Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary; reply to commentary responders

2014-01-07 Thread Anthony J. Rudgers
y would serve only to bring the wrath of the present OOo “community” down on his head. Best wishes, Anthony J. Rudgers Orlando, FL U.S.A. -Original Message- From: Keith N. McKenna Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2014 6:30 PM To: users@openoffice.apache.org Subject: Re: All essay text t

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony J. Rudgers wrote: > Greetings All! > > The present "hashtag" problem is is symptomatic of the entire OO > software suite. An ordinary user of OO, doing ordinary things w/ a > word processor or other office-suite software, suddenly gets > som

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Keith N. McKenna
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TN Patriot wrote: > On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:59:31 -0500 "Anthony J. Rudgers" > wrote: > >> Greetings All! >> >> The present "hashtag" problem is is symptomatic of the entire OO >> software suite. An ordinary user of OO, doing ordinary things w/ >> a

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Martin Groenescheij
On 5-1-2014 23:23, Rory O'Farrell wrote: The question should be asked "When does OpenOffice erase the previous copy of the file?". Surely this should only be after the Save process reaches a conclusion. I can recollect from my CP/M days that one had to adopt a certain sequence in saving a file

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rima Schulkind
Despite my fear of being considered too dumb to use OO, here's my experience: when a document I was working on (just trying to insert a line by hitting "return" between two lines) suddenly became all hashtag gibberish - as then did all my stored OO files - I reinstalled OO. And all was well.

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 5 Jan 2014 16:12:20 + Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:07:27 +0100 > Josef Latt wrote: > > > > > > > Am 05.01.2014 15:06, schrieb Hagar Delest: > > > > > The power shortage is clearly a root cause. > > > Perhaps we need an old disk to test what happens when we pull

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 7:23 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote: > On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:47:59 +0100 > Andrea Pescetti wrote: > >> Hagar Delest wrote: >> > losing the file saved last time is just unacceptable, it's a major data >> > loss (P1 in the bug tracker). This problem should be investigated as >> >

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 17:07:27 +0100 Josef Latt wrote: > > > Am 05.01.2014 15:06, schrieb Hagar Delest: > > > The power shortage is clearly a root cause. > > Perhaps we need an old disk to test what happens when we pull the plug > > during a save operation. > > Whats about the autorecovery func

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Josef Latt
Am 05.01.2014 15:06, schrieb Hagar Delest: > The power shortage is clearly a root cause. > Perhaps we need an old disk to test what happens when we pull the plug > during a save operation. Whats about the autorecovery function of AOO. ---

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 05/01/2014 12:47, Andrea Pescetti a écrit : A random note if this can help: to study this problem, once I tried to deliberately fill the hard disk until I had a few MBytes free. Then I opened a heavy presentation file, with many images, and edited it normally, adding and removing content. A

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sun, 05 Jan 2014 12:47:59 +0100 Andrea Pescetti wrote: > Hagar Delest wrote: > > losing the file saved last time is just unacceptable, it's a major data > > loss (P1 in the bug tracker). This problem should be investigated as > > seriously as possible. > > No bashing needed, just look at the f

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Hagar Delest wrote: losing the file saved last time is just unacceptable, it's a major data loss (P1 in the bug tracker). This problem should be investigated as seriously as possible. No bashing needed, just look at the facts. The problem here is all with reproducing the bug. OpenOffice has so

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Hagar Delest
Le 05/01/2014 10:30, Aspects a écrit : With apologies, but can we get back to finding a solution to this problem rather than slagging each other (and AOO) off. I have used this suite since version 2 on OS X, Linux and Both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows. I have only ever suffered minor glit

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-05 Thread Aspects
With apologies, but can we get back to finding a solution to this problem rather than slagging each other (and AOO) off. I have used this suite since version 2 on OS X, Linux and Both 32 and 64-bit versions of Windows. I have only ever suffered minor glitches with formatting and some eccentrici

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-04 Thread Gary Frost
I don't get it either. I've never had any of these problems during years of use. Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 4, 2014, at 10:07 PM, TN Patriot wrote: > > On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:59:31 -0500 > "Anthony J. Rudgers" wrote: > >> Greetings All! >> >> The present "hashtag" problem is is symptomatic

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-04 Thread TN Patriot
On Sat, 4 Jan 2014 22:59:31 -0500 "Anthony J. Rudgers" wrote: > Greetings All! > > The present "hashtag" problem is is symptomatic of the entire OO software > suite. An ordinary user of OO, doing ordinary things w/ a word processor or > other office-suite software, suddenly gets something tha

Re: All essay text turned to hashtags--commentary

2014-01-04 Thread Anthony J. Rudgers
Greetings All! The present "hashtag" problem is is symptomatic of the entire OO software suite. An ordinary user of OO, doing ordinary things w/ a word processor or other office-suite software, suddenly gets something that is really screwy, & doesn't know what to do to fix it. Much of their