[libreoffice-users] Re: No indent in footnotes

2016-03-23 Thread Urmas
"anne-ology": How can this be the fault of the USofA ??? In Europe, footnotes have the same indent as the text body, and their markers are superscripted. It was LO behavior too, until some American changed it into the mess we have today. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: No indent in footnotes

2016-03-20 Thread Urmas
"Robin Hodkinson": But when I insert a new indent there is no indent at all That is another change which should bring footnotes to some obscure U$A standard. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: File->Exit LibreOffice doens't work in 5.1.1 on Windows

2016-03-10 Thread Urmas
"Dries Feys": Met vriendelijke groeten, Salutations distinguées, Kind Regards, Please add "-- " (two hyphens and a space) in the beginning of your signature. It is called "a tearline" and it makes your messages more easily to handle. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to import PDF file?

2015-12-29 Thread Urmas
"Spencer Graves": > Is there a way to force LO to open it in Writer? No. PDF documents are graphic files and cannot be easily converted to plain text. > is there other software (preferably free and > open-source) that can read the text (and numbers) and make them > available to Writer or

[libreoffice-users] Re: lost opportunity

2015-11-07 Thread Urmas
05.11.2015 23:19, Tom Davies: > For some weird reason IE decided to > rename the downloads from ".msi" to another format. That 'weird reason' was the error in the default webserver configuration which no one of LO people cared to fix. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-07 Thread Urmas
Valter Mura: a version of Office for Linux. Can you please provide the link. Still waiting for the link... This version is called 'wine' and it's available in your repository or at www.winehq.org/download. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Installation problem.

2015-02-06 Thread Urmas
James C Smith: 'Error 1402. Could not open key:HOT_KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE32\Software\Classes\ bmp\OpenWithProgIDs. The actual issue is that LO has no business messing with this registry key at all. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: LinuxQuestions.org's Office Suite of the Year: LibreOffice!

2015-02-05 Thread Urmas
Robinson Tryon: Grabbing over 86% of the vote, LibreOffice was announced to be the winner of the 'Office Suite of the Year' poll: Any poll without Microsoft Office option is invalid. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-02 Thread Urmas
Florian Reisinger: Could you give me the link to the enhancement request? AOO 19291 DF 31481 -- 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: Split Screen in Writer?

2015-02-01 Thread Urmas
CVAlkan: it used to be possible to use a split screen to compare/edit/copy from one part of the same document That was an enhancement request since 2001 :) It will not be probably ever implemented as there are core design deficiencies in SO/OO.o/LO which are preventing this. -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: compatibility with Microsoft Access

2015-01-31 Thread Urmas
Alex Thurgood: database programming with freely accessible tools, rather than being locked in to one vendor. Such as? Don't tell me fosstards have developed something as elegant as Access. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Message as sent yesterday

2015-01-30 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: that either Windows 8.1 or some setting peculiar to some systems create a very bad experience when installing software... It is LO misconfigured Apache server which assigns 'application/x-troff-man' to MSI downloads is creating this experience. It worth noting that

[libreoffice-users] Re: Support options

2015-01-16 Thread Urmas
jonathon: -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Please do not add massive amounts of useless text in your list messages. -- 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: styles in text boxes

2015-01-13 Thread Urmas
Mike Scott: I mentioned irritations in another post, so thought maybe I'll give one explicitly, as I've bumped into it (afresh) this week. Why are text styles not available to use within text boxes? Draw textboxes have a combination of graphic style, text style for the entire frame and

[libreoffice-users] Re: BASIC StrComp and tricky Unicode (Turkish, for example)

2015-01-01 Thread Urmas
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak: With a Turkish locale, I expect that the first compare will return a 0, but I am unsure how to test With a virtual machine? I could try it sometime tomorrow. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: default language

2014-12-13 Thread Urmas
Ceranda GmbH: Even though I am currently based in Germany I wish to use the English version; Log in as Administrator, go to Control Panel, International settings and set the locale to English. If you foolishly use an Administrator account for everyday work, just do the step 2. Ignore

[libreoffice-users] Re: why filled alignment for cells?

2014-12-06 Thread Urmas
Lera Goncharuk: А horizontal alignment option for cells of Calc has choice 'filled' This feature was used for making horizontal rulers in text mode spreadsheets and is kept for roundtrip compatibility. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-20 Thread Urmas
Cley Faye: http://docs.oasis-open.org/office/v1.2/os/OpenDocument-v1.2-os-part1.html#__RefHeading__1415854_253892949 So, somehow arbitrary BASE64-encoded data are fine in ODF yet an obstacle in RTF?

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Urmas
Italo Vignoli: RTF is not standard, and is not documented. You have been linked the specs. Also, it *is* the standard for the document interchange since 1986. the ODF standard, which should replace RTF and every other document format to achieve interoperability. So you claim that the

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Urmas
Andreas Säger: Which non-MS application can handle every flavour of RTF you throw at it? The degree of support RTF in application is not related to the 'complexity' of RTF spec. It has to do with the feature set of particular app. Once again, if your app lacks half of the features MS Word

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: The Rtf spec kept changing at any whim of MS's. They wouldn't publish the new specs until month or even years later. RTF spec is changed according to new product features. Also, it is extensible, so you can implement any subset you need being able to safely ignore the rest and

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-19 Thread Urmas
Cley Faye: is in a straightforward XML file which is as plaintext as an RTF file. In fact, it's easier to strip the extra tags out of an XML file Sure. Now tell us what {urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0}binary-data element is for, and what kind of 'plaintext' it does

[libreoffice-users] Re: rtf files

2014-11-18 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: I still think that Rtf is well worth avoiding if at all possible but sadly a whole load of people fell for MS's marketing. Even to this day there are people who believe in using it, despite the findings of the court case. Which court case? RTF is rather trivial format,

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer, how to insert horizontal line

2014-11-16 Thread Urmas
William Drago: Well, there's no Horizontal Rule under insert. Support for HR element was intentionally removed to create incompatibility with MS Office software. Emulate it by the empty paragraph with the border and adjusted before/after spacing. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: customise character order for comparisons?

2014-11-13 Thread Urmas
Gary Collins: I'm wondering if it is possible to define a custom order for characters when comparing strings. It would be better to use some scripting language to do the sort and import the result in Calc, as it cannot be solved with LO unless a custom locale is written and compiled in it.

[libreoffice-users] Re: problema con campo número de página

2014-11-05 Thread Urmas
Francisco Corredera: instead of the corresponding numeric digit these fields appear, the generic text or identifier field, but not the number. Uncheck Options/LibreOffice Writer/View/Display: Field codes checkbox. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: ppt, appending file error ( korean user)

2014-11-02 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: I've copied the content out of the html coding... Does not worth the effort. OP is one of the types who never replies back, so all correspondence from him can be safely redirected to the loony bucket. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: «Escape from Wicrosoft Word»

2014-10-27 Thread Urmas
M Henri Day: Has Writer adopted too much of Word's _Weltanschauung_ ?... Of course. Modern documents are consisting of hierarchic blocks, like every other modern data format, and there is simply no space for WP 'formatting codes' and other idiocies. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice forks

2014-10-17 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: Of course Star Office is still floating around somewhere but it doesn't bear much resemblance to LibreOffice or even OpenOffice. That's not true. Most of LO code is leftover from Staroffice days, including German variable names and comments. Most of the functionality (and bugs)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem importing xls files

2014-10-15 Thread Urmas
Harvey Nimmo: I think you will find that a .slk file is a symbolic link file (equivalent to the linux .lnk) so it won't open directly in Calc. LOL wut? SYmbolic LinK is one of the oldest text data interchange formats. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem importing xls files

2014-10-15 Thread Urmas
Leonardo M. Ramé: Looks like the attachments were removed, here are the files: good.xls: I hope those are fake names? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines +

[libreoffice-users] Re: CANNOT INSTALL LIBRE OFFICE SUITES

2014-09-18 Thread Urmas
tjphipps: i tried twice to download and install the newest libre suite. the download went perfectly both times but when i told my computer to install them i got the same error message both times. Use Torrent to download the installer. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc, =left not working as expected

2014-08-31 Thread Urmas
IGraham: Altering the original sheets as little as possible i used =LEFT(cell ref,1) This seemed to work, except the values returned aren't seen by vlookup and can not be summed (but can be added) and dont work in a graph SUM function skips text values. Use =LEFT(x)+0 or something like that.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-28 Thread Urmas
A lout known as Charles-H. Schulz: As for the feature parity with Word 2.0, we have obviously passed that stage before OpenOffice.org 1.0; And yet it was not until 4.3, not yet released BTW your suit got support for paragraphs longer than 64k or tagging the text with a language. and if it

[libreoffice-users] Re: Nitpicking on a name

2014-07-27 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: On this list people call LibreOffice LO. We -sorry to take on my founder's hat here- never called LibreOffice LO. Right, you have fixed all the bugs, got a functional parity with Microsoft Word 2.0, and have a chance to bitch about the acronym. Cheers. -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Urmas
Jim Seymour: How do you get embezzlement of funds out of a story about a government body switching to open standards? By buying new computers from the suppliers giving the best kickbacks and dumping the astronomic sums of money into 'open source implementation' subcontractors, ending up

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-22 Thread Urmas
Jim Seymour: Nobody ever does that with commercial software, Vendors of commercial software control their partners. If there was nothing fishy we would have detailed reports, case studies and, which is more important, a comparison of costs of the chosen solution and competitors ones. Here?

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Kerala Legislative Assembly has moved to Free Software and Libreoffice

2014-07-21 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: The migration process is implimented with the support of Zyxware Technologies[2] Another story of embezzling of funds veiled as 'free software migration.' But officially it was enthusiasts working 12/24 for food. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Problem with standard filter

2014-07-19 Thread Urmas
Rob Jasper: If I unselect ALL, aaa gets unselected too (reasonable, since that the gebaviour for more the one slection values too) If I now select aaa, the ALL mark is also automatically selected!! This looks plain wrong to me since no filtering is different then filtering on 1 value, since

[libreoffice-users] Re: ni podprto na drugih računalnikih/Not supported on other computers

2014-07-01 Thread Urmas
but a problem arises when I want to send through the program libre office writer a dadoteko via Gmail or were any other options to write the addressee is not supported and can not open You need a MIME-compatible E-Mail client, like Microsoft Outlook or Thunderbird to use this feature. There

[libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-22 Thread Urmas
Kracked_P_P---webmaster: There are 797866 lines in the .dic file with the top one the number of words. Due to the author's error, it is shipped unmunched. In the proper form it contains 476898 entries, probably even less if some wordforms are missing. That is close to 70% misrepresentation.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Spell Check Dictionary

2014-05-21 Thread Urmas
Kracked_P_P---webmaster: I might suggest he try the en_US dictionary that contains over 797 thousand words in its list, That dictionary contains just 476898 words actually. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Option to output the .ods underlying XML files auto formatted?

2014-05-18 Thread Urmas
Jiergir Ogoerg: Is there any option in LibreOffice to make it generate _formatted_ underlying XML files? The XML files by LO are consisting of one long line deliberately to hamper interoperation with a certain well-known competitor products. As a marketing decision, it is unlikely to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Excel import

2014-05-09 Thread Urmas
Ludo Beckers: I don't know much about spreadsheets, but notice some differences: It is expected, as Excel 2007+ format support is very incomplete. There is a small chance the results will be better importing Excel 2003 format. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing windows explorer extension only

2014-05-09 Thread Urmas
Chris Net46: I would like to install the optional component windows explorer extension on a Windows 2008 file server because I need to index open document format files saved on this server. I believe you can perform administrative installation, then copy the oofilt[_x64].dll to your own

[libreoffice-users] Re: Request for review: (Re: Re: crash - crash - crash - crash. !@#$#@!)

2014-05-04 Thread Urmas
Sigrid Carrera: those posts through, that do not insult anyone on the list. Please quote me where I did insult anyone here. This is slander. I don't think that there is much use in banning him from the mailing lists itself You seem to forget yourself. I am contributing to this project and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Request for review: (Re: Re: crash - crash - crash - crash. !@#$#@!)

2014-05-03 Thread Urmas
Sigrid Carrera: Who gave that idiot a permission to publish my personal E-mails in a public list? I never did, so please remove the last message (53653faf.8010...@gmail.com). -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: crash - crash - crash - crash. !@#$#@!

2014-05-02 Thread Urmas
Tom Cloyd: Since the last major update (ver. 4.2.1?), my day begins with a serious of crashes - only after I save both sheets (separately, of course) 6-12 times, each time after some small operation, do they get stable. You are supposed to use commercial software to do serious work. It is

[libreoffice-users] Re: Upgrade Problem on Windows

2014-04-29 Thread Urmas
James E Lang: After I specified that LO be installed on volume D: the installer still requires 427MB on C: Is there any way to avoid using C:? You can relocate the Windows Installer folder (by creating a directory junction) and the temporary folder (by setting TEMP environental variable).

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-27 Thread Urmas
Toki: What you are missing is that there are file layout differences between the various editions of the same version of MSO. All those differences are hierarchic. You can read all the files of earlier version and have a way to ignore unsupported elements from the higher version. -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-26 Thread Urmas
James Knott: IIRC, the formats that are no longer supported are the ancient StarOffice ones. StarOffice 5.2 was released in 1998. If that is 'ancient' for you, you are an idiot that should be kept out from developing office software. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Urmas
anne-ology MSFT has been/is making their system(s) incompatible with others in order to reap a higher profit-margin ;-( For the last 23 years Microsoft Office has changed its format TWICE. Meanwhile, Libreoffice cannot open its own documents from 2001. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: CONVERTING A MICROSOFT TEMPLATE TO BE USED WITH LIBRE OFFICE

2014-04-22 Thread Urmas
James Knott: Yeah, that really a problem, especially since LO didn't exist back then. It was called StarOffice back then. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO for Chrome OS - i.e. Samsung Chrome Book

2014-04-18 Thread Urmas
Cley Faye: First alternative (easier): it is possible to install Ubuntu (or other linux OS) on a chromebook. So you propose to the person to turn her expensive device into brick by voiding its warranty? Seriously? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-06 Thread Urmas
James Knott: Gary Kildall, creator of CP/M later took MS to court and proved that MS-DOS contained directly copied CP/M code. Gary Kildall was a kind of man who believed that you can write something once and get dividends from it indefinitely. That didn't work well. -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-users] Re: Microsoft Revisits the '80s With MS-DOS, Word for Windows Source Code,

2014-04-06 Thread Urmas
CVAlkan: When WordPerfect 5.x arrived, there was even the ability to display a graphic preview (almost WYSIWYG) display of the printed output on a normal character screen - and this was available not only for DOS versions, but on a wide variety of platforms such as the then popular DEC and DG

[libreoffice-users] Re: --convert-to issue

2014-03-09 Thread Urmas
e-letter: filenames with undesirable characters (e.g. m$ people adding spaces, strokes (/, \) etc.) Spaces are not 'undesirable characters.' \ and / are both invalid filename characters in Windows. All your contribution to this newsgroup is spreading FUD about Microsoft software. -- To

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation's response to Her Majesty's Government...

2014-03-05 Thread Urmas
Jim Seymour: proprietary software Irrelevant. having the propensity to re-write existing documents into formats incompatible with older versions [1]; Impossible. gratuitously wildly divergent user interfaces Document formats cannot have UI. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Re: The Document Foundation's response to Her Majesty's Government...

2014-03-04 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: Do you think ODF stands a chance with its incompatible changes between 1.0 and 1.1, or formulas fiasco? Or the lack of documentation and a heap of undocumented extensions AOO/LO uses? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: ASCII Filter Options - Help please!

2014-01-10 Thread Urmas
Jacob Marioni: All of my ODT won't open properly. Open them with Notepad. If they do not start with PK letters, it is corrupted. Use ZIP repair tools to try to fix them. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: spell checker

2013-12-28 Thread Urmas
Amanda Sloan: I seem to have it on writer, does the same apply to drawing? There are several bugs with language assignment in Calc and Draw. Try changing the language, saving the document, exiting the program completely, then reopening. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Pasting Foreign Language

2013-12-26 Thread Urmas
Jerry Rémy: As you can see, every accented letter is replaced either with capitalized letters or some other symbol. It can happen when you paste the text from a badly made PDF file; in that case there's no easy solution except search-and-replace. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: saving documents written in Thai

2013-12-14 Thread Urmas
Dale Erwin: There are several Thai-capable fonts that come with Win 7. One of them is Lucinda console. Lucida Console does not contain Thai characters. Do not use a toolbar dropdown to set font; open Format/Character menu (or use styles) and set Latin and Thai fonts separately in 2

[libreoffice-users] Re: Is there a risk eliminating table:number-rows-repeated attribute

2013-12-13 Thread Urmas
Maxime Bégnis: The xslt remove any table:number-rows-repeated attributes. So my question is: By doing what I describe in this procedure is there a risk to break the content of the file or to make the file not a valid ODS file? There is no other way to represent empty rows in ODF tables

[libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-01 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: ...Rtf never achieved MS's promise of being an interoperable format either. RTF is just a textual dump of document structures. It is as close to lossless interchange format as it can be. However ODF is a lot more secure All text formats are secure as they do not contain

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-01 Thread Urmas
James Knott: Ever hear of Linux? Linux is a clone of UNIX, an epitome of a proprietary operating system. it's the OS used on the space station. Proven a hoax by Agency. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Urmas
James Knott сообщил(а) в новостях следующее:529918d1.30...@rogers.com... ...and then hold [created documents] hostage, until the users coughs up for MS Office. There is immense number of software capable import DOC files, due to their format being virtually unchanged since 1997 or 2007.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Urmas
Peter West: Non-FOSS (BSD-licensed software): Mac OS X (based on BSD and the Mach kernel) Linux gcc Developed by commercial companies: Android (based on Linux) apache Firefox OpenJDK saxon LibreOffice So far FOSS 'community' created nothing successful. Everything was designed and implemented

[libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Urmas
Pedro: ...a free ODF compatible software (LO or other) That's nonsense. There is the only one ODF software: OpenOffice and its clones. The entire format is built around the single application from a single vendor. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread Urmas
tk: b) There are office suites that are not deroved from either OOo or MSO that fully implement ODF specifications and criteria. And those are... right, none. There is a reference implementation for the ODF file format. And it is called... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread Urmas
John Kennedy Why can you not buy a computer that is already configured to dual boot? Because no one needs it. Or why is it so difficult to buy a computer with no operating system? Because people buy computers to work, not to tinker with. Microsoft has decreed to computer manufacturers

[libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-29 Thread Urmas
Virgil Arrington: I'm no fan of MS, and I'm sure I don't fully understand all of its business practices, but I truly hope that disdain for Redmond is not the primary motivation for LO and other forms of FOSS. Foss people are hurt that no one is interested in their bungles except occasional

[libreoffice-users] Re: How to reduce installation size?

2013-11-28 Thread Urmas
minhsien0330: So I want reduce the size of Libreoffice as small as possible. You cannot do that without breaking functionality. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: München leads the way in migration to open source

2013-11-25 Thread Urmas
M Henri Day: ​«[N]o way in which the machine [sic !] with Windows NT could run Ubuntu 10.10 ...»​ One of the more absurd comments I've yet seen, as anyone here can verify by checking the Ubuntu system requirements, available here I'll just note that 512 MB was _the hardware memory limit_ for

[libreoffice-users] Re: München leads the way in migration to open source

2013-11-24 Thread Urmas
M Henri Day: ​For those who missed it, here a link to a fascinating TechReport​ on München's experience in migrating to open sourceIt might worth noticing that the migration took more than 13 years, several times of the planned budget, and required all the computers to be replaced with newer

[libreoffice-users] Re: Feature Request - Categories for special characters

2013-11-24 Thread Urmas
Regina Henschel: I do not like the idea to remove characters or group them in another way. The Unicode groups are well defined and easy to handle. Unicode groups are non-intuitive and mostly disjointed. Characters like arrows are impossible to find there. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: München leads the way in migration to open source

2013-11-24 Thread Urmas
Tom Davies: The article itself clearly states that the project was easily within budget. Plus the organisation didn't have to upgrade any hardware. See paragraphs 6 7 under the heading Cost. The report is missing the salaries. Also, there is no way the machine with Windows NT could run

[libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-11 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: Also, it might be useful to remember that developers tend to contribute because they only want to and find a particular interest in doing so. Maybe it's for a plain old business interest, but when you're a volunteer developer, which is the case of the largest majority of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging users: initial results of the survey

2013-11-10 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: The only way users can contribute is when they are paying. If a developer is paid for non-user-related applications, it will have the ubiquitous opensource mentality: I'm a GOD and you insolent worm will crawl on all fours at my feet because it pleases me to do so.

[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas
M. Fioretti: ...shall-we-waste-twelve-more-years-promoting-free-office-suites-instead-of-open-office-formats/ There's no such thing as 'open format'. Any format can only slavishly describe its reference implementation. There is no reference implementation for ODF, except a monstrous

[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas
Paul: Don't worry, you can safely ignore Urmas, he's a known troll around these parts; You're welcome to name a full reference implementation of ODF format not using the OO.o/Staroffice code. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

[libreoffice-users] Re: Shall we waste twelve more years promoting Free office suites instead of...

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas
Paul: ...to do what some company (like Microsoft) thinks you should be able to do, and only if you pay them very well, open source software believes that everybody should be able to do whatever they want. That's the very nature of Open Source: you have the source, change it if you need to. Oh

[libreoffice-users] Re: Improvement i Last used documents

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas
Leif Burstroem: It would be nice if the listing of last used document was split up so when I use writer I will only get the last used writer documents... I recall there was a discussion about this and the decision was to keep it as it is now. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] Re: major issues

2013-11-09 Thread Urmas
e-letter: If you want to save an invoice in m$ format, why have you not bought a legal copy of m$? BIFF is a Microsoft format now? What an idiot. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: HELP: Frame placement, wrapping, and collision

2013-11-07 Thread Urmas
Adam Tauno Williams: but it seems I really need an anchor-to-paragraph-getting-as-close-as-you-can option without either crashing into other frames or leaving a blank inch and a half on the previous page. I'm afraid only DTP applications can ensure adequate placement of drawings. There's

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chinese hyphenation

2013-11-07 Thread Urmas
Per Hyttel Larsen: I know that in e.g. Korean there are a few rules as to where you may break a sequence of glyphs. Some must be kept together and be on the same line. For Chinese/Japanese only some punctuation (like parentheses and quotes) is kept with following/previous text. That list can

[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-06 Thread Urmas
Don Myers: Some of the things Microsoft has done are chronicled here in a report to the European Commission a number of years ago: One cannot hold in a smile while reading that whine. In particular, the Wordstar case of 'shell namespace extensions', which a text processor (Even MS Office

[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-06 Thread Urmas
James Knott: That AARD code was one. They also used hidden API as was revealed when Borland sued them and more. 'AARD code' was not in any retail version of Windows. It is fake. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Chinese hyphenation

2013-11-06 Thread Urmas
Per Hyttel Larsen: I am trying to find out if there is a hyphenation module for LibreOffice for the Chinese language (traditional and/or simplyfied). Can any of you direct me towards someone who can answer this question? There cannot be a hyphenation module for Chinese language, as the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Find/Replace Regex

2013-11-06 Thread Urmas
\([:digit:].*?[:digit:]\) works as non-greedy for me (two replacements), and just .* as greedy (1 repl.) for your example. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines

[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-05 Thread Urmas
Simple. The evil machinations of Microsoft. I will repeat. If any and all Windows application could use Ctrl+J for anything, why WordStad suddenly couldn't? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-05 Thread Urmas
Paul: Microsoft, as the developers of the OS, put code in their OS to capture the Ctrl+J key combination, and not pass it on to the foreground application. However, they also put in code to allow an application to request that the key combination be passed on, code that most people, including

[libreoffice-users] Re: Language Finnish W764 want Swedish version

2013-11-04 Thread Urmas
Fredrik Jordas: Hello, have some problem to download a Swedish version of Libreoffice in my Finnish version of Windows7-64. It makes no difference, as you select the UI language during the installation. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Wordstar

2013-11-04 Thread Urmas
Virgil Arrington: Actually, WordStar had different Ctrl+key functions than Word. Yes, today, Ctrl+J is a shortcut for Justify, but back in the WordStar days, Ctrl+J did something different... If it worked in Microsoft Word, how the hell it was 'captured' and 'unavailable' for Wordstar,

[libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-03 Thread Urmas
P NIKOLIC: You trying to be funny Which one is (or was) better then? -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette

[libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging Users in the LibreOffice Project

2013-11-03 Thread Urmas
Charles-H. Schulz: Many people who contribute to the LibreOffice project discussed the need for us to understand how we could enroll regular users (whatever that means) to the LibreOffice project. The LO project is suffering from rock star syndrome: through all those years there is a bunch of

[libreoffice-users] Re: Engaging Users in the LibreOffice Project

2013-11-03 Thread Urmas
jonathon: That must be a reference to the fact that the mean time between starting MSO on Windows, and seeing the Blue Screen of Death is under sixty seconds. /yawn Or maybe it is a reference to the fact that MSO 2013 is so completely, utterly, and absolutely incompatible with MSO 2013, FUD

[libreoffice-users] Re: vlookup with cell reference for range

2013-11-03 Thread Urmas
yahoo-pier_andreit: but if J1 is $A$1:$D$5 and the formula: =VLOOKUP(1,J1,2,0) the formula doesn't works You probably want INDIRECT function to create a reference from string. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-users] Re: Creating LibreOffice Calc document from XML (or some other file?)

2013-11-03 Thread Urmas
Mario Splivalo: Once in the past I stumbled upon a blog where owner explained how one can create a Calc document from the data that's in the XML file. You may try XSLT to get a Flat ODS file. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [pt-br-usuarios] Estudantes da rede estadual de SP terão Office gratuito para até 5 PCs após parceria

2013-11-02 Thread Urmas
Kracked_P_P---webmaster: MS was the bigest copycats there was back in the early days. They stole from any package that could get away with. I was working in the computer field when Apple came out with the first Mac, and then many of those ideas were used to make the first Windows OS. It is

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