Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-08 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On 7/7/19 4:35 PM, Wols Lists wrote: > I now possess a copy of the offending .docx document and the PDF > version of it. (It contains 1.6MB, so it will take some time.) > Tomorrow, I will be determining what is necessary to fix it. Rather > than guess as to what would be required, I will find

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 08/07/19 03:04, Dan Lewis wrote: > One thing I do know: an .odt file is based on styles. The only codes > that are used are styles. This is obvious when looking at the > Content.xml file in the .odt zipped file. Word Perfect has a different > set of codes which it uses. I do not see any

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Dan Lewis
On 7/7/19 4:35 PM, Wols Lists wrote: On 07/07/19 17:06, Tor Lillqvist wrote: For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in the ticket... Which

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/07/19 17:06, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 > and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in the > ticket... > > > Which should be a good indication

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Wols Lists
On 07/07/19 16:42, Dennis Roczek wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 > and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in the > ticket... > I notice the bug report mentions

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Dennis Roczek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi Tor, On 07.07.2019 18:06, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 > and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > > For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 > and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in the > ticket... > Which should be a good indication that the request is unreasonable. --tml

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Dennis Roczek
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi everybody, For the reference: we have a bug report since 2011 https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34002 and the corresponding openoffice bug report from 2002 is linked in the ticket... Best regards, Dennis Roczek On

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-07 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On 06/07/19 07:36, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Plus I'm a *text* guy. MS is very much a *visual* company (as are most > people, actually). So the MS way of doing things is alien to me - the WP > way of "here's a gui, this drops into the text setup behind it" is just > *so* *easy*. If you are really

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Anthony Youngman
On 06/07/2019 22:31, Ralf Quint wrote: On 7/6/2019 1:00 PM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: You seem to hate a lot. Try to get over it. +1 I'm a bit of a "grumpy old man", sorry ... :-) Cheers, Wol ___ LibreOffice mailing list

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Ralf Quint
On 7/6/2019 1:00 PM, Tor Lillqvist wrote: You seem to hate a lot. Try to get over it. +1 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ___ LibreOffice mailing list

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Tor Lillqvist
You seem to hate a lot. Try to get over it. --tml ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/07/19 07:36, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> On 05/07/19 13:14, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> And all I am saying is that the feature you describe sounds to me >> NOTHING LIKE reveal codes, and personally I can't see any use for it. >> The Word equivalent is "show formatting" which - like I said - was >>

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "TL" == Tor Lillqvist writes: >> >> >> >> The issue is, what if you force to deal with docx and you run into >> problems? > The data structure inside a .docx has very little relationship to the > internal data structures inside LO, so it would be extremely hard to > display "codes" from

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Wols Lists
On 06/07/19 10:27, Tor Lillqvist wrote: > > > The issue is, what if you force to deal with docx and you run into > problems? > > > The data structure inside a .docx has very little relationship to the > internal data structures inside LO, so it would be extremely hard to > display

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Tor Lillqvist
> > > > The issue is, what if you force to deal with docx and you run into > problems? The data structure inside a .docx has very little relationship to the internal data structures inside LO, so it would be extremely hard to display "codes" from the .docx in the LibreOffice UI. What you can do

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "TL" == Tor Lillqvist writes: > No. There are no "codes" to "reveal" in LibreOffice. > If you want to use a markup format, use a markup format, in a plain text > editor. Simple as that. LaTeX for instance. I think you miss the point and I am saying that as long time user of latex, (daily

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Tor Lillqvist
No. There are no "codes" to "reveal" in LibreOffice. If you want to use a markup format, use a markup format, in a plain text editor. Simple as that. LaTeX for instance. --tml ___ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On 05/07/19 13:14, Uwe Brauer wrote: > And all I am saying is that the feature you describe sounds to me > NOTHING LIKE reveal codes, and personally I can't see any use for it. > The Word equivalent is "show formatting" which - like I said - was > ignored by lusers and power users alike

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On 05/07/19 13:15, Uwe Brauer wrote: > THANK YOU VERY MUCH! > I've never seen that, but I've got the linux WP8 somewhere, plus licence > keys, so I'll have to try. I run gentoo, so it'll be a bit different, > but ... :-) BTW, the relevant files mentioned, you will find via

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/07/19 13:14, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> On 05/07/19 09:16, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> Sorry but that completely misses the point. If it's read-only I won't >> even bother to learn how to use it ... > > The point is: > > Since almost 10 years people are demanding such a feature and

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/07/19 13:15, Uwe Brauer wrote: "Wl" == Wol's lists writes: > >> On 04/07/2019 11:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: > >> And yes, I would dearly love to have reveal codes back - so much so >> that I am seriously considering shelling out for an up-to-date copy of >> WordPerfect,

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Dan Lewis
On 7/4/19 8:06 AM, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Hi Uwe, Uwe Brauer wrote: Is there somebody with enough knownledge in macros to translate those macros to LO 6.2? Perhaps - I'd suggest you upload them somewhere (provided they are available under an open source license) & post a link here.

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Kaganski Mike
Hi! On 04.07.2019 20:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support > Wordperfects reveal code. Sometimes it is stated that this feature could > be implemented by a macro/extension. > > Now I remember that long time ago such macros existed and

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "Wl" == Wol's lists writes: > On 04/07/2019 11:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: > And yes, I would dearly love to have reveal codes back - so much so > that I am seriously considering shelling out for an up-to-date copy of > WordPerfect, but sadly I suspect Corel have butchered it. WP8 was

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Uwe Brauer
> On 05/07/19 09:16, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Sorry but that completely misses the point. If it's read-only I won't > even bother to learn how to use it ... The point is: Since almost 10 years people are demanding such a feature and nothing happened. All I am saying is: if a read only

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/07/19 09:16, Uwe Brauer wrote: "AP" == Andrew Pitonyak writes: > >> So I read your response to say... >> If it is a read only display them it is not worth the time to bother with >> it... > >> That is certainly easier than trying to make it work :-) > > I would say, read only is a

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "Wl" == Wol's lists writes: > On 04/07/2019 11:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> >> From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support >> Wordperfects reveal code. Sometimes it is stated that this feature could >> be implemented by a macro/extension. > Bear in mind that "reveal codes"

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "AP" == Andrew Pitonyak writes: > So I read your response to say... > If it is a read only display them it is not worth the time to bother with > it... > That is certainly easier than trying to make it work :-) I would say, read only is a first step and if users start to like it then

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
So I read your response to say... If it is a read only display them it is not worth the time to bother with it... That is certainly easier than trying to make it work :-) ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Jul 4, 2019, 10:26 PM, at 10:26 PM, Wols Lists wrote: >On 05/07/19 03:15, Wol's lists wrote: >>

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Wols Lists
On 05/07/19 03:15, Wol's lists wrote: > On 04/07/2019 11:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: >> >> From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support >> Wordperfects reveal code. Sometimes it is stated that this feature could >> be implemented by a macro/extension. > > Bear in mind that "reveal

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Wol's lists
On 04/07/2019 11:08, Uwe Brauer wrote: From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support Wordperfects reveal code. Sometimes it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a macro/extension. Bear in mind that "reveal codes" is an EDITING window. That was what was wrong

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Uwe Brauer
>>> "TB" == Thorsten Behrens writes: > Hi Uwe, > Uwe Brauer wrote: >> Is there somebody with enough knownledge in macros to translate those >> macros to LO 6.2? >> > Perhaps - I'd suggest you upload them somewhere (provided they are > available under an open source license)

Re: Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Hi Uwe, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Is there somebody with enough knownledge in macros to translate those > macros to LO 6.2? > Perhaps - I'd suggest you upload them somewhere (provided they are available under an open source license) & post a link here. Preferably as a bug report at

Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Uwe Brauer
From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support Wordperfects reveal code. Sometimes it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a macro/extension. Now I remember that long time ago such macros existed and using the wayback machine I found them. They were written