Re: [libreoffice-users] IT World

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tanstaafl Not what I am referring to, I think you have misunderstood my content. Agreed and I know the headers (or should I say mail body code) are always present with the emails. What I am referring to is that the header information is hidden by default, but one can reveal this hidden

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tom Interesting post. Agree, sometimes these software wars becomes irksome, as my late mother and father used to say and raised us with this motto how do you know you don't like it if you have not tried it. This was from our young years with foodstuffs that traditionally many young

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
HI Kracked_P_P As to my statement, here is a screenshot of the Windows version of LO 4.0.4.3. indicating the option to check Use LiberOffice dialogues under General. I'll look under my Linux (dual boot) to see what you are referring to. You should see these screenshot, but it will be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Urmas Of which it has never been fully ratified and accepted as an open document standard, the argument still proceeds today over the MS open standards. - Standardization process Main article: Standardization of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Again, you troll with no supply of facts. My response was out by 2% WOW!!! but this article includes tablets and Windows RT http://www.winbeta.org/news/windows-8-and-windows-rt-account-45-global-tablet-market-share-q2-2013 Andrew Brown On 31/07/2013 04:45 AM, Urmas wrote: Just know that

[libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Sergio Martino
Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Next I was able to construct an oxt which install correctly. However the new language do not appear in the list of

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Urmas
So the step I am missing to accomplish my task, it is how to register a new language in order to be seen in the combo box in the spelling checker dialog. Unlike Microsoft Office, it cannot be done. The code changes must be made. So you will have to stick to dummy language names. If that is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
And some more info and statics with charts, to refudiate your claims of Windows XP and Vista (the latter also a disaster for MS) of combined market share. http://www.statista.com/topics/823/microsoft/chart/799/market-share-of-selected-windows-operating-systems/ And it shows what you know of

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sergio Have you tried to add it under Tools - Options - Language settings and then the sub-options of Languages and Writing aids. This might guide you to get the language into your workspace. Regards Andrew Brown On 31/07/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  1.  Have you been in contact with the translators mailing list?  The one international one brings together people with a lot of skills from most of the various languages on offer.  They might be able to help with this sort of thing. 2.  Which language? 3.  Congrats on an amazing amount

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Windows will continue to dominate the desktops and full laptops, maybe even down to notebooks.  Netbooks died off for 1 reason only.  That was because people wanted Windows on them and then found that the machines ran ridiculously slowly.  Any version of GnuLinux, even Ubuntu,

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Sergio Ok, went back to look at this to try and help further, as I was able to load my countries two of the 11 languages I wanted to use, this way. In Tools - Options - Language settings - Languages in the section Language of and field Locale setting can you see your created

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tom Yep, and these mobile devices are in the majority of using Android today, a Linux distro, having outpaced even the successful Apple pad/tablet with iOS on them. And as I covered, Firefox O/S for mobiles is here and next year Ubuntu Touch which is being designed to run alongside

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Kracked_P_P OK, you are correct in that there is an extra dialogue box for the Linux version of LO, in my case LO 4.0.4.2 running under Ubuntu 130.04 Raring Ringtail. See the screenshots below now from Linux. If others want to see this then I will make an entry on Nabble. The print

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Krunoslav Šebetić
On 07/31/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Can you help me to do this, is there any tutorial or something? How

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Urmas
https://bugs.freedesktop.org Product: LibreOffice Component: Linguistic Severity: enhancement -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Urmas
Can you help me to do this, is there any tutorial or something? How to build aff and dic so it can be tested? This one is a good start: http://linux.die.net/man/4/hunspell To test it with LO, download some dictionary extension, rename it, throw away unneeded files and make corresponding

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libreoffice doesn't open some .docx

2013-07-31 Thread darkarcanis
Hmm, maybe your Calibri font file is corrupted? I have Calibri font on my system, wrote a new file using the font, closed and opened. No, file isn't corrupted, this font work normally under Windows and in kwrite for example. This bug isn't related to LO official build, it is only for Archlinux

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I have to disagree.  Amit does have some good points even if some minor details are not entirely accurate.  It's a subject we often argue about here.  Yes we do need to follow MS's lead and keep working at greater and greater compatibility with their formats and their ways of doing

[libreoffice-users] Re: Automatic Backup in LibreOffice Base

2013-07-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/07/13 17:26, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi, I could be mistaken, but automatic backup doesn't work for Base documents, and to be honest, I don't think it ever did (or at least not properly). Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] IT World

2013-07-31 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-07-31 3:20 AM, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: Not what I am referring to, I think you have misunderstood my content. Agreed and I know the headers (or should I say mail body code) I assure you I have a very good understanding of this, and 'mail body code' is certainly *not*

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: So the open document standards were born and ratified and accpeted by the majority of the world that counts. Microsoft is using an open standard format called OpenXML. Stop pushing your vendor-locked ODF crap here please. You may want to read up a bit on OpenXML and how it was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: Another major reason are huge bribes given to government officials to deploy {Libre|Open}Office solutions in budget-funding institutions worldwide. Actually, if you care to check the facts, it's Microsoft that's been doing that. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] IT World

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:20 31/07/2013 +0200, Andrew Brown wrote: On 30/07/2013 12:48 PM, Charles Marcus wrote: On 2013-07-30 5:16 AM, Andrew Brown wrote: Remember to return your headers to normal otherwise every subsequent email will be sent out with all headers exposed in the email, generally looking like

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread James Knott
Tom Davies wrote: Netbooks died off for 1 reason only. That was because people wanted Windows on them Actually, there was a bit of MS strong arming manufacturers as well. I have an Asus Eee PC, which I loaned to a friend. She loves it, even though her computer experience had previously been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread James Knott
Andrew Brown wrote: yes where MS currently dominates, but not for long. Of course one also has to look at why MS dominates. The reasons include strong arming and extortion. MS has long been an unethical company, going back to when Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed a BASIC interpreter for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread jomali
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: And some more info and statics with charts, to refudiate your claims of Windows XP and Vista (the latter also a disaster for MS) of combined market share. http://www.statista.com/**topics/823/microsoft/chart/**

[libreoffice-users] Re: Using a listeners in a basic macro

2013-07-31 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 07/28/2013 05:26 PM, Jim Byrnes wrote: Hi Fernand, Your reply went straight to my email inbox so I a reposting it here to keep the thread alive. Is there a concise list or table that shows what listeners are available to use in a calc sheet? Or maybe a way to generate one? Thanks, Jim

Re: [libreoffice-users] IT World

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks all!! :D A very informative thread and i feel i have learned quite a lot from this.  It was a tad off-topic to start with so thanks for helping me out anyway.  I like this list quite a lot these days.  It's almost like a family, complete with all the arguments and everything ;) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 07/31/2013 06:24 AM, Krunoslav Šebetić wrote: On 07/31/2013 10:07 AM, Sergio Martino wrote: Hi, a friend of mine would like to build a dictionary for a local dialect and he asked for my help. First I build the aff and dic files and I tested them with hunspell. It works. Can you help me

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
When I had the issue with the duplexing on one printer, it seemed that everyone who was helping must have been on Windows, since they did not know what I was talking about with the extra dialog check box. Why it is listed in the Linux [Ubuntu 10.04LTS and 12.04LTS for me back then] and not

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It seems to be for a fairly specific area of Italy.  I'm not even sure if the dialect has a separate name.  In England we have a lot of different types of 'English' some of which are completely incomprehensible to an outsider living as far as 30miles away.  None of my family ever

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  wrt Virtual Memory/pagefile.sys/Swap on Windows the trick seems to be to set it as a fixed value.  Find System Properties - Advanced tab - Performance (top 3rd) Settings - Performance Settings - Advanced tab here too - Virtual Memory (bottom section) Change There will be about 3

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Jomali Agreed iOS and OSX are built from portions of BSD, as well as NextStep (OpenStep, once Apple bought out the Next company), but it also does not play a major role in mainframes and servers, but I concede it did for a long time dominate the tablet market, and raised the desktop and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Kracked_P_P You have me all quizzy now about it too. I own a Brother MFC-J6510DW large format multifunction printer, quite a process to set it up in Ubuntu (like you from 10.04 to present 13.04) and this box was ticked by default in LO's settings. I will experiment with it unticked and see

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tom Ah Ok, I see, this is the same methodology I'm using. I generally turn off the swap file for a badly defragged drive, including any hibernation files etc if active or used on a laptop, then defrag (Disktrix UltimateDefrag, possibly the best I've used to date). After a good clean-up I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Screwbottle
Hi I was asked to post the screenshots in this reply to Kracked_P_P, on Nabble so here I go http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4068330/Screenshot1.jpg http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4068330/Screenshot2.jpg -- View this message in context:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing specific pages in 4.1 writer

2013-07-31 Thread Screwbottle
Likewise for this post follwoing after the post with the first screenshots. This was for LO in Linux http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4068332/Screenshot3.jpg http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4068332/Screenshot4.jpg -- View this message in context:

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is Disktrix UltimateDefrag free?  FOSS?  Lol, somehow i doubt it but i keep an ear out jic.  I tend to use the inbuilt Windows one.  I don't really care enough anymore to go beyond that.  When i did used to care i used  PerfectDisk.  it usually has a 1 month free trial and that was

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Matching Up Text Fields

2013-07-31 Thread Don Parris
Hi all, I download two files from my banks that have transaction descriptions that look like so (the one with a * to the left is from Bank #2 - the rest are from Bank #1): PURCHASE AT MY GROCER #NNN, CHARLOTTE, NC ON 050913 FROM CARD#: * MY GROCER #NNN CHARLOTTE NC

Re: [libreoffice-users] 4.0.3

2013-07-31 Thread Andrew Brown
Hi Tom No it's payware https://www.disktrix.com/ but well worth the $30.00, and only necessary for Windows. If you do want to care again, and want a very good free version then Piriform's Defraggler is a great product http://www.piriform.com/. They've recently gone to a payware model, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Matching Up Text Fields

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 18:32 31/07/2013 -0400, Don Parris wrote: I download two files from my banks that have transaction descriptions that look like so (the one with a * to the left is from Bank #2 - the rest are from Bank #1): PURCHASE AT MY GROCER #NNN, CHARLOTTE, NC ON 050913 FROM CARD#:

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Doug
On 07/31/2013 03:50 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) /snip/ In England we have a lot of different types of 'English' some of which are completely incomprehensible to an outsider living as far as 30miles away. None of my family ever understood my Gran for example, but she was always there

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Matching Up Text Fields

2013-07-31 Thread Don Parris
Thanks Brian, On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.comwrote: At 18:32 31/07/2013 -0400, Don Parris wrote: SNIP All this doesn't help much until we know exactly what you need to extract from all this. I hope it became more clear further down that I really

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to define a dictionary for new language?

2013-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I still hear a lot of differences in even very common phrases used in different areas of the US.  I think it's inevitable whenever people group together in any way.  The media seems to average things out a bit but it's more like a trading language that doesn't really belong to anywhere

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Matching Up Text Fields

2013-07-31 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:35 31/07/2013 -0400, Don Parris wrote: Again, I just need to figure out how to extract that bit from the bank's description. Any thoughts on that? As I mentioned, that depends on the precise possibilities in the bank data. If the relevant data is always in the same columns of the