Hello,

(as per email sent to OOoAuthors on the 28th of May 2008)

Here are a collection of features that will be introduced in OpenOffice.org 3 and that will need documenting:

1) multipage zoom
Although in terms of functionality it is a very straightforward new feature to document it is a bit of a pain since in theory we should re-take all the screenshots of the workarea and there may be many in the various chapters.

2) Notes
The new notes in Writer look very good and are a vast improvement over the current ones. Although there are still many features that need to be added it makes sense to start documenting and showing a couple of screenshots.

3) Language selection
Language selection is now possible without having to use styles. A new submenu allows to change the language in the document either for the selected text, for the current paragraph or for all the text in the document.

4) Cross referencing numbered items and headings
This is probably the feature requires the most effor, but it is also the most useful as we heavily xreference headings in our guides and (at least as far as I am concerned) I often wanted to reference a specific numbered item in a guided procedure.

5) Tools > Options > load/save: odf version option
An option has been added to allow the user to select the desired ODF version. If I got it right OOo 3.0 will use ODF 1.2 while currently ODF 1.1 is used. This may cause troubles if you try to open a document saved with OOo 3.0 (ODF 1.2) in earlier versions of OOo as some features may not be supported. I am not sure what the issues may be for "normal" users.

If someone wants to cover any of these items please post a short message here as well as on the OOoAuthors mailing list so that we do not end up duplicating the work (the last thing we need given the resources available ).

Cheers,

Michele