Re: [libreoffice-users] Footnote formatting

[Eddie]

On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 17:55:33 +
Virgil Arrington  wrote:

> Eddie,
> 
> Go up to "Tools", "Footnotes and Endnotes" and you can control the 
> spacing after the Footnote Character from there.

Hey, that works like a charm! Thanks!

> I'd love to read that paper when you're done. Sounds fascinating.

Certainly. It'll be a few weeks, at least, but I'll reply off list when
it's approaching completion.

Thanks again,

Eddie


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[libreoffice-users] Footnote formatting

[Eddie Janusz]

I have imported a long document into Writer (from LaTeX via .doc), and
as you can imagine I need to rebuild most of the styles from the ground
up.

The document contains some 300 footnotes. Thankfully, most of them did
convert properly, but I'm left with a persistent formatting problem. In
the footnotes themselves, there is no space between the number and the
text, e.g.

2Tillyard, p. 37
3Ibid.
4Ibid, p. 39

I've learned that the footnote anchor is the indicator in the text:

At least Tillyard has that to say about it.2

I made the Footnote Anchor character style bright red, which did turn
the indicator bright red but didn't affect its "mirror" number
preceding the footnote text.

The number preceding the footnote text appears not to be editable or
selectable. Does anybody know if I can associate a style with the
number, and if so, what is the style called? And if so, can I have the
style put a space after the number?

I hope this is clear. If not, maybe the document has gotten to me: it's
a study of _Paradise Regained_, a narrative poem by John Milton, the
17th-century poet and theologian who had some clarity problems of his
own.

Thanks,

Eddie

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Re: [libreoffice-users] New features in 6.1.0 Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Text for "New Features" page for translation, after LO 6.1 release

[Eddie]

I watched it just fine on Vivaldi 1.15, Windows 10. I'm stoked about
the new icon sets!

On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 11:13:07 -0400
"Paul D. Mirowsky"  wrote:

> FYI
> 
> 11:08 AM EST
> 
> YouTube video is not displaying.
> 
> Results in message "If playback doesn't begin shortly, try restarting 
> your device" in Firefox.
> 
> Interestingly enough, if you move your cursor over the time line, it 
> display image from video.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> 
> On 8/8/2018 7:44 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > Mike Saunders and the rest of the marketing team (and translators)
> > have made a video showing the new features in LibreOffice 6.1.0.
> >
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
> >
> > I think some of the new features are things that have been asked
> > about quite recently- and might mean we have better answers for
> > those questions now.
> >
> > Be wary though !!  This is the .0 release and it's only just been
> > releasedtoday so this is THE point at which the most unexpected and
> > unlikely breakages of functionality may occur !  It is also the
> > BEST time to try out he new version AWAY from your regular install
> > preferably on a system you don't rely on for work or in a sandboxed
> > area (Gnu has MANY different ways of creating safe-areas to
> > try things out in).
> >
> > It is THE time that the most devs are focusing on this new release
> > so it's the best time to find bugs or features that have gone wonky
> > and post bug-reports about them.
> >
> > This is also a good time to join the QA Team to help them with
> > filing tasks, and perhaps asking bug-reporters for relevant
> > information that might help the devs handle their request and
> > generally help with first responses.
> >
> > Good luck and regards from
> > a Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Aug 2018 at 11:13, Mike Saunders <  
> > mike.saund...@documentfoundation.org> wrote:  
> >  
> >> On 07/08/2018 16:01, Mike Saunders wrote:  
> >>> 2) There is a new video for LibreOffice 6.1; I'll provide the
> >>> updated URL tomorrow just before launch.  
> >> Here it is:
> >>
> >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvoCpnwGNFU
> >>
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print a document

[Eddie]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 14:59:54 +1200
Steve Edmonds  wrote:

> Hi Eddie.
> Can you start with a new document, put some text on it and print.
> 
> This should tell if the problem is related to the specific document.
> 
> When you go to print your big table, what printer is shown in the
> print dialogue, is it the one you have connected.

Hi Steve,

Yes, documents before and since have all printed without hitches, and
the correct printer is assigned. This is, to the best of my memory
going back to OpenOffice 3.x, the only problem document I've ever had.
Anyway, LibreOffice allowed me to convert to .pdf and I could print
that one, so the "crisis" (e.g. a couple of hours of cut-'n-paste) has
been averted.

Just out of my curiosity and as a possible help to others, I'm still
wondering what could have gone wrong. It's all very strange.


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Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't print a document

[Eddie]

On Tue, 7 Aug 2018 00:47:59 +0100
Tom Davies  wrote:

> Hi :)
> Sorry to ask but which OS or platform are you using?  Windows,
> Gnu or some other?
> 
> I'm not sure if it is relevant but which version of LibreOffice?  The
> "Help" menu under "About" usually gives that sort of information.
> 
> Also have you tried "print to file" instead of selecting a printer -
> and then choose Pdf format so that you can have a quick poke around
> in the resulting file to see if that looks about right or is also
> just blank.
> 
> Does the printer feed quite a few blank pages or does it just rattle
> a bit and then just sit there glowering or acting all innocent or
> something?
> 
> Sorry i can't give any sensible suggestions!  Tim @ Kracked Press is
> often good at printer issues.
> 
> Regards from
> a Tom :)

Hello again Tom,

First, I indeed should have stated the OS, which is Windows 10, and the
LibreOffice version, which is 6.05.2.

The printer didn't send out any blank pages; it sat there like nothing
at all was happening.

Second, you made an *extremely* sensible suggestion, for which I thank
you.

Print to File didn't work; it created a shortcut but not a file - not
even a zero-byte file. I then tried (and I have no idea why I didn't
think of it before) LibreO's "Export to .pdf", which did generate
a real live .pdf. I then opened the .pdf in Microsoft Edge (which is
quite good at displaying them), and yes! It printed perfectly and looks
just as good as the many similar table-based documents I've printed
directly from LibreOffice.

If Tim @ Kracked Press or any toner-stained mavens happen on this, I
would be interested to know if there are any subtle settings that might
derail normal printing. I'm guessing that a corner of the file got
boofed somewhere, but I've never had this happen before just out of
the blue like that, and my curiosity is piqued.

Thanks again,

Eddie


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[libreoffice-users] Can't print a document

[Eddie]

Make a liar outta me, willya? Mere hours after I sent a message to this
list saying "I'm not sure I've *ever* had a LibreOffice document
(Writer or Calc) fail on me", I ran into one.

It's a Writer document; the whole thing is a three-column table with
somewhat different information in each cell. There are 132 rows in
twelve 8½ x 11 pages. There is some formatting: font attributes and
sizes, no images, nothing really crazy.

When I've tried to print it, the print "progress bar" (I think that's
what you call it) takes a somewhat long time on the first page, then
whips through the next eleven, and then nothing prints.

It's probably a corrupted file. I can live with copy-and-pasting the
contents into a template and making a brand new document, but I'd
rather not. Is there some setting I might have unwittingly turned on
that would forbid printing?

I also tried saving it as a .docx in Writer, and the results were
identical.

I don't think the capacity of the hardware is at issue here; I have
several documents very much like this one - some are larger - and have
never had an iota of trouble printing any of them before or since. For
the record, though, the printer is a Color LaserJet M477fdw.

Thanks.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Documents wearing out?

[Eddie]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 18:46:15 +0100
Tom Davies  wrote:

> Hi :)
> It 'shouldn't do'  but what should happen and what actually happens
> are often at least 2 different things.  In this case it's very
> unlikely to go wrong though.
> 
> The main thing is to have a duplicate 'copy' in ODF format as a
> back-up in case the file does go wonky.  Ideally either emailed to
> yourself, or copied to a Cloud, or saved on a usb-stick or on a
> different machine or just somewhere other than the 1 place you
> usually use it from.
> 
> I suspect that your file is of the type that it's already got several
> old versions of itself floating around in different places already -
> and that might be enough if the main up-to-date version ever does go
> wonky.
> 
> Between LibreOffice 3.x.x and 4.0.0 there were significant changes
> that made it worth refreshing quite a lot of documents in the way you
> suggested.  Ideally pasting as unformatted text or by going via a
> text-editor to strip out all the cruft defunct formatting accumulated
> over the years - and then reapplying styles and formatting after.
> 
> I don't think it's been needed since then.
> 
> If you bounce it around between different formats, especially if it's
> been saved and re-used from a Microsoft format for MS Office 2010 or
> more recent then it might well be a good idea to de-cruft it - but
> that is more to do with the messiness and constantly changing
> "transitional" versions of it's format used in different versions of
> MS Office.
> 
> If it's stayed as an Odt (or whatever) then the build-up of cruft is
> unlikely to be noticeable.
> 
> Regards from
> a Tom :)
> 

Thanks, Tom. This document has never been anything but an .odt, so I'm
safe there. I haven't noticed the file size getting outlandishly
bulbous, either. Once in a while I make a plain-text copy, so between
that and a backup on a flash drive, it sounds like I'm safe continuing
to do what I'm doing.

Best,

Eddie


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[libreoffice-users] Documents wearing out?

[Eddie]

I have a to-do list in Writer that I update and save at least once a
day. I've had the same document for several months, and have probably
revised and saved it 250 times.

I have had no problem at all with it, but I'm wondering if a document
that has been used and abused that often may be prone to corruption or
damage? Should I consider cut-and-pasting the information into a blank
document on a regular schedule? Or just do the whole thing over from
scratch, also on a regular schedule?

I'm not sure I've *ever* had a LibreOffice document (Writer or Calc)
fail on me, but I'm certain I've never put one through the grinder at
this pace.

Thanks.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

[Eddie]

Here's a report from LO 6.0.3.2 (x64) on Windows 10, just after a brand
new Spring Update. The copy 'n paste works fine; it even retrieved the
clipboard contents accurately in between two LO sessions. I also have
LO and Windows 10 (without the spring update, so far) on a Surface. I
have never looked for this specific problem, but I proofread several
articles a month for a magazine (and did during LO 5's tenure as well),
and I would have noticed by now if text had gotten spliced into odd
places.

I wish I could give more insight into Thomas's unusual situation. Maybe
the list would like to know if Thomas is running any background
processes/utilities that aren't standard to Windows (like Dropbox, for
example), or any other applications simultaneously with LO?

Eddie

On Mon, 14 May 2018 23:52:45 +0200
"Roy Reese" <waterbeare...@gmx.com> wrote:


> Since the problem does not appear on either Mac or Linux, this would
> seem to be specific to the Windows version of LO. I will try to test
> this on the Win7 side of my machine tomorrow. Perhaps some other
> Windows users (especially Win10) could do the same?

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[libreoffice-users] Remove redline markings and strikeout text

[Eddie J]

The title refers to a WordPerfect function that has existed since, I
believe, the DOS days. I could apply the "redline" font attribute on
text I added to an article, then apply the "strikeout" attribute on text
I didn't want in the article. After that, I could save the article,
save a copy under a new filename, and then run the aptly-named function
on one of the copies to generate a clean copy with my edits.

Does a similar function exist in Writer? It doesn't have to be those
two attributes, but anything that would highlight the "should I stay?"
and "should I go?" parts of the article and then easily generate a
clean copy would be very helpful.

Extra adulation if the markup attributes can be saved to .docx,
which my main publisher uses exclusively.

Thanks!

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Search-and-add in Calc

[Eddie]

Thank you, Brian. That works perfectly!

On Tue, 02 Jan 2018 04:35:46 +
Brian Barker <b.m.bar...@btinternet.com> wrote:

> At 22:41 01/01/2018 -0500, Eddie Noname wrote:
> >I have a number of spreadsheets in which one column contains text; 
> >each cell has different contents. I would like to be able to select 
> >regions in this column and add a semi-colon to the end of each 
> >selected cell, without disturbing the rest of the contents. Can this
> >be done?  
> 
> Yup. Search for .* (that's dot-asterisk) and replace with &; (that's 
> ampersand-semicolon). In the Find & Replace panel, click More Options 
> and ensure that both "Current selection only" and "Regular 
> expressions" are ticked. Click Replace All.
> 
> How does it work? In the "Search for" box, the dot matches any 
> character and the asterisk extends this to match zero or more of such 
> characters - in other words, all the text you have in any cell. In 
> the "Replace with" box, the ampersand represents the original matched 
> string and the semicolon is the character you want added.
> 
> I trust this helps.
> 
> Brian Barker
> 
> 


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[libreoffice-users] Search-and-add in Calc

[Eddie]

Hi, I have a number of spreadsheets in which one column contains text;
each cell has different contents. I would like to be able to select
regions in this column and add a semi-colon to the end of each selected
cell, without disturbing the rest of the contents. 

Can this be done?

Thanks.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Writer - special characters

[Eddie]

On Mon, 8 May 2017 10:21:49 -0400
Tim-L--Elmira-NY  wrote:

> So it is helpful to have a good, full, Unicode font.  I use Arial 
> Unicode.  If you know of a free Unicode font that has near Arial's 
> number of symbols and glyphs, I would really like to know.  It would
> be nice to have both a Serif and San-Serif versions.

DejaVu Sans has the Rx symbol among 5371 entries in its character
map. DejaVu Serif - which I find to be gloriously readable both on
screen and on paper - has a paltry (!?) 3340 characters, none of which
are Rx. Linux Biolinum and Linux Libertine are in the 2000s.

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[libreoffice-users] Automated table row numbering in Writer?

[Eddie]

I am making tables in LibreWriter. The structure is one short column
with a couple of numbers, followed by one long column with information
that I type in. The individual rows are eventually cut out and put into stamp 
albums.

 I've looked around for a "table row" field and I can't find one. One
 of the numbers in the first column is sequential and will serve as a
 page number after I stick that row into the album. It would be
 wonderful if I could insert a field and have the rows number
 themselves - especially for those times I go back and discover that I
 left something out 50 rows before.

If there is a way of doing that...is there then a way of assigning a
specific number to the first instance and letting it increment from
there?

I could almost certainly do this in Calc, but Calc lacks a few
formatting niceties, and I'd prefer to keep it in Writer if I can.

Thanks!

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[libreoffice-users] Install without ANY changes to file associations

[Eddie Rowe]

I would like to install LibreOffice in tandem with our Microsoft Office install 
without inadvertently pushing a  user to LibreOffice for a document.  The Wiki 
at https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Deployment_and_Migration
has information on this topic, but there are still some changes being made to 
existing files such as .ODS that moves from Excel to LibreCalc.  Has anyone 
determined how to install LibreOffice 5.x so that nothing is modified with 
associations on the Windows 7 x64 platform?

REGISTER_ALL_MSO_TYPES=0 results in some file associations; .ods for example is 
changed from Excel to Libre.
REGISTER_NO_MSO_TYPES=1 results in some file associations; .ods for example is 
changed from Excel to Libre.
REGISTER_ALL_MSO_TYPES=0 and REGISTER_NO_MSO_TYPES=1 results in some file 
associations; .ods for example is changed from Excel to Libre.




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[libreoffice-users] Help with multiple indexes

[Eddie Armstrong]

I'm trying to create multiple indexes in writer 4 but I cannot find out 
how to get them sorted alphabetically.

From your help files:
/For example, you might want an index containing only the scientific 
names of species //
//mentioned in the text, and a separate index containing only the common 
names of species. ///
Now I want to do something like that but have the entries sorted 
alphabetically.
But if I use the 'alphabetic' index type  I can't mark entries by the 
*name *of the index only by it's *type *so I can only have one list and 
if I use 'user-defined' I only get an unsorted list.

How could I create the above two indices??
I'd be grateful for any help on this one -  I just can't seem to sort it 
(sorry about the pun ) :-)

Eddie

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[libreoffice-users] Re: libre office calc spreadsheet function question

[eddie arni]

I figured out how to convert the values in each of the cells at the same
time, using the paste special function.

Another question relating to the last post:

Why use =C7*$A$4 rather than =C7*A4?



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[libreoffice-users] libre office calc spreadsheet function question

[eddie arni]

First off, disclaimer, I'm not a math guy.

So bear with me.

I'm working on a spreadsheet documenting my expenditures during a recent
trip to Europe. I've entered my expenses under various headings: food,
transport, etc., represented by different columns. Dates are represented by
rows. Each expenditure has it's own cell. 

I've got amounts filled in five different currencies.

I'd like to convert the amounts in each of the  cells to US dollars.

So my questions is, how can I write a formula to multiply each value in
specific cells by a given factor?

In other words, how do I write a formula converting the amounts entered in
cells  B6 B7 C6 C7 D6 D7 which will show the result in those cells but leave
other cells alone and not multiply them all together?

I followed the directions in the help manual and had no trouble figuring out
how to add and average the values in highlighted cells, but I've been
working on functions to multiply them individually and thus far no dice.

Sorry for the awkward wording, as I said I'm not a math guy!

any help appreciated!

thanks. 



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