[libreoffice-users] Change colours for authors in recording changes
Hello How can the colour used to indicate changes by a particular author (i.e. when By Author is being used for the colour)? John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?
Hi Paddy Webdings is a M$ font, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings and is not Unicode. If you use Unicode characters, e.g. U+2708 for an aeroplane (✈) it should render consistently, substituting a character from a font that has it if the current font does not (if you have a suitable font installed). On 21/02/13 17:01, Paddy Landau wrote: I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating system, or at least some of the fonts. I'll explain my problem. If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or Ò). See screenshot 1: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Character_Map.png But when I use that character in Libre Office and set the font to Webdings, it shows a different character, specifically an in-box. See screenshot 2: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4039236/Libre_Office_characters.png Note that not all characters do this. For example, the first 52 characters (A-Z and a-z) are correct. I would like to know how to solve this discrepancy, so that I can search for characters in Character Map (or an equivalent program) and then use them in Libre Office. (I have tried an alternative program, Specimen Font Viewer, and it shows the same thing as Character Map.) I am using Linux Ubuntu 12.04 (64-bit, fully updated) with Libre Office 4.0.0.3 (installed directly from the Libre Office website). Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Does-Libre-Office-have-its-own-distinct-set-of-fonts-tp4039236.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Hidden field in bibliography
Mirosław On 21/02/13 18:01, you wrote: Forget about built-in bibliography feature. It is useless. Even MS Word bibliography feature, far more sophisticated than Writer's one, is considered unusable by academic writers that I know. First of all, it is not useless, I am using it. Secondly, if LibreOffice has a facility it should work and well. I am trying to understand better the behaviour of the bibliography feature so that I can use it more efficiently, submit some sensible bug reports to try to help the developers to improve it or both. So if anyone has information about the internals of this facility, could they please explain the behaviour: In the bibliography index/table it is necessary to have a “Type” allocated to each entry in order that the correct format can be applied for the entry in the bibliography. For example a book entry would have different items in it from a Book excerpt or a Journal entry. There is a “Type” field in the bibliography database but entering anything in this field, either in the external database or via Tools Bibliography Database has no effect on the entry format. Also, in the form opened by Tools Bibliography Database there is no entry box after “Type”. It seems that the only way to enter a Type is to go to a reference to the item in the document text, right click on it, click on Bibliography Entry, an Edit Bibliography Entry dialogue comes up, click on Edit and a Define Bibliography Entry dialogue come up in which the Type can be selected from a drop down list. Click OK and click modify. If you have changed anything it asks if you want to alter the existing record. Can anyone explain this behaviour? In particular, where is this latter Type data stored? Why can’t the Type data in the database be used for this purpose? John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base slowness and Java update
On 14/10/11 13:24, Andreas Säger wrote: This has nothing to do with HSQLDB which is a very fast and reliable product. The problem occurs when Linux+Java+Base meet together, embedded or external HSQLDB, H2 SQL or anySQL over JDBC. It is not problem with Windows+Java+Base. Thanks, Andreas, this is helpful and moves us in the right direction. This bug, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35023 has been marked as not our problem since base runs OK with earlier versions of OpenJDK. However, I do not think that we know this. The problem could be as a result of an intended change in Java such as the tightening up of a variable definition or the closing of a vulnerability. If it is a Java bug then we need to be in a position to say that our application does not run properly because OpenJDK does not work in the way that the Java specifications say it should in the following way... So, how to we drill down deeper to isolate this problem? I suggest that if anyone has any sound, practical suggestions as to how to further diagnose this problem that they post them on this thread: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice/2011-October/019274.html on the development mailing list. John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Base slowness and Java update
Hello This topic has rather hijacked my question about base and external data tables so I am starting a separate thread. I am well aware of the problem, as summarised here: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Base The current workaround involves using an older version of openjdk-jre. (Not straightforward, as far as I can tell, if using Debian testing - yes, I know I could get Java from elsewhere) However, base needs to work with up to date Java, in other words some bug fixing needs doing. For this reason I have asked a question on http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice . It seems to me that for the OpenJDK people to be able to sort out this problem they need to know what it is about Java that is affecting base so badly. And we are not dependent on Oracle as far as I can see, OpenJDK is an open source project and anyone can join in. So if anyone thinks they know which change in openjdk has caused this problem or how to find out I would like them to head over to the development mailing list and contribute there. (And thanks, Alex, for your suggestion that it may have something to do with accessibility and reminding us that many of the developers are currently at the LibreOffice annual conference.) John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Base - using external databases
Hi A long unresolved problem with OpenOffice.org base was its inability to link to more than one external database at a time. See: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42464 It is for this reason (needing to link to more than one table) that I have had to use base's internal HQLDB database. Does anyone know if this issue still applies in LibreOffice base? John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Re: [libreoffice-users] Base - using external databases
Regina Henschel wrote jowyta schrieb: A long unresolved problem with OpenOffice.org base was its inability to link to more than one external database at a time. See: http://openoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=42464 It is for this reason (needing to link to more than one table) that I have had to use base's internal HQLDB database. I don't understand your reasoning. The issue is about connecting to two different databases with the same odb-document. For example connecting to MySQL and PostgreSQL at the same time. That has nothing to do with more than one table. You can have as much tables in a database as you need. What is your problem and in which way does the internal HSQLDB helps you? My problem was that if I had tables in different files, even if they used the same database structure, then base could not link to more than one of them. This seems to be a facility that various people need. It might be a solution for me if I could have several tables in the same file provided that I could manipulate them from base rather than having to use a separate database programme. If this is possible, are there some instructions somewhere as to how to extract the data to a separate file? Kind regards John -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.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.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
