Hello Jean and Martin

The simple solution on dates is to use the internationally recognised date 
format YYYY-MM-DD. That way there is no need to worry about translation of 
month names. Having worked with multiple languages YYYY-MM-DD works very well.

Regards
Peter Schofield
[email protected]



> On 5 Jul 2020, at 09:34, Martin Srebotnjak <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi, Jean,
> 
> I have one request:
> please remove date fields for month of publication (page 2): languages with
> cases are not supported properly in LO and LO does not properly adjust
> month names (e.g. in Slovenian, LO replaces "January" with nominative
> "januar", but in this sentence it should be genitive "januarja", like "12.
> januarja 2020"; as this is a field - editing it later is also cumbersome
> and it actually brings us to manually deleting the fields and retyping the
> sentence).
> So, for the sake of l10n into languages with cases (like Slavic languages
> etc.) please omit month field names and replace them with normal words that
> can easily be properly translated (in OmegaT, for example) as simple
> strings.
> 
> BTW, why is the logo on the manual cover sub-titled as "Community Edition"
> - why is "Community Edtion" string required here? Can this string be
> localized? Can a l10n team replace the logo with "only" basic LO logo in
> its localized edition? Or remove the logo? Probably yes.
> 
> Thanks,
> m.
> 
> V V ned., 5. jul. 2020 ob 02:35 je oseba Jean Weber <[email protected]>
> napisala:
> 
>> I have now updated the draft v7 chapter template from comments by
>> several team members in an earlier discussion, and I have replaced the
>> file named LibreOffice_7.x_Template_JHW.ott in the English >
>> Contributors Resources folder in NextCloud.
>> 
>> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/apps/files/?dir=/LibreOffice%20Documentation/English/Contributor%20Resources&fileid=81380
>> 
>> Direct shared link:
>> https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/yLJCPaqqoTSzGz3
>> 
>> Please try it out and see if you find any errors or omissions.
>> 
>> When we agree to use this or another variation of the template, and
>> Olivier approves it, we'll need to change the filename to remove my
>> initials.
>> 
>> Regards, Jean
>> 
>> On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 6:07 AM Jean Weber <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I wasn’t at the meeting, but I can say that the template is not ready to
>> use - even if everyone says they accept my version, I need to do a bit of
>> tidying up before it’s good to go.
>>> 
>>> Jean
>>> 
>>> On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 19:42 Steve (GMail) <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Olivier,
>>>> 
>>>> For those of us who did not attend the meeting, please could you
>>>> summarize the status with regards to the 7.0 template? Is the template
>>>> ready for us to apply to our 7.0 guide files?
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> 
>>>> Steve
>> 
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