ubuntu-doc Digest, Vol 43, Issue 3

Thu Apr 3 14:35:19 UTC 2008

Hi,

just a quick note,

the links on the right hand side pane for 'Work in Progress' under
'Edubuntu' at http://doc.ubuntu.com/ are broken, they are missing an extra
/edubuntu/ in the link.

Kind regards,

Eoghan.

On 03/04/2008, ubuntu-doc-request at lists.ubuntu.com <
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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:33:23 -0400
> From: "Jonathan Jesse" <jjesse at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Request to join the mentoring programme
> To: "Patti Short" <magenta3604 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 8:56 PM, Patti Short <magenta3604 at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > My name is Patti and I'm a professional Technical Writer with 12 years
> > of experience writing novice to expert level documentation. However, my
> > expertise is in the area of configuration and administration. I have a
> > degree, and hands-on experience, in computer networking with some
> > programming.
> >
> > Currently, I use KDE Ubuntu and I would be interested in writing any
> > system documentation as well as any server documentation. I would also
> > be interested in documenting anything regarding the topic of switching
> > from Windows to Ubuntu.
> >
> > Thank you in advance for your time,
> > Patti Short
> > Cell: 303-819-4936
> > Message: 303-424-9029
> > Fax: 515-474-3025
> > short.patti at gmail.com
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> > Welcome Patti,
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> It is nice to see Kubuntu people interested in helping out with
> Documentation.  The documentation we are shipping with Hardy is on the
> doc.ubuntu.com page and would lbe a great place to start to review and
> submit patches/bugs/etc to the mailing list.
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> Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 13:23:14 +0300
> From: Billy Cina <billy.cina at canonical.com>
> Subject: Usability] Word-a-Day (Terminology Recommendations)]]
> To: ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com,
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> Maybe something we can get involved with.
>
> Best regards
> Billy Cina
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> From: Shaun McCance <shaunm at gnome.org>
> To: gnome-doc-list at gnome.org
> Cc: gnome-i18n at gnome.org, gnome-love at gnome.org,
> desktop-devel-list at gnome.org, usability at gnome.org
> Subject: [Usability] Word-a-Day (Terminology Recommendations)
> Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 12:36:16 -0500
>
> In an effort to revamp the terminology recommendations found in
> our Documentation Style Guide, I'm starting a little initiative
> I call Word-a-Day.  Basically, every day (more or less), I will
> send a term or a group of related terms to gnome-doc-list for
> discussion.
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> I've CC'd a number of mailing lists for this announcement, but
> the actual Word-a-Day emails will be sent to gnome-doc-list only.
> Please subscribe to gnome-doc-list if you want to participate.
> This is an otherwise low-traffic mailing list.
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> I have a rough list of terms to filter through here:
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> http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Terminology/RoughList
>
> These are not necessarily terms that will be recommended or
> recommended against.  They're just terms I've come across in
> various style guides and communications media.  If there are
> terms you feel should be addressed, add them to this page
> under the 'User Suggestions' section.
>
> When I select a term or group of terms, I will put together
> a tentative recommendation.  If I'm personally undecided,
> I'll formulate multiple recommendations we can choose from.
> I'll send that information to the list for discussion and
> put the terms here:
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> http://live.gnome.org/DocumentationProject/Terminology
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> The 'Pending Terms' section will contain a list of terms
> I've sent to the list, with a link to the mailing list
> archive of the email.  Please do not edit this page.
> Send your comments to the mailing list instead.
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> When a consensus has been reached, I'll move those terms
> to the 'Completed Terms' section with the recommendations
> we've agreed upon.
>
> When this is all finished, I'll incorporate all the new
> recommendations into the Style Guide.  This is the first
> step in a revamp of the Style Guide.
>
> For the curious, my plan is to change the GNOME Documentation
> Style Guide to something more like the GNOME Manual of Style.
> That is, it will contain language recommendations for both
> documentation and user interfaces.  There may be sections
> that deal specifically with documentation, if needed, but
> the core of the document will not be documentation-specific.
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> Message: 3
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 12:42:20 +0200
> From: "M.P. Rommedahl" <lhademmor at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Short-n-sweet
> To: philbull at gmail.com
> Cc: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> Hi all
> Sorry for suddenly bumping an old subject - I was cleaning out my inbox,
> and
> wondered if there has been any work done on this? If this Expandable-thing
> is a good solution, then a clear cut between GUI and CLI would definitely
> be
> a must!
>
> mp
>
> 2007/10/26, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com>:
> >
> > Hi Matthew,
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 18:09 -0700, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> > > > What are the pros-n-cons of folding/hiding/suppressing/visually
> > > > segregating the GUI from the CLI instructions?  I realize it adds a
> > > > level of complexity to the docs, but it might be worth it.
> > > > ...
> > >
> > > That would be nifty. Microsoft uses expandable sections heavily in
> > > their help pages. <http://urlx.org/microsoft.com/44836>
> > >
> > > I don't know how we'd go about getting it implemented in either Yelp
> or
> > > MoinMoin, though.
> >
> >
> > It wouldn't be too difficult to implement in MoinMoin. All it would
> > require is a new macro which dumps a bit of JavaScript into the page and
> > some more JavaScript in the wiki page header. You could define
> > expandable sections like so:
> >
> > [[Expandable(Name of this section)]]
> >
> > Some text...
> >
> > [[Expandable(end)]]
> >
> > This should be possible with Yelp too, but I'm not sure if there's an
> > appropriate DocBook element which we could use to define an expandable
> > section.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Phil
> >
> >
> > --
> > Phil Bull
> > http://www.launchpad.net/people/philbull
> >
> >
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