On Tuesday 24 October 2006 3:10 am, Bruce D'Arcus wrote: > From Dan Chudnov (library hacker): > > <http://onebiglibrary.net/story/open-office-rant-of-the-day> > > > Does anybody know why OpenOffice ships with a "bibliography database" > > that's *already* filled out with a bunch of records? Do they assume we > > all want to write papers about OpenOffice? > > > > And why, please tell me, do I have to delete each record individually, > > no matter what UI/key combination I try? > > > > This doesn't make any sense. Am I missing something? > > Can we get these little details changed in an interim release (say > 2.0.5?) before we do something more significant? > I will submit an issue to remove the content and also try to get some of the related bibliography database issues, like the 'too small field sizes' at 75 or 50 characters fixed. Also adding a unique index on the Identifier to fix the problem of duplicated Identifiers. All these are simple config changes - no coding needed.
I tried before on the field sizes issue starting in June 2003 and persisting to April this year. See the entertaining discussion @ http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=16268 David N. Wilson Co-Project Lead for the Bibliographic OpenOffice Project http://bibliographic.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
