Documentation team meeting minutes Friday October 3rd, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione, Ed Olson, Bernardo, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

  • AI: test outline and report (olivier)
    • Keep individual paragraph styles for lists
  • AI: Produce a document with 3 proposed “xplosions” (Bernardo)
    + position of the top LibreOffice logo (left or right)
    + done → update template
  • AI: Investigate and document:
    File>Properties>General>Prefered resolution (Dione)
    + leave defaults

Pending Action Items:

Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

AI: Writer Guide “New” feature Writer: Text box in shapes

Topics

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features

Guide Bugs reported in Bugzilla

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167650
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137487
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167965

Getting Started Guide

Calc Guide

Writer guide

  • Rewrite Master Document (P. Schofield)

Draw Guide

Misc

+ Business travel on Friday 10th for Olivier

New Template

  Analyse by parts
   + References
      + "on page"
          + For heading references, then OK 
          + not for the figures, which are close to the text usually
          + leave at Author discretion, do not exagerate.
   + Tables 
      + 5% left, 5% right, centered
          + Format with macro, do not use tabel style (Bernardo)
      + Allow table split
         + Repeat heading
      + Colors? 
         + Header a bit more lighter (Dione)
             + color is D0D0D0 for data tables headers (consensus)
         + Vertical borders on left and right (consensus)

   + Images 
      + Define resolution of screenshots, 
      + current: 96dpi preceived as "good" on the screen
      + PDF Export at 300dpi
      + Found this handy calculator: https://www.scantips.com/calc.html

AI: Update chapter template (Bernardo)

Help Chatbot

   + See Franklin Weng presentation in Budapest on LLM for LibreOffice

File management in NextCloud.

   + pending

Provide sample spreadsheets?

   + pending

Videos

   + Stalled  - under evaluation

Sanity check extension
+ Working

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Next meeting:
+ Fridays at 15:00 UTC.

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