Re: Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] libreoffice writer guide
Greetings, No manpage, but try soffice --help for supported command line options. You may need an absolute path specified for soffice if the path to soffice is not in your $PATH variable. Note that soffice is a plain text shell script which eventually invokes soffice.bin, so you may want to look at soffice for more information. HTH Girvin Herr On 02/23/2014 09:41 PM, Jean Weber wrote: Thanks, Jean, soffice (here, at work, on Ubuntu) gives you something which enables you to choose among Writer, Spreadsheet, etc. The other commands you mention aren't recognized. Re switches, there seems to be no man page for soffice, in the Ubuntu distribution (package libreoffice-common, Version: 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu5) regards, Jeremy On 24/02/14 12:15, Jean Weber wrote: I think the commands are soffice, swriter, scalc, etc, with various switches as for OOo, but I'm not anywhere that I can easily look it up right now. Clayton, or someone else on this list, may have more info handy. --Jean On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeremy Dawson wrote: Hi Jean, Yes, starting from a command line. In Linux, Fedora 20. Just like for openoffice, one would type "oowriter", or for staroffice, one would type "soffice" Thanks for the advice about getting it started in the graphical user interface, and the many ways to do that but I assume the developers haven't deliberately removed my choice of working how I find easiest Regards, Jeremy Dawson On 24/02/14 07:00, Jean Weber wrote: Not sure about your question. Do you mean starting from a command line? If so, which platform? Usually, on any platform, it's started in the graphical user interface, and the many ways to do that are described in Chapter 1 of the Getting Started book, if they are not in Chapter 1 of the Writer Guide. --Jean On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Jeremy Dawson wrote: I have made quite a considerable effort looking in this documentation for the command to start libreoffice. And I cannot find it. How to use libreoffice once I have got it started is not much use if I can't start it. What it the command to start it, please? Regards, Jeremy Dawson -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] libreoffice writer guide
Just forwarding Jeremy's reply. Seems the issue is closed now. Clayton -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeremy Dawson Date: Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] libreoffice writer guide To: C Dear clayton, Thanks - soffice works, as does libreoffice. I'd tried libreoffice-writer - Murphy's law! Cheers, Jeremy Dawson On 24/02/14 16:11, C wrote: On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Jeremy Dawson wrote: > > I have made quite a considerable effort looking in this documentation for > the command to start libreoffice. And I cannot find it. How to use > libreoffice once I have got it started is not much use if I can't start > it. > > What it the command to start it, please? > > Regards, > > Jeremy Dawson > > [snip] > > >> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeremy Dawson >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Jean, >>> >>> Yes, starting from a command line. In Linux, Fedora 20. >>> >>> Just like for openoffice, one would type "oowriter", or for staroffice, one >>> would type "soffice" >>> >>> Thanks for the advice about getting it started in the graphical user >>> interface, and the many ways to do that but I assume the developers haven't >>> deliberately removed my choice of working how I find easiest >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Jeremy Dawson >> >> system is Linux, Fedora 20 distribution, >> installed by >> yum install libreoffice-writer > > > Hi Jeremy > > The LibreOffice documentation only covers the generic installs for > Linux. The docs cannot go into the specifics for each distro, or we'd > be here for years just trying to cover all the variations. The Linux > install instructions in the LibreOffice documentation does cover how > to install the generic LibreOffice from the downloaded bundle > (RPM/DEB)... but that's not what you're doing if you're using yum to > do the install on Fedora 20. > > When you installed with "yum install libreoffice-writer", you didn't > install all of libreoffice. For Fedora, from command line, you need > to use: > >yum install libreoffice > > This is the top level that should pull in the minimum dependencies for > LibreOffice (note that it's libreoffice not libreoffice-writer). I > don't have my Fedora 20 up and running at the moment... I can't > remember if this installs the Gnome/KDE integration for you (depending > on which window manager you are using). > > Assuming all went well, LibreOffice should be available in your menus. > If not, you can launch from command line using: > >soffice > > (Note: You may also be able to use "libreoffice" on the command line > to launch LibreOffice... this should work on most distros... "soffice" > though should always work) > > > Clayton > -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] libreoffice writer guide
Thanks, Jean, soffice (here, at work, on Ubuntu) gives you something which enables you to choose among Writer, Spreadsheet, etc. The other commands you mention aren't recognized. Re switches, there seems to be no man page for soffice, in the Ubuntu distribution (package libreoffice-common, Version: 1:3.5.7-0ubuntu5) regards, Jeremy On 24/02/14 12:15, Jean Weber wrote: > > I think the commands are soffice, swriter, scalc, etc, with various > switches as for OOo, but I'm not anywhere that I can easily look it up > right now. > > Clayton, or someone else on this list, may have more info handy. > > --Jean > > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Jeremy Dawson > wrote: >> >> Hi Jean, >> >> Yes, starting from a command line. In Linux, Fedora 20. >> >> Just like for openoffice, one would type "oowriter", or for staroffice, one >> would type "soffice" >> >> Thanks for the advice about getting it started in the graphical user >> interface, and the many ways to do that but I assume the developers haven't >> deliberately removed my choice of working how I find easiest >> >> Regards, >> >> Jeremy Dawson >> >> >> On 24/02/14 07:00, Jean Weber wrote: >>> >>> Not sure about your question. Do you mean starting from a command >>> line? If so, which platform? >>> >>> Usually, on any platform, it's started in the graphical user >>> interface, and the many ways to do that are described in Chapter 1 of >>> the Getting Started book, if they are not in Chapter 1 of the Writer >>> Guide. >>> >>> --Jean >>> >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Jeremy Dawson >>> wrote: I have made quite a considerable effort looking in this documentation for the command to start libreoffice. And I cannot find it. How to use libreoffice once I have got it started is not much use if I can't start it. What it the command to start it, please? Regards, Jeremy Dawson -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- 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: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
