Help on BLISS minutes

This page offers you the necessary help to add a file to the BLISS minutes of meeting. This help is oriented to BLISS members only. If you find that the information in these pages is incorrect please send us an e-mail.

Write the minutes in Ms-Word format

• Ms-Word is the master format for minutes. You can edit the .doc using Microsoft Word application from Windows or use StarOffice from Linux (typically on amber-b). Note: if you use StarOffice then save the .doc file in Ms-Word format and not in StarOffice private format because then only StarOffice could be used to edit your file (yes, there are still some of us not using Linux ;-)
• The file location is /segfs/bliss/www/onsite/minutes
• There is no template but it would be nice from you to use one of the previous minutes file as template in order to keep the minutes homogeneous.

Save the minutes in text format

• From your word editor, save the Ms-Word file in Text format. Example if using StarOffice: File:Save as:File Type:Text Dos

Generate PDF format version

• From your word editor, save the Ms-Word file in Postscipt from. Example if using StarOffice: File:Print:Print to File:temp.ps
• The file location is /segfs/bliss/www/onsite/minutes
• Convert the temporary postscript file to PDF format using a shell command under Linux (typically amber-b). Example: ps2pdf temp.ps bm_2001_10_04.pdf (OpenOffice has a button to do just that - the result is much nicer too).
• Remove the temporary postscipt file (to avoid pushing it to web server !)

Update the web pages

• As for the other BLISS web pages, the last step is to push the three files (.doc .txt .pdf) to the web server.

linux$ bliss2www onsite/minutes/bm_xx_yy_zzz.{doc,txt,pdf}