Developers of Sympa

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    Serge recently wrote, in part...

> Openoffice comes with a powerful spell checker...

    Say no more!  :-)

    I have not started using OOoWriter yet, but I plan to give it
    a try real-soon-now(tm).  From what research I've done so far
    it does look very promising.  I'm particularly interested in
    seeing how well the Stylist feature works.  What I can gather
    from what I've read so far, it would appear that OOoWriter
    has a more powerful style and templating mechanism than M$
    Word, which is good to hear given that Word's style mechanism
    is almost worthless.

    With a well thought out set of style components, I'm hoping
    that creating a consistent, attractive, and easy to use
    document with OOoWriter will be much easier.  But
    unfortunately I also haven't had much luck in finding any
    technical document style sheet libraries.  One way I can
    think of bootstrapping a style would be to try and find a
    well organized Open Source technical manual created with
    OOoWriter and using that as a template.  In any case, here
    are a few links I found that look like they might prove
    useful in general:

http://www.firstpr.com.au/book-design
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/writer/masterdoc.htm
http://www.taming-openoffice-org.com/writer/xrefbetweendocs.htm
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7915
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7659
http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/08/24/openofficewriter.html

    I'll keep looking for resources in this area and let you know
    if I find anything else of interest.

    In any case, I'm in the throes of bringing up a new Sympa
    installation that will be supporting 3 virtual domains right
    out of the box.  And then converting 600 ListProc lists to
    the new system.  So you might say I'm a bit busy right now.
    But when the dust begins to settle, I would like to
    contribute to the Sympa documentation effort.  I have about
    20 years of technical writing experience and in a former life
    I was in charge of the University's computer training and
    documentation department.  See

http://www.unh.edu/cis/docs/vms-to-unix/Articles

    for an old sample of my technical writing.  I'm looking
    forward to helping out in any way I can.

                                                    ...BC

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