from:"gordon cooper"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Machine Translations

2016-04-02 Thread Gordon Cooper


  With our present method of translating at html level
Googletranslate retains nearly all the document structure,
links, text format etc. Some of this is lost when pasting
into Libre Office meaning that each language has to be
edited separately.  Am hoping for a way of translating
in LO and avoiding repetitive editing.

Had looked through the LO extensions but not found one
that could do this task in many languages.  Was not aware
of Anaphraseus and unsure (yet)  if it will run on Debian based
Mx-Linux.

Gordon.

On 03/04/16 13:46, toki wrote:

On 02/04/2016 22:53, Gordon Cooper wrote:

It would be much easier if the translating could be done in Libre Office. Has 
there been any work on
adding machine translate code to LO?
Do you mean in addition to those offered by:
* TranslationTools;
* Anaphrasus;
* TradutorLibre;

jonathon





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[libreoffice-users] Machine Translations

2016-04-02 Thread Gordon Cooper


Hello, am a new member here.  We are developing documentation for Linux
and using Google to  translate into over 15 languages. Each machine
translation is corrected by member of the team, working in Libre Office 
before

release.

 At present the translations are done in html with code added to an 
html editor.
Then we copy paste into LO where each one is manually corrected to fix 
image

scaling, Table layout and internal linking. It would be much easier if the
translating could be done in Libre Office. Has there been any work on
adding machine translate code to LO?

Gordon.
New Zealand.

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Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed

2016-05-21 Thread gordon cooper


And to add my 2 pence worth.  Lyx, another WP that I use,
adds an asterisk * to  the heading, if there has been any
unsaved change to the workfile. Easy to see at all times.

Cheer,
Gordon.



On 22/05/16 13:08, Joel Madero wrote:

I strongly disagreed with this decision but it was made by UX and was on
purpose. I agree, the dimmed state was much easier to notice and the
fact that you can now save even when there has been zero change is
irritating to say the least.

But, the doers decide, and they decided this one ;)


Warm Regards,
Joel



On 05/21/2016 03:50 PM, Tim Lloyd wrote:

Hi,

sorry for jumping into the tail end of a conversation but whenever I
make changes to a document I can see a red dot in the toolbox at the
bottom of the screen. Save the file (CTRL-S) and the dot goes away.

Cheers


On 22/05/16 02:12, Taang Zomi wrote:

*In the versions before LibreOffice 5.x, whenever I saved something, the
SAVE tool was dimmed. If I did not save something, it was NOT dimmed. If
was easy and convenient for me to be able to know whether I saved
something
or not. If it was not dimmed, I could easily click the SAVE tool, and it
was esily saved, easier and less time-consuming than going to FILE >
SAVE
or SAVE AS. *

-- Forwarded message --
From: anne-ology 
Date: Mon, May 16, 2016 at 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


 Curiously wondering why you'd want this to be dimmed;
if it were so, then you would be unable to save the
document  ;-)




From: Taang Zomi 
Date: Sun, May 15, 2016 at 12:11 PM
Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed
To: users , Brian Barker <
b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>, tony...@mac.com, Tom Davies

Cc: Taang Zomi , Thudik Zomi <
thudikz...@gmail.com>, Zomi Linguistics 


*Should I revert to LibreOffice 4.x?*



From: Taang Zomi 
Date: Wed, May 11, 2016 at 9:41 PM
Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed
To: "To: LibreOffice, users" , Brian
Barker <
b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>, tony...@mac.com, Tom Davies

Cc: Taang Zomi , Thudik Zomi <
thudikz...@gmail.com>, Taang Zomi 



*The save tool could not be dimmed *

I updated my LibreOffice for Windows, and I am using 5.1.2.2. Several
days
ago, I noticed that the SAVE tool could not be dimmed even when I saved
something.

I attempted to go to


*Tools | Options | LibreOffice | General | Document Status |*
*so that I could uncheck *


* | Allow to save document even when the document is not modified|*


*I  did not find *

*| Allow to save document even when the document is not modified|*
but I found

*| Printing sets "document modified" status | * checked


I unchecked it, but I found that nothing changed.

How can I dim the SAVE tool when I save something?



From: Taang Zomi 
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:21 PM
Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed
To: "LibreOffice, users" , Brian Barker <
b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>, tony...@mac.com, Tom Davies

Cc: Taang Zomi , Thudik Zomi <
thudikz...@gmail.com>, Pau Thang 



The Save Tool could not be dimmed


*Thank you.*


*I followed your advice:*

*Tools | Options | LibreOffice | General | Document Status |*

*and then I unclicked | Allow to save document even when the document is
not modified|*



From: Taang Zomi 
Date: Thu, Mar 5, 2015 at 8:21 PM
Subject: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: The Save Tool could not be dimmed
To: "LibreOffice, users" , Brian Barker <
b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>, tony...@mac.com, Tom Davies

Cc: Taang Zomi , Thudik Zomi <
thudikz...@gmail.com>, Pau Thang 



The Save Tool could not be dimmed


*Thank you.*


*I followed your advice:*

*Tools | Options | LibreOffice | General | Document Status |*


*and then I unclicked | Allow to save document even when the document is
not modified|*

*Thank you, Tony, Brian and Tom, for your help.*


*Taang Zomi*



From: tonybsa 
Date: Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 11:22 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles and Formatting Not Working
To: Taang Zomi 
Cc: LibreOffice users , Brian Barker <
b.m.bar...@btinternet.com>


On 22/02/2015, at 12:37, Taang Zomi  wrote:

Just a suggestion with the Save button appearing not to dim after
saving.
Do you have
"Allow to save document even when the document is not modified"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer Hyperlink Oddity

2016-05-13 Thread gordon cooper

Hello Dale,
I have not met this problem (yet!). If you create a
hyperlink to a pdf document, but without the 'a' unfinished indicator
I take it that the hyperlink remains unchanged regardless of the
file being accessed again. It appears to be an issue with the single
character. Perhaps if you omitted the final underbar so that the
link read 8a instead of 8_a. The 'a' could be deleted when the
document is complete, just as you are doing now.

I know that this does not tell you why this occurs, but it might cure it.
Am working with hyperlinks while editing multi-lingual translations of
a system manual and have met several unexpected issues. Yours may
be yet to come!

Gordon
Tauranga
New Zealand.

On 14/05/16 08:06, Dale H. Cook wrote:

I have an odd problem with document hyperlinks in Writer, one which I never
experienced when using Open Office or, before that, Word.

I have many Writer files containing hyperlinks to PDF documents on my hard drives. The problem only occurs when I create a hyperlink to a document still being added to
such as "Dockets_1896-1897_08_a.pdf." The hyperlink looks fine in Writer when I create it, but when I come back to the Writer file some hours or days later the
visible hyperlink has changed to "Dockets_1896-1897_08 _a .pdf" where the spaces between "08" and "_a" and between "_a" and
".pdf" are so narrow as to be almost invisible, and where"Dockets_1896-1897_08" "_a" and ".pdf" are three separate hyperlinks,
all with the original destination.

After finishing the additions to the document I change the filename, destination, and hyperlink to
"Dockets_1896-1897_08.pdf" (the "_a" is only there to show that the PDF is not yet
complete) and never again have a problem with that hyperlink. What is puzzling is that only some of the
hyperlinks with the "_a" suffix suffer from this problem - not all of them. Any ideas?

Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants;
Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project
Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc formula tool tips - possible to turn off?

2016-08-14 Thread gordon cooper


I like your second suggested option Bruce, i.e. None : Standard : Extended.

It would be a good option for all tooltips.

Gordon.


On 15/08/16 13:04, Bruce Hohl wrote:

My search for a way to control the formula tips also was unsuccessful so I
added the following enhancement requests:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101512

On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 7:00 PM, Remy Gauthier 
wrote:





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Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...

2017-02-02 Thread gordon cooper


+1

Gordon.


On 03/02/17 13:12, Remy Gauthier wrote:

Euh, I think this thread should be cut and closed. It is becoming more
and more a senseless discussion on the good or not so good ways of
moderating a mailing list and as well, and this is what I find
particularly disturbing, an Anne-ology bashing session.

Thank you.

RG.

Le jeudi 02 février 2017 à 17:16 +, Peter Hillier-Brook a écrit :

Charles, one can only admire your patience, but isn't it time to put

a

stop to this nonsense with anne-ology (who I'm sure is not the
delightful Maureen, despite her use of the "-ology" suffix).


Who has the authority to remove her from the moderator role, for

which

she seems singularly un-qualified?

On 02/02/17 13:51, Charles-H. Schulz wrote:

Anne-ology,


You are right, that is the general meaning of moderation. However,

when

we talk about moderation here, we talk about mailing list

moderation.

When we talk about moderator, we refer to a mailing list moderator,

not

to concepts such as panel moderators. A mailing list moderator has

a

specific role, which somewhat relates to the one of a moderator but

is

much more strict: it has been described a bit earlier but let me

restate

it: A mailing list moderator is in charge of the management of the

mailing list. This role mostly includes moderating emails, which

means:

- finding legitimate emails of posters who are not subscribed to

the

mailing list and moderating them as in publishing them to the list

(NOT

REPLYING TO THEM FIRST)
- rejecting incoming illegitimate emails, such as spam.


Another role of the list moderator usually (but not always)

involves:

- adding or unsubscribing email addresses per request of their

owner

- helping mailing list subscribers with similar tasks or technical
issues directly related to their mailing list subscription
- reminding everyone to be courteous

- following the netiquette (http://www.netiquette.org) and

reminding

mailing list subscribers to comply with it.


Among all these points only the last two may relate somewhat more

the

broader meaning of "moderation".

In short your daily task is not one moderation but rather one of

technical management. It also implies that you know how to post

properly

and understand the concept of mailing list discussion threads. From

my

perspective it seems you are not familiar with the concept,or that

you

perhaps have no desire to become acquainted with these notions

which

would be problematic for a mailing list moderator. Hence, there is

no

need to "clean" any "cruft from an email. Signs, mentions of date,

time,

etc. in an email are part of its information and may form a part of

the

thread. We need that. I notice you have managed to start a new

thread

"Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ..." that is not integrated

with

the original thread. This is not correct and you seem to do this

for

each one of your reply.


Below is one page belonging to another community that may be

helpful to

you:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines

Hope this helps,

Charles
(who, by top-posting, does not comply to the netiquette).



Le 02.02.2017 01:56, anne-ology a écrit :

Do you know what moderation means?



moderation := "the avoidance of excess or extremes,

especially in

one's behavior or political opinions"




From: toki 

Date: Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 9:40 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] in response ...
To:

Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" 


On 01/31/2017 01:54 PM, Tom Davies wrote:


It is not always possible to "do the right thing" so it is good

that

The correct thing is to _approve_ the message, not _respond_

within the

message. As such, it is _always_ possible to do the right thing.

That is basic moderation 101

jonathon





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't Import PDF Math Formulas

2016-09-02 Thread gordon cooper


 You could perhaps do your editing/selecting with a pdf editor

then export the result into LO.  There are several possibilities,
some completely free, others free for personal use.

Suggest you search for "PDF Editor for Linux.

Gordon.


On 03/09/16 13:36, frogprince wrote:

The university at which I teach has not purchased the Test Bank software that
is widely used to create homework and tests. The source pages for this
software are simply pdf's of various math problems, and I can successfully
print any selection of full pages to pdf files. I would like to select
individual problems from those pdf pages, but in all cases, the file in LO
does not bring in the math symbols, only the numbers.
I've tried cutting and pasting from the pdf, opening the pdf page that was
printed from Linux Mint 17/CUPS, either in LO or in Math. I'm running LO
version 4.8.4.2 with the Dmaths extension.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot edit a template ott file

2016-10-07 Thread gordon cooper


Ken,
  I'll admit to not knowing LO very well, do most of my work
in Lyx, so one of the guru's may correct me.

I believe that your problems are in the save procedure. When you edit
one of your custom templates, LO will be handling it as an .odt, which
is normal.  If you do a Save As .ott  you'll be asked where to put it. 
Unless
you specify exactly where, your edited template will probably be saved 
somewhere
in Documents and thus will _not_  be recalled if you type Ctrl+Shift+N.  
It thus

appears to you that the edit  has not worked.

For your template to be selected by Ctrl+ etc. it needs to be saved in the
Users Templates  sub-folder.  This is vaguely explained in the Help. Look
at Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths  for the exact address.

Gordon.








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Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot edit a template ott file

2016-10-06 Thread gordon cooper


The Help says  open with Ctrl+Shift+N.  It worked for me,

was able to edit a template.

Gordon.


On 07/10/16 14:56, Ken Heard wrote:

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See my comments inline.

On 2016-10-06 20:09, Girvin Herr wrote:


What is the sense of having an edit button if it cannot be used to
edit something, in this case ott files?

Ken
Ken,

Well, you can do that.  But I think it will become a document
(odt), not a template (ott).  Templates are treated differently
than documents in LO, so you can't just open and save them like
documents.

Yes, I was aware of the difference.

  No, the best

way to edit templates is through the Template Manager.

Agreed.  That is what I am trying to do.


 From the main page (no open documents) try Templates > Edit
Templates and select the template you want to edit.

Presumably after selecting the wanted template the last step is to
click on the "Edit" button at the top of the window.  That is what I
cannot do; clicking on the "Edit" button produces no result; the
desired template does NOT open.  Reporting this problem was the reason
for my original post.


Or if a document is open, use File > Templates > Manage. In the
Template Manager, select the template to edit then select the
"Edit" button to open it for editing.

In this situation I get the same result.  Clicking on "Edit" does NOT
open the Selected template.


When you save the edited template, use the Save or Save As button
as you would a document.

I would dearly like to get to this point.


There are probably other ways to do this, but I think the key here
is to make sure you open the template with the Template Manger, not
like a regular document.

I would also dearly like to open the template manager to allow me to
create a new template or edit an existing one.  What other ways exist?

  > Note that if you make a template from a document, you must use the Fi
le

Templates > Save as Template process, not just save a document
with a

.ott suffix.

I have managed to save a template from an existing document, but I
cannot edit such a template for the reason several times already
described.

Regards, Ken
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Re: [libreoffice-users] error installing LO 5.2.2

2016-10-07 Thread gordon cooper




On 08/10/16 15:03, Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote:



I just removed 5.2.0 and tried to install 5.2.2.  Below is the error
message I received.

I do not know what dependencies are needed for 5.2.2 that was not for
5.2.0?

Any Idea?

I run Ubuntu/Mate 16.04 64-bit.

---

timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/Lib/DEBS$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
(Reading database ... 1847555 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack libobasis5.2-en-us-help_5.2.2.2-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking libobasis5.2-en-us-help (5.2.2.2-2) over (5.2.2.2-2) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of
libobasis5.2-en-us-help:
 libobasis5.2-en-us-help depends on libobasis5.2-en-us (>= 5.2.2.2);
however:
  Package libobasis5.2-en-us is not installed.
 libobasis5.2-en-us-help depends on libobasis5.2-en-us (<= 5.2.2.2-2);
however:
  Package libobasis5.2-en-us is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package libobasis5.2-en-us-help (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
 libobasis5.2-en-us-help
timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/Lib/DEBS$


  See that it is complaining about libobasis5.2-en-us.  If you removed 
5.2.0 first,

perhaps this dependency was removed then, and not replaced in the 5.2.2
installation.

Gordon.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Shortcut for Dropping Many Photos Into Writer Doc

2016-10-26 Thread gordon cooper




On 26/10/16 06:39, Hal Vaughan wrote:

I have to prepare a report to send to a governmental agency to get approval for 
something for our new lot.  That involves sending in a large number of photos, 
with comments and descriptions, for documentation of what the area is like.

I’m looking at a document with 30+ photos in it.

It’s not a major issue, but is there an easy shortcut to just drop them all in 
there, then arrange them as I go?  Or do I just need to keep inserting photos 
as I get to each one?


Thanks!



Hal

Hal,
   You could do this either way. I prefer to insert as I get to the 
correct part of the text, this way
you can fit/size them to suit the script, so that you do not have a 
massive re-editing task later.

Suggest you look at the Help, for details of how to insert images.

Gordon.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I install the current Linux version

2016-10-29 Thread gordon cooper




On 30/10/16 15:04, Girvin Herr wrote:

On 10/29/2016 06:52 PM, gordon cooper wrote:

Hi again Ken,
   There is some odd going on here. I don't use 
LO very

often, most of my writing is done with Lyx, which then outputs as a
PDF and I print from there.  Have just looked at LO and found that
when it was asked to print, to either my little  Brother laser,or an
elderly HP Deskjet, the landscape paper option was greyed out,
just like yours.  These results came on a desktop, running MX-15
Linux.  Looked as if LO was deciding that the files would fit onto
portrait and not giving me the option to change.

I'll do some more digging. Think I have LO on a laptop with XP,
will dig it out .Perhaps somebody else will pop upon the forum
with an answer.

Gordon


This was brought out in an earlier thread.  Go to Print -> options tab 
and check "Use only paper size from printer preferences."


That should enable paper sizes and orientation selection in the print 
dialog.


HTH.

Girvin



  Also, Click the Format Tab (at top of LO Page) about halfway down the 
popup
is Page, Select that and you have a whole range of options, including 
Landscape.


Gordon.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] How do I install the current Linux version

2016-10-29 Thread gordon cooper




On 30/10/16 13:22, Ken Springer wrote:
Trying to learn a bit about Linux, as well as solve a printing issue 
with LO in Linux Mint 17.3.  The printer is a Samsung CLP-315 color 
laser.


When printing a spreadsheet, and selecting landscape, LO prints 
landscape, but to paper that is still portrait.  Sort of like this...



| |
| |
..
..
..
|___|

The dots represent the data that is trying to be printed.

If I set the paper to portrait, this is the result.  All the data is 
printed.



| |
| |
...
...
...
|___|


My suspicion is the printer driver, but I would like to install the 
current Linux stable version.  Mint installs 5.0.3.2, which is the 
current version in the repository, from what I can see.


I know it's somewhat apples to oranges, but the same spreadsheet works 
fine on my Mac with the current version of LO.


Once I've downloaded the current version, where to I go from there?


Hi Ken,
 There  any many versions of Linux, just look at 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions
to see.  If you are wishing to stay with Mint, then take a look at their 
home page. There plenty are of good options and
you will find that people have their preferences and tend to stay with 
them.  I use MX-Linux, which is based on
Debian, like MInt,  and is a mid sized but very stable operating system. 
MX has LO built in.


Where you setting your portrait/landscape option, in LO?

Gordon.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I install the current Linux version

2016-10-29 Thread gordon cooper


Hi again Ken,
   There is some odd going on here. I don't use LO very
often, most of my writing is done with Lyx, which then outputs as a
PDF and I print from there.  Have just looked at LO and found that
when it was asked to print, to either my little  Brother laser,or an
elderly HP Deskjet, the landscape paper option was greyed out,
just like yours.  These results came on a desktop, running MX-15
Linux.  Looked as if LO was deciding that the files would fit onto
portrait and not giving me the option to change.

I'll do some more digging. Think I have LO on a laptop with XP,
will dig it out .Perhaps somebody else will pop upon the forum
with an answer.

Gordon


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Transferring Markdown Documents to LibreOffice

2016-11-20 Thread gordon cooper


To divert a little, but not talking about Markdown.

We were looking for a simple way of of producing documents in html,
thought we were on the right track until some of the potential users
asked for pdf too.  We now use Lyx for the authoring, it produces
formatted text, without formatting marks having to be typed in.

From the Lyx master, we output in pdf and html, with DVI and xhtml
available as options.  Where Open Document format is needed, the html
can be directly pasted in to .odt, but with one failing. A Table of Contents
in Lyx loses the page links in the paste function . There is an easy
work-around, just create a new ToC in Libre Office - about 4 clicks,
and delete the original ToC.

Gordon Cooper

MX-Linux Documentation Team
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I install the current Linux version

2016-10-31 Thread gordon cooper




On 01/11/16 09:16, Robert Großkopf wrote:

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Hi Tim,

What I do is unpack the install files [I use .deb files] and place
them all in a temporary folder I call "lib".  Nice and simple, I
have that folder in the "home" folder called "timothy".

This will give me "/home/timothy/lib" while using the file manager
  package [on Mint] called "Caja".


Then I use the "Mate Terminal" [default command line for the MATE
desktop GUI]

This is my starting point for this laptop - yours will look
different since you will not have the same laptop and user name.
This is the default user folder for my laptop.

timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$

I type in "cd lib"

timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~$ cd lib

I get this folder shown

timothy@Gateway-NE56R12u:~/lib$

At this point I use this command to install all of the .deb files
from that folder. I tend to place both the language and help .deb
files - if needed - in a different folder like lib2.

sudo dpkg -i *.deb

This will prompt me to five my superuser password.  Then it will
start a "long" install process for all of the .deb files in the
folder. The RPM system would have some different names for the
commands I use for the DEB based Linux OS [ I use Ubuntu with Mate
desktop]

So, if you have a folder off your home folder [or directory] with
the name of "lib" [home/timothy/lib], the command line is a very
easy route.

cd lib

sudo dpkg -i *.deb


After looking for this in the web I would make it the same way you
have described here. It's a little bit different to the tool, which is
delivered with OpenSuSE for system-managing with YAST, but it will
work well.
Don't know how to add a dircetory as repository in other sytems. But
with OpenSUSE it works well.

Regards

Robert

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This installation method all looks overly complicated to me, and is one
of the reasons that I swapped over to MX-Linux where the system comes
as a package with installation instructions/prompts included. Plus the bonus
that the User Manual can be read/downloaded beforehand.

Gordon.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Stepping through bulleted items in Presentation

2016-12-17 Thread gordon cooper


Have made several Presentations, mostly intended for remote
viewing and so including sychronised voice-overs.

Never found the bullet stepping technique that you wish for, but have
saved time and effort by first making the full slide, with all lines
finished, then copy it the number of times required and finally
step through the set and delete the unwanted lines.  Have found
that this avoids some repetition,  the layout and any fiddling with
spacing etc., is done only once.

The stepped bulleting may be possible in Lyx Beamer, but do not
have it on this machine, so cannot be sure.

Gordon.



On 18/12/16 15:30, Virgil Arrington wrote:

I have rarely used Presentation, but I'm starting to use it more.

When I want to step through several bulleted items in a slide, I
typically create the first slide with one bullet, and then create a
duplicate slide and add the new bulleted item to the previous one. I
create as many duplicate slides as I have bullets.

I'm wondering if there is another way to do this without the need to
create several slides. If I have 6 bullets, that means creating six
slides to get the stepping effect through the bullets.

What I'd like to do is create one slide with all six bullets, and then
tell LO to step through them during my presentation. Is there a way to
do this?

Virgil





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[libreoffice-users] Stepped Presentations

2016-12-17 Thread gordon cooper


Adding to my previous - Stepped presentations can be achieved in Lyx Beamer,
using their Overlay facility. Have never tried this myself, but from 
comments
noted on the the Lyx Users mail list, Beamer can produce some very 
sophisticated

presentations, but there is a fairly steep learning curve required.

Gordon.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

2017-01-03 Thread gordon cooper


I am with Gabriele, do not understand the problem.

Here, We are working with moderately sized documents in several
languages. The Copy and Paste works every time. Can copy a
technical manual, with up to 170 A4 pages and nearly 100 images,
and it pastes correctly.   Slightly more difficult is pasting from an
HTML document. Everything behaves, and the format is retained,
except the internal linking for the Table of Contents. This is no great
problem. Libre Office has the function to create a new Table Of
Contents linked to the appropriate pages in the resulting  .odt.

All very easy.

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.


On 04/01/17 12:07, Gabriele Ponzo wrote:

What do you mean with Dialogue?

I can't understand what are you talking about :(

It may be a feature unknown to me...

Il 3 gen 2017 5:16 PM, "ptoye"  ha scritto:

I don't think you can simply copy and paste an entire dialogue. I tried it
and it didn't work.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Problems exporting and importing a dialogue

2017-01-04 Thread gordon cooper


Peter,

 Understood. Thanks.

Gordon.


On 04/01/17 23:22, ptoye wrote:

Gordon,

I am referring specifically to a Dialog(ue), not to text within a file.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Help with extra space at bottom of pages.

2016-12-20 Thread gordon cooper


Perhaps a long shot, have you checked the page Margin Settings ?

Gordon.


On 21/12/16 00:20, Leam Hall wrote:
Alan, I appreciate the detailed instructions. However, they didn't 
resolve the issue. My explanation may be lacking, let me try again.


I have a 9 page text based (no formulae, images, etc) document open in 
"Normal" view, and have just completed your instructions on that 
document. On Page 1, most of the lower half of the page is blank. 
There is a single paragraph break under the last line, and then about 
half a page of nothing. The first paragraph on Page 2 is a single line.


Interesting note. Viewing in "Normal" view. If I switch to "Web" view, 
and then switch back, the issue is resolved. However, if I save the 
file, close it, and reopen, the issue is back.




On 12/19/16 21:23, Alan B wrote:

Hello Leam,

I suggest try the following...

Open your document then...
Ctrl+A

This will select *everything* in the document

Then right-click to bring up the context menu

Click on the "Paragraph..." option

In the dialog box that appears click the "Text Flow" tab

At the bottom of this tab in the "Options" tic "Do not split paragraph".
If this is not available clear the tics in "Orphan control" and "Window
control". Once that's done it should be possible to tic "Do not split
paragraph".

Now go back through your document with "View > Non-printing characters"
enabled. Delete all the extra paragraphs you've inserted to cause your
paragraphs to display in their entirety on one page.

With "Do not spit paragraph" enabled your paragraphs will not split
across pages.

On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Leam Hall > wrote:

I have several multi-page documents that have extra space at the
bottom of the page. Turning on the "View" -> "Non-printing
characters" shows one or two paragraph markers and then an inch or
more of extra space.

If I go to the last paragraph and hit delete twice it will generally
draw up the paragraph from the next page. I then hit enter twice and
the new paragraph stays on the page. Since my paragraphs are short I
can do that a few times on each page.

This issue is that I'd rather not do that several times on each of a
hundred or so pages. Is there anything else I can look to check?
Using LibreOffice 5.2.1.2 on Linux.

Thanks!

Leam


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Stepping through bulleted items in Presentation

2016-12-18 Thread gordon cooper




On 19/12/16 02:40, Virgil Arrington wrote:

Gordon,

Just curious. How do you do the voice overs?

Virgil




Virgil,
   I will possibly be classed as an heretic and ready to be 
broken on the wheel for
writing this on an LO user list, but IHMO there are much better ways of 
assembling a

slide presentation than using Libre Office.

These days, I use one of the video editors, e.g.  OpenShot, to make a 
synchronised slide
program.  The audio is recorded as a continuous sound track, then the 
images are dropped

in over the sound,  Perhaps it is a voice-under?

However, to answer your query, here is how I worked with LO, and it is 
streets ahead of our methods
used 40 years ago, where the audio editor was a razor blade plus a roll 
of quarter inch adhesive
tape.  Then, the images were 35mm slides, text slides were drawn, then  
photographed, and we
prayed that the processing laboratory would not change fluids while 
developing our film, thus
introducing colour shifts. On one job they did lose 2 36 shot-films from 
a 30+ batch, ruining a
week's work for 2 of our team who were making a training tape/slide 
program about measuring

water quality in remote lakes and rivers!

Libre Office.  The basic system allows the recording of sound for each 
slide, so I did this.



1. Sketch out a story and the sequence of images. Note that the images 
need to be ready in
   advance and that those with text or stepped bullets should be made 
and saved as separate files.


2. Draft a series of descriptions for each image. Record these as audio, 
with a good space

between each one.

3. Edit the audio track - I used Audacity here - remove any pauses 
and/or hesitations and finish with
a well spaced track.  This is then recorded as a sequence of 
separate audio files, one for each
slide. While doing this, note the time/length of audio for each 
slide. Audio should be recorded
in .wav format.  Best to leave a short silent period at the the 
beginning of each file so that viewers

may look at a slide for a few seconds before the audio sarts

4. Now put the sequence together, assemble the slides with display times 
longer than the timed
audio sequences. Then embed the relevant audio file for each 
slide.  Probably the start and

finish visual slides will not have audio.

5.  Finally, run the whole program and perhaps adjust the transition 
times for each slide. I usually

 made the times a bit longer than needed, then pruned them at the end.

Awfully slow and only worth the effort, if the result is to be of 
benefit to many.


Gordon.






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Re: [libreoffice-users] need help off list on a Asus Win10/Ubuntu laptop

2017-08-14 Thread gordon cooper


Tim,

Not sure if this would help on Win 10, but maybe worth a
try.  I gave up on new MS versions not long after XP,  but still
work on a few multi-boot systems and run into Grub issues.

The cure used here is to set up and adjust partitions with
Gparted (on a CD) , then run Puppy Linux (also on a CD) to remake
Grub with the  grub4dos utility. Has the advantage that the
resultant Grub menu is much more readable.

If the Windows partition size needs to be changed, then Defrag
is run before Gparted.

Gordon




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can LO build a TOC from a PDF file?

2017-07-09 Thread gordon cooper

  There is a round-about way of doing this using Nuance's PDF 
Converter, but

I have not used it since I abandoned Windows® several years ago. With the
PDF Converter, one can make a Word file which could be read by LO, then
use LO's Insert ToC tool and export the result back to PDF.

Gordon

Tauranga N.Z.


On 10/07/17 05:20, Gilles wrote:

Hello,

This PDF file

has no Table of Contents, and I was wondering if LO could grab all the
headers and build a TOC.

Thank you.



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Re: [libreoffice-users] Format>Page window slow opening

2017-07-17 Thread gordon cooper

Nearest thing I have had to this was years ago when beta testing a 
vector based

CAD programme on Win98.  The author of the CAD had forgotten to include code
to clear the virtual memory  used for calculations during any drawing 
work so that

the virtual mem and the RAM filled up and the computer eventually stopped.

Gordon.


On 18/07/17 02:21, Tim-L--Elmira-NY wrote:


I am using version 5.3.3.2 on Ubuntu 16.04LTS with MATE desktop. The 
laptop is a dual core with 4 GB memory with about 30 GB free space on 
the drive.


Yesterday, I was making several documents with large images.  When I 
clicked on Format > Page, it took over a minute to open up. It did 
this for all of the documents I created with large images. It did not 
do this a few months ago with an earlier version.


Has anyone come across this issue before?  It was a real pain doing 
the documents over the weekend.







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Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names (Resolved)

2017-07-25 Thread gordon cooper

Eureka!!  Many Thanks Robert, that is the clue. The Alternative names 
appeared
because a draft .odt file was created by a copy and paste from an html 
file which
itself was a conversion from Lyx.  The problem is hopefully a "once 
only" but for the
archives and benefit of anyone who may meet this in the future, here is 
a summary.

1. Any text appearing in Libre Office Image 
Properties>Options>Alternative Name does
not appear on screen in a displayed .odt , but will be shown as a 
screen shot, and in a
printed copy, as an image caption in an html export from that .odt 
file.

2. Images inserted into a Libre Office .odt file will not usually create 
an Alternative name,
but if the .odt file has been created by copy and paste from an 
html source, the file
reference for any images in the html (not sure about tables) may be 
saved as an

Alternative name to then appear in an html export.

This situation is unlikely to occur in normal Libre Office usage.

Thanks again Robert,

Gordon.

On 25/07/17 13:11, Robert Funnell wrote:

Gordon -

Yes, I see that indeed my Alternative names are blank, which 
apparently is the default when a new image is inserted. How did you 
create your .odt files? Manually? Or by some sort of conversion from 
another format that defined the Alternative names?

- Robert

On Tue, 25 Jul 2017, gordon cooper wrote:

On 25/07/17 12:29, Robert Funnell wrote:

 Gordon -

 I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did
File >  Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML
 option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of 
things
 aren't right but the images appear with their captions and no 
filenames.

 Am I not doing the same thing as you're doing?

 - Robert

 Robert,
 You are correct with the XHTML selection - the smaller 
print on that line indicates
  the selection is correct for html and xhtml.  If you 
secondary click on the image
  and select Properties>Options,  the popup shows (in my 
case) the name of the image
  and immediately  below, a line for Alternative name 
which is displaying the file name
  of the image. it is this filename that appears in the 
html exports. The fix is to go
  to each image Properties and delete whatever is showing 
in the Alternative name

   line.
Gordon.

 On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, gordon cooper wrote:

>  Hi Steve,
>Yes it is satisfactory, it is only the display of 
the >  image file names that is
>  a relatively small nuisance. I can get rid of them by editing 
properties >  for each
>  image, so asked to see if there was a setting that would remove 
them for >  the
>  whole file. Have also had to look at table properties to ensure 
that >  framing lines
>  appeared in the html.  HTML also has an advantage in that some 
software >  language
>  translation programmes, e.g. Googletranslate,  will preserve the 
>  formatting, even

>  if some of the phrasing and syntax needs correcting.
> >  Gordon.
> > >  On 25/07/17 11:29, Steve Edmonds wrote:
> >   Hi.
> >   Is the HTML format satisfactory in all other aspects for your 
needs.
> >   I had to correct the HTML in tables exported by writer so am 
now wary

> >   about using it for HTML export.
> >   steve
> > > >   On 25/07/17 08:20, gordon cooper wrote:
> > > > >   On 25/07/17 03:07, leleu wrote:
> > > >   Did you try to deliver these manuals as pdf ? /
> > > >   /
> > >   /Have been delivering in pdf and html for a couple of years, 
and > > using >   Lyx for//
> > >   //authoring/editing.  Open Doc. has been used for 
translations > > mainly >   because//
> > >   //it was preferred by the translators. Decided recently to 
use > >  LO for >  authoring//
> > >   //and delivery so that users can make copies in their 
preferred > >  format. >  For both//

> > >   //pdf and html have using LO's export function: //
> > >   //File>Export as PDF
> > >   or//
> > >   //File>Export>All formats>html//
> > >   //
> > >   //The unwanted alternative text only appears on the html 
exports./

> > > >   Gordon.
> > > > > > > >   How do the users copy to html? Using the LO menu 
"Save > >  as"? or > >  selectng, then "Edition>Copy" .?

> > > > > >   Je la 24/07/2017 16:48, anne-ology skribis :
> > > > >   From my experience,
> > > > >  I would say you've uncovered a 'bug' since 
the > >  name of > > > the image

> > > > >   should only appear if

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-24 Thread gordon cooper




On 25/07/17 03:07, leleu wrote:

Did you try to deliver these manuals as pdf ? /
/
/Have been delivering in pdf and html for a couple of years, and using 
Lyx for//
//authoring/editing.  Open Doc. has been used for translations mainly 
because//
//it was preferred by the translators.  Decided recently to use LO for 
authoring//
//and delivery so that users can make copies in their preferred format. 
For both//

//pdf and html have using LO's export function: //
//File>Export as PDF
or//
//File>Export>All formats>html//
//
//The unwanted alternative text only appears on the html exports./

Gordon.




How do the users copy to html? Using the LO menu "Save as"? or 
selectng, then "Edition>Copy" .?


Je la 24/07/2017 16:48, anne-ology skribis :

From my experience,
   I would say you've uncovered a 'bug' since the name of the 
image

should only appear if the image cannot for some reason.

Here's hoping you can find a solution anon,



From: gordon cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz>
Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:23 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


We are using Libre Office in the writing of technical manuals
where some users make html copies.

Finding that the file names of images are being displayed
beside or below the images in the html versions. Because
all images are given a caption, we do not want the file names too.

  I can remove them by going to each image Properties>Options
and deleting one at a time but this is time consuming when there are
many images - over 100 in one manual.  Is there a setting that can
automatically prevent the file names being displayed?

Have looked through the Help but found nothing, did I overlook it?

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.






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[libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-23 Thread gordon cooper


We are using Libre Office in the writing of technical manuals
where some users make html copies.

Finding that the file names of images are being displayed
beside or below the images in the html versions. Because
all images are given a caption, we do not want the file names too.

 I can remove them by going to each image Properties>Options
and deleting one at a time but this is time consuming when there are
many images - over 100 in one manual.  Is there a setting that can
automatically prevent the file names being displayed?

Have looked through the Help but found nothing, did I overlook it?

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-24 Thread gordon cooper


Hi Steve,
   Yes it is satisfactory, it is only the display of the 
image file names that is
a relatively small nuisance. I can get rid of them by editing properties 
for each

image, so asked to see if there was a setting that would remove them for the
whole file. Have also had to look at table properties to ensure that 
framing lines
appeared in the html.  HTML also has an advantage in that some software 
language
translation programmes, e.g. Googletranslate,  will preserve the 
formatting, even

if some of the phrasing and syntax needs correcting.

Gordon.


On 25/07/17 11:29, Steve Edmonds wrote:

Hi.
Is the HTML format satisfactory in all other aspects for your needs.
I had to correct the HTML in tables exported by writer so am now wary 
about using it for HTML export.

steve

On 25/07/17 08:20, gordon cooper wrote:



On 25/07/17 03:07, leleu wrote:

Did you try to deliver these manuals as pdf ? /
/
/Have been delivering in pdf and html for a couple of years, and 
using Lyx for//
//authoring/editing.  Open Doc. has been used for translations mainly 
because//
//it was preferred by the translators.  Decided recently to use LO 
for authoring//
//and delivery so that users can make copies in their preferred 
format. For both//

//pdf and html have using LO's export function: //
//File>Export as PDF
or//
//File>Export>All formats>html//
//
//The unwanted alternative text only appears on the html exports./

Gordon.




How do the users copy to html? Using the LO menu "Save as"? or 
selectng, then "Edition>Copy" .?


Je la 24/07/2017 16:48, anne-ology skribis :

From my experience,
   I would say you've uncovered a 'bug' since the name of 
the image

should only appear if the image cannot for some reason.

Here's hoping you can find a solution anon,



From: gordon cooper <gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz>
Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:23 PM
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names
To: users@global.libreoffice.org


We are using Libre Office in the writing of technical manuals
where some users make html copies.

Finding that the file names of images are being displayed
beside or below the images in the html versions. Because
all images are given a caption, we do not want the file names too.

  I can remove them by going to each image Properties>Options
and deleting one at a time but this is time consuming when there are
many images - over 100 in one manual.  Is there a setting that can
automatically prevent the file names being displayed?

Have looked through the Help but found nothing, did I overlook it?

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.












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Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-24 Thread gordon cooper

On 25/07/17 12:29, Robert Funnell wrote:

Gordon -

I just opened a .odt document with captioned images in LO 5.0, did
File > Export and selected XHTML. (I don't see a separate HTML 
option.) When I view the resulting file in my Web browser, a lot of 
things aren't right but the images appear with their captions and no 
filenames. Am I not doing the same thing as you're doing?

- Robert

 Robert,
  You are correct with the XHTML selection - the smaller 
print on that line indicates
   the selection is correct for html and xhtml.  If you 
secondary click on the image
   and select Properties>Options,  the popup shows (in my 
case) the name of the image
   and immediately  below, a line for Alternative name 
which is displaying the file name
   of the image. it is this filename that appears in the 
html exports. The fix is to go
   to each image Properties and delete whatever is showing 
in the Alternative name

   line.
Gordon.

On Mon, 24 Jul 2017, gordon cooper wrote:

Hi Steve,
  Yes it is satisfactory, it is only the display of the 
image file names that is
a relatively small nuisance. I can get rid of them by editing 
properties for each
image, so asked to see if there was a setting that would remove them 
for the
whole file. Have also had to look at table properties to ensure that 
framing lines
appeared in the html.  HTML also has an advantage in that some 
software language
translation programmes, e.g. Googletranslate,  will preserve the 
formatting, even

if some of the phrasing and syntax needs correcting.

Gordon.

On 25/07/17 11:29, Steve Edmonds wrote:

 Hi.
 Is the HTML format satisfactory in all other aspects for your needs.
 I had to correct the HTML in tables exported by writer so am now wary
 about using it for HTML export.
 steve

 On 25/07/17 08:20, gordon cooper wrote:
> > >  On 25/07/17 03:07, leleu wrote:
> >  Did you try to deliver these manuals as pdf ? /
> >  /
>  /Have been delivering in pdf and html for a couple of years, and 
using >  Lyx for//
>  //authoring/editing.  Open Doc. has been used for translations 
mainly >  because//
>  //it was preferred by the translators.  Decided recently to use 
LO for >  authoring//
>  //and delivery so that users can make copies in their preferred 
format. >  For both//

>  //pdf and html have using LO's export function: //
>  //File>Export as PDF
>  or//
>  //File>Export>All formats>html//
>  //
>  //The unwanted alternative text only appears on the html exports./
> >  Gordon.
> > > > > >  How do the users copy to html? Using the LO menu "Save 
as"? or > >  selectng, then "Edition>Copy" .?

> > > >  Je la 24/07/2017 16:48, anne-ology skribis :
> > >  From my experience,
> > > I would say you've uncovered a 'bug' since the 
name of > > >  the image

> > >  should only appear if the image cannot for some reason.
> > > > > >  Here's hoping you can find a solution anon,
> > > > > > > > > > > > From: gordon cooper 
<gordon_coo...@kinect.co.nz>

> > >  Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 5:23 PM
> > >  Subject: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names
> > >  To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > > > > > > > >  We are using Libre Office in the writing of 
technical manuals

> > >  where some users make html copies.
> > > > > >  Finding that the file names of images are being displayed
> > >  beside or below the images in the html versions. Because
> > >  all images are given a caption, we do not want the file names 
too.
> > > > > >I can remove them by going to each image 
Properties>Options
> > >  and deleting one at a time but this is time consuming when 
there are
> > >  many images - over 100 in one manual.  Is there a setting 
that can

> > >  automatically prevent the file names being displayed?
> > > > > >  Have looked through the Help but found nothing, did I 
overlook it?

> > > > > >  Gordon
> > >  Tauranga N.Z.
> > >

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-27 Thread gordon cooper

Hi Regina,
I expect that you may have read the later postings
from myself

on this issue and have seen that I have worked around the problem. The
information appearing in the Alternative (Text only} line was there when
the Open Document files had been created by pasting from html but does
appear when we are inserting images straight into Libre Office.

Am interested in your information about filtering and XSLT, but having
never before worked with editing and conversions in XML, have spent
time today reading about them. You referred to possibly editing the
filter. I could not find your reference '/share/XSLT/
export/xhtml. Where do I start looking for this, in Libre Office, or where?

Am not familiar with LO 6.0., presently working in 5.2.6.2 which is the
version currently available from the repositories for MX-Linux, the OS
that is described in the Manual currently being edited and displaying
of our Alternative Name problem.

I will attend to the bug report.

My thanks for your advice,
Kind regards,
Gordon

Tauranga N.Z.

On 25/07/17 20:37, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Gordon,

gordon cooper schrieb:

We are using Libre Office in the writing of technical manuals
where some users make html copies.

Finding that the file names of images are being displayed
beside or below the images in the html versions. Because
all images are given a caption, we do not want the file names too.

I can remove them by going to each image Properties>Options
and deleting one at a time but this is time consuming when there are
many images - over 100 in one manual. Is there a setting that can
automatically prevent the file names being displayed?

Have looked through the Help but found nothing, did I overlook it?

I guess you are using File > Export > XHTML. At least with that, I can
reproduce the problem.

It looks like an error in the XHTML filter. Using an old version of
the filter, I see both the caption text and the alternative text of
the picture. Using a new version of the filter (here developer version
LO 6.0), I see only the alternative text of the picture and no caption
text at all.

Please write a bug report for the problem.

It is possible to fix the bug without compiling the LO sources. You
can edit the filter directly. You find the filter in folder>/share/XSLT/export/xhtml. The part body.xsl is relevant here.
Do you know someone with knowledge in XSLT?

Kind regards
Regina

Re: [libreoffice-users] Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-27 Thread gordon cooper


Hi Regina and Philip,

  Thanks for the replies, I now know 
where to look.

MX is based on Debian and has similarities to Ubuntu.  Did scan through
/usr/share/Libre Office/  without success but will try again. Also see that
a bug report has gone.

Regards,
Gordon.



On 28/07/17 00:56, Philip Jackson wrote:

Hi Gordon,

I know you're not using Ubuntu but quite often the various distributions
use similar installations.


On 27/07/17 11:36, Regina Henschel wrote:

   You referred to possibly editing the

filter. I could not find your reference '/share/XSLT/
export/xhtml.  Where do I start looking for this, in Libre Office, or
where?

In the folder, where LibreOffice is installed.

In my linux, it is here :

/usr/lib/libreoffice/share/xslt/export/

otherwise try, in a terminal, 'which libreoffice' (without the quotes)
and track it down from there.

hth
Philip





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Unwanted Alternative Image Names

2017-07-27 Thread gordon cooper

I was not aware of this facet but now having read through
your references, I fully understand. Thank you.

However, the Alternative text should not appear if the image
already has the Name used as the caption. In our case, Alt.
does not appear on the Libre Office original but shows up on
an html export. This has been reported as a bug. Meantime
I am deleting anything on the Alternative text line as this may
cause confusion, particularly in translated copies.

Regards,
Gordon.

On 28/07/17 02:08, V Stuart Foote wrote:

There is another facet of this that is not being considered. Accessible
documents. That is for accessibility and support of Assistive Technology
tools we are required to provide the Alternate text and titles.

Believe the default filters (import and export) are configured to facilitate
that. Additionally, within the UI imposing name for the images/objects is
displayed in the Navigator GUI--unnamed images/objects are not shown by
default.

Some coverage in BZ issues

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39558

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96355

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101193

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[libreoffice-users] Open Doc to HTML conversion

2017-06-22 Thread gordon cooper


  When endeavouring to produce html versions by exporting from
Libre Office,  some hyperlink names are being replaced by the
filenames of the associated graphic -

Have looked in LO Help but saw nothing.

Gordon.

(first part escaped while being drafted, sorry)







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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Creating a custom label problem

2017-06-22 Thread gordon cooper


Hi Ken,

Unsure if 'glabels' will run on your Mac but it have does templates
for the Avery 15 x 4  series.

Goer


On 23/06/17 14:25, Ken Springer wrote:

Hi, Remy,

Or, you could just create a table of 15 rows, and do the height 
adjustment for all rows at once.  


Then, there's the option of using the Avery template that's available, 
but I think it requires the Avery software.  I did not investigate 
that option.


Or, you can do what I did.  I used a different program that had one of 
the Avery labels in the list, and got it done.  





On 6/22/17 6:57 PM, Remy Gauthier wrote:

HI,

You are right. The fields for user-defined layouts seem to adjust
themselves randomly (looks like a validation problem where the value
that is entered is validated before the cursor leaves the field). The
only way I was able to create something that looks like what you are
looking for is to:

1) Create an empty document.
2) Adjust the page margins to match the cutout locations of your Avery
label sheet (Format -> Page -> Page).
3) Insert a 1 row/4 column table that has no headers and no borders; if
your margins are correctly set, the table should now occupy the full
usable width of the page and each cell should be of the correct width.
4) Adjust the height of your row by right-clicking in a cell and
selecting "Size" -> Row Height. Set it to 0.67 inch.
5) Once this is done, go to the rightmost cell and insert a new row by
hitting TAB (the new row will be of the same height as the first one).
Do this until you have the correct number of rows on your page.

You may need to play with the Spacing to Content (Table -> Properties
-> Borders) of the cells to position the text inside the cells so it
stays clear of the cutout lines.

Not fantasticly user friendly but it should do the job.

I hope this helps.

Rémy Gauthier.

Le mercredi 21 juin 2017 à 10:28 -0600, Ken Springer a écrit :

LO 5.2.7.2


I cannot find a way to create a label on 8.5 X 11 page labels, where

the

label height is .67".  The sheet of labels is 15 rows by 4 columns.

Such a template would be compatible with the following Avery labels:
18195, 42895, 5155, 5195, 8195, 15695, 18695, 88695, 48335, 38667,
42995, 18294


Adding to this difficulty is the fact that when you try to type into

the

input fields, apparently random numbers simply appear.

Known problem?






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[libreoffice-users] Open Doc to HTML conversion

2017-06-22 Thread gordon cooper


 When endeavouring to produce html versions by exporting from
Libre Office,  some hyperlink names are being replaced by the
filenames of the associated graphic -







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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Doc to HTML conversion

2017-06-22 Thread gordon cooper


Progress -have fixed the filename replacement part of this issue,
by deleting the  image's alternative name in  image properties.
Still looking for the missing links.

Gordon.


On 23/06/17 16:58, gordon cooper wrote:

When endeavouring to produce html versions by exporting from
Libre Office,  some hyperlink names are being replaced by the
filenames of the associated graphic -

Have looked in LO Help but saw nothing.

Gordon.

(first part escaped while being drafted, sorry)










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Re: [libreoffice-users] Open Doc to HTML conversion (Resolved)

2017-06-23 Thread gordon cooper


Further progress. Found that LO does not like images and links
on the same line.  Moved the link to below the image and all is
OK.  Problem fixed but prefer to have them both on same line.

Gordon.


On 23/06/17 17:28, gordon cooper wrote:

Progress -have fixed the filename replacement part of this issue,
by deleting the  image's alternative name in  image properties.
Still looking for the missing links.

Gordon.


On 23/06/17 16:58, gordon cooper wrote:

When endeavouring to produce html versions by exporting from
Libre Office,  some hyperlink names are being replaced by the
filenames of the associated graphic -

Have looked in LO Help but saw nothing.

Gordon.

(first part escaped while being drafted, sorry)













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[libreoffice-users] Re Book

2017-05-25 Thread gordon cooper


Following John Jason Jordan's comment about Scribus. Am one of a team
producing technical manuals.  After trying various systems, we now do
most of the the authoring/word processing in Lyx, which also solves most of
the layout issues.

LO is used by the translation team to produce the completed manuals in
several languages.

Gordon.


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[libreoffice-users] Missing Images in LO

2017-06-01 Thread gordon cooper


This issue has just appeared. For about 12 months, one of my
regular tasks in LO has been to paste html technical documents
into Libre Office, where images are scaled, text edited
and formatted before exporting to pdf, or on-forwarding to
our translation team.

This week, images from the html files are missing from the
Libre Office paste, but they re-appear in the pdf files.  Instead
of images, LO is displaying empty frames with a line of text
showing the image file name.  A right click on an image frame
brings up a menu with access  to Properties.  Select the image
Tab in Properties and the correct image is displayed, I can not
get it display in the LO document.

I can resize the empty image frames in LO so that the final
pdfs are correct. The lack of LO images is preventing the
forwarding of files for translation.

Operating System:  MX-Linux Version 16;

Libre Office: Version: 5.2.2.2.0+
  Build ID: 1:5.2.2~rc2-2~bpo8+1

Have tried all the apparent options without success.

Thanks,
Gordon Cooper
(LO user for over 5 years)





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[libreoffice-users] Missing Images in LO [Solved]

2017-06-03 Thread gordon cooper


I posted this two days ago and had no replies. Not to worry,
problem is now fixed.

Gordon



"This issue has just appeared. For about 12 months, one of my
regular tasks in LO has been to paste html technical documents
into Libre Office, where images are scaled, text edited
and formatted before exporting to pdf, or on-forwarding to
our translation team.

This week, images from the html files are missing from the
Libre Office paste, but they re-appear in the pdf files.  Instead
of images, LO is displaying empty frames with a line of text
showing the image file name.  A right click on an image frame
brings up a menu with access  to Properties.  Select the image
Tab in Properties and the correct image is displayed, I can not
get it display in the LO document.

I can resize the empty image frames in LO so that the final
pdfs are correct. The lack of LO images is preventing the
forwarding of files for translation.

Operating System:  MX-Linux Version 16;

Libre Office: Version: 5.2.2.2.0+
   Build ID: 1:5.2.2~rc2-2~bpo8+1

Have tried all the apparent options without success.

Thanks,
Gordon Cooper"




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Heading 1 missing in Navigator

2017-09-15 Thread gordon cooper


Hi Regina,
 Vielen danke, the Tools>Outline-numbering has solved 
part of

the heading/TOC problem.

I wonder if you can help with the second part.  If I simply copy and
paste the .odt section files to assemble the final document,
making a TOC is easy.  But, If I try to make an .odm master, following
the instructions in LO Help, a master is created with correct formatting 
etc.,

but it is all read-only and will not allow access to make a TOC.

Have tried changing the Edit Mode using Ctrl+Shift+M but this closes the 
file,

and on re-opening it, any attempt to edit brings a pop-up saying that access
is denied.

A comment.  This is my first serious attempt to build a User Manual in LO,
we have been working  in Lyx previously. Find this to be a bit like learning
another language.

Regards,
Gordon

P.S. Remy, have just received your suggestions. Many thanks


On 15/09/17 22:15, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Gordon,

gordon cooper schrieb:

Currently working here in Libre office 5.2.6.2

In assembling a set of  .odt  files from two different sources to make a
user manual,
am finding that the title of some files - which is Styled Heading 1 - is
not being recognised
by the Navigator and therefore does not appear in a TOC.  If the style
is changed
to Heading 2 , the Navigator  sees it and the TOC shows the title Have
tried deleting
the title and retyping it and setting style to Heading 1 but no
improvement.


The Navigator show paragraphs which are "true" headings and that does 
not depend on the name of the style. Instead go to Tools > Outline 
numbering and make sure that for "Level 1" the style "Heading 1" is 
selected.




Files that have been written with LO 5.2  do show Heading 1 in the
navigator, but those
made with 5.3  do not. I could not see anything in the 5.3 release notes
that could
cause this problem.  Am I missing something?


If you ever have tried to use a bullet for that level [which is not 
possible] such error might appear.


Kind regards
Regina




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[libreoffice-users] Heading 1 missing in Navigator

2017-09-14 Thread gordon cooper


Currently working here in Libre office 5.2.6.2

In assembling a set of  .odt  files from two different sources to make a 
user manual,
am finding that the title of some files - which is Styled Heading 1 - is 
not being recognised
by the Navigator and therefore does not appear in a TOC.  If the style 
is changed
to Heading 2 , the Navigator  sees it and the TOC shows the title Have 
tried deleting
the title and retyping it and setting style to Heading 1 but no 
improvement.


Files that have been written with LO 5.2  do show Heading 1 in the 
navigator, but those
made with 5.3  do not. I could not see anything in the 5.3 release notes 
that could

cause this problem.  Am I missing something?

Gordon
Tauranga N.Z.

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[libreoffice-users] Applying paragraph style to document

2017-09-05 Thread gordon cooper

Hi all,  Thought I could do this in LO but cannot find the detail.  Want 
to set paragraph

spacings for a big file without having to do each paragraph separately.

(perhaps I need new spectacles?)

Gordon.

Tauranga N.Z.


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[libreoffice-users] Write Protection Locked

2017-09-09 Thread gordon cooper


Trying to edit a master (.odm) document. Write protection is locked on.

Ctrl+Shift+M removes the 'Read Only'  note at head of page, but edit
access is still barred. Suggestions?

Gordon.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Applying paragraph style to document

2017-09-06 Thread gordon cooper


Hi Jean-Baptiste,

   All fixed thank you. It was the manual formatting causing 
the problem. Had been

experimenting on a couple of paragraphs to find a suitable style.

Kind regards,
Gordon.


On 06/09/17 19:33, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:

Hi,

Le 06/09/2017 à 07:24, gordon cooper a écrit :
Hi all,  Thought I could do this in LO but cannot find the detail.  
Want to set paragraph

spacings for a big file without having to do each paragraph separately.


Remove manual formatting (ctrl+A ctrl+M)
modify applied paragraph styles; probably Default and Text Body may be 
enough.


Best regards.
JBF





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Write Protection Locked

2017-09-10 Thread gordon cooper


HI Robert,
 Thank you for that advice. Will work with it 
tomorrow.  This is first time

I have had a master to edit. It was assembled by another member of our group
who sent it to me for proof read and any corrections. The first thing 
needing repair
is the index - which does not access the linked documents.  As  I am 
very much
a beginner with LO's master and linked docs, (previously we used Lyx for 
our OS

documentation) this may be a slow process.

Regards,

Gordon.


On 10/09/17 18:48, Robert Großkopf wrote:

Hi Gordon,


Trying to edit a master (.odm) document. Write protection is locked on.

Ctrl+Shift+M removes the 'Read Only'  note at head of page, but edit
access is still barred. Suggestions?

Could the document be write-protected by the system, not by LO?

If protection of LO is disabled you could only chang text in the master,
not in the linked documents. The linked documents must be opened by
doubleclick on the document-name in the navigator of the masterdocument.

Regards

Robert



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Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

2018-04-30 Thread gordon cooper


To make a PDF from LO.

File>Export>Export as PDF.

And in the bad/good old days when I used an MS operating system and was
proof reading scripts that came as PDF's, I used one of Nuance's programs
to edit and annotate the proofs

Incidentally, I have been using LInux and LO for years and regularly 
needed to
use MS Word in replies to the members of a craft group I  have been 
assisting.


No problems even though LO chides me for using an MS format and warns about
errors.

Gordon.


On 01/05/18 09:53, Virgil Arrington wrote:

On 04/30/2018 05:49 PM, Ben Oliver wrote:

On 18-04-30 21:43:00, Virgil Arrington wrote:

This is intriguing. I just looked over my options with LO 6.0.3 in
saving as a PDF and I don't easily see any method of saving as a
"fillable PDF form." Can you give a quick explanation of how to do that?

Like Tom, I've always thought of PDF as a generally non-editable format,
although I have used fillable PDF forms before. I've just never known
how to create a fillable PDF. Can it be done from within LO?

Virgil

My understanding is that it's a feature pretty much only covered by
Adobe software. That includes filling out a form.

Things may have changed since I last checked.


That was my thinking as well, which is why I'm intrigued by the
possibility of doing it directly within LO.

Virgil




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Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer insists on printing landscape.

2017-10-26 Thread gordon cooper


Is this bug related to the choice of paper size? I use A4 paper and
have never had this problem.

Gordon.


On 27/10/17 06:35, Marc Grober wrote:

It's a known bug - you can look it up.
The hack of setting the page width to 8.49 or to 8.51 seems to work fine
until the bug is permanently resolved.

On 10/26/17 9:16 AM, Eric Beversluis wrote:

I typed up a letter. LO printed it landscape. I checked Format-Page and it’s 
definitely set to print portrait.

I restarted LO. Didn’t help.

I copied the text to Text Wrangler. Printed fine from there. Copied it from TW 
back to LO. Still printed landscape.

Copied it to M$ Word. Printed fine from there.

Any idea what’s happening?

Eric Beversluis
Short fiction at www.ericbeversluis.com







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Re: [libreoffice-users] Change default font?

2018-07-04 Thread gordon cooper


You should be able to set the defaults through

Tools>Options>LIbre Office Writer>Fonts

Gordon.


On 05/07/18 13:38, Peggy wrote:

I keep having to reset the font, I usually do it through Styles >
Character. Is there a way to make it the permanent default?

Thank you.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] About pseudo objects with Basic code ...

2018-07-09 Thread gordon cooper


We were allowed the occasional GoTo, but only if it was a
forward jump, never backwards.

IF...THEN   and ELSE DO  were much to be preferred.

I have tinkered with Python and would prefer it to Basic
but have little need for any programming these days.

Gordon.


On 09/07/18 23:39, jonathon wrote:


There is a Python implementation that includes GoTo!


One of our Pascal lecturers was very  anti-Basic and forbade us to use it,  or 
to even talk about it

My Pascal instructor was of the mind that the only two control
structures needed were:
* GoTo;
* Repeat Until;

That makes for some very messy code.

jonathon




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Re: [libreoffice-users] About pseudo objects with Basic code ...

2018-07-08 Thread gordon cooper


GoTo. One of the curses of Basic, the GoTo.

When used by newcomers (and a few some old hands too) a
Basic program would  soon become an unstructured mess of
GoTo's and a hassle to debug.  One of our Pascal lecturers was
very  anti-Basic and forbade us to use it,  or to even talk about it
in his presence.

Thank you Tom and Jonathon for the memory,
Gordon.


On 09/07/18 15:55, toki wrote:

On 08/07/18 09:04 PM, Tom Davies wrote:


I remember learning one form of basic in the 80s and that was pretty easy

There is a book from the early/mid eighties, that is simply lists the
vocabulary of the various dialects of BASIC in use then. IIRC, it was
called _The BASIC Book_. It was written specifically for programmers to
port software between the various systems that were available.

Back then, all variants of basic used line numbers, and allowed GoTo.
Today, several variants of BASIC don't use line number, and some
variants don't have GoTo.

jonathon




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can imported images keep the aspect ratio?

2018-03-12 Thread gordon cooper


We got around this by using the 'Replace' function instead of Paste.

Gordon


On 13/03/18 12:23, Steve Edmonds wrote:

Hi. _
__I am not sure if this is related to the situation in writer where 
replacing an image by pasting a new image_ into the selected old image 
causes the new image to be distorted to the dimensions of the old image.


If so it is not difficult to resize and add white space to all images 
in a directory so they are all the same proportions. I.e. the portrait 
mode images are scaled to the height of the landscape images and 
padded to the width of the landscape images.


Steve



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Re: [libreoffice-users] how do I delete a page in libreoffice?

2019-04-28 Thread gordon cooper


Bill,
  You are not alone with this. Users have been asking for a Delete
Page function for several years.  I have yet to see it in the LO Help
and do not know a simple answer.

Regards,
Gordon.


On 29/04/19 13:38, William Dudley wrote:

I googled this, and the returned results all say "click on the page and hit
either delete or backspace".  This advice does not work.  If I hit
backspace, I can detect no change, no acknowledgement that I even hit a
key.  If I hit delete, I delete the first character in my footer.  I have
footers turned on, and no headers.

I'm an experienced computer user (and programmer) but I find libreoffice
maddeningly difficult.

Thanks,
Bill Dudley

This email is free of malware because I run Linux.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Libreoffice impress presentation - metropolis - exported as PDF, doesn't display correctly on some devices

2021-05-16 Thread gordon cooper


Have not tried it myself but would html be better for export?
There is also .wmf  for Windows users.

Gordon.

On 17/05/21 3:43 pm, Daffy Duck wrote:

Yes, for distribution to a large amount of people, none of which use
libreoffice.





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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't edit a paragraph style anymore

2021-04-22 Thread gordon cooper


Mark,

I switched to writing in Lyx after problems with LO  but you might

find some guidance in LO's  Navigator. There is  info' about headings

in  the Navigator Help.

Gordon


On 22/04/21 5:09 pm, MR ZenWiz wrote:

I have written a number of novels using Writer, currently running LO
7.1 (on Xubuntu 20.04)..

All the chapter headers are modified 'header 3' style paragraphs with
numbering turned on and the word "Chapter" preceding the number.

Unfortunately, when I try to save this in either .DOC or .DOCX format,
the "Chapter #" piece is outdented so the actual title starts at the
left margin, which is not an acceptable format for publishers or even
editors to read/publish.  It also looks really screwy.

When I went in to edit the style, there is nowhere I can see/find such
that the "Chapter" part can be edited or removed.

How do I do that?

I tried looking in LO Help, but I'm not even sure how to query for
this feature that used to be there.

Any suggestions that work would be most welcome.

Thanks.

Mark



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