Re: [discuss] data base in OOo2?

2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Away from the control panel I don't see any substancial difference with the 1.1.4 version. Can someone shed some explanation of some 'real' changes (on the UI) on OOoBase from 1.x to 2.x? -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/ Mensaje citado por Don

Re: [discuss] Re: data base in OOo2?

2005-04-08 Thread Wesley Parish
On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 22:48, bealach wrote: Daniel Carrera wrote: bealach wrote: I was only reporting what PC World said, wasn't I? Yes. The point I was trying to make is that we can't fix it if we don't know what the problem is. PCWorld was totally unspecific about Ooo db, neither did

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I guess I am not the only one suggesting using Scribus as a replacement for publisher. This note is relevant on why business are NOT doing MS Publisher anymore: http://business.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/04/06/1545203 -- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Usually the reason is how this people got introduced to Publishing software. MS Publisher comes from MSO. Same can be sayed with FrontPage even if Dreamweaver is ages ahead in windows. BTW I just download NVU and they are getting there, the new support for Layers are great. -- Alexandro Colorado

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Ven 8 avril 2005 13:07, Lars D. Noodén a écrit : Scribus does seem interesting, but I am curious as to how people ended up with MS-Publisher in the first place. Same reason as they ended up with word and excel : it was cheaper than the alternatives at the time. Contrary to word though I

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Lars D . Noodén
Ok, from the responses, it sounds like MS-Publisher is around because it was bundled for a while with other MS products. Perhaps an article or tutorial or HOWTO on the topic of using OOo for flyers or newsletters is in order. -Lars Lars Nooden ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Software patents harm

Re: [discuss] OO.o1.9.91 window docking issue?

2005-04-08 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jamie, Jamie Borg wrote: I've freshly downloaded the new beta from betanews.com and am having difficulties to dock the Navigator and Stylist using any of the CTL, ALT or Shift keys and moving the mouse into any of the sides or corners. Anyone else having this problem? The help doesn't

Re: [discuss] Re: data base in OOo2?

2005-04-08 Thread Christian Einfeldt
On Friday 08 April 2005 02:54, Wesley Parish wrote: snip... Judging from comments I have heard from various PC techies, MS Access's problem is that it is only good for small databases, and falls over once you try anything above a certain size. Since OO.org connects to _serious_ databases of

[discuss] Hide All toolbars

2005-04-08 Thread Rigel
I've noticed something that I don't particularely like in OOo. When I deselect toolbars from the View menu in Writer, or other OOo components, they will disapear for that session. When I come back into OOo, they'll be back again. Now this wouldn't be so bad, except that there isn't a hide all

Re: [discuss] Hausa localized?

2005-04-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Christian, I'm copying this message to the Native-Lang list. You might want to tell this young man to subscrive to that list and discuss the idea with Charles. Cheers, Daniel. On Fri, Apr 08, 2005 at 12:46:56PM -0700, Christian Einfeldt wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if Hausa, an African

[discuss] interesting article on MSFT

2005-04-08 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
Bruce Byfield has written a really very interesting analysis of Microsoft's latest foray against OSS. It's worthwhile reading, especially as it should urge us here to come up with good reasons why OSS is better than MSFT. See http://trends.newsforge.com/trends/05/04/01/2122210.shtml?tid=152tid=

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Mensaje citado por Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 19:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le vendredi 08 avril 2005 à 11:23 -0700, Chris BONDE a écrit : Right ON! Similar questions from brochure to newsletters to booklets have been asked. Chris Ok, from the

Re: [discuss] OO.o1.9.91 window docking issue?

2005-04-08 Thread Graham
Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jamie, Jamie Borg wrote: I've freshly downloaded the new beta from betanews.com and am having difficulties to dock the Navigator and Stylist using any of the CTL, ALT or Shift keys and moving the mouse into any of the sides or corners. Anyone else having this problem? The

Re: [discuss] interesting article on MSFT

2005-04-08 Thread Rigel
--- Louis Suarez-Potts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Byfield has written a really very interesting analysis of Microsoft's latest foray against OSS. It's worthwhile reading, especially as it should urge us here to come up with good reasons why OSS is better than MSFT. See

Re: [discuss] OO.o1.9.91 window docking issue?

2005-04-08 Thread Rigel
--- Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jamie, Jamie Borg wrote: I've freshly downloaded the new beta from betanews.com and am having difficulties to dock the Navigator and Stylist using any of the CTL, ALT or Shift keys and moving the mouse into any of the

Re: [discuss] interesting article on MSFT

2005-04-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 21:53, Louis Suarez-Potts wrote: Bruce Byfield has written a really very interesting analysis of Microsoft's latest foray against OSS. It's worthwhile reading, especially as it should urge us here to come up with good reasons why OSS is better than MSFT. Because without

Re: [discuss] publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Well publisher is a dtp joke actually. I wasn't writing let's do publisher but let's add a serious dtp mode to oo.o It'll have to get in the queue behind a lot of other rfes unless you know a source to fund the development. (For those

[discuss] Re: OO.o1.9.91 window docking issue?

2005-04-08 Thread Jamie Borg
Hi, Just fired up writer and tried what you suggest... no key pressing while dragging the window to the corner. No go. WinXP only issue? Rigel wrote: --- Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Cor Nouws wrote: Hi Jamie, Jamie Borg wrote: I've freshly downloaded the new beta from betanews.com and am

[discuss] Re: publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Rod Engelsman
Ian Lynch wrote: On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:44, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Well publisher is a dtp joke actually. I wasn't writing let's do publisher but let's add a serious dtp mode to oo.o It'll have to get in the queue behind a lot of other rfes unless you know a source to fund the development.

[discuss] Re: publisher

2005-04-08 Thread Rod Engelsman
Sorry about the double-post, I hit Send prematurely. Ian Lynch wrote: Both are significantly worse in that respect than Impression Publisher on the Acorn RISC OS platform in the early 90s. Impression Publisher could be used quite happily for both word processing and DTP on a 25 MHz machine with 4

Re: [discuss] Hausa localized?

2005-04-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
Christian wrote: Does anyone know if Hausa, an African language, has a localization project in the works I _think_ I've read about some L10N projects on the A12N list. I have explained how tough a localization project can be, but this kid loves languages. OOo should not be the first L10N