Documentation team meeting minutes Friday April 4th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione, Maschuk, Ed Olson, Olivier

General Info:
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Completed Actions Items:

  • Add instructions of Deck app to Wiki (DM)
  • Continuing to Review Chapter 1 (DM).
  • CG25216 - finished

Pending Action Items:

Topics

  • Help pages

    • Report: fixed a Xapian issue (OH)
    • Having trouble with dev build in Fedora (DM)
      • missing dependencies
      • check with developers
  • Getting Started Guides
    AI: GS24804 - Styles and Templates (Mashuck)
    AI: + Starting work on Chapter 2 - Getting Started with Writer (DM)

    • GS25208 Base chapter.
      • Base has not been improved since years so the chapter has no new contents.
      • The update process should deal with release number and dates,
        • unless someone wants to simplify the English.
      • Actually this chapter is long and dense, it deserves a complete rewriting…
  • Calc Guide
    AI: + CG25204-Styles and Templates (Ed)

  • Misc

    • Pleonasms: “Create New”
      • does it affects people from non-native mother tongue? (DM)
      • Casual English is OK.
        • keep 'create new"
    • Style inheritance
      • Automatic styles vs custom styles.
      • Styles changes schema
    • Images, icons, anchoring, size, screenshots
      • Use COLIBRE icon set
      • Use Light theme
      • Image Anchor as character
        • explained frame wrapping caption and image
        • issue with caption and image anchoring
      • Image size must preserve ratio height/width
        • Select the image and hit F4 (properties) Crop tab.
        • shots must be readable and with good resolution
        • avoid shots too big in page, consider cropping.

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