Re: book covering the fine points of advanced wordprocessing

2016-08-01 Thread JB
On Mon, 1 Aug 2016 11:15:52 -0400 DaveMainwaring wrote: > I am looking for book covering the fine points of advanced word-processing > applications vs classic typewriters. > > A book that explains all the items in the pull down menus, view, encoding, > language, preferences, style configurator,

Re: Schriftenfamilie DejaVu-Fonts

2014-12-29 Thread JB
On Mon, 29 Dec 2014 16:08:29 +0600 "Urmas" wrote: > "Peter Junge": > > > Can you please behave ... > > Yeah right. When on a support forum wrong answers do not cause discussion > but who-said-what-and-how does, something is clearly wrong. > +1 -- http://www.lawcollective.org/ Learn yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-08-05 Thread JB
On Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:32:44 -0400 Victor Goff wrote: > On Aug 5, 2013, at 1:17 PM, JB wrote: > > > On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:35:39 +0100 (BST) > > Tom Davies wrote: > > > >> Hi :) > >> Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache OpenO

Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?

2013-08-05 Thread JB
On Sun, 4 Aug 2013 20:35:39 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :)  > Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 yet?  > Since the announcement of it that it was out and ready for downloading. Incredibly faster startup and looks a heck of a lot better too! -- “Tho

Re: Summary of AOO 4.0 download activity for 1st week

2013-08-02 Thread JB
On Fri, 2 Aug 2013 17:12:19 +0700 "Urmas" wrote: > "Rob Weir": > In what way do you think this is true? > > Bugs/features affecting Windows integration or performance are overlooked, > sometimes for 2–3 years. Compatibility and interaction with Windows-only > software is ridiculed. > > Those

Re: Summary of AOO 4.0 download activity for 1st week

2013-08-01 Thread JB
On Thu, 1 Aug 2013 17:33:56 +0700 "Urmas" wrote: > And yet the *OO developers treat Windows users as a second-class citizens. > You can't possibly be serious! I guess it had to happen sometime - someone, somewhere would find *something* to whine about. -- “Those who suppress freedom

Re: Notes in Impress vs. PowerPoint

2013-07-27 Thread JB
On Sat, 27 Jul 2013 18:59:53 -0400 Jeffrey Deutsch wrote: > Hello, > > My wife is willing to consider converting to LibreOffice 4 > permanently. Here's her major issue, in two parts: And this has what, to do with Apache OpenOffice? > > What does she need to do? Go to the LO website/maili

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 is now available

2013-07-24 Thread JB
All I can say is WOW! It looks a bit better and is *FAST* now. I've been using 3.4.0 seems like forever and it seemed like it also took forever to open anything with it, but after installing 4.0.0 anything I do with it is extremely fast. So far all I have is great praise for the AOO team

Re: Open Office Org Apache

2013-07-11 Thread JB
On Thu, 11 Jul 2013 11:37:33 +0200 Richard Coatanroch wrote: > Bonjour, j'ai installé open office 3.4 sur mon ordinateur Windows 8, > malheureusement, le correcteur d'orthographe ne fonctionne pas. > J'ai réussi à le faire fonctionner un court instant, puis je suis retourné > sur le site" Langue"

Re: With Apache OpenOffice you get what you don't pay for

2013-06-17 Thread JB
On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 14:19:14 -0400 Rob Weir wrote: > We've noticed a scam recently where people were fooled into paying a > 3rd party website to download OpenOffice. But OpenOffice is free to > download from http://www.openoffice.org/. > > You know this, of course. Anyone who has visited the we

Re: Apache OpenOffice 4.0 Logo Survey now Open!

2013-04-27 Thread JB
On Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:53:45 +0700 "Urmas" wrote: > > The Apache OpenOffice project is planning a "brand refresh" for our > > next major release, Apache OpenOffice 4.0. As part of this effort we > > are looking to update our logo. > > And there was no better ideas that copycatting MSO 4-tile log

Re: The big balagan...

2013-02-21 Thread JB
On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:09:55 + Brian Barker wrote: > At 13:44 21/02/2013 -0600, Jonly Bonly wrote: > >Because of the major foul-up of a couple of list members today by > >sending out the complete addresses of everyone in the 'To' field, ... > > "Everyone"? You seem to think that the visibl

Re: The big balagan...

2013-02-21 Thread JB
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:22:02 -0700 John Hart wrote: > On 2/21/2013 12:44 PM, JB wrote: > >Because of the major foul-up of a couple of list members today by > > sending out > > the complete addresses of everyone in the 'To' field, it made me think to &g

The big balagan...

2013-02-21 Thread JB
ust as we have to do now to select 'Bcc'. This can also come in handy for even the most careful of us who can sometimes accidentally do the same mistake as was made here today (I've done it once since '95, but that's once enough!). JB -- Man is a relig

Re: INternational Mother Language Day

2013-02-21 Thread JB
On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:20:21 -0700 Robert Holtzman wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 11:56:24AM -0500, Maurice Howe wrote: > > Holy cow! Next time, strip off all copylists B4 fwd'ing stuff. > > Another handy tool: emailStripper, available for free from > > http://www.papercut.biz/emailStripper.