Documentation Team Meeting Minutes November 11th 2021 at 18:00 UTC.
Presents: Steve, Olivier
Telegram-group
https://t.me/joinchat/ALeRuUFCxyZY0wzoddldWQ
TDF Jitsi
https://jitsi.documentfoundation.org/tdfdocteam
Completed items:
Pending items:
AI: Join_The_Doc_Team.odp
+ Will review and enhance it (Dave)
AI: Consider a video (3 min) introducing doc team and doc tasks (OH)
AI: Give Moodle credentials to Mitchell
Activities (recap)
Not started
+ Base Guide update
+ Math Guide update
Ongoing work
Review draft Calc Guide chapters
Review draft Draw / Impress chapters
Review Calc function wiki pages
Address problems with Help (Olivier)
News:
Topics and Discussion:
* Guides: Time to update the BASE Guide?
+ After the Calc guide is published (SF)
+ Steve raises hand!
* Clean Direct Formatting
+ What tool to use for cleaning direct formatting? (SF)
+ I had my own macro: (OH)
Sub CleanDF
rem Simple script to clean direct formatting of paragraphs.
rem Note: it does not clean paragraphs in tables or frames
rem -------------------------------------------------------------------
rem define variables
dim document as Object
dim dispatcher as Object
oParEnum = Thiscomponent.Text.createEnumeration()
document = ThisComponent.CurrentController.Frame
dispatcher = createUnoService("com.sun.star.frame.DispatchHelper")
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:GoToStartOfDoc", "", 0, Array())
Do While oParEnum.hasMoreElements()
oPar = oParEnum.nextElement()
If oPar.supportsService("com.sun.star.text.Paragraph") Then
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:GoToStartOfLine", "", 0, Array())
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:EndOfParaSel", "", 0, Array())
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:ResetAttributes", "", 0, Array())
dispatcher.executeDispatch(document, ".uno:GoToNextPara", "", 0, Array())
End If
Loop
msgbox "Done cleaning"
End Sub
rem -------------------------------------------------------------------
+ Food for thought on preparing chapter for publication
+ create an extension with macros for
- clean direct formatting
- clean bulleted and number list
- sanity check of styles: detect non-official styles
+ add comment where it exist, prompt user...
- extension can add a toolbar or submenu for ease of use
+ can also be part of chapter template
* Template changer:
LibreOffice Documentation/English/Contributor Resources/Other Resources/
TemplateChanger-L-2.0.1.oxt
* Calc Functions Wiki
+ MAny functions ready for translation
+ Call communities to work on translations
+ good starting point for community members on translation
+ Check with Ilmari is everything is OK to announce.
Meeting ajourned
Next meeting : *THURSDAY* November 25th 2021 at 18:00 UTC.