Documentation team meeting minutes Friday September 26th, 2025 --** 15:00 UTC **--

Presents: Dione, Bernardo, Olivier

Completed Actions Items:

AI: + Guide covers: Need to create PNG’s (Dione)
+ Completed. PNG versions of covers and thumbnails are saved in LibreOffice Documentation/English/Contributor Resources/Covers/Cover262, in the relevant guide subfolder.

Pending Action Items:

Getting started with Base chapter needs rewrite?

Action item: test outline and report (olivier)
+ Peter Schofield proposals
+ First page Image
Action Item: Produce a document with 3 proposed “xplosions” (Bernardo)
+ position of the top LibreOffice logo (left or right)
Action Item: Investigate and document:
File>Properties>General>Prefered resolution (Dione)
Action Item + Evaluate creating of a outline for lists

Topics

Help pages (recurring)

  • Updates and fixes
  • New pages for new features

Getting Started Guide

Calc Guide

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

Writer guide

“New” feature

Misc

  • Alphabetical Index (discussed)
    • “Old fashion” DM
    • Search feature is better in PDF/ODT (DM)
    • Good for printed version, but… (DM)
    • In electronic publication, it is not so useful (BantonioF)
      • Too much work, not useful
        => Not necessary, up to book coordination leader

New Template

  Analyse by parts
   + References  (not discussed)
      + "on page"
      + Figures/ Headings
   + Tables (Not discussed)
      + 5% left, 5% right
      + split table
      + Repeat heading
      + Colors?
   + Images (not discussed)
      + 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

   + Numbered Lists: (discussed and approved by consensus)

Num 1: Align 1.25 cm, Align Right, Tabstop, Tabstop at 0,25 Indent at 1,50
Num 2: Align 1.85 cm, Align Right, Tabstop, Tabstop at 0,25 Indent at 2.10
Num 3: Align 2.35 cm, Align Right, Tabstop, Tabstop at 0.25 Indent at 2.60
List 1: same as Num 1
List 2: same as Num 2
Legend Numbered rest as in previous template

Related styles have the same indentation (left margin) as the text of the list styles
Related Styles (Numbering 1/ List 1) Left Margin = 1,50cm
Body Text Indented, Definition Term, List Contents, Numbering 1 Cont. List 1 Cont.
Related Styles (Numbering 2/ List 2) Left Margin = 2.10cm
Body Text, Indented 2, Definition Term2, Numbering 2 Cont., List 2 Cont.
Related Styles (Numbering 3) Left Margin = 2.60cm
Numbering 3 Cont.

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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