Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-17 Thread timofonic timofonic
10. ... 11. Profit! Are there plans to improve it? I've seen easier government bureaucracy stuff than that... On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Charles Jenkins wrote: > M. Henri Day wrote: >> >> >> > Charles wrote: >> > >> > Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the section for voting on >> > Enha

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-17 Thread Charles Jenkins
M. Henri Day wrote: > > Charles wrote: > > Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the section for voting on > Enhancements to Writer, I'd like to ask everyone with an interest in > this issue to please sign up and add your vote. > > If you use Track Changes to work with an editor, you probably need

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-16 Thread M Henri Day
2011/6/16 Charles Jenkins > Cristoph wrote: > > What I'm currently unsure about - how to proceed. Although I'm not >> that convinced about voting, maybe it should be added to: >> http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement >> > > I did it! The wiki finally let me edit the page! >

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-16 Thread Charles Jenkins
Cristoph wrote: What I'm currently unsure about - how to proceed. Although I'm not that convinced about voting, maybe it should be added to: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement I did it! The wiki finally let me edit the page! Now that we can find Bug 38244 under the sec

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-14 Thread Charles Jenkins
Cristoph wrote: What I'm currently unsure about - how to proceed. Although I'm not that convinced about voting, maybe it should be added to: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Vote_for_Enhancement Could you do that, please? Well, I tried to. I made an account, got my email confirmed, close

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-14 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Christoph Noack wrote: > Mmh, seems that might be "me" :-) I added this and several other > EasyHacks related to "OOoNotes2" - our activities related to comments at > OpenOffice.org. Search in bugzilla: > https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&short_desc=OOoNotes2&bug_status

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles! Am Montag, den 13.06.2011, 09:43 -0400 schrieb Charles Jenkins: > Thank you for everyone who commented on this. I'm actually getting a > little misty because you liked my idea... > > Cristoph, heck, yes! Your proposal is perfect. If only, if only we had > that, I could delete Word off

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Charles Jenkins
Thank you for everyone who commented on this. I'm actually getting a little misty because you liked my idea... Cristoph, heck, yes! Your proposal is perfect. If only, if only we had that, I could delete Word off my Mac and have a party to celebrate. Will you be posting the bug proposal as Thorst

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread adept techlists - kazar
Ian Lynch June 12, 2011 11:51 AM Even better if it was on the web so that documents could be created collaboratively ;-) Yes, that would be extremely nice, but given the many millions of people who have sporadic and/or slow connections, I would vote for fir

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-13 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Thorsten, all! Am Sonntag, den 12.06.2011, 17:21 +0200 schrieb Thorsten Behrens: > Christoph Noack wrote: > > Mmh, I'm CCing Thorsten who may know whether/how this could be turned > > into some easy/advanced/serious hack ... Since I'm currently not that > > active, I don't really know what the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-12 Thread Ian Lynch
On 12 June 2011 14:57, adept techlists - kazar wrote: > I'll just add the point from a philosophical standpoint that almost more > than enabling all humans to create documents (presos etc.), is enabling > humans to work together. > Even better if it was on the web so that documents could be crea

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-12 Thread Thorsten Behrens
Christoph Noack wrote: > Mmh, I'm CCing Thorsten who may know whether/how this could be turned > into some easy/advanced/serious hack ... Since I'm currently not that > active, I don't really know what the current "hack" status is. Thorsten, > could you please have a look at that? > Hi Chris, all,

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-12 Thread adept techlists - kazar
I'll just add the point from a philosophical standpoint that almost more than enabling all humans to create documents (presos etc.), is enabling humans to work together. kazar -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.docu

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-12 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Kazar! Am Samstag, den 11.06.2011, 20:09 -0400 schrieb adept techlists - kazar: > Christoph Noack wrote: > > Quite some time ago, I defined the corresponding behavior so that it > > matches which the today's notes. > > > > The visual design: > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2_D

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-11 Thread adept techlists - kazar
Christoph Noack wrote: Quite some time ago, I defined the corresponding behavior so that it matches which the today's notes. The visual design: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Notes2_Design_NoteAnchor#Proposal_.22Boxes_.28Note_Anchor_Area.29.22 The behavior when inserting notes / editi

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-11 Thread adept techlists - kazar
Charles Jenkins June 10, 2011 2:03 PM Truly, I beg you to add comment ranges in LibreOffice so I can stop using Word altogether for writing. I concur. Not only for writer/editor situations, but for all kinds of scenarios in which humans need to collabor

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-11 Thread Christoph Noack
Hi Charles, hi Cor! Am Samstag, den 11.06.2011, 01:50 +0200 schrieb Cor Nouws: > Charles Jenkins wrote (10-06-11 20:03) > > In LibreOffice, it appears that comments always have zero length. > > I would have sworn I had seen it with a selection somewhere. > But maybe it only was on the old OOo wik

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-10 Thread Cor Nouws
Charles Jenkins wrote (10-06-11 20:03) In LibreOffice, it appears that comments always have zero length. I would have sworn I had seen it with a selection somewhere. But maybe it only was on the old OOo wiki (1) about the notes feature? Regards, Cor 1) http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki

Re: [tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-10 Thread Mark Preston
Well, Charles, I also write fiction and publishers can be swine, I admit - but I also write for journals and you should see editors! With care, I do manage to use LibreOffice, and earlier OpenOffice, throughout though I agree they don't all like it. My attitude is that slowly we will get them to s

[tdf-discuss] Enhancement Request: Comment Ranges

2011-06-10 Thread Charles Jenkins
As a fiction writer, I currently must use Microsoft Word on the Mac to exchange documents with editors, because Track Changes and commenting features are a necessity. In Microsoft Word, an editor can mark a section of text and add a comment like, "This is redundant. Recommend deletion." When I cl