(Translation from this post)
2020 was an terrible year.
We started the year with the expectation of an intense activity in LibreOffice but we were caught by the worst pandemic in centuries.
Category: Documentation
Czech translation of LibreOffice Calc Guide 6.4
Zdeněk Crhonek (aka “raal”) from the Czech LibreOffice community writes:
It’s a bit late for the Christmas gift , but we finished translation of the Calc guide 6.4. As usual it was team work, namely:
Translations: Petr Kuběj, Zdeněk Crhonek and Zuzana Pitříková
Text corrections: Marcela Tomešová and Vendula Crhonková
Localised pictures: Roman Toman
Technical support: Miloš Šrámek.
Thanks to all the team, and especially Petr for his amazing amount of translation work, Marcela for her patience with our mistakes, and Roman for his continuous support. The Czech translation of the Calc guide 6.4 is available for download here.
Zdeněk adds that the Czech team is continuing with the translation of the Writer Guide, and is always looking for new translators. Join them, or indeed teams in other languages!
New Beginner LibreOffice Tutorials and Videos from Paul Sutton
LibreOffice’s documentation community creates handbooks, guides, tutorials and other resources to help users get the most out of the software. Everyone is welcome to join the team and help out – it’s a great way to build up experience for a possible career in technical writing!
Paul Sutton is producing a series of blog posts and videos aimed at newcomers to LibreOffice, explaining some of the basics. He also has some extra videos here – check them out.
A big thanks to Paul for his work, and making his content available under a Creative Commons license, for everyone to share! Follow him on Twitter and Mastodon.
The LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.0 Just Arrived!
The LibreOffice Documentation Team is happy to announce the availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 7.0, the most comprehensive guide for the Calc module, updated to the latest version of LibreOffice.
The Guide is available in PDF format and contains 545 pages, covering all basic and advanced features of the spreadsheet module of LibreOffice, and is a must-read book for exploiting the maximum of LibreOffice Calc.
LibreOffice Math Guide 7.0 is Published
The Math Guide 7.0 is the first book published based on LibreOffice 7.0
The Documentation Team is happy to announce the publication of the Math Guide 7.0, the latest update of the guide based on the recently released LibreOffice 7.0, the best open source office suite ever.
The effort was mostly carried by Rafael Lima and reviewed by Jean H. Weber. The new guide covers were designed by Rizal Muttaqin and Drew Jensen. The final publication was carried by Olivier Hallot.
“I work as a university professor in Brazil and I often write papers and prepare presentations that involve mathematical models and notation, and for that I’ve been using LibreOffice Math for over a year. When I read about the Documentation Team on a TDF blog post and learned that the Math Guide needed a volunteer, I felt it was my chance to contribute back to the LibreOffice project” said Rafael Lima, leader of the project. “The experience was seamless and it has been a pleasure working with the Documentation Team. Now I am looking forward to continuing contributing to the project, not only with the Math Guide, but also in other publications developed and maintained by the team.” he added.
The new Math Guide is available at the documentation website at https://documentation.libreoffice.org and the source files are on the LibreOffice wiki at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Math_Guide
Happy documenting!
Documentation Team Status
By Dave Barton
In recent times, the very small LibreOffice Documentation Team has been making real progress in revising and updating the user guides:
Release 6.4 |
Release 7.0 |
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| Calc Guide | Published | Work in progress |
| Base Guide | Published | Work in progress |
| Draw Guide | Published | Work in progress |
| Impress Guide | Skipped | Work in progress |
| Math Guide | Published | Awaiting volunteer contributors |
| Writer Guide | Published | Awaiting volunteer contributors |
| Getting Started Guide | Published | Awaiting volunteer contributors |
While this progress in shortened documentation development time is fairly good, it can be substantially improved by having more contributors on the team.
It would be terrific if all contributors were a skilled technical writers, but in reality anyone with a reasonable command of the English language and an eye for detail can make a valuable contribution. No contributor is expected to rewrite entire guide books, although some of our most experienced, long term contributors do exactly that. In fact nothing is expected or demanded of any contributor, other than to let other members of the team know what they what they have chosen to work on.
In some cases, that might be to update a chapter of an existing guide, or reviewing the work of another team member. Reviewing can take the form of proof reading, or researching the accuracy of the guide information in relation to the software’s actual operation. By identifying yourself as a Docs Team contributor does not mean you are making any permanent or long term commitment – many contributors come and go over long periods according to the demands of their “real” life.
It can be seen in the documentation status above there are at least three guides where the input of new contributors would be very welcome. If you are interested in contributing these guides you can see the team guidelines here:
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/DocumentationTeamInfo/JoinDocTeam
Or to get a wider view of the Documentation Team activities visit this page:
https://documentation.libreoffice.org/en/join-the-documentation-team/ where you will also find information about maintaining the LibreOffice Help pages and the documentation wiki.
If you have any questions you are welcome to post them to: documentation@global.libreoffice.org or you can also join our Telegram group for documentation at https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ
The team also gather together in our open to all bi-weekly on-line meeting: https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam see: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Meetings for dates and times.
Join us! Happy documenting!