Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:58 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi Thank you for your interest in Base. Sqlite has a large and well-organised development team. It performs really well even with very large datasets. I feel that making Sqlite the default database for LO Base in place of HSQLDB would

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Base Enhancements

2014-07-28 Thread Terrence Enger
With respect to dynamic column typing in SQLite, On Mon, 2014-07-28 at 20:34 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I think that this is intentional, so, I don't think it is actually broken. I never bothered to investigate the motivation for it. Certainly intentional. Indeed, the web site for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Better PDF import?

2014-06-21 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2014-06-21 at 11:22 +0200, Italo Vignoli wrote: PDF is based on PostScript, which is a page description language, and as such is extremely difficult to convert into an editable document. I have heard about OCR, but I have never been desperate enough to try it. Likely there is some

Re: [tdf-discuss] memory leak in 4.0

2014-03-05 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2014-03-05 at 13:55 -0800, edo1 wrote: LO 4.2.0 is showing a memory problem that's making it unusable. When I open a file in it, the RAM usage starts to climb until LO locks up. I get Fatal Error osl:Thread:create failed. I am sorry that you are having problems. I presume that it is

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life!

2014-01-04 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2014-01-04 at 22:45 +0700, Urmas wrote: Vitorio Furusho - LibreOffice: Start 2014 with Freedom, Adopt LibreOffice in your life! Do you call the absolute dependence on developers' powertrips and their uncontestable decisions 'freedom'? I have bad news for you then. I do see freedom

[tdf-discuss] Re: Is this a bug?

2013-09-24 Thread Terrence Enger
Pedro wrote Hi Terry, all Tanstaafl wrote This list is NOT intended for general Libreoffice support, it is intended for discussion of topics related to: The Document Foundation. If you want support for Libreoffice, please use the Libreoffice users list: users@.libreoffice I agree

[tdf-discuss] Is this a bug?

2013-09-23 Thread Terrence Enger
All, BTW, thank you, Pedro, for noticing that this list has been unhelpful in the past. If questions like these should go somewhere else, guidance is welcome. I notice that Writer merges a bunch of lines into one flowing paragraph when you do this improbable-sounding sequence of operations on

[tdf-discuss] Save-version-on-close, proposed enhancement

2013-07-08 Thread Terrence Enger
Hi all, According to the help for Always save a version on closing https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Versions#Always_save_version_when_closing, this option does not save a version on closing unless you have changed the document since you last saved it. I think it would be more useful for the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Bug in Contour Editor - Writer 4.0.2

2013-05-17 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2013-05-17 at 09:18 +0200, Fernand Vanrie wrote: Terrence, the bug report is there since 2012 https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=57079 but it is from 4.01 ion must worser and contour becomes unusable because off double clicking do crasch the office, OO 4.0 do

Re: [tdf-discuss] Bug in Contour Editor - Writer 4.0.2

2013-05-16 Thread Terrence Enger
Hello, For your problem with the contour editor in Writer, I think you should file a bug report. The easiest way is to use the Bug Submission Assistant https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/bug/. Please add me lo_b...@iseries-guru.com to the report, and I shall try to confirm your report.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Bug (??) Table deletion in Writer 4.0.2.2

2013-05-16 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2013-05-08 at 17:24 -0400, fobe...@rcn.com wrote: Also, by the way, I've noticed that Writer tends to bog down and stop for a while in large documents (such as the book I'm currently working on which is about 350 pages or so), which it didn't do in earlier versions. Is there some

Re: [tdf-discuss] Python trademark at risk in Europe: Python Software Foundation calls for help

2013-03-18 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 19:21 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi, As LibreOffice uses more and more the Python language, TDF may be interested by this call for help: http://pyfound.blogspot.ca/2013/02/python-trademark-at-risk-in-europe-we.html The Python Software Foundation is reporting

Re: [tdf-discuss] Python trademark at risk in Europe: Python Software Foundation calls for help

2013-02-16 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2013-02-16 at 16:22 -0500, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote: On 02/16/2013 01:21 PM, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote: Hi, As LibreOffice uses more and more the Python language, TDF may be interested by this call for help:

Re: [tdf-discuss] LibreOffice and Java Security:

2013-01-12 Thread Terrence Enger
I cannot address the important question, but ... On Sun, 2013-01-13 at 14:22 +1100, lj wrote: Can I use LibreOffice without Java enabled on my computer?? As I receive annoying pop up windows when I first use libreoffice to install Java on Apple OS X Mountain Lion. One of my systems lacks

[tdf-discuss] user qestions, where should they go now?

2012-10-03 Thread Terrence Enger
Another usere has stumbled into the development list [1]. Clearly, he needs to be directed elsewhere, but I am unsure where to direct him. The situation w.r.t. forums seems to be in flux, and I am reluctant to send him to a mail list that I not follow myself. Is there a simple answer? Thanks,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: AskLibO blitzes

2012-05-21 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2012-05-21 at 06:52 -0700, Pedro wrote: Terrence Enger wrote I was excited when AskLibo started, only to find that OpenId is required for using it. And the OpenId providers advertised all have impressive terms of use, impressive as in long and daunting. What if BrowserID

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: AskLibO blitzes

2012-05-20 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sun, 2012-05-20 at 18:07 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: It is also a good exercise for the LibreOffice membership who may have forgotten to pop by once in a while on the AskLibO pages; Sigh! I was excited when AskLibo started, only to find that OpenId is required for using it. And the OpenId

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mail Merge to Email in Writer

2012-04-17 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2012-04-13 at 12:30 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I had cause the other day to do a Mail Merge to Email in Writer. I was horrified to discover that the Mail Merge to Email function does NOT call the default email client, but uses an in-built smtp function within Writer. The

[tdf-discuss] Re: Naming builds. Please???

2011-12-07 Thread Terrence Enger
Bjoern wrote the dev list. I am responding on discuss because of the vagueness of my comment. On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 13:25 +0100, Bjoern Michaelsen wrote: Hi all, On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 11:18:02PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Tue, Dec 06, 2011 at 04:09:15AM -0800, Pedro wrote:

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Naming builds. Please???

2011-12-07 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 18:22 +0100, Uwe Altmann wrote: Hi Terry Am 07.12.11 15:13, schrieb Terrence Enger: So, we could make LibreOffice copy its identification to the clipboard in a form suitable for pasting into a Writer document (yes, I usually have two versions of LO running

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Naming builds. Please???

2011-12-07 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 13:50 -0500, Marc Paré wrote: Le 2011-12-07 12:58, Terrence Enger a écrit : On Wed, 2011-12-07 at 18:22 +0100, Uwe Altmann wrote: Hi Terry Am 07.12.11 15:13, schrieb Terrence Enger: So, we could make LibreOffice copy its identification to the clipboard

[tdf-discuss] funny movement of character cursor within Calc cell

2011-10-05 Thread Terrence Enger
subject --- funny movement of character cursor within Calc cell body On ubuntu-natty, in a local build from master, the movement of the character cursor sometimes surprises me when I edit the non-numeric contents of a cell ... (*) When I type F2, the character cursor goes to the end

Re: [tdf-discuss] Error in scripting framework

2011-09-16 Thread Terrence Enger
I apologize for the length of my comment. Also for the length of the lines; turn of wrapping if you can. On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 00:48 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: On 09/12/2011 11:39 AM, Olivier Hallot wrote: Couldn't we write just Oh dear, I am unable to find a macro you asked me to

[tdf-discuss] wiki edit: suggesting further edit, requesting approval

2011-09-09 Thread Terrence Enger
I have just edited the wiki page How to build LibreOffice http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/index.php?title=Development% 2FNative_Buildaction=historysubmitdiff=36230oldid=36124 to say that ccache is enabled by default if found. The edit which removed that information (because it was not true at

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-09-08 Thread Terrence Enger
On Thu, 2011-09-08 at 09:35 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 12:55 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:00 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 07:34 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: The remaining questions are ... Does anybody else share

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-29 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 14:40 +0200, Johnny Rosenberg wrote: I don't know if it's mentioned already, in that case I just missed it, or if it's even relevant, but what Java are you running? From the LibreOffice home page: ”If you run Linux, the GCJ Java variant has known issues with

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-29 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:00 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 07:34 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: The remaining questions are ... Does anybody else share the problem of the ineffective MacroSecurity... button? No, works fine here. Does anybody care? Sure

Re: [tdf-discuss] identifying version of soffice.bin

2011-08-29 Thread Terrence Enger
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 09:05 +0100, Caolán McNamara wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 08:29 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: Hello, all. Now that my system holds more than one build from master, my small mind is even more subject to confusion than it used to be. So, I wonder

Re: [tdf-discuss] identifying version of soffice.bin

2011-08-29 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sun, 2011-08-28 at 17:15 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: No answer to your questions, Then, how come I feel like my questions are answered? because I have only got WinXP. But other ideas: You find the version information in the file program\version.ini

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-28 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 13:08 -0400, Terrence Enger wrote: [snip] Meanwhile, looking under Tools Options LibreOffice Paths, I see that my local builds put things under ~/.config/libreoffice, and sure enough there is ~/.config/libreoffice/3/user/registrymodifications.xcu. I shall go try

[tdf-discuss] identifying version of soffice.bin

2011-08-28 Thread Terrence Enger
Hello, all. Now that my system holds more than one build from master, my small mind is even more subject to confusion than it used to be. So, I wonder ... (*) Is there an easy way to display the build id of soffice.bin to the sysout or syserr? (Since I created my second work dir and

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-26 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:43 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: [snip] In the build from master (Build ID: 117281b-4eb4f62-260b7c1), on Ubuntu too, that I have, Macro security works fine. No idea if the problem is a local one (your build) an older or newer version than I have, or... Around 19:22

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-26 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 14:54 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: [snip] I don't know, why it fails, likely a problem with Java. But if you need macros, you can set the value directly. Make a backup of your registrymodificaitions.xcu. I do not find that file anywhere in my working directory. Do

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-26 Thread Terrence Enger
On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 16:39 +0200, Regina Henschel wrote: [snip] I forgot, you are on Linux. Yes I mean the file in your user directory. How is its name for you? I have found $ ls -l ~/.libreoffice/3/user/registrymodifications.xcu -rw--- 1 terry terry 157661 2011-08-26 11:17

Re: [tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-25 Thread Terrence Enger
On Wed, 2011-08-24 at 14:43 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: [snip} In the build from master (Build ID: 117281b-4eb4f62-260b7c1), on Ubuntu too, that I have, Macro security works fine. No idea if the problem is a local one (your build) an older or newer version than I have, or... Your version

[tdf-discuss] how change macro security level?

2011-08-24 Thread Terrence Enger
Greetings, I find that I am unable to run macros: the dialog box presented by Tools Options LibreOffice Security offers a button labelled Macro Security..., and the button responds to a mouse click by showing itself depressed and taking focus, but that is all that happens. In particular, this

[tdf-discuss] Writer printing paragraph formats it into following bulletted list

2011-08-20 Thread Terrence Enger
Hello, all. In writer I selected a paragraph and the following bulleted list. Then I printed Selection. To my surprise, the printout formats the first paragraph as one item in the bulleted list. Can this be anything but a bug? Thanks, Terry. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

Re: [tdf-discuss] Writer printing paragraph formats it into following bulletted list

2011-08-20 Thread Terrence Enger
On Sat, 2011-08-20 at 19:26 +0100, Mike Hall wrote: [snip] Bug confirmed with Lo 1.4.2 under Vista. Best if you submit a bug report. Let me know if you can't - in that case I will do it. Done, bug 40258 Writer PRINTING a paragraph like following list

[tdf-discuss] A failed query to ODBC data source

2011-08-17 Thread Terrence Enger
I have a failing query. The curious specificity of the difficulty has already led me into spending more time than the problem is worth to me, but I would be glad to work further if perchance somebody else cares. The problem is the message The data content could not be loaded. when I include a

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: A failed query to ODBC data source

2011-08-17 Thread Terrence Enger
via ODBC https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34309. On Wed, 2011-08-17 at 19:13 +0200, Alexander Thurgood wrote: Le 17/08/11 16:30, Terrence Enger a écrit : Hi Terry, [snip] Is your field perchance being flagged as an OBJECT ? It should not be. The field is KEYFIELD in table