Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:08 am Post subject: Helping rewrite the Early Access pages on NeoOffice.org
As mentioned in this topic, Patrick has accepted help in rewriting the EAP pages on NeoOffice.org to reflect the changes in the EAP program. The EAP pages can be accessed from the following URLs :
Thank you for your offer to help. If you want to help, there are a few pages that only need text changes that you could help rewrite:
1. The main EAP description page - The following URL needs to be updated to reflect the new program. The key dates for this EAP are that any donations since 27 March 2007 through the end of this EAP (27 August 2007) count towards the EAP membership. Here is the total donations that you need:
NeoOffice 2.2.1 Early Access Membership - US$25 or €19, or £13 or CA$28 or AU$30 or ¥3200 since 27 March 2007
NeoOffice 2.x Early Access Subscription - Purchase of a subscription in a past EAP or US$50 or €38 or £26 or CA$56 or AU$60 or ¥6400 since 27 March 2007
2. The EAP features page - The key changes here are that we will have native spellchecking support and experimental MS Office 2007 Excel and PowerPoint support.
3. The EAP download page - The key change needed here is to update the wording in the download section to match the changes on the main EAP page. Also, I will put an EAP system login text field in this section. I was envisioning something like "To see if you qualify, login using the PayPal e-mail address that you used to donate".
4. NeoOffice User Guide links - I am planning on pushing the latest NeoOffice User Guide to our mirrors. Adding a link is easy, but I don't know where to put the link within our existing pages. Any text that you can suggest would be welcome. Also, I am OK if we repeat the text on more than one page.
Patrick
I'm not going to do everything myself though - so any help is appreciated
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:48 am Post subject:
Here's a first draft of the Early Access Features page (probably the easiest, I know) :
The "Handles Microsoft ..." entry changes to :
Handles Microsoft Office 2007 Files
[...] The ODF Add-in is an open source project that makes it possible for NeoOffice to open, edit, and save files in the Office 2007 Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats. [...]
And we add a new native spellchecker entry (e.g. "Native spellchecker support"). I have comes up with two possible versions though :
(1) NeoOffice supports the Mac OS X native spellchecker, and can access [all available] or [the built-in] Mac OS X dictionaries.
or
(2) The NeoOffice spellcheck can access [all available] or [the built-in] Mac OS X dictionaries.
I also wonder whether we should mention the Address Book integration - it will soon be in OOo as well, but it's not in OOo 2.2.1 ...
To doctype : This is about (re)writing/editing, but I'm sure Patrick would welcome another translation. Note that aside from the few changes mentioned above, the EAP features page won't change much so you can probably begin translating this one.
I would offer translating into German as soon as the pages are ready.
Yesterday, I was thinking that it was writing. However, after looking closely at my existing pages last night, I think that I can easily use the existing EAP page structure so I think most of the work will be translation. Note that translation can also occur after EAP starts if you cannot translate within the very short time that is left before EAP starts.
For those who are curious, I am going to change the wording on the main early access page to describe the program changes (that should only change a few paragraphs) and I will use the same format for the download pages as I currently use for the free download. The only difference will be that I'll replace the nags with the existing statement on earlyaccessdownload.php that only Early Access members and subscribers will be able to download the file. Only when you actually click on the PowerPC or Intel download link will you be forced to log into the system.
With this page layout, most of our existing download page translations can be reused. Hopefully, that will lessen the translation work a little bit.
To help make translation easier, I will have all the web changes sometime today. The actual login will merely display "no downloads available at this time" as that won't be done until tomorrow or Thursday.
Joined: Apr 25, 2006 Posts: 2315 Location: Montpellier, France
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:57 pm Post subject:
FWIW, one of the reasons I created this topic was to coordinate our effort (both writing & translation). If someone submits a translation, please post in this topic so that we don't need to check the various pages to make sure we're not attempting to translate something that has already been translated.
Joined: Dec 08, 2005 Posts: 291 Location: Berlin, Germany
Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject:
German: I'm going to translate all necessary pages into German by Sunday (probably earlier, but just to be safe). I will send them to Patrick directly and post a status update here.
Also, you may have noticed that I replaced "ODF Add-in for Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint" by the French equivalent of "ODF Add-in for Microsoft Office". If you think listing the three components is better, just replace "Office" in my text by "Word, Excel et PowerPoint".
Unless someone has an important suggestion to make, this version is ready for prime time.
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Should be fixed now.