[dev] Suggestion: turn smart apostrophes on by default

2011-07-25 Thread Dan Martin
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[dev] Suggestion to enable onionskinning

2008-12-27 Thread imgod22222
Hello Openoffice.org team I'm emailing because I wanted to suggest a new feature. When printing animated GIFs in a document, only the first frame is printed and I wanted to suggest having an option to allow animated gifs to be onionskinned (see wikipedia: onionskinning) so content from every

Re: [dev] Suggestion

2007-06-22 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Andrew, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak schrieb: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1761 Do I understand correctly that this will be fixed in 2.3? This is fixed completely for all documents with a unique page width. In case of a document with non-unique page widths the widest page

Re: [dev] Suggestion

2007-06-21 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1761 Do I understand correctly that this will be fixed in 2.3? Brooks Golden wrote: I am a big fan of OpenOffice and I think it is a great cause and all but there's just one thing that really annoys me. When I'm making a text document, I like

Re: [dev] Suggestion

2007-06-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Brooks Golden wrote: I am a big fan of OpenOffice and I think it is a great cause and all but there's just one thing that really annoys me. When I'm making a text document, I like to view what I am typing at 100% zoom like every other text editor I have ever used. Although, when you zoom to

Re: [dev] Suggestion

2007-06-01 Thread ccornell - OpenOffice.org
Brooks Golden wrote: I am a big fan of OpenOffice and I think it is a great cause and all but there's just one thing that really annoys me. When I'm making a text document, I like to view what I am typing at 100% zoom like every other text editor I have ever used. Although, when you zoom to

[dev] Suggestion

2007-05-31 Thread Brooks Golden
I am a big fan of OpenOffice and I think it is a great cause and all but there's just one thing that really annoys me. When I'm making a text document, I like to view what I am typing at 100% zoom like every other text editor I have ever used. Although, when you zoom to 100% in OpenOffice (as

[dev] Suggestion: Centering Writer documents in Print Layout View

2007-02-01 Thread Andrew Mackie
Hello, Apologies if this is something already covered (I can't find it in the Options or documentation). I have a 19 screen and when viewing a Writer document in Print Layout View at a zoom of 100% (anything less than page width) the document is to the left of the screen. From a usability point

Re: [dev] Suggestion: Centering Writer documents in Print Layout View

2007-02-01 Thread Mathias Bauer
Andrew Mackie wrote: Hello, Apologies if this is something already covered (I can't find it in the Options or documentation). I have a 19 screen and when viewing a Writer document in Print Layout View at a zoom of 100% (anything less than page width) the document is to the left of the

Re: [dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Ingrid, Yes, one can use /a option - but only if one knows about it. This knowledge is an extra hurdle again. Furthermore it is not sufficient if you want to install a download package without system integration. Because you will need to extract the package with a special option first

Re: [dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-06 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Christian, To answer that: You don't need to use the commandline, $favourite_GUI_archive_manager/file_manager could do the same... Neither $file_manager nor $favourite_GUI_archive_manager are defined on my system :) Ciao Frank -- - Frank Schönheit, Software Engineer [EMAIL

Re: [dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-06 Thread Ingrid Halama
Hi Frank, Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany schrieb: ... The point with the user installations is the only one I'd care to address: I don't know how many reported bugs result from two dev builds using the same user installation (there definately are some). But we could easily eliminate

Re: [dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-05 Thread Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germa ny
Hi Christian, 2) The different installations may conflict in the user installation directory as this is shared. So you might get strange bugs. the dev-builds have a different user-installation than the stable one. but two different dev builds use the same user installation, and thus can

[dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-04 Thread Ingrid Halama
Hi all, I would like to suggest some modifications for the OpenOffice_Dev installations sets. As far as I know the OpenOffice_Dev target was introduced to create Builds that can be installed in parallel to a normal OpenOffice version for testing and developing purposes. But there are

Re: [dev] Suggestion to simplify OpenOffice_Dev installations

2006-07-04 Thread Christian Lohmaier
Hi Ingrid, *, On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 07:55:04PM +0200, Ingrid Halama wrote: [...] But there are still some limitations: 1) You only can have one OpenOffice_Dev installation at a time, so if you want to check another developer snapshot you will need to deinstall (or upgrade) the previous

[dev] Suggestion - Font colour toolbar button

2005-11-18 Thread John Dubery
Hi, I've been using OOo 1.0 and 1.1 on windows for ages - really liked them (and encouraged others). Started using OOo 2.0 when it was released - mostly very nice. However the following change in OOo 2 seems a pity. In OOo 1.x it was possible to choose colours on the font colour toolbar button

[dev] Suggestion - toolbars and absolute pointing devices

2005-11-18 Thread John Dubery
Hi, I've been using OOo 1.0 and 1.1 on windows for ages - really liked them (and encouraged others). Started using OOo 2.0 when it was released - mostly very nice. However the following change in OOo 2 writer seems a pity. First, I'm an avid pen tablet user (I have several Wacom tablets); I

Re: [dev] suggestion

2005-10-07 Thread Michele Zarri
Hello Paul, I actually liked this function quite a lot too so I created a couple of macros that I then associated to the keyboard combination. Some of the gurus here will be able to tell you how to do it properly, but this code does the trick for me ;-) Note though that also the functionality of

[dev] suggestion

2005-10-06 Thread Paul Belanger
I've been playing around with Open Office and am enjoying it. I'm so tired of dealing with Microsoft it's not funny. But, as I bounce around in a Text Document I'm finding a handy MS feature missing from your program. I use CTRL keys frequently and CTRL-UParrow CTRL-DOWNarrow don't jump to