On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > > > > > > http://www.pcworld.com/article/2048446/apache-openoffice-4-0-review-new-features-easier-to-use-still-free.html > > > > Title is "Apache OpenOffice 4.0 review: New features, easier to use, > still > > free" > > > > We get 4.5 of 5 stars. The reviewer says AOO 4.0 is "smooth and > > cohesive" and gives good coverage to the new sidebar. > > > > However we are dinged a little for the "documentation" (I think he > > means the in-product help files) which is described as "sparse, and > > not well-aimed at non-technical users". I wonder if there is > > something we can do to link in more of the tutorial/overview material > > that exists? > > > > -Rob > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > > I'm sure there is. I took a look at what's available to guide one of our > newest volunteers who might be interested in contributing to this. There is > a 108 page document on the help files! I'm sure it's useful but probably > VERY daunting when it's likely making changes to the help files isn't > necessarily so. > > Also, given my own experience of late with the internal help files, I'm not > happy with the results produced by the "Find", and wonder how we can get > more hits for keywords that should yield some better results. > > Long story short, we do need to expend some effort in the near future ( > goal of mine anyway) to tutorials/guidelines on the help system -- how it > works, how to add to it, etc. This is really an area of "documentation" in > my mind, even though it is internal. Volunteers with some technical writing > expertise would be very valuable in this area. > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > MzK > > "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged > to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't." > -- "Following the Equator", Mark Twain > I think it would help people if we have a more wiki-like navigation of the documents as opposed to the old chm model. Things like tag clouds, tutorials and better used of integrate it with a knowledgebase like the FAQ engine that was generated on the wiki documentation website. -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org 882C 4389 3C27 E8DF 41B9 5C4C 1DB7 9D1C 7F4C 2614
