Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Which version of LibreOffice to use when reviewing?

2013-01-20 Thread Martin Fox
If you're on Mac or Linux, installing it alongside LO3.x is easy; if you're on Windows, it's a bit more complicated to avoid the normal install, which replaces whatever version of LO is already on your Windows machine. (I think this sucks, but that's a different discussion.) Watch out if you

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Jean - Base Handbook Chapter 1 translated

2012-12-26 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Robert and Jean This is a problem which arises when multilingual databases are used. What I normally do is to use forms with labels instead of field names. That way I can use what I like for field names, but can programatically change the form labels depending on which language is in use. For

[libreoffice-documentation] Ping Jean - Base Handbook Chapter 1 translated

2012-12-25 Thread Martin Fox
Greetings to all http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-handbook/drafts/introduction-to-base-bh01/at_download/file note re Mahnung. A Mahnung is what one receives anytime something is overdue. Typically it will be a payment of a bill that you forgot. A polite letter comes entitled

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ping Jean - Base Handbook Chapter 2 Translation

2012-12-09 Thread Martin Fox
? Perhaps Chapter 1? --Jean On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 6:58 AM, Martin Fox buti...@bluewin.ch wrote: Hi Jean Translated into English. Checked most of screenshots against v3.6 (MySQL and dbase). Inserted new screenshots while checking. Later screenshots left as is, as reasoned

[libreoffice-documentation] Ping Jean - Base Handbook Chapter 2 Translation

2012-12-08 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Jean Translated into English. Checked most of screenshots against v3.6 (MySQL and dbase). Inserted new screenshots while checking. Later screenshots left as is, as reasoned that = the document probably will not be used as is but incorporated in parts into ano= ther book series.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Eliminate points in Draw

2012-07-03 Thread Martin Fox
Chapter 3 has an example I think. Martin On Tue, 3 Jul 2012 05:25:44 -0700 (PDT) PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: On the Edit Points toolbar there is a tool called Eliminate Points. The explanation in LO Draw help and version 3.4 of the guide do not explain what this tool is for. The

[libreoffice-documentation] PING Jean Calc Guide 3 Chapter 8 Pivot Tables

2012-05-07 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Jean I have updated Ch 8 to 3.5 and put it in the ODF Authors folder Draft 3.4 (there is no 3.5 yet). Sorry in advance if this is the wrong spot. Blame Global warming. http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/calc-guide/draft-lo3.4/ch-8-using-pivot-tables/at_download/file Please

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Big Disaster

2012-02-17 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Log onto your Drop box account online, deleted files are kept there for 30 days. You have to switch on the viewing of deleted files to see them. Then you can restore them very easily. regards Martin On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:36:49 -0800 (PST) PeeWee psaut...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry Guys I

[libreoffice-documentation] Visio and LibO 3.5

2011-12-16 Thread Martin Fox
Just a heads up in case people have not been following along the Google SOC or LibO developer news: v3.5 will have support for opening VSD visio files. Try it already with the daily builds. A huge step forward and a great debt of thanks owed to the people working on libvisio. I could finally open

[libreoffice-documentation] Login requested

2011-11-07 Thread Martin Fox
Could an admin give me a login again please? username: mjfox email: i...@mjfox.ch thanks and regards Martin -- Martin J Fox 马丁·福克斯 mar...@mjfox.ch buti...@bluewin.ch ___ VK7MM/HB9TQX www.mjfox.ch / www.badwolf.ch QQ 1472808085 / MSN buti...@hotmail.com You

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Login requested

2011-11-07 Thread Martin Fox
Hi David thanks very much regards Martin On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 19:51:33 +0200 David Nelson li...@traduction.biz wrote: Hi Martin, On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Martin Fox i...@mjfox.ch wrote: Could an admin give me a login again please? I mailed you your credentials. ;-) -- David

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Linux/Ubuntu user using KDE/kdm KickOff..

2011-09-07 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Barry On Linux the location of installed programs can vary widely. Many are put into /usr/bin. If you compile from source often the prefix will be /usr/local/bin. In olden times it was normal that /opt was the location of optional programs. Have a look at

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 18:38:13 +1000 Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Glad to hear you're on the job; wasn't sure if your other work/life was interfering. Yes, took on a rescue dog a few weeks ago, an 8 year old standard poodle I named Doctor Who. Bit of a handful, trying to catch up the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:01:16 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I'm guessing you have already had one called K9? It's a shame Base is not quite up to the level of the challenge you face with Access. There has been some discussion about a power-users guide in

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] collaboration between AOOo and LO

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 12:47:15 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) I thought ODFauthors were trying to organise collaboration between OOo and LO documentation? I don't think this should be 1 person's responsibility to organise. I think there are a few people here from

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Data Pilot UI glitch (was: Re: Anyone working on 3.4.x updates?)

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 11:40:44 +0200 Nino Novak nn.l...@kflog.org wrote: see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=39744 My interpretation/suggestion: - seems to be fixed in master - but don't know if backported to 3.4.x - should be carefully/repeatedly tested in master at least

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] collaboration between AOOo and LO

2011-09-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 10:35:16 -0400 David B Teague sr davidbtea...@comporium.net wrote: On 9/5/2011 8:43 AM, Jean Weber wrote: So herding of cats on AOOo would be something to dream of (Nobody expects the S.I. etc.. apologies to MP). What is the S.I. and who is MP? --David --

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING Andrew Martin: Updates for LibO 3.4.x Calc Guide

2011-08-23 Thread Martin Fox
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:59:12 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: I have put on the wiki my list of updates needed for the LibO 3.4.x Calc Guide. http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Development#Calc_Guide Martin: I think you were going to work on Chapter 8

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING Jean GS Macro Chapter replacement

2011-08-07 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:52:07 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Not this time! I haven't touched the file. However, to answer the question, figure captions are not always necessary (this is discussed in one or another of the chapters of the Contributors' Guide) but in the case

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] PING Jean GS Macro Chapter replacement

2011-08-06 Thread Martin Fox
On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 12:30:46 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: Andrew, if you and/or Martin can do the job of updating the chapter, that would be best. I really don't have time. Don't worry about matching the appearance of screenshots, and as you say differences are less

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] GS Macro Chapter replacement

2011-08-05 Thread Martin Fox
On Fri, 05 Aug 2011 13:11:03 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-04 at 21:58 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: I suppose that I have good news and bad news... Thanks for reporting these problems, Andrew. Evidently the person who final-checked

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: [libreoffice-users] Extrusion and Convert to 3d in Draw

2011-07-06 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Tom Has he/have you had a look at Chapter 7 of the OOo DG? I think it is covered in there. regards Martin On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 01:07:49 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Hi :) Another question from the users list. He has been pointed to the Getting Started Guides here

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] 3.4 bug?

2011-06-18 Thread Martin Fox
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 21:12:23 +1000 Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: This appears to be fixed in LibO 3.4.1 RC1, available from http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/testing/ --Jean thanks Jean, trying it out now.. have a good weekend regards Martin PS still

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] 3.4 bug?

2011-06-06 Thread Martin Fox
On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 03:40:24 -0400 Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com wrote: In v. 3.4 (latest Wintel build) the deleted edit-change text disappears (seemingly, the struck-out text changes to spaces, eliminating the text that was edit-deleted) whenever the file is saved. v. 3.3.2 is OK.

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Fw: Impress with sound? The background

2011-05-02 Thread Martin Fox
Hi Tom This was in an old user posting If you insert a sound object using Insert Movie and Sound it will play immediately when you show the slide in a slide show. One way to make the sound start when you want is to make an exact duplicate of the slide and embed the sound on the second slide. You

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Documentation Team Leader?

2011-04-23 Thread Martin Fox
Short response: +1 from me and especially the use of ODT as format of source docs. Longer response: Having lurked around the Authors group for a while, I firmly believe in some form of leadership, else we all tend to leave it to others and concentrate on our day job! ;=) As a well known