[discuss] Re: How do I install and use several GUI languages on one system (Win XP)

2006-01-22 Thread Enrique Castro
Stephan Gromer wrote: Dear all, I am maintaing the PCs in a small university lab and I would like to switch my users from a competitor's product made in Redmond to OOo 2.0.1. My colleagues however come from different countries and would like to see their native language being used for the

[discuss] Re: commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-15 Thread Enrique Castro
Daniel Carrera wrote: I don't know how easy it is. The OOo API is not exactly straight forward. But even if it's not hard, it would make OOo a dependency. Would you want a command-line tool to have a 300MB dependency? (all this assuming that OOo doesn't require an X server if you provide the

[discuss] Re: commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-15 Thread Enrique Castro
Daniel Carrera wrote: One of our members has been working on an XSLT transformation to turn ODT files into HTML. It's already well advanced. So, if we can find a tool that converts HTML to PDF, we could combine them. Do you know of any program to convert HTML to PDF? HTMLDoc? It is

[discuss] Re: Horizontal columns

2006-01-15 Thread Enrique Castro
John McCormick wrote: One feature that I would find useful would be the ability to make horizontal columns. Although text lines are horizontal columns of a sort, I'm working on an interlinear Bible translation which requires a line of Greek with a line of corresponding translated English

[discuss] Re: Re: commandline tool: render ODT into PS or PDF

2006-01-15 Thread Enrique Castro
Daniel Carrera wrote: Henrik Sundberg wrote: Did Arend Beelen use dispatching or regular API calls? Look, you're missing the point: 1. Even when run headless, OOo needs X to install. Yes, even if you use API calls. This is an *installation* requirement. 2. Even when run headless, OOo

[discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-10 Thread Enrique Castro
Hi Gianluca Gianluca Turconi wrote: I've just read the article present on your news site: http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,16376,1660763,00.html?gusrc=rss and I have to say it includes misleading and false assertions, which I consider harmful for both my professionalism and my

[discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-10 Thread Enrique Castro
Gianluca Turconi wrote: On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 07:50:39 +0100 M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Said this, I find the rest of the article objective. It says things that are actual problems and needed to be said, things which I too was planning to write sometime. Well, Marco, I've to

[discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-10 Thread Enrique Castro
Gianluca Turconi wrote: What I mean is this: before using personal or niche assumptions (per languages or per users group's perceptions, ...) in public texts that have a great resounding impact around the web, let's do thing in a professional way: I think these lists are for more or less

[discuss] Number/bullet styles NOT applied with paragraph style

2005-10-26 Thread Enrique Castro
Hi all, I have just upograded by Ubuntu system to Breezy Badger (which ships with OOo 1.9.129) and installed also teh FINAL beta on Windows XP. To my surprise, I have found that I cannot apply a numbering style with a paragraph style. If you attach a numbering style to a paragraph style (in teh