Re: [libreoffice-users] Double Underline Problem

On Sun, 24 Feb 2013 07:01:02 -0600 Jay Ridgley jridgl...@austin.rr.com dijo: Hi Y'all, I just subscribed to the list. I have a question/problem wto Double Underlining. In several of my spreadsheets I use this and until recently (last set of updates) it worked as I wanted. However, they now

[libreoffice-users] Automatic line creation

I have been using OOo, now LibreOffice 3.4.6, currently on Fedora 16, x86_64 for many, many years. In fact, I started with StarOffice 0.91. Today I wanted to type three asterisks and center them in a line as a device to mark a change of perspective in a work of fiction. After I typed the three

Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic line creation

On Fri, 29 Mar 2013 19:26:34 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: I have been using OOo, now LibreOffice 3.4.6, currently on Fedora 16, x86_64 for many, many years. In fact, I started with StarOffice 0.91. Today I wanted to type three asterisks and center them in a line as a device

Re: [libreoffice-users] Automatic line creation

On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 06:43:59 + Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: I still want to stop this from ever happening again. How do I get rid of this feature? 3. If you really want to disable this completely, remove the tick from Tools | AutoCorrect Options... | Options | Apply border.

Re: [libreoffice-users] API characters

On Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:25:54 +0200 Alain Carrière alain.carrie...@gmail.com dijo: I am looking in LO characters menu to see if I can find the IPA (international phonetic alphabet) and can't find anything. Is there a way to download it somewhere? I use a french keyboard and would like to type

Re: [libreoffice-users] bibliography after endnotes

On Wed, 28 Aug 2013 18:22:59 +0100 Info/UX inf...@gmx.com dijo: The only way of placing the bibliography after the endnotes in correct formatting is to place a section after (technically within) the final endnote. Using a section for the main article causes a crash when double spacing is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Microsoft Core Fonts

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 23:23:35 +0200 Anthony Easthope antiso...@myopera.com dijo: I was wondering what would be considered the core fonts on Microsoft. After ages fruitless searching I was wondering if anybody could help me on what they would consider to be core fonts. I backed up my fonts folder

Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 06:06:00 + (GMT) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Wow!!  Errr, is that something that LaTex or Scribus might be better at?  If so can they read and work with the output from LO? TeX, LaTeX, and their family can certainly do footnotes. However, I don't think they

[libreoffice-users] Include movie in PDF export?

LibreOffice 3.4.6 on Fedora 16, x86_64, installed from the repositories. I can place an .avi file in a Writer document and it plays fine in the document. But I need to play the video during a presentation in class and the university computers do not have LibreOffice on them, so the obvious

Re: [libreoffice-users] Include movie in PDF export?

On Mon, 28 Jan 2013 14:55:45 -0500 Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com dijo: Another possibility is to install portable LibreOffice on a thumb drive (USB): http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable. This is the portable version of LO 3.6.4 for Windows. Another great idea, except

Re: [libreoffice-users] spacing after punctuation

From: T. R. Valentine Sent: Thursday, September 05, 2013 11:23 AM To: LibreOffice-list Subject: [libreoffice-users] spacing after punctuation As a follow-up to our earlier discussion of one versus two spaces following a full point/full stop/period, I offer the following passage from /About Face:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net dijo: For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much as an intermediate desktop publishing program. You can actually substitute it very successfully for proprietary tools like FrameMaker. That is correct, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 10:55:55 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net dijo: On Friday 06 September 2013 10:47:49 PM John Jason Jordan wrote: On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 20:18:34 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net dijo: For now, I'll just say that Writer is not a word processor so much

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On Sun, 08 Sep 2013 09:36:29 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: Writer won't do everything, but you appear not to realise what it can do. Writer has frames, which can indeed be anchored to pages, and have the sort of properties you describe. It also allows linked frames. The

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:32:48 -0400 doug dijo: Whatever is the wonderful one, I'll try it and see if is appeals to me over just everyday Times-Roman. I have LO 3.5.7.2 on a recent fresh install and up to date Xubuntu 12.04. I have done a lot of DTP since I bought my first computer in 1978,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: spacing after punctuation

On Wed, 11 Sep 2013 07:34:15 -0400 Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com dijo: On 09/10/2013 11:43 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 21:32:48 -0400 doug dijo: I downloaded and installed Linux Libertine from the Ubuntu repos, and also installed the typography toolbar 1.1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Interlinear gloss layout

On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 14:12:04 -0500 T. R. Valentine trvalent...@gmail.com dijo: Explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlinear_gloss One idea I have is to set centre-align tabs (hoping the distance between each tab set isn't too far for short words or too close for long words), use a

[libreoffice-users] Sections are driving me nuts

I have LO 3.5.7.2 on Xubuntu 12.04. I am creating a document that has 18 pages of front matter, after which I want to start page numbering (I don't need numbers on the front matter). I want page 19 to be numbered page 1. Something seems to have happened between the last version of LO that I used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sections are driving me nuts

On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 15:50:11 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: I have LO 3.5.7.2 on Xubuntu 12.04. I am creating a document that has 18 pages of front matter, after which I want to start page numbering (I don't need numbers on the front matter). I want page 19 to be numbered page 1

[libreoffice-users] How to stop toolbars from popping up

LO on Xubuntu 12.04. I am working on a long document with a lot of graphics and tables. Every time I select a graphic the Graphics toolbar pops up, the screen adjusts to make room for it, and it has become incredibly annoying. I realize some people might find this helpful, but if I want a

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to stop toolbars from popping up

On Fri, 20 Sep 2013 07:44:03 +0100 Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com dijo: At 23:06 19/09/2013 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: LO on Xubuntu 12.04. I am working on a long document with a lot of graphics and tables. Every time I select a graphic the Graphics toolbar pops up, the screen

[libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 on Xubuntu 12.04. I'm trying set up a paragraph style, and maybe a text style, to type in Greek on my normally American English computer. I only need this for homework in the Ancient Greek class I am taking. I have installed openoffice.org-l10n.el and libreoffice-l10n.el

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 08:53:16 -0700 Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com dijo: What have I missed? http://superuser.com/questions/28932/how-do-i-input-greek-characters-in-ubuntu You need to install the language and then change it with ibus (should have a little keyboard icon in your taskbar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

On Wed, 02 Oct 2013 15:07:37 +1300 Steve Edmonds steve.edmo...@ptglobal.com dijo: Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com dijo: What have I missed? http://superuser.com/questions/28932/how-do-i-input-greek-characters-in-ubuntu You need to install the language and then change it with ibus

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 20:11:21 -0700 John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net dijo: A long time ago when I used Gnome it was trivially easy. But how in the heck do you install a second keyboard in Xfce? I finally found the answer here: http://tinyurl.com/pt7l4w2 This sets up an icon (or text

Re: [libreoffice-users] Typing in Greek

On Tue, 01 Oct 2013 21:44:51 -0700 Joel Madero jmadero@gmail.com dijo: At first I was perplexed because some of the keys seemed to give me the Greek glyphs that sound similar to the English letters, e.g., t gives me a tau, but the s only gave me upper- and regular lowercase sigma, not the

[libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

I use Writer daily, but practically never use Calc, so I am pretty helpless. Now I have a problem that calls for a spreadsheet; actually, a script or plug-in or something to Calc. The problem is that I need to calculate an amortization chart for a loan of regular payments with an odd number of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc - Amortization

On Tue, 8 Oct 2013 18:05:54 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Going with the line-by-line approach but with a fast twist.  Thanks, that worked great - all except for the dates column. But I can just enter the date manually for the first of each year and leave the rest of the

[libreoffice-users] Error saving the document ...

Writer document of a little over one page that has been saved repeatedly without a problem as I created it over the past two days. It is almost finished, and suddenly I got: Error saving the document filename: Write Error. Error in writing sub-document content.xml. I also tried Save As, but get

Re: [libreoffice-users] Error saving the document ...

On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 03:53:14 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) I am not sure what the problem is but might be able to shed some light on the error message.   If you create a copy of the file and rename the file-name's ending from .odt to .zip and then double-click on the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Softmaker

On Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:30:24 -0500 Virgil Arrington cuyfa...@hotmail.com dijo: FreeOffice is interesting. In many ways, it resembles LO or OOo. Does anyone know if it was some form of fork or dirivative? You can download a free version for Linux or Windows; I didn't see a Mac option. It

[libreoffice-users] Theme madness - Help!

I have been using SO/OO/LO since StarOffice 0.9, with the latest version being 4.1.3.2 on Xubuntu 13.10. In all that time I have never had problems with the appearance of menus, background colors, etc. But now suddenly the appearance is horribly wrong. Menu fonts are in some very large font but

[libreoffice-users] Format paintbrush broken

I have LO 4.1.3.2 on Xubuntu 13.10, and previously used earlier versions for many years on other distros and operating systems. The format paintbrush always worked before, but now nothing happens. For example, I place the cursor in a paragraph to which First Line Indent paragraph style has been

Re: [libreoffice-users] Format paintbrush broken

On Sun, 15 Dec 2013 00:00:12 +0100 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de dijo: Hi John, John Jason Jordan schrieb: I have LO 4.1.3.2 on Xubuntu 13.10, and previously used earlier versions for many years on other distros and operating systems. The format paintbrush always worked before

[libreoffice-users] Keyboard shortcuts

I am using LibreOffice 4.1.3.2, installed from the repos, on Xubuntu 13.10, but on my old computer it was whatever was in the repos for Xubuntu 12.04, and the problem was the same. I just decided that it was time to fix it. The problem is that some keyboard shortcuts are not working, specifically

[libreoffice-users] Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

Twice I tried to send this to the new list, and both times it bounced. I give up on the new list. OK, old list now working either. Trying a third new list. Libreoffice 3.4.4 on Fedora 16, x86_64. Printer: Laserjet 4M+ (Postscript Level 2) I used OOo for many years and never had this problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productions webmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: I am sorry you are not getting any help. I wonder it it is an isolated issue for Fedora 16. If people have not see this happen before, it is hard to figure out what is causing it. So is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

that is preventing the default printer for your system from being the default for LibreOffice. Don On 01/24/2012 12:30 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:05:19 -0500 webmaster for Kracked Press Productionswebmas...@krackedpress.com dijo: I am sorry you are not getting any help. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:50:34 -0800 (PST) Tom tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) Have you already opsted a bug-report about this? If not this link might help http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport Haven't posted a bug report yet. Hoping that it is a setting that I can change. But thanks

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printer always selects PDF instead of Postscript

On Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:31:47 -0500 Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com dijo: On 02/01/2012 05:45 PM, TJ wrote: On 01/25/2012 01:56 PM, Don C. Myers wrote: I'm using LibreOffice 3.4.4 from the Mageia 1 repositories with KDE, trying to print to a Deskjet 5650 printer, and I'm having problems with

[libreoffice-users] Can't find folder for templates

Over many years with OOo I created 20-30 templates. I can always open a new document based on any of these templates. Today I needed to create a new template in LibreOffice 3.4.5 on Fedora 16, x86_64. This is the version from the Fedora repositories. I successfully created the template and saved

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find folder for templates

On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 23:30:40 -0800 (PST) Andreas Säger ville...@t-online.de dijo: FileTemplatesSave... will store the template in the right directory FileTemplatesand register it so it appears in FileNewTemplates and in FileTemplatesOrganize... ToolsOptionsPaths shows all the paths used by the

[libreoffice-users] Unable to edit contour

I have inserted a JPG file into a Writer document. I right-click on the picture, select Wrap Edit contour. A window pops up to edit the contour. I need to enlarge the contour all around the image so the text is offset further. The Edit contour window has no space around the edges in which to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to edit contour

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:59:08 +0200 Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de dijo: Hi John, John Jason Jordan schrieb: I have inserted a JPG file into a Writer document. I right-click on the picture, select Wrap Edit contour. A window pops up to edit the contour. I need to enlarge the contour

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to edit contour

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:43:42 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) Ah, you might have a border (called a frame probably) that goes all around the captionpicture.  If you can click on the grey border then it should allow you to set wrap options there too. Regards from Tom :)

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to edit contour

Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote: From: John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Unable to edit contour To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 25 April, 2012, 17:26 On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:43:42 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to edit contour

On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 18:29:21 -0700 (PDT) Tom tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk dijo: Hi :) I have uploaded a document to Nabble to try to show what i think you are aiming for http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3940021/Spain-2012-04-26.odt Spain-2012-04-26.odt Note that adding a caption put a

[libreoffice-users] Writer table - centering graphic

I have a graphic and a two-line caption that I need to center in a cell in a table in Writer, both vertically and horizontally. I cant get the right combination of options to accomplish this: Alignment - page, paragraph, character, as character - which? Caption - I need it on top, and part of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer won't let me manually hyphenate a name.

On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 20:26:26 -0400 Eric Beversluis ebe...@researchintegration.org dijo: I've got a name 'Bruinsma' that LO wants to hyphenate between the 'u' and the 'i'. I'm trying to get it to hyphenate between the 'n' and the 's'. LO won't let me. I go to tools-language-hyphenation with the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Focus problem

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 23:46:57 +0100 Philip Jackson <philip.jack...@nordnet.fr> dijo: >On 03/12/15 18:50, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> By 'focus problem' I mean that when I restore LO from having been >> minimized to the panel the LO window does not take the focus like all &g

Re: [libreoffice-users] Focus problem

On Thu, 3 Dec 2015 16:05:47 -0800 John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> dijo: >Here is a screenshot: Hmm. The screenshot didn't make it. Problem with the listserve? -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-hel

[libreoffice-users] Focus problem

I have had LO (previously OOo) on my Linux computers since 2005 and I have always had this problem, but today I finally decided to see if there was a way to fix it. During that time I have had all kinds of distros (Ubuntu mostly, but also Fedora, OpenSUSE, Debian, and others), versions of distros,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Jumping cursor

On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 13:18:37 -0500 charles meyer dijo: >I have a Toshiba Satellite laptop (about 7 years old) running Windows >7. It runs fine and I have no issues with it. > >However, when I type in text in a blank document in either Libre >Writer or Word 2003 I’ll

Re: [libreoffice-users] APA Heading 3 that does not use paragraph style

On Thu, 5 May 2016 06:48:54 -0800 Marc Grober dijo: >The APA Publication Manual (Section 3.03, Pg 62) mandates a Heading 3 >style that that is bold and indented (1/2 an inch like a normal >paragraph), and then followed on the same line by the text. I believe there is a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Ancient Greek Extension Problem

On Wed, 17 Aug 2016 12:24:31 -0700 (MST) CVAlkan dijo: >One of my (other and many) gripes related to Attic Greek is that the >same distinctions aren't very consistent in the font glyphs I have - I >prefer the ancient form of the circumflex rather than the modern form >which

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 14:21:08 + Virgil Arrington dijo: >Before nuking everything, have you tried renaming the entire user >profile. It should be a folder called "4". Rename it "4-old". Then >restart LO. It will create a new user profile folder. You'll lose any >custom

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:17:30 +0100 Tom Davies dijo: >Renaming the user-profile will remove all the add-ons but it's >probably a good idea anyway. >Copying the default.ott from the working computer was brilliant imo, >as was trying to rename the previous one to see what

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:05:44 -0700 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: OK, I didn't go to bed yet and tried a couple more things. I have a second computer with the same OS, the same LO, and most of the same fonts and configs on it. I placed copies of the two 'corrupt' files on a USB

[libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

LO 1:4.2-8-0ubuntu on Xubuntu 14.04, up to date I have used LO (and formerly OO) on Ubuntu for ten years, and there has rarely been a problem. Suddenly LO Writer would not open either of two files that I had been working on. The error message popup said: The file 'filename.odt' is

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO won't open - claims Default.ott is corrupt

On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 00:11:10 -0700 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: >On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 23:05:44 -0700 >John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: > >OK, I didn't go to bed yet and tried a couple more things. One more thing, and then I'm really going to bed. Wi

Re: [libreoffice-users] Highlighting nouns in LibreOffice Writer?

On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 20:12:01 +0100 Brian Barker dijo: >At 11:21 29/07/2017 -0700, Csanyi Pál wrote: >>is there a way to highlight in a text in Writer >>just nouns in an English text besides manually >>select nouns? I mean is there such a tool to >>highlight just

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Best Font Ever...Don't Lister to the Critics

On Mon, 12 Jun 2017 16:04:04 + Virgil Arrington dijo: >I would recommend Robert Bringhurst's excellent book, "The Elements >of Typographic Style." +1 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Book

On Wed, 24 May 2017 19:56:33 -0400 "Brian Grawburg" dijo: >I am in the process of converting 177 pages of my study notes on the >NT book of Romans from Lotus WordPro to LibreOffice. I have two more >large "books" to convert after this.  I've thought about breaking it >up

[libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

Linguists frequently need to write glosses. Here are a couple examples using Spanish as the source language and English as the language that the author is writing in: Todos iremos a la playa. All.m.pl go.1.pl.fut to the.art.sg.fem beach 'We will all go to the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 14:44:57 -0700 Dave Stevens dijo: >as far as I can see spaces would work fine in a monospaced font, why >not use one every time you need to insert a gloss? Because almost all universities and peer-reviewed journals require APA style for linguistics, which in turn demands a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 17:38:08 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis dijo: Todos iremos a la playa. All.m.pl go.1.pl.fut to the.art.sg.fem beach 'We will all go to the beach.' Juan no sabíaquéhacer. John neg.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

On Fri, 8 Jun 2018 15:59:48 -0400 (EDT) Felmon Davis dijo: >On Fri, 8 Jun 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: > >> Linguists frequently need to write glosses. Here are a couple >> examples using Spanish as the source language and English as the >> language that the author is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Glosses in linguistics

On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:28:18 -0400 "Paul D. Mirowsky" dijo: >It might also be possible to use a "Customize" style of "Bullets and >Numbering" with Paragraph styles. The problem is that the position of each item in the first and second lines changes with each gloss. I started just using tabs,

[libreoffice-users] Focus issues on Linux

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 10:59:12 -0800 Girvin Herr dijo: >> At this point I should also add that there has long been a bug with >> floating toolbars on all Linux installations that I know of - that >> is, if you have a toolbar floating it defeats the normal focus >> actions of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Fixing 5.0 appearance

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 07:08:20 -0700 (MST) V Stuart Foote dijo: >Dave Barton-3 wrote >> On 22.12.2017 03:07, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> ... >> Even better if the day ever comes when we can have styles list >> undocked from the sidebar, in the same way as Navigator. > >That

Re: [libreoffice-users] Focus issues on Linux

On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 11:38:32 -0800 John Jason Jordan <joh...@gmx.com> dijo: Thanks for all the comments. First, to restate my problem: I use Xfce4 on Xubuntu 14.04. I use the window button panel applet so that when I start a program its icon appears in the panel. I can minimize any such

[libreoffice-users] Fixing 5.0 appearance

I have been using LO since it appeared and previously OO, going back to StarOffice 0.9. My current version is 5.4.3.2 on Xubuntu 14.04, installed with a PPA. My previous version was whatever the latest was in the Xubuntu repositories (4.something). I had to install the new version because the

[libreoffice-users] Help! Can't delete floating frame!

And the paper I'm working on is due tomorrow! I wanted to add a picture (it's a .png file) so I selected Insert > Floating Frame, gave it a name, and there it was. Then I added my .png file to it, whereupon I realized that I needed to edit the .png file first, plus the floating frame was in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Help! Can't delete floating frame!

On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 15:44:09 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >And the paper I'm working on is due tomorrow! > >I wanted to add a picture (it's a .png file) so I selected Insert > >Floating Frame, gave it a name, and there it was. Then I added my .png >file to it, whereupon I real

[libreoffice-users] Table toolbar

LO 6.342 from the LO PPA on Xubuntu 18.04 I have a simple table with text data, no calculations or fancy stuff. Every time I put the cursor in a cell the table toolbars pop up, and usually on top of my work. I don't ever need the table toolbar. If I really wanted the toolbar I know how to get it

[libreoffice-users] Template confusion - 6.3.4.2 on Ubuntu

I have been using LO, and previously OO, since ~2002, and I currently have 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date. This version was installed with the PPA supplied by LO. Needing to figure out my numerous templates I searched for *.ott and came up with files scattered all over. So my first question

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template confusion - 6.3.4.2 on Ubuntu

On Thu, 20 Feb 2020 15:51:57 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I have been using LO, and previously OO, since ~2002, and I currently >have 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date. This version was installed >with the PPA supplied by LO. > >Needing to figure out my numerous templ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 00:42:38 +0100 Regina Henschel dijo: >> But it all came out on a single line. >left [ stack{ "+ consonantal"#"- voice"#"+ continuant" } right none Aha! I had tried the stack command before, but it didn't work. I think I may have left out the #s. >In case you like

[libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

LO Writer in 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04 up to date, installed from the PPA, from LO. I know this can be done, but the how escapes me. I need to produce expandable brackets in Writer like the following (but here in the e-mail I have to use single brackets - just assume that they are all one left and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 21:35:40 +0100 Regina Henschel dijo: >Hi John, > >John Jason Jordan schrieb am 23-Feb-20 um 19:55: >[..] >> >> Thanks, I found the bracket symbols, but 1) the corners are rounded >When you have drawn the bracket and click on it to make it activ

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 10:55:32 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >Thanks, I found the bracket symbols, but 1) the corners are rounded, 2) >they look kind of faint on the screen so I tried to find a way to >specify the thickness of the line, but it's not there. And 3), for some >re

Re: [libreoffice-users] Expandable brackets in writer document, formula maybe?

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020 02:15:21 +0100 Regina Henschel dijo: >left [ stack{""+"consonantal"#""-"voice"#""+"continuant"} right none That works lovely, but getting the leading right is not easy. This needs to be in a line that says → / In case that didn't make it in the e-mail, the character

Re: [libreoffice-users] View issues with 6.07 from Ubuntu repositories

On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 08:20:53 +0100 Robert Großkopf dijo: >Hi John Jason, > >did you try to reset the user-profile? >(home/user/.config/libreoffice/4) Yes I did. Made no difference. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Sort of SOLVED View issues with 6.07 from Ubuntu repositories

On Sun, 29 Dec 2019 22:12:09 +0100 Johnny Rosenberg dijo: >> >did you try to reset the user-profile? >> >(home/user/.config/libreoffice/4) >> Yes I did. Made no difference. >I haven't had Ubuntu for a long time now, but as far as I remember >Ubuntu's LibreOffice versions in the past were kind

Re: [libreoffice-users] View issues with 6.07 from Ubuntu repositories

On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 09:48:40 +0100 Heiko Tietze dijo: >Do you scale the UI for some reason, eg. font size 125%? Sort of. Different parts are set with varying methods. However, percentages are never used except in web browsers. Fonts are set with points. Icons and most other matters are set with

[libreoffice-users] Tools > Customize hangs LO

I have LO 6.3.3.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date, except that I downloaded it from LO rather than install the version in the Ubuntu repositories. The display is UHD (3840x2160). I usually use only Writer, which I have in a window by itself, along with Formatting and Styles toolbars floating off the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tools > Customize hangs LO

On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 17:02:10 -0800 John Jason Jordan dijo: >I have LO 6.3.3.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date, except that I >downloaded it from LO rather than install the version in the Ubuntu >repositories. The display is UHD (3840x2160). > >I usually use only Writer, which I h

Re: [libreoffice-users] Tools > Customize hangs LO

On Sat, 28 Dec 2019 10:25:42 +0100 Heiko Tietze dijo: >You can use https://imgur.com/ for images and https://pastebin.com/ >for text. Or just file a ticket on our bugtracker and attach the file >there. OK, here it is on imgur: https://imgur.com/YISfwld -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-users] View issues with 6.07 from Ubuntu repositories

I had LO 6.3.3.2 installed, downloaded from LO. But I was unable to correct the line spacing in the Styles and Formatting toolbar, and trying to fix it I discovered that it would hang if I clicked on Tools > Customize. After much effort I gave up and uninstalled 6.3.3.2, and then installed 6.07

Re: [libreoffice-users] Which Font Is Substituted?

You can also places fonts in /home//.fonts. They will be available only for that user, but it's easier because there's just one folder so you don't have to sweat whether you put it in the right place. On Sat, 10 Oct 2020 14:07:18 -0700 Girvin Herr dijo: >I am using Slackware Linux 14.2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Narrow equivalent in margins in Writer

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 21:07:38 +0200 Kolbjørn Stuestøl dijo: >Den 30.08.2020 20:12, skreiv Robert Funnell: >> In the page style you can modify the left and right margins in the >> same way as you modify the top and bottom margins. Does that not do >> what you want? > >Or perhaps using the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Narrow equivalent in margins in Writer

On Sun, 30 Aug 2020 16:55:19 -0400 Dan Lewis dijo: >> And once you have a blank page with the margins you want, save it as >> a page style. Now it's just one click to apply it. Or you can apply a >> keyboard shortcut to apply the page style. >John: Are you talking about saving that blank page

Re: [libreoffice-users] Position of caption

On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:05:12 -0400 Remy Gauthier dijo: >The only way I could see something similar to what you are describing >is when the image anchor is "Anchor to Paragraph" in which case the >caption (and the image for that matter) does seem to have a mind of its >own. You are exactly

[libreoffice-users] Position of caption

LO 6.3.4.2, Xubuntu 18.04, downloaded from LO, not from the repositories. I have a small bitmap graphic that I sized to be the width of the first line of a paragraph, to which first line indent style is applied. I modified the style to make the first line indent 21.6 pt. I created a caption for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Position of caption

On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 08:05:29 -0700 John Jason Jordan dijo: >On Wed, 01 Jul 2020 10:05:12 -0400 >Remy Gauthier dijo: > >>The only way I could see something similar to what you are describing >>is when the image anchor is "Anchor to Paragraph" in which ca

[libreoffice-users] Edit contour not working

LO 6.3.4.2 on Xubuntu 18.04, up to date. LO is downloaded from LO, not from Ubuntu repositories. I have a graphic on a page in Writer. The graphic is about 4cm wide and about 10cm high, so I have aligned it left and set contour to wrap right so that the text will flow down on the right of the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Edit contour not working

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 12:53:41 -0400 John Kaufmann dijo: >On 2020-06-11 00:06, John Jason Jordan wrote: >> ... >> I have a graphic on a page in Writer. The graphic is about 4cm wide >> and about 10cm high, so I have aligned it left and set contour to >> wrap right so t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Edit contour not working

On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 20:31:39 +0100 Brian Barker dijo: >At 21:06 10/06/2020 -0700, John Jason Jordan wrote: >>I have a graphic on a page in Writer. [...] I have aligned it left >>and set contour to wrap right so that the text will flow down on the >>right of the graphic. Thi

[libreoffice-users] Repeat a footnote

I created a footnote to define a term in a document. All went well, except that the term occurs in more than one location on the same page and I want to duplicate the number of the footnote in the text for the other instances of the term, but have the text of the footnote appear only once at the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Row height in Writer tables

> >This should work. >Best regards, >Rémy. > >Le mardi 29 décembre 2020 à 12:35 -0800, John Jason Jordan a écrit : >> This is driving me nuts. >> >> LO 7.0.2.2 on Xubuntu 20.04, up to date. >> >> I have two tables in a Writer document, each with abo

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