Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about mkdir errors during desktop integration install

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can you create the folders yourself and then see if the script runs?  It will probably grumble about not being able to make the folders but then hopefully the rest of it should complete surely?  I'm not sure it will work but it seems worth trying. Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue,

[libreoffice-users] End notes

2012-03-13 Thread kirnic
I had just posted an entry about end notes. I failed to mention that I would like to see a change under paragraph styles in Libre Office that would allow a different placement of endnotes from the very end of a paper. At present, I enter an end note, copy it and manually move what I wrote to the

[libreoffice-users] Re: malfunction opening docx document

2012-03-13 Thread Tom
Hi :) You can use Nabble to upload/attach a file. This is a public list tho so please avoid uploading anything confidential such as people names and addresses or bank account details. Just use the links in this email to get directly into the right thread in Nabble or else you could get into

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Brian Barker
At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating a change in sound, rather than a diphthong. For what it's worth, the German for diaeresis appears to be

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Brian wrote: For what it's worth, the German for diaeresis appears to be Trema. The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent, whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an accent. Not quite. “Umlaut” is not a character or a mark but the

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Séamas Ó Brógáin
Tom wrote: I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there were quite a few different markings, and in different languages, that could change the way a letter sounds? Diacritical marks are used for lots of different purposes in different languages though the marks

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and new Report Builder in 3.5

2012-03-13 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Andreas , Am 11.03.2012 19:48, tops wrote: Hi all, I have been using OO and LibreOffice prior to 3.5 with Base and Reports. Now the Reports in 3.5 can not be used any further, instead I had to try (despair) and create new Reports using the Oracle Reports Tool. IMHO this is a major leap

[libreoffice-users] Re: malfunction opening docx document

2012-03-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 12.03.2012 22:39, Maurizio Sapienza wrote: the attached document when opened by Writer 3.4 is totally blank. Using the previous 3.3 release, it appeared missing of some formulas (that drove me to install the new relelase). The pdf file is how it appear using

[libreoffice-users] Grammar checking, slightly different

2012-03-13 Thread Thomas Blasejewicz
A while ago I installed After the Deadline on two machines running Win XP, LibreOffice 3.4.4 EVERY time I start LO, I get the following error message: Could not connect to AtD service. Host:https://en.service.afterthedeadline.com/ Reason: Method failed HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base and new Report Builder in 3.5

2012-03-13 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 13.03.2012 12:11, Fernand Vanrie wrote: It would be handy to see some examples of how you make reports with calc. We have questions on how to Make headers , footers and grouping somes results ? Greetz Fernand Page headers and footers can not have database content unless you write a

[libreoffice-users] Differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2012-03-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
There is a discussion on the Debian list right now about the differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice. As the two office suites diverge, it will become more and more important to document the differences between them. Therefore I have started a page to document these differences:

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread James Knott
Brian Barker wrote: At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an Umlaut, indicating a change in sound, rather than a diphthong. For what it's worth, the German for

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

2012-03-13 Thread manderson
NoOp wrote: Looks like you've run into these: lt;https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46111gt; [install incorrectly claims LibreOffice/Quickstarter is running and aborts] That bug has been marked as a duplicate of this one:

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:18:20 -0400 Brian Barker wrote: At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, known in English as a dieresis, or in German as an

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: malfunction opening docx document

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Supposedly DocX has an advantage in being less vulnerable to malware.  However that is likely to be more about perception than reality.  I think both MS formats use the same language for macros.  You could try getting back to factory defaults which might not necessarily be the way it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2012-03-13 Thread Nino Novak
Am Dienstag, 13. März 2012, 13:52:41 schrieb Dotan Cohen: If you come across any other differences, or if any corrections need to be made, then please contact me and I will update the document. LibreOffice has received plenty of code patches since forking. New features are listed in [1,2,3].

Re: [libreoffice-users] End notes

2012-03-13 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Nick, kirnic schrieb: I had just posted an entry about end notes. I failed to mention that I would like to see a change under paragraph styles in Libre Office that would allow a different placement of endnotes from the very end of a paper. At present, I enter an end note, copy it and

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread James Knott
Cliff Scott wrote: For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á, , £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual. Pardon my

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread James Knott
Cliff Scott wrote: For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, you can use the right Alt key to create those characters, such as ü, á, , £, € etc. The left Alt key works as usual. Pardon my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Grammar checking, slightly different

2012-03-13 Thread webmaster for Kracked Press Productions
If I remember correctly, After the Deadline uses an external service to handle the grammar information for the language you are using. I wonder if this error is telling you that the online portion of the system is not working. Also, I believe that this grammar system was still in beta, the last

[libreoffice-users] Re: two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Werner F. Bruhin
On 13/03/2012 13:47, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from James Knottjames.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:18:20 -0400 Brian Barker wrote: At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote: The absolutely correct spelling of the word naïve has the two dots, known in English as

Re: [libreoffice-users] End notes

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) There is a chapter on Sections in the official documentation at http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications Regards from Tom :) --- On Tue, 13/3/12, Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de wrote: From: Regina Henschel rb.hensc...@t-online.de Subject: Re:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Differences between LibreOffice and OpenOffice

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think it's probably worth just saying that OpenOffice develops a lot more slowly and is therefore more stable.  Bugs go unfixed for longer.  LibreOffice develops faster, has more features, fixes bugs faster, supports more 3rd party formats better but occasionally has regressions which

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

2012-03-13 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Have you had any other Office Suites?  Have you tried RevoUninstaller? http://www.revouninstaller.com/ The guide for installing a parallel version of LibreOffice might help, even tho you are certain you don't have one currently http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Installing_in_parallel Even

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Mark Stanton
Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one would find out that information? Thanks. You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but might be wrong), you key in the ASCII code for the letter you want. Regards Mark Stanton One small step

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Scott Castaline
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just to mention, the keys that are annotated as dead keys actually do work but you have to hit the space bar after entering the particular key. ie to type ~ which is a dead key I strike the key as normal followed by the space bar and the character

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread James Knott
Mark Stanton wrote: You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but might be wrong), you key in the ASCII code for the letter you want. That mehtod is unique to Microsoft products. It doesn't work in Linux. Dunno 'bout Mac. -- For unsubscribe instructions

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base and new Report Builder in 3.5

2012-03-13 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Andreas , Thanks for your interest With grouping i meaned having the content of the grouped column on top or at the bottom off the items off the same group. We where thinking on a macro who use a resulstet to fill the spreadsheet cell by cell with some counters who are making a groupheader

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread James Knott
Doug wrote: I don't think the right alt key works out of the box --you'd have to modify it to be a Compose key. You could also make the right ctrl key to be Compose, or the right Microsoft key, if your k/b has one. You just have to enable the U.S. - International keyboard, as I mentioned in

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Mark Stanton m...@vowleyfarm.co.uk on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:39:33 - Pardon my ignorance, but could you describe how that works or where one would find out that information? Thanks. You hold down the ALt key and, using the numeric keypad only (I think, but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Werner F. Bruhin werner.bru...@free.fr on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:26:02 +0100 On 13/03/2012 13:47, Cliff Scott wrote: ** Reply to message from James Knottjames.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:18:20 -0400 Brian Barker wrote: At 00:56 13/03/2012 -0400, Doug

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:13:02 -0400 Cliff Scott wrote: For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, you can use the right Alt key to

Re: [libreoffice-users] two dots above the i in presentation.

2012-03-13 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com on Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:10:15 -0400 Cliff Scott wrote: For those who are interested, it's possible to generate the various special characters by using the U.S. International keyboard. With it, you can use the right Alt key to

[libreoffice-users] Keeping Text Together

2012-03-13 Thread Hal Vaughan
I know that under formatting I can specify to keep a paragraph connected to the next one, so they don't get split up. But I'm working on formatting questions on a test, and that includes blank lines, like this: - Please describe how you would teach a new student how to handle Cuban

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

2012-03-13 Thread NoOp
On 03/13/2012 04:36 AM, manderson wrote: NoOp wrote: Looks like you've run into these: lt;https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46111gt; [install incorrectly claims LibreOffice/Quickstarter is running and aborts] That bug has been marked as a duplicate of this one:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

2012-03-13 Thread Dan Lewis
On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 12:50 -0700, NoOp wrote: On 03/13/2012 04:36 AM, manderson wrote: NoOp wrote: Looks like you've run into these: lt;https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46111gt; [install incorrectly claims LibreOffice/Quickstarter is running and aborts] That

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't install LibreOffice

2012-03-13 Thread NoOp
On 03/13/2012 01:28 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 12:50 -0700, NoOp wrote: ... I've have multiple versions of OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice installed together on two WinXP Pro SP3's - both with Avast! AV running I've not run into the issue. So hopefully I can compare with those

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help with Tables

2012-03-13 Thread desQEDo
The way to get your copied and pasted spreadsheet tables formatted as you want is to apply the borders in Calc and copy/paste the table */after/* that process. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Help-with-Tables-tp3814653p3822877.html Sent from the Users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Text Together

2012-03-13 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-03-14 07:23, Hal Vaughan wrote: I know that under formatting I can specify to keep a paragraph connected to the next one, so they don't get split up. But I'm working on formatting questions on a test, and that includes blank lines, like this: - Please describe how you would

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Text Together

2012-03-13 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Hak, Hal Vaughan schrieb: I know that under formatting I can specify to keep a paragraph connected to the next one, so they don't get split up. But I'm working on formatting questions on a test, and that includes blank lines, like this: - Please describe how you would teach a new

[libreoffice-users] Can't openi odt Files

2012-03-13 Thread Bernie Doran
I uninstalled Open Office and then installed LO 3.4. Now my computer (running XP) tells me it can't open any .odt files, and to make an association in Folder Options, Control Panel. I have tried unsuccessfully to do this. I cannot find LO listed under Recommended Programs on my computer, or

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't openi odt Files

2012-03-13 Thread Doug
On 03/13/2012 05:54 PM, Bernie Doran wrote: I uninstalled Open Office and then installed LO 3.4. Now my computer (running XP) tells me it can't open any .odt files, and to make an association in Folder Options, Control Panel. I have tried unsuccessfully to do this. I cannot find LO listed

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Text Together

2012-03-13 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-03-14 13:11, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Hak, Hal Vaughan schrieb: I know that under formatting I can specify to keep a paragraph connected to the next one, so they don't get split up. But I'm working on formatting questions on a test, and that includes blank lines, like this: -