[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities
Hi Marc Marc Paré wrote Actually, after reading the bug report, I checked to see if I had the same problem. I read the suggestion of resetting the profile and it now works properly. Let me know if this works for you too and I will file a report on your submitted bug confirming the fix. Resetting the user profile is hardly a fix. I think the correct name is workaround. Although this is acceptable for advanced users, it is enough to make someone who is trying out LibreOffice to give up (see comments in AskLibO and User mailing list) Returning to the subject of this topic, adding a mechanism (i.e. a one click button to Repair profile) to fix this kind of problems would be a good addition to the usability and friendliness of the Suite. (Before someone shoots the LibreOffice default comment Why don't you fix it yourself? TM, I want to add that I am not a developer) Regards, Pedro -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-priorities-tp3984316p3984508.html Sent from the Discuss mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities
Thanks, Marc. Marc Paré wrote Actually, after reading the bug report, I checked to see if I had the same problem. I read the suggestion of resetting the profile and it now works properly. Let me know if this works for you too and I will file a report on your submitted bug confirming the fix. Resetting the user profile is hardly a fix. I think the correct name is workaround. Although this is acceptable for advanced users, it is enough to make someone who is trying out LibreOffice to give up (see comments in AskLibO and User mailing list) That seems to work for me, also. At least it created the new /user folder. Thanks for the tip. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
Marc, My apologies; I was not aware you were looking for how people managed to up-rate LibreOffice to work better for academic work. In my own case, I found the writer's tools offered by Dimitri Popov as an extension toolkit to be most useful, particularly for things like citations, bibliography and footnotes. It must be admitted that the extension is an OpenOffice item rather than LibreOffice, but I found it would work quite well with minimal extra work to put into LibreOffice. I hope this is the sort of thing you were looking for. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities
Hi Pedro, Thanks for the reply and comments. Le 2012-05-18 05:50, Pedro a écrit : Hi Marc Marc Paré wrote Actually, after reading the bug report, I checked to see if I had the same problem. I read the suggestion of resetting the profile and it now works properly. Let me know if this works for you too and I will file a report on your submitted bug confirming the fix. Resetting the user profile is hardly a fix. I think the correct name is workaround. Although this is acceptable for advanced users, it is enough to make someone who is trying out LibreOffice to give up (see comments in AskLibO and User mailing list) Returning to the subject of this topic, adding a mechanism (i.e. a one click button to Repair profile) to fix this kind of problems would be a good addition to the usability and friendliness of the Suite. (Before someone shoots the LibreOffice default comment Why don't you fix it yourself? TM, I want to add that I am not a developer) Regards, Pedro The process of bug-fixing is: * people report a bug * people confirm the bug through testing * devs either accept or reject the bug (normally accept, unless the bug is a duplicate of another bug report) * people + devs find a temporary work-around * devs will try to find a fix * people will try the fix and report back * fix is corrected in an updated version Now that we have found a workaround for this bug, the volunteer-devs can get to work at finding the solution, which, can either be a small fix or a large coding fix; we don't really know at this point. (BTW, I am also not a dev.) The bug-report-fixing in opensource projects is normally heavy on people reporting problems and finding temporary workarounds, often with dev support. The workaround does not mean that the bug will be closed, it just means that the devs now have solid confirmation of the problem and finding a fix with testing is the next step. In fact, if a user reports a bug, it is hoped, in all cases, that the user will help testing out any fixes suggested by the devs so that they can better understand and correct the problem. Although opensource software is free to use, it is hoped that the user will help make the project better by participating in some way as a form of repayment, if at all possible. There is always something a user can do to help no matter how small the contribution. Even leaving comments such as yours is helpful. (BTW, I will include you comment about the one click button ... to the bug report.)[1] If you feel you can help with the LibreOffice project in any way, feel free to ask and someone will suggest where you could help. Now that we know the workaround we can help other users who have this problem by informing them of it. Cheers, Marc [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/process_bug.cgi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] [Writer] Problem with modern typefaces having more than the standard styles
Hello, No new ideas to fix the problem of incorrect reimport of formatting in LibreOffice 3.5 with the Kallos (and other font families) font problem? -- Regards GwenDragon E-Mail: g...@gwendragon.de - E-Mail mit GnuPG signiert/Signed with GnuPG GnuPG-Signatur DSA/1024 Key-ID: 0x6E56AC7D4492AD16 Fingerprint: 0BC8 DDF7 E381 190B AF7D A327 6E56 AC7D 4492 AD16 - -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
RE: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice priorities
Hello Marc, In the process of commenting it would be good that people who actively respond to a reported bug, also add their email address. Just for those many cases where the original reporting person has disappeared, and there no longer is a problem holder from the user comunity. Pieter Thanks for the reply and comments. Le 2012-05-18 05:50, Pedro a écrit : Hi Marc Marc Paré wrote Actually, after reading the bug report, I checked to see if I had the same problem. I read the suggestion of resetting the profile and it now works properly. Let me know if this works for you too and I will file a report on your submitted bug confirming the fix. Resetting the user profile is hardly a fix. I think the correct name is workaround. Although this is acceptable for advanced users, it is enough to make someone who is trying out LibreOffice to give up (see comments in AskLibO and User mailing list) Returning to the subject of this topic, adding a mechanism (i.e. a one click button to Repair profile) to fix this kind of problems would be a good addition to the usability and friendliness of the Suite. (Before someone shoots the LibreOffice default comment Why don't you fix it yourself? TM, I want to add that I am not a developer) Regards, Pedro The process of bug-fixing is: * people report a bug * people confirm the bug through testing * devs either accept or reject the bug (normally accept, unless the bug is a duplicate of another bug report) * people + devs find a temporary work-around * devs will try to find a fix * people will try the fix and report back * fix is corrected in an updated version Now that we have found a workaround for this bug, the volunteer-devs can get to work at finding the solution, which, can either be a small fix or a large coding fix; we don't really know at this point. (BTW, I am also not a dev.) The bug-report-fixing in opensource projects is normally heavy on people reporting problems and finding temporary workarounds, often with dev support. The workaround does not mean that the bug will be closed, it just means that the devs now have solid confirmation of the problem and finding a fix with testing is the next step. In fact, if a user reports a bug, it is hoped, in all cases, that the user will help testing out any fixes suggested by the devs so that they can better understand and correct the problem. Although opensource software is free to use, it is hoped that the user will help make the project better by participating in some way as a form of repayment, if at all possible. There is always something a user can do to help no matter how small the contribution. Even leaving comments such as yours is helpful. (BTW, I will include you comment about the one click button ... to the bug report.)[1] If you feel you can help with the LibreOffice project in any way, feel free to ask and someone will suggest where you could help. Now that we know the workaround we can help other users who have this problem by informing them of it. Cheers, Marc [1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/process_bug.cgi -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On 05/17/2012 03:15 PM, Marc Paré wrote: ... There is a need for a few templates for academic use; a built-in ... You might want to contact/collaborate with Orest Kinasevyc. He wrote several templates for APA Style 5th 6th editions for students: http://www.kinasevych.ca/2010/03/openoffice-org-templates-for-apa-style-student-and-academic-papers/ [Be sure to read the 1 and only comment from the author] Download page: http://www.kinasevych.ca/c/201003/02/apa/ The 6th edition APA template is 12 pages with side notes (includes instructions for Zotero etc). -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[tdf-discuss] IBM plans to contribute the Symphony code to Apache OpenOffice, soon.
If you still haven't noticed it: It needs not much time, until IBM publish its Symphony code. Here some links: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/18332 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Contribution http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Symphony Greatings theuserbl -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
2012/5/15 Laurence Jeloudev ljelou...@gmail.com wrote, among other things: I hope Microsoft Office support Libreoffice file formats the odf formats in there next office release, as then it would help more compatibility issues and problems with files and formatting hopefully being fixed. Dream on. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
2012/5/15 Pieter E. Zanstra pie...@zanstra.eu Like it or not, only one thing matters: Seemless file exchange with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Powerpoint. Period! Pieter Simple, just ask Microsoft to publish the specifications for all their file formats … Regards, Olav Dahlum -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] IBM plans to contribute the Symphony code to Apache OpenOffice, soon.
theUser BL wrote: Here some links: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.incubator.ooo.devel/18332 http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Contribution http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Symphony We are on top of this. -- Italo Vignoli - italo.vign...@gmail.com mob +39.348.5653829 - VoIP 5316...@messagenet.it skype italovignoli - gtalk italo.vign...@gmail.com -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
I agree that is the worse thing that I do not like about LibreOffice, is that there is no sufficient compatibility with Microsoft Office. An Example are pptx files, that have formatting errors where the text does not fit on the same slide, and runs off the page. so everything has to be re-sized again. all the text boxes. So why use the proprietary file formats in Microsoft Office then? Most of them are defective by design as well. I hope Microsoft Office support Libreoffice file formats the odf formats in there next office release, as then it would help more compatibility issues and problems with files and formatting hopefully being fixed. If they ditch the flawed OOXML support, that can happen. Microsoft are not the only company that have this problem, working with Apple iwork files also has formatting problems with Calc in Libreoffice when apple convert them to an xls format. i don't understand how that works Apple do not have the file specifications for Microsoft Office formats, as the rest of us. On top of that, Microsoft Office for MacOS have been known to cause problems when opening files created in the Windows version. Coincidence? LibreOffice and Google Docs (Drive) still don't work together sometimes especially with fonts and formatting errors. Although again, its a google issue not an issue with libreoffice. So, why bring it up here? In An Academic environment, I believe the software suite could work, although I am restricted currently at the moment only allowed to use Microsoft Office. I am a student at a school, the thing that annoys me, is when microsoft office lags, and it hangs, on school computers. It then wastes a lot of my time when typing a document (somtimes crashing and the document doesn't want to retrieve!). Then when I am at home, libreoffice always works flawlessly. Meaning, they have no concept of sharing documents using standardized formats. This is good reading for the uneducated: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/#Before, and if they don't understand, confiscate their computer(s). ljelly. Regards, Olav -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOffice for Academic Work -- College/University
On Friday, May 18, 2012 11:29:33 AM NoOp wrote: On 05/17/2012 03:15 PM, Marc Paré wrote: ... There is a need for a few templates for academic use; a built-in ... You might want to contact/collaborate with Orest Kinasevyc. He wrote several templates for APA Style 5th 6th editions for students: My own academic days are past, so please excuse a suggestion I'm not willing to implement myself. However, I'm sure that more people would use the bibliographical tools if the samples given weren't misleading. Anyone trying to learn from them might easily give up in despair. -- Bruce Byfield, Burnaby BC 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
