Robert, this is great news! I'm making progress with the GNU Linux guides. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Farrell" <robertfarr...@embarqmail.com> To: doc@openoffice.apache.org Sent: Saturday, January 23, 2021 12:25:30 AM Subject: Re: Proposed Process for Documentation
Keith, I’d be glad to lend a hand with the Getting Started guides. Tell me what you need and how you need it. My platform is MacBook Pro MacOS 11.1 (Big Sur). Thanks, Robert Robert Farrell robertfarr...@embarqmail.com > On Jan 21, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> > wrote: > > On 1/15/2021 1:01 AM, F Campos Costero wrote: >> Keith - Have you looked into using Git with the odt file format. I did a >> quick search and it seems that Git can only handle a plain text version of >> the document if you want to see a Diff between two versions. So you could >> see which words had changed and differences in the grouping of text in >> paragraphs but things like the formatting of text or arrangement of images >> with respect to the text could not be tracked through git diff. Of course, >> changes could be tracked within the odt file, though even that is not >> comprehensive. For example, changing a paragraph's style does not seem to >> be captured. Dennis's point about how edits will be coordinated and >> versions controlled is very important.. I have no experience with technical >> writing beyond writing drafts and handing them to "the documentation >> people" to do their magic, so I can't give any really informed advice. The >> matter does bear some very careful thinking and discussion. Luckily, we >> will not have to deal with a huge team right away. >> >> regards, >> Francis >> > > Yes I did. In fact all the revisions of the proposal were done using my > GitHub account and it worked quite well. It will offer to open the > binary file in the external application. You are correct that it does > not handle a diff, but that is not why I was suggesting using it. It was > simply as this is the version control system that the project has chosen > to use and trying to implement anything different would require yet > another VM for the project and the incumbent overhead of finding > volunteers with the necessary skills to maintain it. > > As I am seeing no other comments from the documentation team I am > planning on writing this attempt off as one more failure on my part. > > I will continue on my own to attempt to get a usable 4.1.x and 4.2.x > Getting Started guide completed. Any help in getting these done will be > greatly appreciated. > > Regards > Keith > >> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 10:26 AM Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net> >> wrote: >> >>> On 1/13/2021 6:17 PM, Dennis Hamilton wrote: > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: doc-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: doc-h...@openoffice.apache.org
