On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Barbara Duprey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/21/2011 6:12 PM, Hal Parker wrote: > >> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Barbara Duprey<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 2/17/2011 10:46 PM, Hal Parker wrote: >>> >>> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Jean Hollis Weber<[email protected] >>>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>> On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 14:20 +1000, Hal Parker wrote: >>>> >>>>> Barbara, in your review of the Writer Guide chapter on master >>>>>> documents, >>>>>> >>>>>> in >>>>> >>>>> the section on splitting a document into master and subdocs, youleft a >>>>>> >>>>>> note >>>>> >>>>> to say that you did not see the "separated by:" list on the Name and >>>>>> Path >>>>>> >>>>>> of >>>>> >>>>> Master Document dialog box; all you saw was "template". >>>>>> >>>>>> I have now tested the instructions in that section on Windows XP, >>>>>> Windows >>>>>> >>>>>> 7, >>>>> >>>>> Mac OS X, and Ubuntu 10.10. On Windows (XP and 7) and Mac, the dialog >>>>>> box >>>>>> shows a "separated by:" list, as described; however, on Ubuntu the >>>>>> list >>>>>> >>>>>> was >>>>> >>>>> called "Styles". I'm trying to work out what you could have done to >>>>>> give >>>>>> >>>>>> a >>>>> >>>>> different result. Perhaps you'd like to try it again? >>>>>> >>>>>> Actually, if you have selected "Use LibreOffice Open/Save dialogs" in >>>>> the Options, you'll see "separated by:" in Name and Path of Master >>>>> Document dialog on Ubuntu, too. >>>>> >>>>> --Jean >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Oh. Er, yes. Silly me. Thanks! That also explains why some other >>>> dialogs >>>> looked different from what I was expecting. And it's a good reminder to >>>> all >>>> of us to check/tick/select/enable/whatever that option. >>>> >>>> Hal >>>> >>>> Sorry, this one got lost in the flood of mail. It didn't occur to me >>> that >>> this option was involved, I've fixed it now. I don't know if all the >>> dialog >>> differences I saw were from this, but I don't think all of them were in >>> any >>> way related to load/save actions. >>> >>> >>> That option appears to affect many dialogs that are not apparently >> related >> to load/save actions (though they might be, from a behind-the-scenes >> programming POV. >> >> However, in this case it only affected the appearance of the dialog, not >> the >> wording of the fields and drop-down lists (except on Linux), so you should >> have seen "separated by" regardless. >> >> Hal >> > > Maybe "should have" -- but didn't. I've repeated the process with the > option set, and it worked; without the option, no separate files were > created at all (unless they went to some temporary location different from > where I sent the master doc, which was to the Desktop for easy temporary > access). Not only the wording was different, but the underlying function. > > This sounds like something that is worth trying to diagnose, because it worked fine for me without the "use LibO dialog" option being selected. On Mac and Win, I saw the expected field name (separated by) on the dialog, and the files were created as they were supposed to. On Ubuntu, the field name was different (Styles) but the function still worked. Hal -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
