Aqualung already listed the content of the get-help page and the lack
of any reference to existing forums and that is my main point too
(don't worry, I'll not talk about socialism nor capitalism... ;) ).
I'll not quote anyone in particular here, so let's see if I can make
the whole idea more clear
2011/4/17 sophie gautier.sop...@gmail.com:
On 17/04/2011 22:33, RGB ES wrote:
Aqualung already listed the content of the get-help page and the lack
of any reference to existing forums and that is my main point too
(don't worry, I'll not talk about socialism nor capitalism... ;) ).
I'll
Thanks for the hint. But this hides the other content on the navigator
(tables, images...). I need to explore this...
Cheers
2011/3/20 Jean-Baptiste Faure jbf.fa...@orange.fr:
Le 19/03/2011 09:54, RGB ES a écrit :
A few ideas about how to improve the already wonderful Navigator:
https
A few ideas about how to improve the already wonderful Navigator:
https://sites.google.com/site/rgbmldcwriterideas/home/navigator
What do you think?
Cheers
Ricardo
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Almost all modern typefaces include the euro symbol, no need to use a
different font for that: it's unicode 20AC. If you for any reason
can't find it, just press Ctrl+Shift+U (you will see an underlined u),
then type 20ac and press Enter: the euro symbol € will appear.
This works not only on LibO
Just as the subject says: are there plans to create LibO Planets for
different localizations?
With the growing community, there will be bloggers talking about LibO
so a dedicated planet would be interesting, I think. And more
interesting if there are more Planets, one for each (mayor)
2011/3/9 Roman H. Gelbort ro...@piensalibre.com.ar:
Alexandro isn't the trouble... you know what is?
Maybe a wrong concept. Alexandro have the concept to give localization
support to both, OOo and LibO and to help the Spanish localization of
both projects under the same umbrella (something
Hola, Luis
The help pack contains all the help files you get when going to Help
- LibreOffice Help (or just F1). On OOo those files came with the
language packs, but on LibO they are a separated download, nothing
more, nothing less.
Saludos ;)
Ricardo
2011/3/5 Luis E Vásquez r
Robert, *,
I'm not very deep involved in spellchecking, but nevertheless trying a
shot..
Robert Derman schrieb:
RGB ES wrote:
AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo. If you
have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss, you can
import (I mean, copy
I get a certification error with konqueror, but not with firefox for
https://www.libreoffice.org/. Same for https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
2011/2/26 Jonathan Aquilina eagles051...@gmail.com:
On 2/26/2011 1:59 PM, Florian Effenberger wrote:
Hi,
NoOp wrote on 2011-02-25 22.42:
Added note: you
Explore the option under Tools - Autocorrect options - Options tab.
Specially Apply styles and replace custom styles. Turning off some
options from that menu will make your life easier ;)
2011/2/21 AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com:
Hi
Using LibO-3.3.1.2 in Debian testing/ wheezy, writer has
Format - Paragraph - Indents and spacing. But it will be better if
you use styles instead of direct formatting.
Please, review the existing documentation: all these formatting
issues you have are already well documented... they are just some
default settings for the powerful tools Writer offers.
until you find the Default
paragraph style, right click on it and Edit - Indent and spacing tab.
Writer is about the use of styles, you need to learn how to use them,
otherwise you will have lots of headaches ;)
2011/2/21 AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com:
On 21/02/11 21:41, RGB ES wrote
AFAIK, LibO dictionaries are the same dictionaries from OOo.
If you have a custom dictionary where you added the words you miss,
you can import (I mean, copy to the right location) that dictionary
into LibO user profile. See here for more details about the user
profile:
AFAIK, it's a feature. If you want the table toolbar to not disturb
your work space, when it just drag it and anchor it below the text
area: I always put there all the contextual toolbars.
Another option is to close forever that toolbar (unchecking it when it
appears) and create a custom one
Try with this dictionary:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/dict-th
2011/2/13 Robert Parker rlp1...@gmail.com:
How is it possible to get a Thai dictionary and have LO auto spell
check Thai words.
NB the text in question will in general be word separated unlike
normal Tha
Install the dictionary from Tools - Extension manager - Add. Then,
restart LibO (including the quickstarter). Now you will be able to
chose the language on the paragraph style (font tab).
2011/2/13 Robert Parker rlp1...@gmail.com:
On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 3:55 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote
Many times I successfully converted/fixed problematic eps files using
inkscape: they are opened as vector graphics and you can modify them
and export to almost any format (eps included...)
2011/1/30 Michel Gagnon mic...@mgagnon.net:
Le 2011-01-30 07:10, Magnus Johansson a écrit :
Salut
In a nutshell, without java you will not have:
- Base
- The bibliographic database
- Some wizards you find on File - Wizards
- Many extensions, like languagetool
- I think some file converters (not sure about this one)
Cheers
2011/1/30 Fabián Rodríguez magic...@member.fsf.org:
Hi
The Windows
You already asked this on another email, I think... LibO do not render
EPS files, it only use the raster preview (when included). If, instead
of exporting to pdf, you print to a file with a postscript printer
driver, and then convert that file to pdf you will be fine.
2011/1/29 Magnus Johansson
It is not. During edition you can only see the raster preview (when
available). But you can still use eps images on Writer without too
much problems: you just need not to use the native pdf export. Use a
postscript printer driver to print to a file instead, and then convert
that postscript file to
It is clear you cannot please everyone: the list of problems you see
on forums is almost the same list of problems I usually see on mailing
lists...
Every communication system have the same merits and defects of the
people using it. Nothing more, nothing less. The system can only add
tools to easy
https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/forums/
They are hidden (no link on the help page) and you cannot post on
them yet, but they exists and you can register ;) So my question is:
how those forums will be organized? There will be one for each local
site or only one on English? Categories?
Good idea! Maybe a wiki page will be enough, but someone from each
distro with enough knowledge should fill their part.
On my experience, when giving support to OOo users on Linux many of
their problems came from distro patches and were not present on
vanilla build (anyone remember when kde4
2011/1/6 Jaime R. Garza gar...@gmail.com:
I'm wondering why libre office is not interested
in developing an HTML5 complete office Suite.
Who told you that? An html5 app based on LibO does not exists yet,
that's clear, but that does not mean it will never be one. LibO is a
FOSS project, the only
IMO, to put the write part on an external extension is a good idea.
There are other extensions for import export (like
OpenOffice.org2GoogleDocs that gives export capabilities to
GoogleDocs, Zoho and WebDAV)
I still think that there are too many thing on save as dialogue that
should go on export
2010/12/31 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com:
And BTW, the latest Open Office ALSO supports writing to OOXML format...
As someone already said, that's absolutely wrong: I have 3.3rc8 and
300m95 running here and none of them support writing to whateverX
formats.
Maybe you are using some
Ubuntu's (and openSUSE's and sabayon's and...) OOo is go-oo, not oracle's OOo.
2010/12/31 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com:
On 31/12/10 13:17, RGB ES wrote:
As someone already said, that's absolutely wrong: I have 3.3rc8 and
300m95 running here and none of them support writing
It says oracle (based on oracle to be precise) because most of the
code is copyrighted by oracle. Please, google a bit, it does not
hurt...
2010/12/31 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com:
On 31/12/10 13:23, RGB ES wrote:
Ubuntu's (and openSUSE's and sabayon's and...) OOo is go-oo
A possible compromise???: move all (I mean ALL) non native formats to
the Export menu and let save/save as for the native formats only.
Also, disable the possibility to change the default format for saving
documents: in my experience on forums, many problems are fixed when
you explain users that
openxml is a really bad thing for the community. It was a shame its
approval by iso, specially if we consider there was no working
implementation of it (not even msoffice support that standard!!) By
implementing this format on LibO we are not helping to improve the
(absurd myth of)
2010/12/30 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com:
OOXML will spread anyway because MS Office 2007 and 2010 use this format by
default. Nothing you can do about it I'm afraid
That means nothing. MSOffice will be able to read the previous formats
for a while, I think...
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Agree: an horizontally distributed wiki with good category tags is the
way to go... But the problem seems to be quite different now: I asked
to the website mailing lists and it seems that this kind of pages (end
user pages) are not good for TDF wiki. They are planning a new LibO
wiki so all these
I started a new page on the wiki about LibreOffice's user profile:
http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/UserProfile
English is not my native language, so please edit any grammar error
you find there. Also, there are some holes on the info provided: the
use of several folder inside the profile, for
Another new wiki page: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel
Entries for windows and mac need to be written (I only use Linux),
help will be appreciated ;)
Cheers
2010/12/25 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com:
I started a new page on the wiki about LibreOffice's user profile:
http
2010/12/25 Cor Nouws oo...@nouenoff.nl:
One thing I wonder: did you think about the name structure for the pages, or
ask on documentation@ or website@ ?
To be honest, no... I just had some idle time today and hurried before
something else grabbed it ;)
I am not sure, but can imagine that
2010/12/16 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net:
But I reckon that this can be fixed by not installing, or uninstalling
(on my debian based system):
libobasis3.3-ooofonts_3.3.0-17_i386.deb
Umm, well, no: this will not install opensymbol font so you will not
be able to use Math afterwards... So no, it is
equations :)
2010/12/16 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net:
On 12/16/2010 12:57 PM, RGB ES wrote:
2010/12/16 NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net:
But I reckon that this can be fixed by not installing, or uninstalling
(on my debian based system):
libobasis3.3-ooofonts_3.3.0-17_i386.deb
Umm, well
Start LibO from terminal and copy every error messages, otherwise is
quite difficult to guess what's happens ;)
2010/12/11 Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net:
I also tried converting the RPMs through alien.
All I get is the splash screen, and then the loading bar colors to about
halfway,
?? I'm running 64 bits versions of OOo since 3.0 without problems.
Go-oo had problems with 64 bits builds (pdf export on openSUSE was a
nightmare for a long time) but vanilla builds always worked for me and
LibO also.
2010/12/8 Susan Cragin susancra...@earthlink.net:
The current version of
OOo DEV300m95 include the long awaited fix for issue 972
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=972
automated vertical alignment for Math objects on Writer documents. The
quick tests I did show that the patch works quite well!
I know it is too late for including this patch on LibO, but
2010/12/6 Andras Timar tima...@gmail.com:
Hi Ricardo,
Libertine and Libertine G are different. The later is a Graphite font
which utilizes the Graphite engine in LibreOffice. See:
http://www.numbertext.org/linux/
I know this quite well (I use graphite features a lot), I mentioned
them just
2010/12/5 Gérard Fargeot gerard.farg...@orange.fr:
You are dreaming.
In OOo we have so many versions as distro, LibO is taking the same road.
Each distro (each dev.) want his own built.
We are not able to have 1 same product and you want an association with
others suite...
This is the big
I just downloaded LibO 3.3rc1. As with beta3 it came with many fonts
bundled, like Linux Libertine G and Linux Biolinum G. I have many of
those fonts already installed on my system so here it is my question:
which fonts use LibO, the ones on my system or those within the
package?
This is
Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View: under Icon size and style
you have several icon themes to play with ;)
2010/12/1 Frank Esposito frankespos...@gmail.com:
For LibreOffice 3.3 beta,
Does anyone know if the toolbar Icons will be changed in future releases?
Does anyone know if it is
, so no idea...
2010/12/1 Frank Esposito frankespos...@gmail.com:
On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 10:35 AM, RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com wrote:
Tools - Options - LibreOffice - View: under Icon size and style
you have several icon themes to play with ;)
is this a Libre Office only feature? I do not have
2010/11/30 Christophe Strobbe christophe.stro...@esat.kuleuven.be:
WW8Num3 seems to be a list style; you can find it in the Styles and
Formatting widget when you click the button for List Styles (i.e. the button
at the top, not the item List Styles in the menu at the bottom).
When you use it,
Writer support master documents since many a year. Open your favourite
template and go to File - Send - Master document: an .odm file will
be created. Just create your subdocuments from the same template and
you will be ok. Inside the master document and using the navigator
(open it with F5), you
If in a Calc document you type on consecutive cells in a column, for example
One
Two
One day
and then you start the fourth cell by typing On Calc will suggest
One. Up to here, everything Ok... but on OOo's if you hit TAB you
can change the suggestion from One to One day while on LibO Calc
if you
Ooops! You are right... Thanks!!!
2010/11/18 Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com:
On 18/11/2010 14:13, RGB ES wrote:
If in a Calc document you type on consecutive cells in a column, for
example
One
Two
One day
and then you start the fourth cell by typing On Calc will suggest
One. Up
LibO Beta 3 crash every time I try to dock the stylist or the
navigator (bug reported) so... no, it is not stable enough yet.
After all, it is beta...
Best regards
2010/11/18 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com:
On 2010-11-18 3:03 PM, Jesús Corrius wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 8:41 PM,
2010/11/17 Florian Reisinger reisi...@live.at:
I don't think a huge Office-Suite is necessary for mobile devices, but a
reader for all and the module Writer would be a very nice idea
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Never used it, but look at the VisorODFMovil project:
2010/11/15 Ian Lynch ianrly...@gmail.com:
The point is that for me Inkscape is more usable and if there was an option
to replace Draw with it in LO/OOo I'd take that option. Clumsy
non-multi-tasking dialogues are just one of many issues. I guess if a long
time supporter of OOo like me is
2010/11/14 Christoph Noack christoph.no...@documentfoundation.org:
RGB ES (???)!
Put a physicists, and amateur photographer and a native Spanish
speaker in one person and you will have a good nickname ;)
During the analysis of special use cases within the Renaissance project,
this has been
2010/11/7 Michael Meeks michael.me...@novell.com:
The plan to keep, and improve the existing VCL abstraction for the next
year or so makes a lot of sense I believe.
Of course, I think nobody is asking to try to fly when we do not know
if we are able to walk without too much problems.
A lorem ipsum generator? (that's what google gave me about =Lorem(12) word)
Try dt and then press F3, or use this extension:
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/Magenta_Lorem_ipsum_generator
2010/11/4 Peter Rodwell pe...@intorg.org:
I notice that the all-important Lorem function
As far as I can see, it is all on OOo macro language: if you install
the extension and look at Tools - Macro - Organize macros -
LibreOffice basic you will find all about it.
2010/11/4 Sebastian Spaeth sebast...@sspaeth.de:
On Thu, 04 Nov 2010 08:01:47 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote:
+10 -
2010/11/4 Michel Gagnon mic...@mgagnon.net:
- Take this text and assume I want to emphasize one word. I could simply do
Ctl-I and get the text in Italics or define a character style and apply it.
The character style may be warranted, but it's a multi-step process, and
quite frankly, if I
A big +1
That's why I started the thread about better defaults: this will help
a lot more than a new, shiny but unknown interface.
OOo/LibO interface IS modern and flexible (contextual toolbars,
dockers... everything customizable), but it have horrible defaults
values.
A couple of fixes here and
2010/11/1 Johannes Bausch johannes.bau...@gmail.com:
Hey,
Here's what I think the whole style and document setup should look
like. It's done very quickly in Inkscape, so don't expect anything
spectacular. Still, I hope you get the general idea.
2010/10/29 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com:
Le 2010-10-28 17:45, RGB ES a écrit :
The only reason to see tab stops and other formatting codes is if you
need to *interact* with them: if you have a good set of paragraph
styles the ability to see tab stops and other formatting codes is
useless. So
don't have to repeat
that for every paragraph.
2010/10/29 Jussi Silvonen jussi.silvo...@gmail.com:
2010/10/29 RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com
Writer have a good tradition of tools that helps the build of complex
documents (styles, styles and more styles!).
What I would like to see instead of more
Math have localized names for Greek characters. I don't know which is
the situation for other languages but the Spanish translations are
simply horrible: for example, instead of épsilon (right spelling)
you have epsilón (very wrong spelling: notice the different accent).
There is a related issue
2010/10/30 Michel Gagnon mic...@mgagnon.net:
I am puzzled as to why you want to avoid any direct formatting. I am a power
user and a great fan of style sheets; yet, as far as I am concerned, the
great strength of style sheets is when something needs to be repeatable. So
I will define paragraph
The only reason to see tab stops and other formatting codes is if you
need to *interact* with them: if you have a good set of paragraph
styles the ability to see tab stops and other formatting codes is
useless. So, all the concepts presented in this thread seems to be
geared towards direct
There are discussions on this list about UI redesign. Even if this is
a good goal on the mid/long term, there are lots of things that can be
done *immediately* to build a better user experience: change default
toolbars and buttons.
For example, LibO have enabled by default the nice Find toolbar,
2010/10/16 AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com:
(iii) when opening a previously saved document, it would be nice if the
cursor went automatically to the last saved point of the document rather
than what seems to happen now which is to default to the beginning of the
doc. This is especially
2010/10/15 Charles Marcus cmar...@media-brokers.com:
I haven't used an RPM based distro in a really long time, but I'm
curious - when you add a 3rd party repo like this, does the package
manager still handle all of the dependencies correctly with respect to
the rest of the system and the other
2010/10/15 Greg Collver greg.coll...@gmail.com:
I'd like to bring up the old issue of paste special, text only. This was
never fixed in OOo, but it has been a one of my main annoyances with day to
day use. Perhaps add a configuration option to change the behavior of paste
special or add a new
This is border line with marketing, but it is more of a general
concept so I'll write it here instead of on the marketing mailing list
so it can be discussed by more people.
One of the strengths of LibO is (will be... as it was/is for OOo) its
internationalization. But this strength comes not
2010/10/9 Scott Furry scott.wl.fu...@gmail.com:
And IMO that is the point. Distributions will only incorporate into the
releases what /they feel/ is appropriate.
And is that wrong? If you want the last on your computer as soon as
possible, then you need to change to a rolling release distro...
2010/10/9 Scott Furry scott.wl.fu...@gmail.com:
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install/update method of LibreOffice. Please voice your opinion so that
these considerations may be taken into account when the LibreOffice method
of
2010/10/8 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com:
So just to simplify it for those who are like me and who do not realize t
he
process behind the opendesktop.org update system (I'll use KDE4.5.X as an
example): *** please correct these if I am wrong ***
If you want to update your wallpaper, you can
Thanks. I am a little confused. So are you saying that packaging LibO in
such a way as to be able to use the opendesktop.org system is not possible?
Everything is possible... but that does not means it is desirable. You
always need to use the right tool for the job, and nothing beat a good
2010/10/8 jonathon jonathon.bl...@gmail.com:
Is the opendesktop.org type proposal for the entire program, or just for
the extensions, dictionaries, galleries, extensions, language packs,
grammar checkers, and other addons?
I think people here is talking about the upgrade process. On that case
2010/10/8 Marc Paré m...@marcpare.com:
Do you know what the reasons were for not using these? It would seem to m
ake
sense that you would want to free up dev work and try to unify an upgrade
process for everyone.
Because at the end of the day, they do not work. Just one word:
dependencies. If
Hmmm, I kind of think that there is a need for different forums.
LibreOffice and OpenOffice are two different projects now that will start
to diverge more and more as time goes on. I am sure there will be unique
bugs and unique features for both suites.
Do you realize we are talking about
There is also a brainstorm section on kde forums:
http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#cat83
several ideas implemented on recent kde versions where first discussed ther
e
2010/10/5 henke54 henk...@gmail.com:
Wouldn't it be better to 'implement' something like
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
RGB ES rgb.m...@gmail.com
Hello all!
I would love to see a new toolbar that works as quick style
selector/style status. Right now you can only see the paragraph style
on one place (format toolbar) and the page style on other (status bar)
and it is not possible to know which character style
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