[libreoffice-documentation] Re: A proposed book or reference card for LIbreOffice Base application programming...

2020-10-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/10/2020 à 20:58, Sören Jonsson a écrit : Hi Sören, You might also want to look at : https://www.amazon.fr/Database-Programming-OpenOffice-org-Base-Basic/dp/0557007585 Roberto did have a website with useful tools and further documented examples, but they seem to have disappeared, and his

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Update on Ubuntu18

2020-07-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/07/2020 à 04:30, Kevin Berry a écrit : At a guess, you would probably have to purge the 6.0 installation first before installing from a PPA for 6.4... Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Proposed Addition to Base Guide 6.2

2020-06-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/06/2020 à 23:49, Doug Bleeker a écrit : Doug, Pretty sure that that has been described and present in the Base Guide for a while now. Not sure where you got the information that it wasn't possible. I is unfortunate indeed if you got it from one of the regular information sites for

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice Base 7.0 has not got Firebird engine without experimental mode

2020-06-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/06/2020 à 20:32, Drew Jensen a écrit : > IIRC there is a major architectural change to the HSQLDB code from 1.x > to 2.x and the cost of making the code changes for an embedded mode > (even the HSLQDB 1.8 is a customiazed release when used embedded in a > Base file) would be very high. >

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice Base 7.0 has not got Firebird engine without experimental mode

2020-06-09 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 09/06/2020 à 06:28, Pulkit Krishna a écrit : Hi Pulkit, Yes, this change was made in master and also pushed into the 6.4.4 branch - it was deliberate. The reason is that the embedded Firebird support code just too much of a liability at the moment, and virtually no one is fixing the bugs

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Guide 6.2 Published!

2020-05-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/2020 à 21:33, Olivier Hallot a écrit : Well done everyone, and thanks ! Alex > Hello Team, Pulkit > > Congrats for the achievement ! > > I have added the Base Guide to the documentation website: > > https://documentation.libreoffice.org > > Regards > Olivier > > Em 04/05/2020

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: More problems with Mail Merge

2020-04-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/04/2020 à 18:05, Dan Lewis a écrit : Dan, > Dear , where salutation is either Mr. or Mrs. > depending upon value in the Salutation field? > Sounds like what you describe is related to : https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118861 Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Draw — 3D Effects

2020-04-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/04/2020 à 12:25, Peter Schofield a écrit : Hi Peter, > There is one tool in Draw that appears to have no function at all. This is > 3D-Effects. > It appears when you right click on a 3D object and also appears in Visible > Buttons. > I have tried using 3D-Effects several times in

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Firebird in Base

2020-01-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/01/2020 à 05:09, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, From what I know, the default setting of switching to Firebird and automatic migration process on loading any embedded hsqldb was reverted back to only being activated if the experimental features were first activated in LO preferences,

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: My latest book about LibreOffice Writer

2019-10-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/10/2019 à 07:34, Mark LaPierre a écrit : Mark, > > No one has been able to produce a working copy of a BASE project that I > can download and examine and/or use as a template to develop my own. > I've asked for that several times with no response.  The BASE handbook > is a great primer on

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: connecting directly to MySQL

2019-09-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/09/2019 à 15:06, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, Probably this bug : https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122560 Which comes from the LO project using an old version of the mariadb C connector library code to build the connector. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Styles in Guides

2019-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 27/05/2019 à 13:11, Olivier Hallot a écrit : Hi Olivier, > > The foundation has support of legal councelor Mike Schinagl and the > Board of Directors is the right channel to start addressing legal issues > at i...@documentfoundation.org > Thanks ! Good to know. Alex -- To unsubscribe

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Styles in Guides

2019-05-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/05/2019 à 17:33, Dave Barton a écrit : > If you think the documentation team are wrong in their decision, please > take it to the TDF legal advisors and we will listen to them. > Out of interest, who are those legal advisors ? Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-documentation] no ofline help in libre ofice 50

2016-10-20 Thread alexander
Hello I just wanted to let you know that the fact that libre office 5.0.5.2 not having help (of-line) is a big break in it's deployment not being an expert I spent more than an hour trying on the net to find an easy way to install help. I even found someone I guess the people building help

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Message from Translators to Authors...

2016-05-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/05/2016 à 21:04, Olivier Hallot a écrit : Hi Olivier, Ooh, yes, I remember why I stopped using OmegaT because of this very frustrating occurrence. It was something I encountered when I tried to use OmegaT to translate the Base Guide from German. This is probably one of the reasons why

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Video Tutorial Link in Help

2015-12-09 Thread Robert Alexander
Hi everyone, thank you all for putting so much consideration into this discussion. I am quite happy to independently create tutorial videos for LibreOffice if it turns out that this is the best route for the project as a whole. I was originally going to do that, but decided it would be good to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of "allow to" in documentation

2015-12-01 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/11/2015 12:28, ptoye a écrit : Hi Peter, Yes, we there are no doubt more suitable English constructions for this such as : "enable" + "verbal noun" e.g. enables (the) selection of enables selecting a/the and no doubt many others. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Defective JRE error

2015-11-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/11/2015 11:29, tfost...@pacbell.net a écrit : Hi Tom, Are you using a 32bit or 64bit version of LibreOffice ? From the error message your report, it seems like you are using OpenOffice.org ? In any event, you need a bitness version of Java that corresponds to that of LibreOffice, so if

[libreoffice-documentation] Changes in shortcuts in Calc, which also affect Base, Writer

2015-10-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
FYI : https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59418 -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: OmegaT translating the German Base Handbook

2015-08-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/08/2015 09:57, Sophie a écrit : Hi all, I have fully translated the following parts of the Base Guide into French : Version 4.1 Preface (ODT) Version 4.1 Chapter 1 (ODT) Version 4.3 Preface (GDOC) Version 4.3 Chapter 1 (GDOC) The remaining chapters of the 4.3 Base Guide have been partly

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: OmegaT translating the German Base Handbook

2015-08-13 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 13/08/2015 09:57, Sophie a écrit : Rummaging around in my hard disk, I have also found the following which I translated into French : Version 3.5 Base Handbook Preface (ODT) Version 3.5 Base Handbook Chapter 1 (ODT) and three files from when I first tried working with OmegaT on the Base

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: German Base-Handbuch 5.0

2015-07-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/07/2015 21:15, Robert Großkopf a écrit : Hi, Thanks Robert, Amazing work, as ever, and very useful. I 'm not able to translate the handbook from German to English. My English isn't good enough for this. I'm still ploughing through the 4.x translation into French, but you're such a

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LO in the Mac Appstore

2015-07-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/07/2015 23:41, Dave Barton a écrit : Hi Dave, Collabora provides : LibreOffice Vanilla (currently 4.4.4.4 - synced with TDF 4.4.x release) and LibreOffice from Collabora (4.3.8). on the AppStore. Alex -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: documentation+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: question about Base-Handbuch passage

2014-09-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/09/2014 01:17, Alan Cook a écrit : Hi Alan, As I understand it, what Robert is referring to is that with a form, it is possible to have calculated fields and make a print out of one record, e.g. by ensuring that all your form elements fit on one printable page you can print out such a

[libreoffice-documentation] Fwd: Re: [libreoffice-users] Defending ODF against OOXML in the UK

2014-02-22 Thread Alexander Wilms
) On 23 February 2014 00:12, Alexander Wilms f.alexander.wi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I already posted this on the LibreOffice Google+ and Facebook pages, but there are probably quite a few people subscibed to this list who are not following either one. The UK government plans

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Screenshots from Mac

2013-05-29 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 29/05/13 01:04, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, That all sounds fine. Apple don't have good reason to hassle us anyway and even if they did it would only be bad PR for them. It's not as though they get a significant chunk of income from a competing product. Rafeal's notes will be there

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Translate Base Guide from German? (was: Change LO icon set shown in user guides?)

2012-09-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/09/12 07:00, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, Who can help? Martin? Hazel? Someone lurking on this list? No one needs to commit to doing the whole book. It is within my capabilities to do this, unfortunately, I'm currently the person Robert mentioned as working on the French translation of

[libreoffice-documentation] Changes in Base for upcoming 3.6

2012-07-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just a heads up to people working on Base documentation. - database reports can now be designed with positioning accuracy to 1Oths of a millimeter. The code has been changed to force a round-up to the nearest 10th of millimeter in any given X,Y coordinate of a control ; - hsqldb

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?

2012-06-11 Thread Alexander Sun
template, just set the Asian Text Fonts' option while you are at it. And thanks the Jean's suggestion! Regards Sun 2012/6/11, Gary Schnabl gschn...@swdetroit.com: On 6/10/2012 10:25 AM, Alexander Sun wrote: Hi all, I´m in the process of translating the Getting Started Guide to Chinese

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?

2012-06-11 Thread Alexander Sun
adapting it to your language's template, just do it--yourself. It's that simple. Also, you do not require any permissions from anybody to do that. Perhaps, there is a problem concerning this, but I just do not see it. Gary On 6/11/2012 8:08 AM, Alexander Sun wrote: Thanks for these reply

[libreoffice-documentation] Could make a little change on template please?

2012-06-10 Thread Alexander Sun
Hi all, I´m in the process of translating the Getting Started Guide to Chinese. But there has a little problem here. The Font's size and style in template between Asian and Western are different. Every time I open a new file and become translating. I must change the font size and style first. For

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fwd: Where could I report the feedback of use LO?

2012-05-13 Thread Alexander Sun
Hi Nino, Thanks for your reply! That's very clear! Regards, Alexander 2012/5/14, Nino nn.l...@kflog.org: Hi Alexander, you can - discuss your proposals on the international discuss list[1] - discuss them with the ux people[2] and/or - file a bug or enhancement request on bugzilla[3] [1

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: I have resigned from Apache OpenOffice

2012-05-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/05/12 14:00, Jean Weber a écrit : I do enjoy working with the LibreOffice project. I'm ready to take on the role of leader here, if this group still wants me to do so. (Don't worry, I won't be offended if you say no.) As far as I'm concerned, you have my support. +1 from me. Alex

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I have resigned from Apache OpenOffice

2012-05-05 Thread Alexander Sun
Hi Jean, I am new guy here, but please allow me to say: Welcome! We need you! Sun 2012/5/5, Jean Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com: For those of you who may not see my announcement elsewhere, I have resigned from the Apache OpenOffice project management committee. I intend no further involvement with

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Does LibreOffice has official User Guide in Chinese?

2012-05-02 Thread Alexander Sun
Hi, Thanks for your reply! You say first step is to get an Alfresco login, what does Alfresco do? And very thank you for try to look-up David's email address. Hope that I can get Alfresco account. The ODFAuthors looks like just for OOo User Guides, not for LibreOffice User Guides, should I

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Does LibreOffice has official User Guide in Chinese?

2012-05-02 Thread Alexander Sun
Hi Sorry for the question about Alfresco on previous email. I had read the Contributors’ Guide. Regards Sun 2012/5/2, Alexander Sun daetalu...@gmail.com: Hi, Thanks for your reply! You say first step is to get an Alfresco login, what does Alfresco do? And very thank you for try to look-up

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Does LibreOffice has official User Guide in Chinese?

2012-05-02 Thread Alexander Sun
Hello Charles Thanks for your reply, I will do that! Best Regards, Alex 2012/5/2, Alexander Sun daetalu...@gmail.com: Hi Sorry for the question about Alfresco on previous email. I had read the Contributors’ Guide. Regards Sun 2012/5/2, Alexander Sun daetalu...@gmail.com: Hi, Thanks

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Chapter 2 of Base Guide progress

2012-03-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/03/12 10:58, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Hi Dan, Try this link. It is the same document but in a different folder. http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-guide/draft-lo3.4/planning-designing-your-database/view I'm currently translating this into French, but I have

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Chapter 2 of Base Guide progress

2012-03-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/03/12 20:44, Dan Lewis a écrit : Try this link. It is the same document but in a different folder. http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-guide/draft-lo3.4/planning-designing-your-database/view Thanks Dan, will take a look. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Chapter 2 of Base Guide progress

2012-03-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/03/12 04:51, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, It's here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-guide/feedback-lo3.4/planning-and-designing-your-database-1/view Ooh, that's very handy, I was looking for that, but it asks me for credentials, and I don't seem to be able to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: [libreoffice-users] Macintosh Custom Keyboard Shortcuts

2012-03-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/03/12 08:28, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, No, I forgot about that. Good idea. I'm hoping that someone on the users list follow up and find the answer. I can't easily check websites right now, so it falls into the same category as has anyone checked the forums? If people wait for

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Getting Started with Base

2012-02-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/02/12 10:58, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I think Alex has said there seems to be a bottle-neck preventing new code and patches from getting accepted. I don't recall ever having written any such thing. As far as I know, there is no bottleneck for submission. The review process

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Report Builder

2012-01-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/01/12 15:55, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, The report wizard in both OOo and LO gives a choice of a static or dynamic report. Where is this choice in the Report Builder? I can't find it. Or, has it been decided that a static report no longer serves a purpose? I always thought that

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Graphics vanishing

2011-12-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/12/11 13:22, Rainer Bielefeld a écrit : Hi all, Is there a bug-report that you know of in LO (or OOo)? Hi, such image loss problems started in early OOo times, and IMHO the reason never has been found https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=59915 Yep, it is an ancient bug

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: template path

2011-12-16 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/12/11 19:15, Gary Schnabl a écrit : Hi Gary, However, I tried to switch between the two folders via the Edit command but did not notice it having any effect. Any ideas about this? Possibly related to one or more of the currently known template management bugs :

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Guide copyright and contributors

2011-11-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 25/11/11 21:25, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, 1) The OOo version of the existing chapters has not been published, and I understand that Dan Lewis is writing the LO version and OOo version in parallel. Therefore IMO the copyright page does not need the Acknowledgements section stating

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: [VI] Art work for User Guide covers

2011-11-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 24/11/11 00:45, elcico2001 एल्चिको a écrit : Hi all, One proposal coming out of this exchange, 'Ice Castle', is available for review at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Gallery_DocumentationFronts#International Comments are welcomed and encouraged. Very nice !!! My only quibble

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibO Documentation

2011-11-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/11/11 23:10, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, My main questions are to do with how and where we write/edit help: * In the Help files themselves? (If so, where?) Yes, that would ultimately be the best solution. They are in the git repository in hc2 (helpcontent2), which one would have

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Noise Re: About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions

2011-11-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 27/10/11 15:09, julien2412 a écrit : Hi Julien, Second point : do you know if there's a doc in progress about Base for http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/documentation/ ? There is/was a Getting Started with Base Guide in English that I started translating into French. I am about halfway

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Noise Re: About fdo#40162 - Missing section in README_en-US installation instructions

2011-11-03 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 03/11/11 19:30, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, There is a link to Getting Started with Base for LibreOffice on the page you mentioned. It is based on the the Getting Started with Base written for OOo written by yours truly with the help of a few others that were greatly appreciated.

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: wiki main page

2011-10-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 16/10/11 02:22, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, all, Hi :) Alex has made an excellent and fairly hefty start to an FAQ section and put it on the main documentation page http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation Could i move it to a sub-page such as

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Extension website - broader publicity wanted

2011-09-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/09/11 17:37, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, Sorry, I didn't notice your post until just now, but I checked and the pages with the associated links have already been fixed, so someone got there before me. Good job to that person. ;-) No problem, I think Drew sorted it out. Alex

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Extension website - broader publicity wanted

2011-09-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/09/11 21:52, Andreas Mantke a écrit : Hi all, I will ask David directly, if he has time to and is willing to work on the page. He provided some weeks ago to improve the text (if the structure of the site is finished). Well as of today, the page :

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Fw: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] Extension website - broader publicity wanted

2011-09-22 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/09/11 11:43, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, Sorry, I've been really busy. Please remind me of exactly what URL you want it to point to, and I will make the change immediately. No worries, we've all got our real lives to get on with as well :-)) I suppose that we ought to link to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Just Introducing Myself

2011-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/09/11 01:55, Don Parris a écrit : Hi Don, In particular, I'd like to help out with Base documentation. It will be closer to October before I can do anything at all, but I thought I would at least throw my name in the hat. Excellent, welcome aboard. Base is definitely a module where

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Not continuing with ApacheOOo at this time

2011-09-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/09/11 12:02, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, Pursuing things that are fun can be just as worthwhile :-)) Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting

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

2011-09-05 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 05/09/11 16:35, David B Teague sr a écrit : What is the S.I. and who is MP? --David Spanish Inquisition and Monty Python Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/07/11 12:40, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, * The problem with the Base guide is not that people aren't keen. There are at least 2 people that joined Documentation specifically to work on it rather than Indeed. on other guides. The problem seems to be that Base is a bit quirky

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/07/11 15:20, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, I would *very* much regret if that were to happen... I wonder what we might possibly do, maybe acting together, to agitate for some remedial work on the component. I see Base as being an asset with great potential value. I fear that

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base

2011-07-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/07/11 17:46, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, I think the first step would be trying to get Apache to give TDF a copy of the code that IBM gave them. I think Base in Symphony was more advanced. I get the impression that you haven't used Symphony and its DB capacities, or I doubt you

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Getting Started Guide_Setting up Libreoffice

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 08/07/11 09:45, Gary Schnabl a écrit : Hi Gary, My common-sense take on this (non)issue is that Microsoft would actually not object to any such public exposure of their GUI than in suppressing it, as it provides free advertising for the (now-obsolete) product. Ditto for Apple. Common

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Screenshots for LibreOffice documentation

2011-07-07 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 07/07/11 17:12, Alexander Thurgood a écrit : Oh and this : 2. Apple Logo and Apple-owned Graphic Symbols: You may not use the Apple Logo or any other Apple-owned graphic symbol, logo, or *icon* [emphasis added by me] on or in connection with web sites, products, packaging, *manuals

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Proposal for major revision of Getting Started Guide

2011-06-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/06/11 09:13, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, Have you seen his website and his book? They are good resources for people who want serious info on macros. (Shameless plug for Andrew) http://www.pitonyak.org/oo.php http://www.pitonyak.org/book/ Just as a side remark, and

[libreoffice-documentation] Consistent UI theme for screenshots

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Sorry for not following the thread, but since the changeover of mailing list names, Gmane still won't let me post to the list by replying to an existing message, and it is getting really annoying. My only remark in regard to choosing a theme, other than the usual ones of it being printable in

[libreoffice-documentation] LOinstallonMac.odt in wrong place ?

2011-06-24 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just a heads-up as I was browsing the repo today. I noticed in the Base/Reviewed directory on documentation.libreoffice.org that the following file : LOinstallonMac.odt has apparently been put in the wrong place. Unfortunately, I do not appear to be able to move it to its rightful place

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Collecting small things in the Wiki

2011-06-11 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 11/06/11 00:57, Jean Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, I have now looked at the German wiki pages you referenced. They are much more complete and better organised than anything the English team has done. Perhaps we should have someone translate these pages to English, if we can find someone

[libreoffice-documentation] Base Documentation

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Just a heads up to those working on Base Documentation that there are a number of known bugs related to database usage and LibreOffice : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=libreoffice+database For many of these, little, or no, work is being done to correct them. If

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Documentation

2011-05-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 23/05/11 17:11, Rogerio Luz Coelho a écrit : Hi Rogerio, If not Base will be abandoned is that it? Is the actual state of this comonent usable at all? I can't speak for what any of the developers might feel, I know that some have said they never use Base at all, or rarely, and

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Base Manual

2011-05-06 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 06/05/11 13:51, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : Hi Jean, AFAIK, Base hasn't changed a lot. Possibly some new features in LO? No it hasn't changed a lot, but there are unfortunately a lot of broken things so little incentive to write/update (other than rebranding) new documentation for

[libreoffice-documentation] Request for login/password id on Alfresco

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Since Alfresco went belly a while ago up I believe that my account login/pwd were deleted. I was working on the French translation of the Getting Started with Base guide. Could someone please re-issue me with the necessary credentials ? Thanks, Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Request for login/password id on Alfresco

2011-05-04 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 04/05/11 10:23, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, I just checked and someone already created you one. Please do give a heads-up if you have any problem logging-in. Yes, thanks, Jeremy set it up for me. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Problem with List box form control properties

2011-02-21 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 21/02/11 18:09, David Nelson a écrit : Hi all, Anyway, my experience with bug reports is that they *do* get attended to - and fairly quickly - but still it can take a few days before someone checks it out, especially if it doesn't fall in the showstopper class. Also, the reports that

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: LibreOffice 3.3.1 Release Candidate 2

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/02/11 00:33, Ian Leyton a écrit : Hi, Just to cause the team more issues. LibO 3.3.1 has some different icons. The new LibO set. Yes, but on Mac they were present in RC1 and have now reverted back to the old ones in RC2. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Use of Euro Euros euro euros and thousand separator and decimal point

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/02/11 16:50, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, i think the general case for English speaking users and perhaps 'most' of Europe is to use a comma , as separator for thousands, millions etc and a full stop . as a decimal point. So, examples would be 50, 000, 000.05 or far more

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: First pass complete

2011-02-15 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 15/02/11 06:18, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, I'm not sure what to say about this. Personally, I don't have a problem with Windows screenshots but, anticipating what certain others might say, it might be better to hold back a little longer and do those screenshots so as to put the

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Icon differences con or pro?

2011-02-14 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 14/02/11 12:31, JDługosz a écrit : Hi all, I think many of the differences are due to using Tango instead of the older set. It's kind of pointless to show a picture and say this icon does this when they don't match. I have to count the position to find the right one on mine. As I

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Volunteer to Proofread (Starting with the website.)

2011-01-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/01/11 19:30, Clayton Walker a écrit : Hi Clayton, Because they don't issue out their own productivity software? Or is it because they aren't on such a sue spree? Doesn't matter either way, I get your drift. No, because Apple does not appear to be as possessive about the copyright on

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: synchronization of ODFAuthors and alfresco

2011-01-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/01/11 15:51, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : Hi Sigrid, PS: Yes, I am angry and upset. You just don't get it how this community works. You've manged to discourage me from contributing to the english documentation, although I might have been able to contribute quite a bit. But I cannot accept

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: synchronization of ODFAuthors and alfresco

2011-01-31 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 31/01/11 16:41, Sigrid Carrera a écrit : Hi Sigrid, Oh, when I said I want to proofread some documentation, I was told, that whatever I correct, has to be proofread again by a native english speaker. So clearly, my contribution there was not welcome. Hmm, I wouldn't consider it like

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: translation spaces

2011-01-30 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 30/01/11 06:49, Jeremy Cartwright a écrit : Hi Jeremy, There are now spaces in Alfresco for the list of languages as found here: http://www.libreoffice.org/international-sites/, plus Italian, Swedish Hindi. Great stuff, tahnks. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-27 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 28/01/11 05:31, Hal Parker a écrit : Hi all, I have since modified Hal's contribution to include a brief discussion about a quirk of the current LangPack installer whereby it will not appear in the foreground if other application windows are open. This can be confusing for the unaware, as the

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Workflow Documentation

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 00:47, Barbara Duprey a écrit : Thanks, will have a gander before diving in to Alfresco !! :-) Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/documentation/ *** All posts to this list are

[libreoffice-documentation] Oracle Alfresco Extension

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi all, Does anyone know whether, and to what extent, the Oracle Alfresco extension works with LibreOffice and the Alfresco documentation server ? Just out of interest. Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@libreoffice.org List archive:

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 15:38, David Nelson a écrit : Hi David, The invitation is also open to other docs team members: we're really short of help from people with a really good level of written English and technical writing experience. I know you said you gave me Author rights to that part of the site,

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: General question about translation of documentation and organisation within Alfresco

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 16:04, Jeremy Cartwright a écrit : Hi Jeremy, Alfresco enables you to store translated versions of content against the native language content item, so the relationship is always maintained. It controls these translations with versioning and other content services. That

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-26 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 26/01/11 16:13, David Nelson a écrit : Definitely not. Would you like to take a look at the Base sub-page of the Features section? That would need some developing... Like some sub-pages exploring the major features of Base in more detail, for instance? Or what are your ideas? Driver

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Alfresco Alfresco Alfresco

2011-01-23 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 22/01/11 18:47, Jeremy Cartwright a écrit : Hi, I'd like to have an ID/PWD combo if possible, because I don't see anywhere to sign up on the alfresco start page. Did I miss something ? Do you need my e-mail address or anything else ? Alex -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/01/11 01:06, Larry Gusaas a écrit : Hi Larry, There is no Taskbar on a Mac. The correct term is the Dock. There is no launcher drawer. An icon for the Downloads folder is located in the Dock. (Folders in the Dock are referred to as “stacks.”) Please use correct terminology for

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Incorrect Terminology for Installing on a Mac

2011-01-12 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 12/01/11 10:24, Tom Davies a écrit : Hi Tom, As far as the Mac goes, Larry is right. The vocabulary is pretty specific, and people on Mac don't generally refer to Taskbar, Drawer, etc. Ever since OSX came into being, the UI has remained essentially unchanged, so those specific terms are all

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Edited Writer Guide Chapter 1

2011-01-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 10/01/11 15:57, Barbara Duprey a écrit : IMHO, it would be better if the fonts chosen for the guide were all available within LibO independtly of the platform. I am currently translating the Base Getting Started Chapter and quite frankly it was a nightmare watching the text jump around (page

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Introducing myself

2010-12-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Jean, Le 17/12/10 04:41, Jean Hollis Weber a écrit : But why not use what's available and does a good job, until a decision is made on a more long-term solution? Personally, I've always found OOoAuthors a very strange beast to get to grips with, probably because there are so many

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: Detailed instructions for installing LibreOffice on Macintosh

2010-12-17 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 17/12/10 10:48, David Nelson a écrit : Hi guys, The instructions for basic installation and for the lang pack are what matters most. Screenshots are an optional extra if you're up to it. Thanks if so. If ever someone fixes me up before you do, I'll mail you. If not, the offer will be

[libreoffice-documentation] Re: documentation at oooauthors

2010-12-10 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Hi Sophie, Le 09/12/10 09:49, Sophie Gautier a écrit : What language are you going to translate to? If you need help or a first reader in case of French, just ping me :-) I'll be translating into French to start with, and possibly German later depending on whether someone else has started