Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: type backslash in "Find" dialog

[Roy Reese]

> Enviar: jueves 17 de mayo de 2018 a las 11:54
> De: "Thomas Blasejewicz" 
> >
> > My guess is that LibO is using that codepage for the UI, and UTF-8 in
> > Write.
> >
> > jonathon
> -- 
> 
For coding in LO, click on Help  About and you will see it.

Others may be able to help with Windows, but perhaps this link will help a 
little:
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/how-do-i-change-windows-7-default-charset-from/76d36040-4ee8-421c-afb8-2878a6d68eb5


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Re: [libreoffice-users] copy function not working

[Roy Reese]

> A las 12:44 lunes 14 de mayo de 2018 Thomas Blasejewicz escribió:
> De: "Thomas Blasejewicz" 
> 
> In particular when I do this deliberately and with great care.
> One might argue, that "A" is still on the (Windows) clipboard.
> But if that were true, copying it to other applications should also give 
> me an "A", but I actually get the requested "B".
> 
> For that reason I cannot help but assume, that there is something 
> strange going on in Writer.
> 
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?

As I recall from the original post this is an intermittent problem? If that is 
the case, might other processes running be interfering somehow?

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Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

[Roy Reese]

> On 05/04/2018 01:16 PM, Virgil Arrington  wrote:
> >
> I'm finding all of this fascinating. In the past couple days, I have 
> also discovered the screen reader that came with my Linux Mint 18. I've 
> been playing with it on various file formats. I created an HTML with 
> AsciiDoc, and it read it quite nicely. It also read an .ODT file without 
> difficulty. For some reason, it would read a .TXT file opened in LO, but 
> not in Geany, and, it didn't read PDFs created with either LO or LyX. 
> Now, these were quick and dirty tests without any tweaking of the files 
> or any settings, so these experiences are not at all the final word. I'm 
> sure I can make everything work properly as I learn more, but this does 
> indicate that some methods will require more work than others.
> 
I am not using Gleany, but check the encoding used by LO and Gleany as there 
are different ways to encode a txt file. The more common encoding schemes are 
variants of UTF-8 and ISO-8859. For LO you can show the encoding by going to 
Save As... and check Edit filter settings. In Gleany there should be some sort 
of drop-down menu to select the encoding you want.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users Group [Facebook]?

[Roy Reese]

> Enviar: lunes 30 de abril de 2018 a las 17:11
> De: "James Knott" 
> Para: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] How many of you deal with the Linux Users 
> Group [Facebook]?
>
> On 04/30/2018 08:32 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> > Today, I will be drafting the final exam for my students. I will use LO 
> > Writer for the task. I will then email it to my students and they will 
> > type their answers right onto the computer file and email it back to me. 
> > I need to get the file to my students in a format they can easily use 
> > with their computers. I will use .DOC for this purpose because it's the 
> > easiest solution to this situation.
> 
> Recent versions of MS Office are supposed to be able to work with Open
> Document files.  Have you tried to see what happens when you use it with
> ODF files?
> 
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That is exactly right, no student today should have a problem reading an odt 
file with MS Office as odt support has been incorporated in MSO since 2007 when 
MSO also defaulted to the docx format as a result of criticism of its closed 
formats. 

Having been sickened early on by the "advertising" coming from Apple, Samsung 
and others, the "signature" of my business mail notes that it was produced 
using Linux and open-source applications. (If I am forced to use a mobile, it 
notes that K-9 Mail is the FOSS source.) One should be making every effort to 
promote open source and letting the world know that there alternatives to the 
commercial applications that try to hold us captive.

In the case of students, I would go a step further with a footnote:

*The attached file was produced by LibreOffice, a powerful Free and Open-Source 
Software (FOSS) office suite and saved in the Open Document Format. To learn 
more about FOSS, click here. To learn more about LibreOffice and download it 
for free, click here.

The FOSS link might be to this: https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html. Of 
course a link could also be provided to a Wikipedia or other page about ODF.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] [Changes in menus, WAS Copying slides from . . .]

[Roy Reese]

> Enviar: martes 17 de abril de 2018 a las 22:44
> De: anne-ology 
> Para: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to 
> another]
>
>Thank you for responding; maybe you've figured this out for me.
> 
>I'll be attempting this soon,
Anne,

Do you have the help files installed? I don't generally use Impress, but I know 
from changes in Writer that I have had to look for things (including the Insert 
Document function from 5.x). I just opened Impress (6.0.3.2) and a) (based on 
Virgil's reply), found the insert file function slide function (oddly to me, 
under Slide rather than Insert) and b) checked the help file which in an 
sub-entry for insert has instructions for inserting either a whole file or 
selected slides.

This is similar to changes in Writer, although, actually, more accessible in 
the Impress help file than the Writer one. Actually, I cannot find equivalent 
help in Writer at the moment as the Insert document is now handled by Insert 
text from document which I do not see documented or at least clearly indexed 
(at least in my Spanish-language help files), neither do I see the possibility 
of selecting only part of the text before insertion (which makes the label for 
the command misleading).

Anne and Virgil,

I am not sure why some menus have changed, but I think that we have to 
recognize that LO faces two issues. First, some of the menus are exceedingly 
long at this point (at least in Writer) and so subject to reorganization. 
Second, some functions may be redone rather than completely lost, and redoing 
should, perhaps be our first assumption leading us to either hunt around, check 
the help files, or, later, resort to the forum.

In addition, since we are using the bleeding edge version of LO, we have to 
expect not only changes, but perhaps some flaws in those changes and be 
prepared to give feedback. I have discovered one problem with resizing related 
to Gtk3 in 6.0. I find one change in Word annoying (where one could formerly 
create columns by marking the text and clicking "columns" and now must insert a 
section and then the text in the section). There feedback is the crucial thing. 
The column command change may be related to changing and expanding 
functionality or simply a lack of understanding of good workflow for the users 
(although I will give the benefit of the doubt here). In this case I am 
foregoing feedback at the moment because, while I find the prior organization 
more flexible and reasonable in terms of workflow, I cannot say it impedes my 
work. It simply changes the order in which I do things.

Best,
Roy

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Limit on resizing windows in LO 6 (GTK)

[Roy Reese]

> Enviar: miércoles 28 de febrero de 2018 a las 11:23
> De: "Roy Reese" <waterbeare...@gmx.com>
> Para: users@global.libreoffice.org
> Asunto: Re: [libreoffice-users] Limit on resizing windows in LO 6 (GTK)
>
> > 
> Thanks to both Virgil and Dave. This suggests that I need to start with my 
> distro (Mageia) and DE (E21/22) first. I have seen no related bugs, which 
> suggests that this indeed may not be a LO problem.
> 
Thanks again to everyone on the list who responded to this issue. After filing 
this with Mageia, it turns out that the problem also appears in Fedora. There 
is now an active LO bug report as it seems to be related to the port to GTK+3:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=116290

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Limit on resizing windows in LO 6 (GTK)

[Roy Reese]

> Enviar: miércoles 28 de febrero de 2018 a las 1:02
> De: "Dave Howorth" 
> > 
> > For what it's worth, it's not a problem on my LO 5.1.6.2 on Linux
> > Mint 18 or LO 5.3.3.2 on Puppy Tahr Linux. On both systems, the menu
> > bar just collapses as I shrink the window.
> > 
> > Virgil
> 
> Not a problem with my 5.4.5.1 on openSUSE Leap 42.3 either. English
> interface with no extensions, if that matters, and I can make windows
> as narrow as I want (1 pixel if I choose). I use the LXDE desktop.
> 
> Dave
> 
> -- 
Thanks to both Virgil and Dave. This suggests that I need to start with my 
distro (Mageia) and DE (E21/22) first. I have seen no related bugs, which 
suggests that this indeed may not be a LO problem.

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Limit on resizing windows in LO 6 (GTK)

[Roy Reese]

Thanks to all who have responded, but let me see if I can clarify and add to 
what I havve learned.

1. The limiting factor is the menu bar (File, Edit, View . . .) where there are 
no icons. What is worse, I have a Spanish interface which makes some of the 
items (words only) longer. I have seen no way to change the size of the font on 
the bar, nor is it possible to hide the menu bar, although there is a work 
around to create a macro to do so mentioned in LO and OO fora.

2. The Anaphraseus extension is added to the menu bar, not a tool bar.

3.  The problem does affect LO 5.4.3.2 which I have on the computer from which 
I am responding. It did not bother me there because I have yet to add that 
extension there. However, minimum sizing IS affected by the space required for 
the menu bar. (As a parenthetical comment, when I work quikly, I can resize the 
window smaller UNTIL the menu bar loads. I offer this in case someone wants to 
test on an affected installation.)

4.  This is NOT a problem in the Windows version of 6.0. Sizing the window 
smaller simply progressively hides the menu bar.

5.  Although LO has always been GTK based in Linux, I am not sure if it now has 
a Qt interface to integrate better with KDE/Plasma which may not be affected, 
hence my addition of GTK to the subject line. (Input here welcome!)

6.  MOST IMPORTANT: Now that I understand better what is going on, Tomorrow, I 
will recheck LO's Bugzilla for existing bugs and if none is reported, will 
report this. I will also report the bug number to this list, in this thread so 
that others can see and add to it.

Again, many thanks for the help on this matter.

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