User:EricBright

I am a heavy LibreOffice user and an advocate. I hope I’ll be able to contribute to the wiki and the documentation of LO every now and then. You can email me if necessary.

Project I’m currently working on

 * the Persian translation of the master UI; and
 * proofreading of the articles on our wiki.

Tools that I use

 * Notepad++ - for code editing (Pootle and Wiki). It’ss one of the few text editors that can handle RTL languages properly (gedit also works, but in a paragraph-by-paragraph fashion, a split-brain behaviour that I couldn’t change that was not useful to me);
 * NPP.SemanticMediaWiki - It is a code highlighter for Notepad++ and comes as a plug-in;
 * RSSOwl Feedbro (Chrome extention) - to monitor web pages when possible; still waiting for QuiteRSS2; FeedReader is awesome; but, no windows installation yet;
 * Vivaldi Google Chrome - because when I am editing the wiki, it remembers the undo steps when I switch between Wikitext and Preview (Firefox doesn’t); and
 * Screen-capture tools - since they are not open source I won’t mention them here.

Websites I joined so far

 * https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ to work on the documentation;
 * https://user.documentfoundation.org/ have no idea why I made this account (just kidding);
 * https://translations.documentfoundation.org/ to work on the Persian translation;
 * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/ to file bug reports, occasionally; and
 * https://redmine.documentfoundation.org/ to follow the progress of the integration of issue #107 MediaWik Language Extension Bundle.

Resources I use for editing the wiki
When I edit wiki pages, I try to follow one writing style consistently. There are many of them around. I chose one that is better known: University of Oxford Style Guide cheat sheet. The actual book is quite large and you might find it in your local library. (See Toronto Public Library for instance.)

It’s hard to follow any writing style 100% of the time. There are many special cases that should be decided individually. I try to be consistent in those decisions as well.

I am very specific about typography:
 * "..." vs. “...”;
 * ' vs. ’;
 * numbered/unnumbered lists (see the Oxford Style Guide); and
 * punctuation.

These might not look significant at first, but they certainly play a role in giving an authoritative look to any document.