[libreoffice-users] Need comfirmation about no function of Modeless Dialogs in 4.0

2013-01-29 Thread Fernand Vanrie
We uses the Basic codelines below to make Modeless Dialogs, sinds 4.0 we 
end up with a non-visible window
is this a Windows only problem or a more general regression due to 
changes in the API ?,

it was working until 3.6.4  Windows

Greetz

Fernand

Sub Main
  oDoc = ThisComponent
  oParentFrame = oDoc.CurrentController.Frame
  oPeer = oParentFrame.ContainerWindow
  oToolkit = oPeer.Toolkit

  oWindow = CreateNewWindow(oToolkit,oPeer,150,150,200,200)
  oFrame = CreateUnoService(com.sun.star.frame.Frame)
  oFrame.initialize(oWindow)
  oFrame.setCreator(oParentFrame)
  oFrame.setName(NewFrame)
  oFrame.Title = New Frame

  oParentFrame.getFrames().append(oFrame)

  oWindow.setVisible(True)
End Sub


Function CreateNewWindow( _
  oToolkit,oParent,nX,nY,nWidth,nHeight) As Object
  aRect = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.awt.Rectangle)
  With aRect
.X = nX
.Y = nY
.Width = nWidth
.Height = nHeight
  End With
  aWinDesc = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.awt.WindowDescriptor)
  With aWinDesc
.Type = com.sun.star.awt.WindowClass.TOP
.WindowServiceName = dialog
.ParentIndex = -1
.Bounds = aRect
.Parent = oParent
.WindowAttributes = _
  com.sun.star.awt.WindowAttribute.MOVEABLE + _
  com.sun.star.awt.WindowAttribute.CLOSEABLE
  End With
  CreateNewWindow = oToolkit.createWindow(aWinDesc)
End Function


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Re: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis

2013-01-29 Thread Dries Feys
I think the questions are quite obious, assuming Veit is looking for
the developers of LO.

I'm no such developer, just a happy user.

Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards,

DRIES FEYS
CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer
TVH GROUP NV
Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM


On 28 January 2013 23:46, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote:
I've read your introduction ... I've read your questions ...
if your thesis is to be in English, then you need to re-work
 these questions;
if you're merely asking your questions on this list as
 another outlet, then I commend you.

Now, OpenOffice became LibreOffice; I believe interchanging these
 names will merely confuse your readers as well as your thesis;
   [see below for responses to questions]



 On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:02 AM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote:

 Hi all,
 my name is Veit.
 I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org)
 and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu).
 Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis.
 This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and
 LibreOffice.
 Some of you probably remember my presentation about my master research
 work at LibreOffice Conference in October last year.
 For this work I need as much information as possible.
 I beg you all to support me by answering my questions.

 Many thanks in anticipation!

 With best regards
 Veit

 Here are my first questions:
 Note: When I speak of LibreOffice this means that The Document Foundation
 is included.
 The word project always refers to Free/Libre Open Source Projects.

 1. Do you participate in LibreOffice only or in more projects?
 If more than one, how many?

[Since LO does not contain an e-mail program, nor an audio or
 visual program, ... I'm not sure what the question is;
as for me, I used OO then LO for its text portion as well as for
 its PP portion - adding to IMPRESS things coming from outside LO]


 2. Is LibreOffice the main project you contribute?

[I do not know what the question is]


 3. Which role does describe best your participation?
 If you have more than one role, please list them all and mark that one
 which is your main participation.

[I do not know what the question is]]


 Project Management

 Software Developer

 Testing and QA Management

 Localisation

 Writing Documentation

 User Support

 Other
 If other please specify.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
I have lost the questions but i got the impression that he was asking anyone 
contributing to LibreOffice in any way.  Not just the devs.  If it was just the 
devs then i guess the questions need to be posted in the devs mailing lists 
rather than in here.
Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: Dries Feys dries.f...@tvh.com
To: Veit vdv...@drvdvogt.de; users@global.libreoffice.org 
users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 8:57
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
 
I think the questions are quite obious, assuming Veit is looking for
the developers of LO.

I'm no such developer, just a happy user.

Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards,

DRIES FEYS
CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer
TVH GROUP NV
Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM


On 28 January 2013 23:46, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote:
        I've read your introduction ... I've read your questions ...
            if your thesis is to be in English, then you need to re-work
 these questions;
                if you're merely asking your questions on this list as
 another outlet, then I commend you.

        Now, OpenOffice became LibreOffice; I believe interchanging these
 names will merely confuse your readers as well as your thesis;
           [see below for responses to questions]



 On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:02 AM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote:

 Hi all,
 my name is Veit.
 I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org)
 and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu).
 Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis.
 This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and
 LibreOffice.
 Some of you probably remember my presentation about my master research
 work at LibreOffice Conference in October last year.
 For this work I need as much information as possible.
 I beg you all to support me by answering my questions.

 Many thanks in anticipation!

 With best regards
 Veit

 Here are my first questions:
 Note: When I speak of LibreOffice this means that The Document Foundation
 is included.
 The word project always refers to Free/Libre Open Source Projects.

 1. Do you participate in LibreOffice only or in more projects?
 If more than one, how many?

        [Since LO does not contain an e-mail program, nor an audio or
 visual program, ... I'm not sure what the question is;
            as for me, I used OO then LO for its text portion as well as for
 its PP portion - adding to IMPRESS things coming from outside LO]


 2. Is LibreOffice the main project you contribute?

        [I do not know what the question is]


 3. Which role does describe best your participation?
 If you have more than one role, please list them all and mark that one
 which is your main participation.

        [I do not know what the question is]]


 Project Management

 Software Developer

 Testing and QA Management

 Localisation

 Writing Documentation

 User Support

 Other
 If other please specify.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Sorry about scaring you!  Hopefully you have picked up some good ways of doing 
this from some of the other threads.  

If the database is not small then there are tons of good back-ends any one of 
which would be great to use.  I think Postgresql might be the best at the 
moment but you might also enjoy using MySql/MariaDb instead and there are other 
good ones.  

Hopefully it should be reasonably easy to migrate the tables and doing so 
should not affect tables and forms especially if they are built up from Queries 
rather than directly from the tables.  If they were do directly refer to the 
tables then they probably do need a bit of editing but hopefully nothing too 
drastic.  

Apols for not replying sooner!  I've just been a bit snowed under and anyway 
Dan, Alex and others know far more about specifically Base itself so hopefully 
someone has been able to give you much better help!
Regards from
tom :)  






 From: Hank Alper hankal...@gmail.com
To: Alexander Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Sunday, 27 January 2013, 6:24
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder
 
Hi Alex, Mark, Tom,
You guys scare me !  I'm beginning to think I'd better start looking for a
new back end. I've put a lot of work into this project. Tom, this is not a
small database like an address book. After normalizing, my design has 16
tables.( with a few more coming as I've discovered  as I feed more data
into it.) If I connect to an external server is there any way I can save my
forms and reports? Or shall I have to start anew ? My tables, queries and
views were all produced using  SQL and I have text copies of all of them to
feed any server I might select. Transfer of data becomes a problem, of
course.
Hank

On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Thurgood 
alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote:

 Le 21/01/13 16:01, Mark Stanton a écrit :

  Isn't hsqldb *still* a (relatively) good choice, as long as it is
 installed and
  used *external* to Base?  That does of course mean it's still not the
 default
  setting.

 As I mentioned in my answer to Tom, if you use an external version of
 hsqldb, it can only be the same version number as the internal version
 provided with LO, else the old ODB files can no longer be opened. In
 other words, you can not install an external hsqldb jar and expect your
 old ODB(hsqldb) files to keep working, as this will throw an error.

 So yes, it still remains a possibility, but one that you may want to
 avoid if you still have old ODB files that use the internal hsqldb with
 an older revision number than the externa jar you plug into LO.

 Alex



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[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Urmas
It is weird that a version of LO comes out the same week as the newest MSO 
after a 3 year wait between versions. I am glad LibreOffice does not make 
you wait 2 or 3 years between versions.


And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003. But 
apparently it requires actual work instead of bumping version numbers. 




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P

On 01/29/2013 09:41 AM, Urmas wrote:
It is weird that a version of LO comes out the same week as the 
newest MSO after a 3 year wait between versions. I am glad 
LibreOffice does not make you wait 2 or 3 years between versions.


And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 
2003. But apparently it requires actual work instead of bumping 
version numbers.





Although this thread, which I started is not for the MSO/LO debate, I 
will rebut you comment.  This debate will be better to have its own 
thread, like many others in the past about this same subject of parity 
of features.


The big issue I have with that statement is - if LibreOffice was to have 
the same features that MSO has, then it would be a massive bloated 
software. The figures I have been given is that 99% of MSO's features 
are used by less than 1% of its users.  Maybe one day LibreOffice will 
have an extended version with all of the features MSO has, but that is 
unlikely.


Well, LO could have these features. They could be done by the 
extensions idea.  That is what it was created for.  It gives 
developers the ability to create more functions for LO to be added as 
needed.  I have seen something in the lists that make me believe that 
the 4.0.x line will make it easier to add these extended functions to LO.


The original concept, IMHO, is that LibreOffice was never going to be a 
clone of MSO.  TDF did not want to push the developers to make LO have 
all of the functions that makes MSO a bloated and slower package to 
start up.  The last time I used MSO, it took almost 5 minutes to start 
up completely to the point where I could edit the text.  LibreOffice 
does this in a few seconds on the same system.  ALSO, if you have all of 
those functions, then you will need to deal with all of them when you do 
a big UI modification or other base code modification, to make sure it 
all works properly. That is one reason why MSO takes years between versions.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 29/01/2013 at 15:41, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:

 And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003.

Could you be a little bit more specific about features you are missing?
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Chances are that LibreOffice does implement the features but possibly uses 
different process and/or a different name.  The Getting Started Guide might 
help, especially the chapter about Styles.  
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications
Styles  is one crucial difference and much more powerful in LibreOffice.  
Styles in LibreOffice saves me tons of time! 
Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: Mirosław Zalewski mini...@poczta.onet.pl
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 14:10
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 
2013.
 
On 29/01/2013 at 15:41, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:

 And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003.

Could you be a little bit more specific about features you are missing?
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Need comfirmation about no function of Modeless Dialogs in 4.0

2013-01-29 Thread Leif Lodahl
It works for me (I see an emty grey window but not with a title).

Running LibreOffice 4.0.0.2 on 32bit deb_Linux.

Hopes this can help ;-)

Chhers,
Leif Lodahl


2013/1/29 Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be

 We uses the Basic codelines below to make Modeless Dialogs, sinds 4.0 we
 end up with a non-visible window
 is this a Windows only problem or a more general regression due to changes
 in the API ?,
 it was working until 3.6.4  Windows

 Greetz

 Fernand

 Sub Main
   oDoc = ThisComponent
   oParentFrame = oDoc.CurrentController.Frame
   oPeer = oParentFrame.ContainerWindow
   oToolkit = oPeer.Toolkit

   oWindow = CreateNewWindow(oToolkit,**oPeer,150,150,200,200)
   oFrame = CreateUnoService(com.sun.**star.frame.Frame)
   oFrame.initialize(oWindow)
   oFrame.setCreator(**oParentFrame)
   oFrame.setName(NewFrame)
   oFrame.Title = New Frame

   oParentFrame.getFrames().**append(oFrame)

   oWindow.setVisible(True)
 End Sub


 Function CreateNewWindow( _
   oToolkit,oParent,nX,nY,nWidth,**nHeight) As Object
   aRect = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.**awt.Rectangle)
   With aRect
 .X = nX
 .Y = nY
 .Width = nWidth
 .Height = nHeight
   End With
   aWinDesc = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.**awt.WindowDescriptor)
   With aWinDesc
 .Type = com.sun.star.awt.WindowClass.**TOP
 .WindowServiceName = dialog
 .ParentIndex = -1
 .Bounds = aRect
 .Parent = oParent
 .WindowAttributes = _
   com.sun.star.awt.**WindowAttribute.MOVEABLE + _
   com.sun.star.awt.**WindowAttribute.CLOSEABLE
   End With
   CreateNewWindow = oToolkit.createWindow(**aWinDesc)
 End Function


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
+1  
Extensions/add-ons are a great way of keeping unnecessary features out of the 
way of the majority users that never need certain features.  

I think the generally used stats are that 80% of users know about less than 20% 
of features in MS Office.  That's not a different 20% for each user adding up 
to 100% amoungst 5 users.  It's more the case that if you stripped MSO down to 
20% of it's features then 80% of people wouldn't notice anything missing.  In 
terms of actual usage and from just observations and conversations with 
individuals i would agree with Tim about it being more like 1% of features 
being used 99% of the time.  People tend to not use most of what they know and 
they don't know much.  They focus on just getting the job done, not on fancy 
ways of doing it.  
Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P webmas...@krackedpress.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 14:05
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as  MSO 
2013.
 
On 01/29/2013 09:41 AM, Urmas wrote:
 It is weird that a version of LO comes out the same week as the newest MSO 
 after a 3 year wait between versions. I am glad LibreOffice does not make 
 you wait 2 or 3 years between versions.
 
 And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003. But 
 apparently it requires actual work instead of bumping version numbers.
 
 

Although this thread, which I started is not for the MSO/LO debate, I will 
rebut you comment.  This debate will be better to have its own thread, like 
many others in the past about this same subject of parity of features.

The big issue I have with that statement is - if LibreOffice was to have the 
same features that MSO has, then it would be a massive bloated software. The 
figures I have been given is that 99% of MSO's features are used by less than 
1% of its users.  Maybe one day LibreOffice will have an extended version 
with all of the features MSO has, but that is unlikely.

Well, LO could have these features. They could be done by the extensions 
idea.  That is what it was created for.  It gives developers the ability to 
create more functions for LO to be added as needed.  I have seen something in 
the lists that make me believe that the 4.0.x line will make it easier to add 
these extended functions to LO.

The original concept, IMHO, is that LibreOffice was never going to be a 
clone of MSO.  TDF did not want to push the developers to make LO have all 
of the functions that makes MSO a bloated and slower package to start up.  The 
last time I used MSO, it took almost 5 minutes to start up completely to the 
point where I could edit the text.  LibreOffice does this in a few seconds on 
the same system.  ALSO, if you have all of those functions, then you will need 
to deal with all of them when you do a big UI modification or other base 
code modification, to make sure it all works properly. That is one reason why 
MSO takes years between versions.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker

On 29/01/13 14:35, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
+1
Extensions/add-ons are a great way of keeping unnecessary features out of the 
way of the majority users that never need certain features.

I think the generally used stats are that 80% of users know about less than 20% 
of features in MS Office.  That's not a different 20% for each user adding up 
to 100% amoungst 5 users.  It's more the case that if you stripped MSO down to 
20% of it's features then 80% of people wouldn't notice anything missing.  In 
terms of actual usage and from just observations and conversations with 
individuals i would agree with Tim about it being more like 1% of features 
being used 99% of the time.  People tend to not use most of what they know and 
they don't know much.  They focus on just getting the job done, not on fancy 
ways of doing it.
Regards from
Tom :)




+1 - and that's from many years experience as a Systems/Management 
Accountant in many organisations from the one-man-band to large 
UK-quoted companies. The same is true for VBA - I have NEVER in all my 
years worked in a company where VBA was used...or macros come to think 
of it.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Kolbjørn Stuestøl

Den 29.01.2013 15:10, skreiv Mirosław Zalewski:

On 29/01/2013 at 15:41, Urmas davian...@gmail.com wrote:


And I would be glad if LO ever obtain the feature parity with MSO 2003.

Could you be a little bit more specific about features you are missing?

My adding to the list of wishes:
A function finding the first/last/next__ occurrence of an expression, 
e.g. (x0), in an unsorted list in Calc.

Example:

   FIND.OCCURRENCE(expression;list;style) where style is find
   first/next/last.

So to find the first occurrence of the first number above 10 in a list I 
could write


   FIND.OCCURRENCE(x10;A1:A10;first)

I have not found such a function in any spreadsheet, so why shouldn't 
LibreOffice be the first?


Kolbjoern


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 3.6.5 come out the same week as MSO 2013.

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Lozier

On 01/29/2013 09:44 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

On 29/01/13 14:35, Tom Davies wrote:

Hi :)
+1
Extensions/add-ons are a great way of keeping unnecessary features 
out of the way of the majority users that never need certain features.


I think the generally used stats are that 80% of users know about 
less than 20% of features in MS Office.  That's not a different 20% 
for each user adding up to 100% amoungst 5 users. It's more the case 
that if you stripped MSO down to 20% of it's features then 80% of 
people wouldn't notice anything missing. In terms of actual usage and 
from just observations and conversations with individuals i would 
agree with Tim about it being more like 1% of features being used 99% 
of the time. People tend to not use most of what they know and they 
don't know much.  They focus on just getting the job done, not on 
fancy ways of doing it.

Regards from
Tom :)




+1 - and that's from many years experience as a Systems/Management 
Accountant in many organisations from the one-man-band to large 
UK-quoted companies. The same is true for VBA - I have NEVER in all my 
years worked in a company where VBA was used...or macros come to think 
of it.
Macros got a well deserved bad reputation as malware vectors in the late 
90's. At that time, MSO (and probably other software) allowed unsigned 
macro execution by default; the behavior exploited in the late 90's. My 
understanding is the current practice (not just MSO) is to only allow 
properly signed macros to run without specific user intervention. Thus 
unsigned macros will not normally run when the file is given to another 
user limiting macros usefulness as a feature. A proper certificate is 
required to sign and release a file with macros to others and AFAIK this 
requires time and money to get from a third party.


I would expect most (vast majority) of users to not even use macros. 
Outside of simple macros that can be recorded writing a macro requires 
some programming knowledge. And most users do not have any programming 
skills.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc sliding scale formulae? - SOLVED Part 1

2013-01-29 Thread Tom
Hi :)  
I'm just using Nabble to upload the file from the mystery person that kindly
solved the problem.  
Electricity.ods
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4032958/Electricity.ods  

I dunno what she (or he) said in their private email to Hylton but at least
we have the spreadsheet.  It's much more complicated than mine but it does
the job and mine didn't.  
Regards from
Tom :)  



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[libreoffice-users] Re: Base Query Sort and Reports

2013-01-29 Thread Tom
Hi :)
Was this problem ever resolved?  It's generally better to start a new email
with a new subject-line and then copypaste the lists address in.  Following
on from a previous thread make it difficult for people to find any good
answers or to pick up on where they might have been able to help.  
Regards from 
Tom :)  




capemayal wrote
 Perhaps you can add assistance with another query?
 
 I have created a parameter query with a case when statement :
 
 case when dateadd('dd', 365, originaldate) = dateadd('dd', 90,
 current_date) THEN 'Expired' else '' end AS Message
 
 [coding corrected from a subsequent email by Al]
 Problem is that instead of showing just the records that satisfy the
 parameter, it shows all records.
 
 If I solve that part, then the query will run exactly as I want it to.
 
 Thanks again,
 Al





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[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Taang Zomi
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.cawrote:

 It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the
 Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand
 the one called Standard. If you scroll down the resulting list, you should
 see the entry 'Formula Numbering'. Select it and then click on the Insert
 button. Your equation should appear.

 Does this work for you?



 On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Taang Zomi wrote:

  In LibreOffiice 3.3  Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14, the
 following is written:

 *Numbering equations*


 Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math’s best hidden features. The
 steps are simple, but obscure:

   1.

   Start a new line.
   2.

   Type *fn* and then press *F3*.

 The *fn* is replaced by a numbered formula:


  [[equation: E = mc2] (2)

 ()

 Now you can double-click on the formula to edit it. For example, here is
 the Riemann Zeta function:
 [equation: [Rieman Zeta Function]   (3)

 You can reference an equation (“as shown in Equation (2)”) with these
 steps:

   1.

   Choose *Insert  Cross-reference* from the menu bar.
   2.

   On the *Cross-references* tab (Figure 17), under *Type*, select *Text*.
   3.

   Under *Selection*, select the equation number.
   4.

   Under *Format*, select *Reference*.




 ==

 When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document the fn I
 typed appeared, not the desired result.


 I do not know whether my F3 key did not work.

 Can somebody kindly explain in step-by-step detail  how to number
 equations.


 ==


Dear Robert,

Thank you very much for your reply. Now I know how to bypass the typing of
fn and the pressing of F3.

I typed fn in the Equation Editor and I found just fn in the document.
Beside the fn in the document, I pressed F3, and I got an onscreen message:

AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

So I think that something is missing on my computer, or at least on my
LibreOffice.

I have some more questions, which I hope I can post here in the coming days.

Sincerely,

Taang Zomi

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Robert Funnell

On Tue, 29 Jan 2013, Taang Zomi wrote:


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Robert Funnell robert.funn...@mcgill.cawrote:


It's possible to do what you're trying to do without the F3 key. Go to the
Edit menu and select AutoText. You should see a list of categories. Expand
the one called Standard. If you scroll down the resulting list, you should
see the entry 'Formula Numbering'. Select it and then click on the Insert
button. Your equation should appear.

Does this work for you?

On Sun, 27 Jan 2013, Taang Zomi wrote:

 In LibreOffiice 3.3  Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14, the

following is written:

*Numbering equations*

Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math?s best hidden features. The
steps are simple, but obscure:

  1.

  Start a new line.
  2.

  Type *fn* and then press *F3*.

The *fn* is replaced by a numbered formula:


...



==

When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document the fn I
typed appeared, not the desired result.


I do not know whether my F3 key did not work.

Can somebody kindly explain in step-by-step detail  how to number
equations.


==




Dear Robert,

Thank you very much for your reply. Now I know how to bypass the typing of
fn and the pressing of F3.

I typed fn in the Equation Editor and I found just fn in the document.
Beside the fn in the document, I pressed F3, and I got an onscreen message:

AutoText for Shortcut  not found.
...


If you see that message, then F3 is working. You're not supposed to 
type fn in the equation editor. Just type it in the document itself as 
regular text and then (with the cursor immediately to the right of 
'fn') press F3. As mentioned in another response, make sure that 
you're doing this in a Writer document.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Ok, found the list again at last;  
1.  Mostly just in LibreOffice but occasionally do some things in Ubuntu as 
well.  I used to be very active in Ubuntu.  
2.  Depends on what you count as contribute.  Many people say that i 
contribute nothing at all to LibreOffice as i only; answer questions in a very 
general way without delving into useful details, do a little bit of liaison 
between some of the lists and a tiny bit to some wiki-pages to help with 
formatting (ie not with content).  So i kinda miss out on being really useful 
anywhere in the project.  
3.  User Support.  

I think 2 of the crucial roles in any project is Community Development and 
Team Leader.  Jean of the Documentation Team is particularly good at the 
latter and often good at the former too.  I think we need more people able to 
fill either role in some of the other lists but in a way that doesn't clash 
with whatever structures (if any) or people that those teams already have.  
It's an extremely tough balancing act.  

Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: vdv...@drvdvogt.de vdv...@drvdvogt.de
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2013, 16:02
Subject: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis
 
Hi all,
my name is Veit.
I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org) and 
Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu).
Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis.
This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and LibreOffice.
Some of you probably remember my presetation about my master research work at 
LibreOffice Conference in October last year.
For this work I need as much informations as possible.
I beg you all to support me by answering my questions.

Many thanks in anticipation!

With best regards
Veit

Here are my first questions:
Note: When I speak of LibreOffice this means that The Document Foundation is 
included.
The word project allways referes to Free/Libre Open Source Projects.

1. Do you participate in LibreOffice only or in more projects?
If more than one, how many?


2. Is LibreOffice the main project you contribute?


3. Which role does describe best your participation?
If you have more than one role, please list them all and mark that one which 
is your main participation.

Project Management

Software Developer

Testing and QA Management

Localisation

Writing Documentation

User Support

Other
If other please specify.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Taang Zomi
On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote:

 At 18:04 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:

 In LibreOffice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14, the
 following is written:

 *Numbering equations*

 Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features. The
 steps are simple, but obscure:
 1. Start a new line.
 2. Type *fn* and then press *F3*.
 [...]


 When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document the fn
 I typed appeared, not the desired result.  I do not know whether my F3 key
 did not work.


 I think what you may be doing (understandably) is to try this in a Math
 document - and I cannot see how it works there.  Instead, it works as
 described in a text (Writer) document.  Indeed, I notice that the version
 of the Math Guide for LibreOffice version 3.5 has corrected Equation
 numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features to read
 Equation numbering is one of Writer's best hidden features.

 In a text document, in a new paragraph or after a space, type fn and
 press F3.  A table with a single row of two columns appears, containing a
 dummy equation and the required number (as a field).  You need only to
 double-click the equation to open the Math window at the bottom of the
 window, where you can remove the dummy equation's definition and replace it
 with your own.

 I trust this helps.

 Brian Barker



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Dear Brian,

Thank you very much for your reply.

Recently I became interested in linguistic phonology, and so I tried
LibreOffice Math. I rarely tried Math before. So I am a Math novice.

I guide I used was LibreOffice 3.3 Math, which was a bit old. Now I
downloaded LibreOffice 3.5.5 Math Guide.

The typing of fn and the pressing of F3 yields an onscreen message:

AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

Something seems to be missing on my computer. Perhaps I need to re-install
LibreOffice 3.6.4, which I am using?

I have some more questions which I hope I can post here in the near future.

Sincerely,

Taang Zomi

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Autofilter sorting bug

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Have you been able to add a comment to reopen the bug-report?  Has anyone been 
able to test this in 4.0.0?  (ie if you already have 4 installed is there any 
chance of seeing if the same problem still happens in there)
Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: Johnny Rosenberg gurus.knu...@gmail.com
To: LibreOffice Användare users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Saturday, 26 January 2013, 15:06
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Autofilter sorting bug
 
I ran into a bug today, and it seems to be reported already:

https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35294#add_comment


Last comment was:
”Dear bug submitter!

Due to the fact, that there are a lot of NEEDINFO bugs with no answer
within the last six months, we close all of these bugs.

To keep this message short, more infos are available @
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/QA/NeedinfoClosure#Statement

Thanks for understanding and hopefully updating your bug, so that
everything is prepared for developers to fix your problem.

Yours!

Florian”

The bug persists in 3.5.7.2. Could someone please test this in 3.6 and
4.0 and report back? I want to reopen that bug report unless someone
tells me that it no longer exist in more recent LibreOffice versions.


Johnny Rosenberg

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Autofilter sorting bug

2013-01-29 Thread Joel Madero
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 Hi :)
 Have you been able to add a comment to reopen the bug-report?  Has anyone
 been able to test this in 4.0.0?  (ie if you already have 4 installed is
 there any chance of seeing if the same problem still happens in there)
 Regards from
 Tom :)


I can't reproduce on Master 4.1 (which is incredibly close to 4.0 rc2) nor
on 3.6.4.3


Best,
Joel
-- 
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LibO QA Volunteer
jmadero@gmail.com

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Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
I generally just cancel the recovery thing anyway as it rarely works quite the 
way i wanted it too and as you have found just opening the document seems to 
recover it anyway.  Since this sounds like such extremely bad advice i do make 
sure i adequately back-up documents in the first place.  
Regards from  
Tom :)  






 From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org
To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk 
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Friday, 25 January 2013, 22:14
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working
 
I don't know if this is connected with the previous problem (where the
password protection had been turned off for my LO Calc doc):

Now when LO tries to recover documents that were open when I shut down
the computer, it's failing to recover the password protected document
rather than prompting me for the password, which it used to do. When I
open the document manually it prompts for the password and opens fine.

Thanks.

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 12:44 -0500, Eric Beversluis wrote:
 Oops. I was setting the protection for change recording state.
 Password protecting the document is on the save as dialogue. Seems to
 be working now. Must have gotten unset somehow, though that presumably
 would have required my using 'save as' to save the document and
 unchecking the password box. 
 
 Whatever.
 
 Thanks.
 EB
 
 On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 17:29 +, Tom Davies wrote:
  Hi :)
  Ouch!  I wasn't expecting that!  Can you push the unprotect, then save and 
  closereopen and then re-protect?  
  Sorry, that is my best shot and i'm sure you have probably already tried 
  it.  My guess is that even renaming the User Profile wouldn't fix this one 
  so i'm all at sea.  
  
  Luckily there are a lot of people here that know far more than me.  
  Apols and regards from
  Tom :)
  
  
  
  
  
  
   From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org
  To: Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk 
  Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org users@global.libreoffice.org 
  Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 17:05
  Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working
   
  It's an .ods file using it on Fedora with LO 3.5.7.2.
  
  On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 16:58 +, Tom Davies wrote:
   Hi :)
   What format?  If you are using MS formats then LO ignores the password
   protection but MSO users will be required to enter a password.  I'm
   not sure what happens in MSO if you try to password protect an Odt
   file.
   Regards from
   Tom :)  
   
   
   
          
           __
           From: Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org
           To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
           Sent: Wednesday, 9 January 2013, 16:48
           Subject: [libreoffice-users] document protection not working
          
          
           I've got a Calc document that I've had for years with password
           protection on it. Suddenly the protection has stopped
           working--the
           document opens without any prompting for password. I went into
           File/Properties and reset protection. But it's still opening
           without
           password. When I go back to Properties/Security, the
           unprotect button
           shows.
          
           What can have happened?
          
           Thanks.
          
           EB
          
          
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Barker

At 11:51 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote:

At 18:04 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
In LibreOffice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 
14, the following is written:


*Numbering equations*
Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden 
features. The steps are simple, but obscure:

1. Start a new line.
2. Type *fn* and then press *F3*.
[...]

When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document 
the fn I typed appeared, not the desired result.  I do not know 
whether my F3 key did not work.


I think what you may be doing (understandably) is to try this in a 
Math document - and I cannot see how it works there.  Instead, it 
works as described in a text (Writer) document.  Indeed, I notice 
that the version of the Math Guide for LibreOffice version 3.5 has 
corrected Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best 
hidden features to read Equation numbering is one of Writer's 
best hidden features.


In a text document, in a new paragraph or after a space, type fn 
and press F3.  A table with a single row of two columns appears, 
containing a dummy equation and the required number (as a 
field).  You need only to double-click the equation to open the 
Math window at the bottom of the  window, where you can remove the 
dummy equation's definition and replace it with your own.


The typing of fn and the pressing of F3 yields an onscreen message: 
AutoText for Shortcut  not found.


Something seems to be missing on my computer. Perhaps I need to 
re-install LibreOffice 3.6.4, which I am using?


No, I suspect that you are simply not following the advice 
given.  *Don't* start a Math document.  *Don't* use Insert | Object  
| Formula.  Instead, forget about Math for the moment!  In a text 
(Writer) document, type fn in a new paragraph and press F3.  You 
will see the dummy numbered equation.  Now double-click the equation: 
this will automatically open the Math sub-window and you can replace 
the dummy equation's definition by your own.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] First Round of Questions for my Master Thesis

2013-01-29 Thread anne-ology
   so we, the users, were not to respond  ;-)

   ok, that makes sense  :-)



On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:57 AM, Dries Feys dries.f...@tvh.com wrote:

I think the questions are quite obvious, assuming Veit is looking for
 the developers of LO.

 I'm no such developer, just a happy user.

 Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards,

 DRIES FEYS
 CORPORATE SERVICES • Specialist Software Developer
 TVH GROUP NV
 Brabantstraat 15 • BE-8790 WAREGEM


 On 28 January 2013 23:46, anne-ology lagin...@gmail.com wrote:
 I've read your introduction ... I've read your questions ...
 if your thesis is to be in English, then you need to re-work
  these questions;
 if you're merely asking your questions on this list as
  another outlet, then I commend you.
 
 Now, OpenOffice became LibreOffice; I believe interchanging these
  names will merely confuse your readers as well as your thesis;
[see below for responses to questions]
 
 
 
  On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:02 AM, vdv...@drvdvogt.de wrote:
 
  Hi all,
  my name is Veit.
  I had studied Free Software at Free Technology Academy (ftacademy.org)
  and Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC.edu).
  Now, after I had finished all my courses, I will write my Master Thesis.
  This will be a case study about the office suites OpenOffice and
  LibreOffice.
  Some of you probably remember my presentation about my master research
  work at LibreOffice Conference in October last year.
  For this work I need as much information as possible.
  I beg you all to support me by answering my questions.
 
  Many thanks in anticipation!
 
  With best regards
  Veit
 
  Here are my first questions:
  Note: When I speak of LibreOffice this means that The Document
 Foundation
  is included.
  The word project always refers to Free/Libre Open Source Projects.
 
  1. Do you participate in LibreOffice only or in more projects?
  If more than one, how many?
 
 [Since LO does not contain an e-mail program, nor an audio or
  visual program, ... I'm not sure what the question is;
 as for me, I used OO then LO for its text portion as well as
 for
  its PP portion - adding to IMPRESS things coming from outside LO]
 
 
  2. Is LibreOffice the main project you contribute?
 
 [I do not know what the question is]
 
 
  3. Which role does describe best your participation?
  If you have more than one role, please list them all and mark that one
  which is your main participation.
 
 [I do not know what the question is]]
 
 
  Project Management
 
  Software Developer
 
  Testing and QA Management
 
  Localisation
 
  Writing Documentation
 
  User Support
 
  Other
  If other please specify.
 
 


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[libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Taang Zomi
On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote:

 At 11:51 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:

 On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote:

 At 18:04 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:

 In LibreOffice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14,
 the following is written:

 *Numbering equations*
 Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features.
 The steps are simple, but obscure:
 1. Start a new line.
 2. Type *fn* and then press *F3*.
 [...]

 When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document the
 fn I typed appeared, not the desired result.  I do not know whether my F3
 key did not work.


 I think what you may be doing (understandably) is to try this in a Math
 document - and I cannot see how it works there.  Instead, it works as
 described in a text (Writer) document.  Indeed, I notice that the version
 of the Math Guide for LibreOffice version 3.5 has corrected Equation
 numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features to read
 Equation numbering is one of Writer's best hidden features.

 In a text document, in a new paragraph or after a space, type fn and
 press F3.  A table with a single row of two columns appears, containing a
 dummy equation and the required number (as a field).  You need only to
 double-click the equation to open the Math window at the bottom of the
  window, where you can remove the dummy equation's definition and replace
 it with your own.


 The typing of fn and the pressing of F3 yields an onscreen message:
 AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

 Something seems to be missing on my computer. Perhaps I need to
 re-install LibreOffice 3.6.4, which I am using?


 No, I suspect that you are simply not following the advice given.  *Don't*
 start a Math document.  *Don't* use Insert | Object  | Formula.  Instead,
 forget about Math for the moment!  In a text (Writer) document, type fn
 in a new paragraph and press F3.  You will see the dummy numbered equation.
  Now double-click the equation: this will automatically open the Math
 sub-window and you can replace the dummy equation's definition by your own.


 I trust this helps.

 Brian Barker



 --
 Dear Brian,


Thank you very much for your reply.

I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, and
got the same message:

AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

Sincerely,

Taang Zomi
=

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[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread japersonal
Hi,

I've just realized that in some cases Writer opens the .doc document
partially. For instance, I have a .DOC with 7 pages but when I open it on my
Writer (on Mac), there are just 3 pages.

Is this some sort of bug? What additional information do you need in order
to troubleshoot this issue?

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jaime



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Dan Lewis

On 01/29/2013 03:38 PM, Taang Zomi wrote:

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:31 PM, Brian Barkerb.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote:


At 11:51 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:


On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:30 AM, Brian Barker wrote:


At 18:04 27/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:


In LibreOffice 3.3 Math Guide (0700MG33-MathGuide3.3.odt), on p. 14,
the following is written:

*Numbering equations*
Equation numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features.
The steps are simple, but obscure:
1. Start a new line.
2. Type *fn* and then press *F3*.
[...]

When I typed fn and pressed F3, nothing happened. In the document the
fn I typed appeared, not the desired result.  I do not know whether my F3
key did not work.


I think what you may be doing (understandably) is to try this in a Math
document - and I cannot see how it works there.  Instead, it works as
described in a text (Writer) document.  Indeed, I notice that the version
of the Math Guide for LibreOffice version 3.5 has corrected Equation
numbering is one of LibreOffice Math's best hidden features to read
Equation numbering is one of Writer's best hidden features.

In a text document, in a new paragraph or after a space, type fn and
press F3.  A table with a single row of two columns appears, containing a
dummy equation and the required number (as a field).  You need only to
double-click the equation to open the Math window at the bottom of the
  window, where you can remove the dummy equation's definition and replace
it with your own.


The typing of fn and the pressing of F3 yields an onscreen message:
AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

Something seems to be missing on my computer. Perhaps I need to
re-install LibreOffice 3.6.4, which I am using?


No, I suspect that you are simply not following the advice given.  *Don't*
start a Math document.  *Don't* use Insert | Object  | Formula.  Instead,
forget about Math for the moment!  In a text (Writer) document, type fn
in a new paragraph and press F3.  You will see the dummy numbered equation.
  Now double-click the equation: this will automatically open the Math
sub-window and you can replace the dummy equation's definition by your own.


I trust this helps.

Brian Barker


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Thank you very much for your reply.

I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, and
got the same message:

AutoText for Shortcut  not found.

Sincerely,

Taang Zomi

  What version of LibreOffice are you using?
  Use Ctrl+F3 to open the AutoText dialog. Open the Standard folder 
in the Name window. Look for Formula Numbering in this list.
 I checked my LO versions. LO 3.5.7, 3.6.5, and 4.0.0.2 have it. I 
don't know when LO started putting this AutoText in the AutoText dialog, 
so if you have a version earlier than I do, you may not have it.


--Dan

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Barker

At 15:38 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, 
and got the same message:


I don't understand.  Did you type a space (or anything else) after 
the fn?  You mustn't do that!


Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Barker

At 18:09 29/01/2013 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:

On 01/29/2013 03:38 PM, Taang Zomi wrote:
I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, 
and got the same message:


AutoText for Shortcut  not found.


What version of LibreOffice are you using?  Use Ctrl+F3 to open the 
AutoText dialog. Open the Standard folder in the Name window. Look 
for Formula Numbering in this list.  I checked my LO versions. LO 
3.5.7, 3.6.5, and 4.0.0.2 have it. I don't know when LO started 
putting this AutoText in the AutoText dialog, so if you have a 
version earlier than I do, you may not have it.


I hesitate to quibble, but this is unlikely to be the problem, I 
think.  If the particular AutoText were missing, the error message 
should be AutoText for Shortcut 'fn' not found, whereas it is 
actually reported as AutoText for Shortcut '' not found - in other 
words, AutoText seems to be failing to pick up the shortcut fn in 
the first place.


Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread Jay Lozier

On 01/29/2013 03:58 PM, japersonal wrote:

Hi,

I've just realized that in some cases Writer opens the .doc document
partially. For instance, I have a .DOC with 7 pages but when I open it on my
Writer (on Mac), there are just 3 pages.

Is this some sort of bug? What additional information do you need in order
to troubleshoot this issue?

Thank you!

Best regards,

Jaime



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Jaime

Can you post the document on either Nabble or on the web and then post 
the link? Also, what version of LO are you using? Also, did you create 
the file or receive it from someone?


For the record, the consensus recommendation is create/edit all files in 
the appropriate ODF format then when done save the final version as both 
ODF and the other format. If the other format is somehow corrupted; you 
still have the native format file available.


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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread japersonal
Hi Jay,

First of all, thanks for your prompt reply.

The .DOC file was created by a third party and I received it via email. As
far as I know, it was created with a recent version of Microsoft Office.

I know the file is 7 pages long because I opened it via Google Docs/Drive
first. But when I open it via LibreOffice, only 3 first pages are displayed
and the bar at the bottom says Page 1/3.

I'm using  Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff) on my Mac, but I tried to
open the same document from a Windows 7 laptop, same version of
LibreOffice... and exactly the same behaviour.

I'd prefer not to upload the document publicly, as it is somewhat private.
If you agree, I could send it to you via email so you and your team can have
a look at it in a less public fashion. :-)

Thank you!

Jaime



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 30/01/2013 at 01:33, japersonal japerso...@gmail.com wrote:

 I know the file is 7 pages long because I opened it via Google Docs/Drive
 first. But when I open it via LibreOffice, only 3 first pages are displayed
 and the bar at the bottom says Page 1/3.

Does this document have any special features, like images, figures, embedded 
spreadsheets? Or is it just formatted text?

Can you tell if there is actually some data missing, or just page count that 
differs?

Number of total pages depend on font used, paragraph style setting, page 
margins, application algorithm to wrap paragraphs etc. It might be that you 
already have access to entire document. Given the difference (3:7) it is highly 
unlikely, but worth to check anyway.
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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread japersonal
 Jaime

 You can send it privately to me and I will take a look at it.

Only issue I face is your [hidden email] and the web form does not
have any option to attach files, as far as I know. :-)

Thank you!

Jaime




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[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread Tom
Hi :)
If you try using Nabble to view the thread then you get an option to upload
a file there/here.  

First get to the right thread in Nabble by either 
1.  clicking on any of the links to Nabble in this email  or
2.  go to the official Libreoffice website and navigate to the thread
Get help - Nabble   (and then hunt for the thread with the right
subject-line.  

Once here just reply to any of the posts.  It gives you a box to type your
message in.  Just above the message box is an icon-bar with various things
such as Bold and Italic but further along is a button More and the top
option when you press that button is Upload file.  That puts a link in the
message box so that anyone can just click on that link and see the file you
uploaded.  
Regards from
Tom :)  



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 pages of a .doc document

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Ooops!  Errr, if the file is private or has any confidential information then 
obviously DON't upload it!!
Apols and regards from
Tom :)  






 From: Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Wednesday, 30 January 2013, 0:43
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice Writer opens just the first 3 
pages of a .doc document
 
On 01/29/2013 07:33 PM, japersonal wrote:
 Hi Jay,

 First of all, thanks for your prompt reply.

 The .DOC file was created by a third party and I received it via email. As
 far as I know, it was created with a recent version of Microsoft Office.

 I know the file is 7 pages long because I opened it via Google Docs/Drive
 first. But when I open it via LibreOffice, only 3 first pages are displayed
 and the bar at the bottom says Page 1/3.

 I'm using  Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff) on my Mac, but I tried to
 open the same document from a Windows 7 laptop, same version of
 LibreOffice... and exactly the same behaviour.

 I'd prefer not to upload the document publicly, as it is somewhat private.
 If you agree, I could send it to you via email so you and your team can have
 a look at it in a less public fashion. :-)

 Thank you!

 Jaime



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Jaime

You can send it privately to me and I will take a look at it.

A temporary work around is to open it in Google Docs and save as *.odt 
and then download it.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)
Is the fn a single key on the keyboard like the Ctrl or Alt keys?
Regards from
Tom :)  






 From: Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com
To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Sent: Tuesday, 29 January 2013, 23:27
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations
 
At 15:38 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
 I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, and got 
 the same message:

I don't understand.  Did you type a space (or anything else) after the fn?  
You mustn't do that!

Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

2013-01-29 Thread Hank Alper
Hi Tom, Noel,
Dan, Alex and the others were all quite helpful. I'm going to explore some
of my options. Noel suggested H2 as a back end and I was impressed with its
specs. I downloaded the program and was pleased with the very clear
documentation. In Noel's last post he was good enough to point me to a step
by step tutorial for replacing embedded HSQLDB with H2. Unfortunately, that
server appears to be down the last few days. Nevertheless I was able to get
a connection to the H2 backend with JDBC using the H2 documentation. I have
run into some syntax and database naming differences which I shall have to
clear up. I expect I shall have plenty of questions about Base's behavior
as a client.
Hank


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 7:06 AM, Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

 Hi :)
 Sorry about scaring you!  Hopefully you have picked up some good ways of
 doing this from some of the other threads.

 If the database is not small then there are tons of good back-ends any one
 of which would be great to use.  I think Postgresql might be the best at
 the moment but you might also enjoy using MySql/MariaDb instead and there
 are other good ones.

 Hopefully it should be reasonably easy to migrate the tables and doing so
 should not affect tables and forms especially if they are built up from
 Queries rather than directly from the tables.  If they were do directly
 refer to the tables then they probably do need a bit of editing but
 hopefully nothing too drastic.

 Apols for not replying sooner!  I've just been a bit snowed under and
 anyway Dan, Alex and others know far more about specifically Base itself so
 hopefully someone has been able to give you much better help!
 Regards from
 tom :)


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 *Sent:* Sunday, 27 January 2013, 6:24

 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base Report Builder

 Hi Alex, Mark, Tom,
 You guys scare me !  I'm beginning to think I'd better start looking for a
 new back end. I've put a lot of work into this project. Tom, this is not a
 small database like an address book. After normalizing, my design has 16
 tables.( with a few more coming as I've discovered  as I feed more data
 into it.) If I connect to an external server is there any way I can save my
 forms and reports? Or shall I have to start anew ? My tables, queries and
 views were all produced using  SQL and I have text copies of all of them to
 feed any server I might select. Transfer of data becomes a problem, of
 course.
 Hank

 On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 10:36 AM, Alexander Thurgood 
 alex.thurg...@gmail.com wrote:

  Le 21/01/13 16:01, Mark Stanton a écrit :
 
   Isn't hsqldb *still* a (relatively) good choice, as long as it is
  installed and
   used *external* to Base?  That does of course mean it's still not the
  default
   setting.
 
  As I mentioned in my answer to Tom, if you use an external version of
  hsqldb, it can only be the same version number as the internal version
  provided with LO, else the old ODB files can no longer be opened. In
  other words, you can not install an external hsqldb jar and expect your
  old ODB(hsqldb) files to keep working, as this will throw an error.
 
  So yes, it still remains a possibility, but one that you may want to
  avoid if you still have old ODB files that use the internal hsqldb with
  an older revision number than the externa jar you plug into LO.
 
  Alex
 
 
 
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Barker

At 05:24 30/01/2013 +, Tom Davies wrote:

Is the fn a single key on the keyboard like the Ctrl or Alt keys?


Er, no: you get the result fn using a very crafty technique, 
sometimes known as multiple keying.


o First you press the f key very briefly.
o Then you take your finger away from the f key and briefly press 
the n key instead.

o Now you will see the required result fn in your document.

I trust this helps.

Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Numbering Equations

2013-01-29 Thread Brian Barker

At 15:38 29/01/2013 -0500, Taang Zomi wrote:
I just started a new Writer document, typed fn and then pressed F3, 
and got the same message:


Someone has made the intelligent suggestion to me (strangely 
off-list) that you may have pressed the Fn key which appears on the 
restricted keyboards of some laptops instead of typing the letters 
fn.  That also wouldn't work: by itself, that key does nothing.


Oh, and if you have one of those keyboards, you probably do need to 
hold down the Fn key in order to make the F3 key do its job afterwards!


Indeed, if you have (mis)interpreted the instructions as meaning that 
you should hold down the Fn key and then press F3, the error message 
you quote is exactly what you would see.  On this type of keyboard, 
you need to type f, type n, and then hold down the Fn key whilst 
pressing F3.


Brian Barker



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Need comfirmation about no function of Modeless Dialogs in 4.0

2013-01-29 Thread Fernand Vanrie

Leif,

Thanks, the grey window can now have a container with controls who acts 
like a dialog.


so Linux is OK,

it helps and it points to Windows :-)

It works for me (I see an emty grey window but not with a title).

Running LibreOffice 4.0.0.2 on 32bit deb_Linux.

Hopes this can help ;-)

Chhers,
Leif Lodahl


2013/1/29 Fernand Vanrie s...@pmgroup.be


We uses the Basic codelines below to make Modeless Dialogs, sinds 4.0 we
end up with a non-visible window
is this a Windows only problem or a more general regression due to changes
in the API ?,
it was working until 3.6.4  Windows

Greetz

Fernand

Sub Main
   oDoc = ThisComponent
   oParentFrame = oDoc.CurrentController.Frame
   oPeer = oParentFrame.ContainerWindow
   oToolkit = oPeer.Toolkit

   oWindow = CreateNewWindow(oToolkit,**oPeer,150,150,200,200)
   oFrame = CreateUnoService(com.sun.**star.frame.Frame)
   oFrame.initialize(oWindow)
   oFrame.setCreator(**oParentFrame)
   oFrame.setName(NewFrame)
   oFrame.Title = New Frame

   oParentFrame.getFrames().**append(oFrame)

   oWindow.setVisible(True)
End Sub


Function CreateNewWindow( _
   oToolkit,oParent,nX,nY,nWidth,**nHeight) As Object
   aRect = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.**awt.Rectangle)
   With aRect
 .X = nX
 .Y = nY
 .Width = nWidth
 .Height = nHeight
   End With
   aWinDesc = CreateUnoStruct(com.sun.star.**awt.WindowDescriptor)
   With aWinDesc
 .Type = com.sun.star.awt.WindowClass.**TOP
 .WindowServiceName = dialog
 .ParentIndex = -1
 .Bounds = aRect
 .Parent = oParent
 .WindowAttributes = _
   com.sun.star.awt.**WindowAttribute.MOVEABLE + _
   com.sun.star.awt.**WindowAttribute.CLOSEABLE
   End With
   CreateNewWindow = oToolkit.createWindow(**aWinDesc)
End Function


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