Hi :)
Initial releases of documentation had to be rushed through in order to re-brand 
community-written documentation released under copyleft agreements in order to 
help promote LibreOffice and also hopefully avoid Oracle doing their usual 
money-grabbing & court-action weirdness.  A lot of companies seem to be 
buying-up trademarks and ip-rights and stuff in order to generate income from 
court actions.  The team got the job done well.  

Now the priorities are a bit different and there might be time to deal with 
issues like this now.  Would it be a good time to start fresh documents with a 
very much more recent version of LibreOffice with fresh styles and everything 
so that we avoid legacy issues that might be being carried over from the early 
days of OpenOffice?  Copy&pasting contents, perhaps the contents.xml (?), might 
be a good way to totally refresh&update everything?  

Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Mon, 9/1/12, PeeWee <[email protected]> wrote:

From: PeeWee <[email protected]>
Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Re: Styles naming and usage in LibO manuals
To: [email protected]
Date: Monday, 9 January, 2012, 8:48

Hello

I am also curious as to why the standard style names have not been used for
the document templates used in LibreOffice documentation. Having specific
style names can cause problems when converting a document into another
format such as RTF or Word and I speak from personal experience when
converting templates into different formats - never easy, but better when
standard style names are used.

Also, using the standard style names for the documents also emphasises the
versatility of LibreOffice when used for creating large and complicated
documents. This could be a good selling point in getting users to adopt
LibreOffice as their main office software.

It makes me think that LibreOffice missed an opportunity when it came into
being from OpenOffice. Even just renaming the style names so that the names
start with LO instead of OOo.

Obviously there could be a legacy problem from existing documents, but new
names could be used when creating documents for a new version of
LibreOffice, that is 3.5.

Regards

Peter

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