Documentation team meeting minutes Friday February 20th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Bernardo, Dione, Edward, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

  • Chapter 17 - Fields (Olivier)
  • See WG262 deck app in Nextcloud

Pending Action Items:

“Preferred resolution”
Making sure you're not a bot!
Making sure you're not a bot!
New GSOC Improvements

Topics

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features
    • “Canvas Slide”
    • Table Styles

Documentation website pages

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137487

Getting Started Guide (recurring)

Calc Guide (recurring)

Writer guide (recurring)

+ AI: Submit bug for Keyboard shortcut dialog
  + Have a search field or checkboxes row for 
    quick find of available/existing shortcuts
+ About Outline levels, headings levels and list, list levels:
   + https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155269#c9
   + rather complex concept that requires better guidance: WG Ch. 12
   + https://books.libreoffice.org/en/WG252/WG2512-Lists.html
+ Many features in Release notes to update 
   https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/26.2#Writer
   https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/25.8#Writer

Draw Guide (recurring)

Misc (recurring)

Help Chatbot
+ stalled
+ See Franklin Weng presentation in Budapest on LLM for LibreOffice

File management in NextCloud.
+ pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?
+ Vasudev provided a start
+ LibreOffice Documentation/English/Contributor Resources/Calc-En-Examples-Figures/
+ OLE objects must not be used in published documents
+ does not render well
+ use image/screenshot instead
+ Questions: Where to insert?
+ in chapters: (Olivier, Dione)
+ as OLE object at end of chapter
+ Chapter carries its own sample source, no dispersion
+ can be attached in a hidden section at the end
+ Will facilitate translation job (file available)
+ will increase chapter size
+ what about exporting to PDF, ODT, HTML?
+ As link in a file server
+ requires management/security
+ Zip file with all collateral files (B. Antonio)

Videos
+ Stalled - under evaluation

General Info:

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Next meeting:

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