[FM Discuss] Beyond manuals

[Janet Swisher]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Andy Oram <andyo at oreilly.com> wrote:
> In particular, I can't find useful information on the Web about how to write macros for OOO. Should be an easy project for people who have done a bunch, and reference info could be included too.

So, you mean open-licensed information? There are a couple of books
available, plus Andrew Pitonyak's page: http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php

Or is that information not useful? (I haven't tried to use it,
myself.) If so, how?

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "adam hyde" <adam at flossmanuals.net>
> To: discuss at lists.flossmanuals.net
> Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2009 11:32:26 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [FM Discuss] Beyond manuals
>
> ok, certainly an identica manual would be cool and seems like they might
> be up for it.
>
> i think there is also an overdue need for a gimp manual, and a good
> openoffice manual

What do you see as lacking about the OpenOffice documentation? There
is a very active documentation project for OpenOffice, so I don't see
duplicating their efforts as a good use of FM resources. Better to
provide feedback so they can improve what they've got. Or is this a
licensing issue?

>
> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 08:00 -0400, Andy Oram wrote:
>> Adam, I see good points in both your recent emails to this list: 1) we should consolidate what we've just done, 2) we should set the groundwork for the next books, even if we're a bit frazzled over the most recent efforts.
>>
>> I think I'll have some time this coming Saturday to fiddle with the order and transitions in the command-line manual. I'm not going to put in such effort on every book, but I feel a responsibility toward this one.
>>
>> O'Reilly just announced the release of our Twitter book, and Tim O'Reilly himself worked on it. Other publishers are pushing Twitter hard too. We should let the public know there's a free alternative.
>>