Beta2 of LO v4.0 is available. http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/
Release is scheduled for the first week in February.
Although there may be some minor changes before the hard English
string & UI freeze, and Release Candidate (RC) 1 next week (Jan 7 -
Jan 13, 2013), we should be able to make considerable progress on the
user guides with the Beta2 and the release notes,
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/4.0 -- at least
identifying what needs to be changed or added in whatever book you're
working on.
We should concentrate on the most popular book, Getting Started. JohnS
and PeterS, would you do the GS chapters related to Writer, Impress,
Draw, and Calc? Others, including me, can then work on the other
chapters. Please continue to use the same template; swapping over to a
new template can be done later, and should not affect the content &
wording of the revisions. Many screenshots may need to be done later
too. But "later" is only 2 or 3 weeks from now.
--Jean