar issues has prevented me from visiting my wife at her 
nursing 26 miles away, for the past 2 months.  To painful to drive that 
far right now.

Missed a major event where I was to dress up in an[my] old-time railroad 
engineer's outfit and take tickets for a mini train ride at an event 
that supports people with disabilities.  Sat. is Strong-Kids/Safe-Kids, 
and I was scheduled to work that as well, in a game booth that is run by 
adults with disabilities.  Wheelchair and the County Fair Ground will 
interesting this year, if I am fit enough to attend/work.


> > but now going through the 100's of
> > LO emails.
> A double edged sword - there is still plenty of activity on the mailing
> lists, and it predominantly reflects real work that is happening, it's
> impressive.
>
>
> > Drew - the Math Guide is a 0700 now, not 0800 as shown on the CMS
> > documentation page.  The writers decided to make that change.  The only
> > break in the numbering is the 0600 Migration Guide, and that has not
> > been updated for OOo since version 2.x.
> Actually, I would like to drop the numbering on the actual web page.
>
> Do you think that would look better?
I think it would look nice to have it more along the look of what is now 
on the
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation
page except maybe the dates, if the documents are automatically updated 
to the assets folder, otherwise we add the date the update was made.  
That will take a big rebuild of the page, but it may be worth it.

Until my head clears completely, I really do not want to deal with that 
CMS system.  If you want, I could do a work-up on the offline version, 
and you could cut/paste the body of the text that needs changing.  
Keeping the "header info" above the body tag and the footer info, but 
changing most of the body by cut/paste should work.  The links for the 
files will point to the proper folder paths.  With a little tweaking, it 
should be quicker that way.

> In the meantime have started a page on the wiki to gather final issues
> for this set of pages at:
> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Marketing/Americas_LibreOffice_DVD/PunchCard
> and just added this to the Math page.
>
> Just sent emails to the marketing (us) list with the link and asked
> others to help review the pages - likely edit between now and then but
> will plan on publishing pages again on Sunday for sure.
> > As for OOo "branding",
> > there are a lot of documents that currently not remade to be Specific LO
> > that are very useful.
> > Andrew Pitonyak's Macro Explained documents are not written for LO
> > [yet?].  Also, there is a really limited Base documentation out there,
> > and none are written "for" LO.
> Yeah..I know. I would still prefer not too to be honest, but perhaps
> that is precisely one side of my predisposition that needs tempering...
Well he did say we could use it on our DVD.  Hopefully he will make the 
LO version in the next few months.
> > If we get permission to list these documents, would we do a disservice
> > to LO by listing those documents when there are none yet written
> > specifically for LO?
> Contacting the authors of what we publish would be nice, can't argue
> there.
> > A disclaimer that the original documents were mostly written when LO was
> > not available and there are a dedicated group of writers that are
> > writing those specific LO documentation, would be nice or maybe needed
> > before these non-specific LO documents are posted/linked.
> I would think this is not really necessary at all and maybe a bit
> condescending, so I would not be in favor of such wording.
>
> //drew
Well we could, with permission, add links to the web sites for the 
Writers Group and the major authors that write documents for LO or that 
would work with LO.  Have a statement that about our thanks that they 
are writing/updating the LO documents and other "useful" documents for 
LO users.  Giving thanks to those who are working on LO documentation 
always is nice.



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