Re: [libreoffice-users] Volunteers for Documentation

[James E. Lang]

I often cringe when I read things with omitted or doubled words or with 
incorrectly spelled words or with incorrectly selected words. However in the. 
Interest of harmony and multicultural understanding I generally bite my tongue 
and say nothing. 

That said, I can freely dish out constructive criticism. My native language is 
English (US) though I also spent 3 1/2 years in New Zealand where English (UK) 
is the norm. I am a 77 year old retired computer programmer without database 
experience. I use LibreOffice Calc heavily and LibreOffice Writer sporadically.

It would be my honor to be able to give back to the project in the manner 
suggested.

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Fwd: [libreoffice-users] In 5.1.0.3, where is the "Add Ons" menu?

[Bruce Hohl]

And, use Tools > Extension Manager shows the Add-on's install.

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From: Bruce Hohl 
Date: Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] In 5.1.0.3, where is the "Add Ons" menu?
To: Joshua Kramer 


Add-on's is under the Tools menu but it may not appear unless you have an
add-on installed which allows user settings.  For example my LO 5.1.1.3
install has 5 bundled add-on's plus "History Master" which I added
separately, and only 'History Master' appears under Tools > Add-on's.

On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 8:06 PM, Joshua Kramer 
wrote:

> In 5.1.0.3 on Linux, where is the "Add Ons" menu that is supposed to
> be under Tools?
>
> Thanks!
> -JK
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[libreoffice-users] In 5.1.0.3, where is the "Add Ons" menu?

[Joshua Kramer]

In 5.1.0.3 on Linux, where is the "Add Ons" menu that is supposed to
be under Tools?

Thanks!
-JK

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Volunteers for Documentation

[toki]

On 27/03/2016 14:22, Tom Davies wrote:

> Is Ingram a replacement for Lulu or could it be used in addition to Lulu?

a) I got the name wrong. It is Ingram Spark, not Ingram Express.

b) Ingram Spark is a replacement for Lulu.

It is who Lulu uses for their POD printing, as well as being one
(probably the largest) of their distributors.
(Amazon is a retailer, not a distributor, albeit a retailer whose sales
are greater than that of most distributors.)

> Either way it sounds like a good subject to bring up on the documentation

I have brought it up several times.
I never fully understood the objection to Ingram Express.
* Part of it was the learning curve:
# Lulu is far more forgiving of non-adherence to their published
specifications than Ingram is;
* Ingram expects that you, the publisher, know what you are doing, and
consequently provides far less hand holding than Lulu;
* Part of it was the upfront cost;

* Part of it was having to purchase ISBNs.
I don't know what Bowker's current rate is, but the most economical
option is to purchase them in lots of 1,000.   (For roughly the cost of
between ten and twenty individual ISBN's, a block of 1,000 can be
purchased. Individual ISBNs scream "amateur amateur".  Blocks of 1,000
say "established publisher".

> The published guides are already in the Apple store and the Ubuntu one.

Another possibility is to have CreateSpace do the printing. This usually
results in faster delivery times for people who purchase from Amazon.
(Amazon's algorithms plays lots of stupid games with indie publishers
that don't use CreateSpace.)

> occurred to me that it might be good to get the guides into the Google 
> Playstore too, 

Are you talking about dead tree versions, or electronic versions of the
guides?

> If anyone knows of other places it would be good to have the published
> guides then please email the Documentation Team;

For electronic versions, SmashWords probably has contracts with more
online bookstores, than any other distributor out there. OTOH, given
what their meatgrinder does to Word file formats, I have no qualms that
the end result will look positively dreadful, unless an ePub only
version is distributed by them. That will have to wait until LibO can
export to ePub without losing presentation markup.

jonathon





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[libreoffice-users] Re: New LibreOffice Book

[CVAlkan]

I for one would certainly be interested in your document. I've used Calibre
only slightly, and would certainly like to see how to do what you describe.

-Frank



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Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

[elderdanlewis]

 Original message 
From: Dave Stevens  
Date:03/25/2016  9:39 PM  (GMT-05:00) 
To: Dan Lewis  
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org 
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book 

Quoting Dan Lewis :

> On 03/25/2016 05:22 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
>> Bruce Byfield wrote:
>>> On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote:
 On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote:
> This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet,
> but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of
> chapters I need the most.  I'm quite impressed.  Good job!

 An epub version would be nice.  I find they work better on  
 tablets than pdf.
>>>
>>> I hope an epub version is coming. However, porting  
>>> highly-formatted material
>>> to .epub format can be difficult, so it's going to take some time.
>>>
>>> If anybody has any advice, I would appreciate hearing it.
>>
>> Calibre  is an open source ebook manager  
>> which can import various formats, including ODT, and convert to  
>> various formats, including EPUB. I haven't used it much; about the  
>> most I've done is convert a couple of CHM (Windows help) files to  
>> AZW3 to read on a Kindle, which seemed to work reasonably well. On  
>> the Kindle, images are scaled to fit on the page, but a  
>> press-and-hold allows them to be enlarged to full screen and zoomed  
>> in further to see detail. I don't know how well it does with  
>> complex documents, but may be worth trying.
>>
>  I have used calibre to convert Getting Started with Base from  
> ODT to ePUB format.
>
> Dan

I used calibre just now to convert to epub. You can read it all right,  
but there's a lot of formatting that doesn't make it.

D

>
> -- 

   You are correct. For a good conversion between formats, you need to use the 
editor component of calibre. With this, the styles can be corrected. It takes 
several hours to do this. Using search and replace can make it quicker. Regular 
expressions can be used to make it even quicker. Patience and practice will 
help too.
I have written a document about how to use calibre to do this, but it needs 
to be updated. Is someone needing this? 

Dan



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[libreoffice-users] OPEN OFFICE FONT COLOURS, HIGHLIGHTING & BACKGROUND

[Ginny Besly]

I am a copy editor using a MacBook Air OS X Version 10.8.5.  I need to 
understand how to operate the colour facilities available in Open Office so 
that I can correct pdf documents in colour, with or without background, in 
order to return corrected documents to authors by e-mail.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] OwnCloud link on LO site

[Charles-H. Schulz]

Hello Bruce,

Le 27 mars 2016 13:58:38 GMT+02:00, Bruce Hohl  a écrit :
>From the home page menu on the LO site:  Community > OwnCloud opens
>https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/ which requires a user &
>password.
>
>Is this a LO OwnCloud demo?
>If so, does anyone know how I can get credentials to check it out?

 It is an actual OwnCloud instance where we upload files and docs, not the 
LibreOffice Online integration with OwnCloud. 

Cheers,

Charles. 

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Volunteers for Documentation

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
Is Ingram a replacement for Lulu or could it be used in addition to Lulu?
Either way it sounds like a good subject to bring up on the documentation
mailing list itself, or/and on the general discussion mailing list, i
think;

disc...@global.libreoffice.org

(of course capital-letters / upper-case is only to help make it more
human-readable.  Email systems convert all upper-case to lower-case)

The published guides are already in the Apple store and the Ubuntu one.
Sometimes such stores don't allow items to be free so there is a small
charge for them there - hopefully enough to cover time and resources as
well as the cost of getting the guides into those stores.  It has only just
occurred to me that it might be good to get the guides into the Google
Playstore too, if that is possible = so i might mention that on the
Documentation Mailing List unless Jonathon (Toki) manages to do so first.

If anyone knows of other places it would be good to have the published
guides then please email the Documentation Team;

documentat...@global.libreoffice.org

The aim is to be seen.  The published guides look very nice when printed by
Lulu.  They make the MS Office ones look old, tired, overly-expensive and
bloated.  Even after the LibreOffice published guides have been "thumbed
through" quite a bit they still look cleaner, much more modern and
attractive.  So it's more about advertising, marketing and generally being
seen out in the world = it's not about making a profit, but if that happens
too then i guess it's a help.

When the Documentation Team first discussed getting the guides printed and
"out there" there was no money available for documentation so i think Jean
Weber ended-up paying to get us into Lulu out of her own pocket.  Hopefully
she has since reclaimed those costs!  After that had generated enough money
she was able to use the money to pay the tariffs to get the guides into the
other stores.

So there are 3 good reasons why the Documentation Team used the Lulu
bookstore from so early on.  However now that some money has been generated
it should be possible to get the guides into some other stores (and maybe
other places too) in order to be seen more widely.

Regards from
Tom :)




On 27 March 2016 at 04:31, toki  wrote:

> On 26/03/2016 23:37, anne-ology wrote:
>
> >> These guides do generate a sundry, but useful, amount of income for the
> TDF and wider LibreOffice community.
> >   [huh ???]
>
> The slightly inaccurate, but easier to explain answer, is that dead tree
> guides are printed and distributed by Lulu.(^1) Consequently, they are
> available on Amazon(^2), and a few other Internet only sites.
>
> Periodically Jean publishes a financial report, that says how many
> copies were sold, how much revenue was generated, and where that revenue
> went.
>
> ^1: Personally, I think that ODF should go directly to Ingram Express.
> Whilst both the initial cost, and annual cost would be slightly higher,
> that is more than offset by both the greater distribution presence that
> Ingram offers, and slush pile quality reputation that Lulu currently
> enjoys.
>
> ^2: Whilst indie authors have a fascination with "the amazon strategy",
> that strategy was formulated for specific fiction genres. Currently, the
> Amazon strategy only works with CreateSpace, not Ingram Express. Were
> Amazon to retweak their ordering algorithm to favour Ingram Express over
> CreateSpace, using Ingram Express might, once again, become a viable
> part of the  Amazon Strategy.
>
> jonathon
>
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[libreoffice-users] OwnCloud link on LO site

[Bruce Hohl]

From the home page menu on the LO site:  Community > OwnCloud opens
https://owncloud.documentfoundation.org/ which requires a user & password.

Is this a LO OwnCloud demo?
If so, does anyone know how I can get credentials to check it out?

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