On 04/29/2013 08:37 PM, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:
not but it doesnt look like it according to gmail.
it would help knowing what language expertise is needed to be able to
contribute.
I believe just CSS and HTML.
Best,
Joel
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On 29 April 2013 20:48, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> It pains me to watch people mouse around a document going from paragraph to
> paragraph trying to get formatting consistent when all they need to do is
> make one change to a paragraph style and "voila", every paragraph having
> that style is auto
On 04/29/2013 09:57 PM, Hugh Lupien wrote:
When trying to install LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 on ubuntu 12.10 using the
readme directions that follow:
"sudo dpkg -i *.deb
The above DEBSdpkg command does the first part of the installation
process. To complete the process, you also need to install the
Hi Hugh,
I am not a Ubuntu user but I can share an experience with Fedora. I
remember running into a similar problem but I can't remember exactly
what. After "cd desktop-integration" have a look at the contents of the
folder, eg. I see:
[tim@petunia ~]$ ls
LibreOffice_4.0.2.2_Linux_x86
When trying to install LibreOffice 4.0.2.2 on ubuntu 12.10 using the
readme directions that follow:
"sudo dpkg -i *.deb
The above DEBSdpkg command does the first part of the installation
process. To complete the process, you also need to install the desktop
integration packages. To do this, c
Dave and Doug,
I appreciate, Dave, hearing your perspective as a true end user. Your
sentiments are those I've heard from my employees. They just need to get a
brief done and filed, and they don't have time to learn the styles.
Doug, obviously, nobody's trying to "force" styles on anyone. Wha
On 4/29/2013 7:46 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
On 04/29/2013 05:10 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
I'll admit to not using styles, but not so much because I don't want
to. I've been using the various word processing programs since PCs
were first produced, before the concept of styles. They came out
shortly a
Just ran across it recently. I've skimmed the whole thing but haven't
had the time to read it in detail and apply the knowledge (I'm a tax
professional, but the season doesn't end exactly on 15 April!). Hope to
find some time soon to devote to it.
Dave
On 4/29/2013 16:46, Dan Lewis wrote:
I can confirm that CTL+X removes the character and number formatting in
LO 3.6 on opensuse.
Steve
On 2013-04-30 12:19, MR ZenWiz wrote:
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, LO 4.0.2.2.
The pasted cell has the right format, but when I entered a 0 (zero) in
the old cell (that was cut), it shows as 0, not $
Not clear if you are concerned with formatting of the source cell (which
would be cleared bya +X) or with the formatting of the pasted cell
which with +V will paste formatting with default settings but could be
set other than default.
Suspect all is functioning as designed. Please see comments t
I'm running Xubuntu 12.04, LO 4.0.2.2.
The pasted cell has the right format, but when I entered a 0 (zero) in
the old cell (that was cut), it shows as 0, not $0.00, and the format
shows as "Numbers" instead of "Currency."
It happened over and over, even after I did several row cell re-formattings
On 04/29/2013 05:10 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
I'll admit to not using styles, but not so much because I don't want
to. I've been using the various word processing programs since PCs
were first produced, before the concept of styles. They came out
shortly after, of course, but they got little or
Hi Tom,
In my setup, I was unable to recreate the issue being experienced by <
mrzen...@gmail.com>
Copying the currency-formatted cell to another cell copied both the value
and the formatting. The old cell retained its formatting as well.
Not sure why was experiencing this issue but it is
not
Where styles will really shine is to give the students a project of
doing a complex document with and without styles and then ask them to
change certain aspects to attain some consistent characteristic. Change
all headings to XXX, indentation and font on all paragraphs to yyy,
outline numbering
acronyms [http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/acronym]
and
abbreviations [
http://public.oed.com/how-to-use-the-oed/abbreviations/]
past & present;
so will you let us know what you 'dig up' ;-)
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 2:48 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Greetings Mark,
I am puzzled at what you posted in reply to my original message...
I was talking about a desktop database as the front-end in a Client/Server
application.
It appears your question was with using spreadsheets as a database table.
Did I not understand something that was intended
Great responses so far from everyone!
Dan, I like your idea of giving the students a project of doing a complex
document with and without styles.
Virgil
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From: Dan Lewis
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 4:21 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffi
I'll admit to not using styles, but not so much because I don't want
to. I've been using the various word processing programs since PCs were
first produced, before the concept of styles. They came out shortly
after, of course, but they got little or no attention in the limited
technical press
On 04/29/2013 03:52 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote:
On 29 April 2013 13:00, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a huge fan of paragraph styles, page styles, and character
styles. I wish they were more widely used.
It makes me wonder if ther
On 29 April 2013 13:00, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a huge fan of paragraph styles, page styles, and character
styles. I wish they were more widely used.
> It makes me wonder if there is a way to make them more accessible to peop
Hi :)
Isn't it British School of Anthropology?
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: anne-ology
>To: Joel Madero
>Cc: Doug ; "users@global.libreoffice.org"
>
>Sent: Monday, 29 April 2013, 20:26
>Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Looking for 2nd Web Developer for
Sounds as if you're referring to an outline;
one composes his thoughts in an outline then writes the main
paragraph then the concluding paragraphs -
[newspaper writing]
or expands on each for prose writing -
Well, from a reporter/writer's point of
I would be glad to help - know programming from when I had websites
up & running;
have been using LO since OO - and enjoyed/enjoy it;
I don't know what help I could be in developing,
the site - checked the URL - looks clean & neat (looks nicely
done.)
Hello Virgil,
This is a very interesting thread you're opening and I'm glad to "meet"
people having the very same concerns I've got for years.
Le 29/04/2013 20:00, Virgil Arrington a écrit :
I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a retired lawyer who led a local g
Well, the Boy Scouts surely have the prior claim,
since they were founded on 8 February 1910;
2 years before in England ;-)
And OO/LO was founded nearly 100 years later ;-)
wow, I knew some of the original scouts -
and one of the origi
Hi All,
Do to acronym issues, sending again with new subject :) Formerly said "BSA"
in subject - apologies.
We're hoping to find someone to help Rob out with maintaining and
developing the BSA site. If you have web developing experience and would
like to get involved with LibreOffice -- or if you
exactly;
I had to re-read this post then check the URL to figure out that
these initials connote something else ;-)
On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 1:36 PM, Doug wrote:
On 04/29/2013 02:16 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> We're hoping to find someone to help Rob out with mai
Hi :)
In MS Office styles are an excessive waste of time. You just have to accept
that documents will have changing fonts, bullet-point sizes, mis-numbering in
lists and even changes in language used by spell checkers.
In LibreOffice just start by using the default ones. Don't even set-up n
> Just in case you folks are unaware, BSA connotes "Boy Scouts of America"
> to most people in the US.
ah, never thought of this ;) In our case it's Bug Submission Assistant -
maybe should have spelled it out :)
Best,
Joel
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On 04/29/2013 02:16 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
Hi All,
We're hoping to find someone to help Rob out with maintaining and
developing the BSA site. If you have web developing experience and would
like to get involved with LibreOffice -- or if you're already involved and
can handle a bit more on your p
Hi All,
We're hoping to find someone to help Rob out with maintaining and
developing the BSA site. If you have web developing experience and would
like to get involved with LibreOffice -- or if you're already involved and
can handle a bit more on your plate -- please let us know.
For those of you
On 4/29/2013 2:00 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a retired lawyer who led a local government law office. When I
was working at that office, I tried in vain to get my employees to use
paragraph styles. For them, styles were a bothe
I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a retired lawyer who led a local government law office. When I was
working at that office, I tried in vain to get my employees to use paragraph
styles. For them, styles were a bother to set up and maintain. I love using
them, b
Hi :)
Thanks, you too :D I dug around on the main website and found links on this
page
http://www.libreoffice.org/developers-2/
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: Supiramani Supiramani
>To: tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk; adriv...@estudiantes.uci.cu;
>users@global.l
Hi :)
Hunting through my repos late last night, well so late it wa really early, i
found something designed to convert Python into Javascript. Is that compiling
into javascript? My original search had been to find a "web browser" and i did
eventually find one light enough for the machine i was
Keep It Simple; forget those computerized macros, et.al. ...
just highlight -> copy -> paste - works for me whenever,
wherever ;-)
An added benefit, no memorizing all those shortcuts ;-)
Oh my, I'm off on yet another tangent ...
which is correct? - 2 +
Hi,
I have a problem when inserting text automatically from OpenOffice-Basic
Macros which are invoked by function keys using
the function .insertDocumentFromURL. When I save and reload
the .odt file, some of the formatting instructions
are gone. So text which has been bold is now normal and so
From: Adriam Delgado Rivero
To: libre
Sent: Sunday, 28 April 2013, 1:25
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Using UNO API
Using UNO API for java and charge a template that contains a table
Did not really follow that there is a template that contains a
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