Re: [users] how to use the special characters U+xxx(xxx) combination
2008/8/12 Jack D. Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Girard Aquino wrote the following on 8/11/2008 3:23 PM: i've never gotten to figure how to use the code for the special characters. So if for example it says in the special characters dialog that a character has U+00A9 (169), what should I do to quickly insert that special character in the document without having to go through the dialog and selecting in manually? Girard, You can input the special characters by holding down the ALT key and then entering the 4 digit decimal code. IE: ALT+0169 Note that the character that is returned will vary depending upon the current font you have selected. -- Jack And on a Mac? -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
Re: [users] Problems with uninstalling
2008/8/12 Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Guy, Many thanks for your reply. I attach a photo of my desktop so you can understand what I'm talking about I can't eject the drive. Whenever I try to send the OOo icon to the trash the computer says the same, that the program is in use. I tried to restart the computer and I can't because the computer says that OOo is in use. Can you help me out? Many thanks, Rui Thanks, Guy, I downloaded OppenOffice from the OpenOffice.org website. I'll try to restart te computer again and see if it works. Yesterday it didn't work. It always says the program is working and because of that I can't eject the drive or drag the icon to the trash. With best wishes, Rui Eject the drive? Which drive? If you installed the program, you'll find an OOo icon (green-blue with gaivotas) in your Programs (or Applications) folder. You can drag this to the Trash. likewise, you can drag the OOo icon that you may have in your Dock to the Trash. If you have something else, please explain. (and respond only to users@openoffice.org) -- Guy Sorry but I can't assist with the problem, but to those on the users list I can supply the screen shot mentioned by the OP - if that would help... /paul OOo users list moderator Hello, Rui, did you try to force quit OOo? Alt-Apple-Escape (or choose force quit from apple menu (top left) otherwise, if Paul could provide me the screenshot... -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
[users] bulleted list gets corrupted when file saved as doc
Hello I have a problem with bulleted lists in OOo 3.0 beta-2 (Aqua on Mac). I make a bulleted list, save it in doc format. When I reopen, the bullet type has changed, and levels have collapsed to one (i.e. indents have disappeared). The levels have not disappeared altogether: if I modify the bullet type for the different levels, they appear correctly. Made an issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=92698 -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
[users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
Hi All, This is the fist time I send a mail to the group and wonder if someone can help me out. I have downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice and installed x11 from the mac installer disc. I run OpenOffice, but X11 does not want to start. I see the icon very short and then it disappears again. But it continues to try and relaunch every ±10/20 secs. I'm using MacOS 10.5.4 and installed X11 after all the updates apple gave with software updater. Should the Quartz.org version of X11 work together with OpenOffice? Or am I doing something totally wrong here. Cheers Koen - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, This is the fist time I send a mail to the group and wonder if someone can help me out. I have downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice and installed x11 from the mac installer disc. I run OpenOffice, but X11 does not want to start. I see the icon very short and then it disappears again. But it continues to try and relaunch every ±10/20 secs. I'm using MacOS 10.5.4 and installed X11 after all the updates apple gave with software updater. Should the Quartz.org version of X11 work together with OpenOffice? Or am I doing something totally wrong here. Cheers Koen Hello Koen, Shaun from the Mac porting team has this solution (I hope it still works): X11 Time out solution: http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for-command-timed-out.html Personally, I have installed the beta-2 version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 Aqua that works without X11 (not yet an official release, and so it may crash, have bugs etc., but generally it works fine). Dutch versions of the OOo-in-development can be found here: NL versies (nieuw) : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NL/QA/Testen English versions on Good-Day (I have the beta-2): Good day: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/ Good luck, -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
Thanks, Going to try the 3.0 beta. Thanks a lot. Cheers Koen 2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, This is the fist time I send a mail to the group and wonder if someone can help me out. I have downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice and installed x11 from the mac installer disc. I run OpenOffice, but X11 does not want to start. I see the icon very short and then it disappears again. But it continues to try and relaunch every ±10/20 secs. I'm using MacOS 10.5.4 and installed X11 after all the updates apple gave with software updater. Should the Quartz.org version of X11 work together with OpenOffice? Or am I doing something totally wrong here. Cheers Koen Hello Koen, Shaun from the Mac porting team has this solution (I hope it still works): X11 Time out solution: http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for- command-timed-out.html Personally, I have installed the beta-2 version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 Aqua that works without X11 (not yet an official release, and so it may crash, have bugs etc., but generally it works fine). Dutch versions of the OOo-in-development can be found here: NL versies (nieuw) : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NL/QA/Testen English versions on Good-Day (I have the beta-2): Good day: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/ Good luck, -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
Hi again, Can it be true that version 3 is intel only (for mac)? Cheers Koen 2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, This is the fist time I send a mail to the group and wonder if someone can help me out. I have downloaded the latest version of OpenOffice and installed x11 from the mac installer disc. I run OpenOffice, but X11 does not want to start. I see the icon very short and then it disappears again. But it continues to try and relaunch every ±10/20 secs. I'm using MacOS 10.5.4 and installed X11 after all the updates apple gave with software updater. Should the Quartz.org version of X11 work together with OpenOffice? Or am I doing something totally wrong here. Cheers Koen Hello Koen, Shaun from the Mac porting team has this solution (I hope it still works): X11 Time out solution: http://shaunmcdonald131.blogspot.com/2008/03/ooo-possible-fix-for- command-timed-out.html Personally, I have installed the beta-2 version of OpenOffice.org 3.0 Aqua that works without X11 (not yet an official release, and so it may crash, have bugs etc., but generally it works fine). Dutch versions of the OOo-in-development can be found here: NL versies (nieuw) : http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/NL/QA/Testen English versions on Good-Day (I have the beta-2): Good day: http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/ Good luck, -- Guy using dutch OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on a iMac Intel DualCore Tiger and brazilian OOo Aqua 3.0.0 Beta-2 on an Intel MacBook Pro Leopard -- please reply only to users@openoffice.org -- Dodoes can't afford to have headaches - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again, Can it be true that version 3 is intel only (for mac)? Cheers Koen No, the PPC is further down the list (beta-2): direct link (also available at ftp://ooopackages...): http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0beta2/OOo_3.0.0beta2_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg -- Guy
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
Ah, thanks again. What are all the other download .dmg version ending on, like 'install af.dmg' Cheers Koen 2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi again, Can it be true that version 3 is intel only (for mac)? Cheers Koen No, the PPC is further down the list (beta-2): direct link (also available at ftp://ooopackages...): http://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/MacOSX/3.0.0beta2/ OOo_3.0.0beta2_MacOSXPowerPC_install.dmg -- Guy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: how to use the special characters U+xxx(xxx) combination
Jack D. Lewis wrote: Girard Aquino wrote the following on 8/11/2008 3:23 PM: i've never gotten to figure how to use the code for the special characters. So if for example it says in the special characters dialog that a character has U+00A9 (169), what should I do to quickly insert that special character in the document without having to go through the dialog and selecting in manually? Girard, You can input the special characters by holding down the ALT key and then entering the 4 digit decimal code. IE: ALT+0169 Note that the character that is returned will vary depending upon the current font you have selected. The method you have suggested only works on Windows and only with particular applications, notably MS Office and Word Pad. With other applications you will normally only be able to enter numbers from 0 to 255. Entering them without initial zero will give the corresponding character in your current DOS character set. Entering them with initial zero will give the corresponding character in your current 8-bit Windows character set. If you type a value above 256, the sequence will wrap, that is 256 will give the same results as typing 0, 257 will give the same results as 1, 258 will give the same results as 2, and so forth. For Windows machines you can download the free program Quick Unicode Input from http://www.cardbox.com/quick.htm . This allows you to enter decimal versions of the Unicode numbers for each character using the numeric keypad for all base plane Unicode characters. You can also enter the characters in hex, using either keypad or regular keyboard provided you precede the number with the decimal point from the numeric keypad and hold down the left Alt key while typing the decimal point and the subsequent numbers. This hexadecimal Unicode value for characters is the same value as what OpenOffice.org calls the “special code”. Jim Allan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, thanks again. What are all the other download .dmg version ending on, like 'install af.dmg' Cheers Koen The link I sent you was for the US English version. The other versions are in the other languages OOo supports. nl is Dutch, fr is French etc. See http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html -- Guy
Re: [users] Open Offica and Mac OS 10.5.4
Ok. Thanks. Sorry if I asked beginner questions. Cheers Koen 2008/8/12 K. Keevel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ah, thanks again. What are all the other download .dmg version ending on, like 'install af.dmg' Cheers Koen The link I sent you was for the US English version. The other versions are in the other languages OOo supports. nl is Dutch, fr is French etc. See http://projects.openoffice.org/native-lang.html -- Guy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Problems with uninstalling
On Aug 12, 2008, at 01:51 , Guy Voets wrote: Rui, did you try to force quit OOo? Alt-Apple-Escape (or choose force quit from apple menu (top left) I might add that logging out or restarting will close any unwanted disk images as well as shut down rogue processes. Presumably OpenOffice isn't one of the login items... -- Using a rusty Amiga 4000T, a shiny PowerMac G5, a homebuilt Ubuntu box Whatever hits a fan will not be evenly distributed. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] How to insert a math formula into a text frame?
2008/8/12 Louis-H Desouvrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] mike scott wrote: On 10 Aug 2008 at 21:13, Louis-H Desouvrey wrote: ... Let's me clarify. When I am in OOo Writer, I can't insert a formula into a text box (created by clicking the T button in the Draw toolbar...). As you put it, the option Insert Object Formula is greyed out. Copy and paste are greyed out as well. In OOo Draw this option is enabled (i.e., it is not greyed out), but I can't group a formula with other drawings (a line, a triangle, etc.). XP-SP2,OOo 2.4.1. Perhaps I misunderstand, but you seem to want a floating entity containg some text, and within that entity, you want a formula object. AFAICS the only way to achieve that is within Writer - make a /frame/ (Insert | Frame) and put your text within it, and you'll find you can also - within that frame - do an Insert | Object | Formula. The inserted formula is then truly within the frame, and can be anchored or wrapped as any other object. (You can also flow text between such frames, btw.) A text /box/ is a different sort of beast but available within Draw and Writer. As you remark, Insert|Object doesn't work in Writer while the cursor is within a text box. If you use it in Draw to attempt to insert something in a text box, you get an independent object, not attached to the text box at all. I suspect this isn't what you want. Incidentally, it does seem possible to group (in Draw) a formula object with other things. Try putting a formula and a graphic onto the page, then use the cursor to drag a large selection box round both, for example. Both will be selected, and can be, for example, grouped together or aligned. (This won't work in Writer, however.) Hope this helps. If not, perhaps you could clarify what you're trying to achieve on the page - there may be a totally different approach. (Replies to list only please) Now it is clear to me that I have been using the Writer Draw Functions incorrectly. It is much more simple to draw objects inside a frame (Insert Frame). As suggested to me, I can write the text, edit the formula, and draw the lines. No need to group, they stick together inside the frame, which apparently can be edited, moved, anchored, etc., without modifying its contents. I can even take off the borders of the frame. The suggestions were very helpful. Thank you to everyone Louis-H Desouvrey I also want to thank everyone. I played around with it and found it very useful! So I actually learned something new today? Yes, I sure did! Thanks!
