Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:23 16/08/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: While writing documents, I try to set the paragraph style to set spacing appropriately. I am always amazed at how many people do this in a word processor by simply adding blank lines in the document. It's interesting that you here talk

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:22 16/08/2013 -0400, James Knott wrote: I just tried a little experiment. I typed a sentence, with a period at the end. I then started typing the next sentence with a lower case n. I then placed the cursor directly over the first vertical line in the n. After I finished the word, the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:03 16/08/2013 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: Ever since then, on mainframes and the PCs, I was told to always use double-spacing after sentences. If I handed in a typed or word-processed document and did not double space it, I was marked off for not using the standard format. Remember

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO WRITER BASIC: insert an image, put a drawing-text on top and jump to next page

2013-08-17 Thread Alain Van Utterbeeck
Hello Andrew, Thanks for your reply. I'll take a look at your examples and will let you know if I succeeded. Just for your info I include my complete macro so you can take a look at what I'm doing. It's not completely working but most parts work, I can generate my complete document with TOC

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Andrew Brown
To add to this discussion of readability of text, spacing and punctuation is only a small portion of it. In the read word punctuation taught us when to take a breath, as with a continuous sentence separated by a comma, and a long full breath after the period, plus a space. Now even as we type

[libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread Mark's Google A/c
I've been getting a *lot* of failed mail notifications from the mailing list over the last few weeks. After extensive investigation, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my mailbox or mail servers, so I'm curious, how many other people get this, either frequently or occasionally? Is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Presentation slide does not show graphics visible in 'Normal'

2013-08-17 Thread v_2e
Hello! On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 12:29:57 +0800 Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: I have prepared a large presentation, and I find that everything looks okay, except when I view it as 'slide show'. Then all images are gone. The same applies to conversion to PDF. There is no more image at all,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) For some reason this post got blocked and had to be rescued by the moderators.  I'm not sure what is going on and my email client doesn't make it easy to read much in the headers to find out. I've not seen many other messages from Mark in the list of blocked messages.  Apols and regards

Re: [libreoffice-users] Mail merge manual field entry

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I am not certain how to do this but it 'should' be fairly easy.  it probably isn't but it should be.  I am not sure if it makes a difference but do you happen to know the name of the back-end used by Salesforce?  Is it MySql? There are some tutorials on using Base which might (or might

[Solved] Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOfficeCalc - secondary Y axis and getting desired data to appear in chart

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Congrats on figuring it out and many thanks for posting the answer back to the list.  Hopefully when someone else needs the answer to this the archives might be more useful to answerers trying to help.  Thanks and regards from Tom :)  From: Jim

[libreoffice-users] Re: Subject: Digest of annou...@documentfoundation.org issue 145 (160)

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
From: announce+h...@documentfoundation.org announce+h...@documentfoundation.org To: tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013, 17:22 Subject: Subject: Digest of annou...@documentfoundation.org issue 145 (160) Topics (messages 160 through

[libreoffice-users] Bibliography entry system and word/character counting

2013-08-17 Thread Krunoslav Šebetić
Hi, think that LO should have (a little bit) better bibliography entry system. Every thing works just fine, but I miss some features with thing I'm writing now. When I do Insert - Indexes an tables - Bibliography entry I can insert entry from the document or from Bibliography database.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 08/16/2013 11:18 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote: On 2013-08-16 8:22 PM James Knott wrote: I just tried a little experiment. I typed a sentence, with a period at the end. I then started typing the next sentence with a lower case n. I then placed the cursor directly over the first vertical line in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Felmon Davis wrote: anyway, I agree with Tom we shouldn't disagree about agreeing to disagree. I disagree. ;-) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 08/16/2013 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote: Virgil Arrington wrote: Just curious, since nearly every professionally published book since the mid-1900s has had one space after sentence ending punctuation, do you find reading books difficult? I just picked up the closest book I had at hand. It's

Re: [libreoffice-users] File size - additional but deleted items?

2013-08-17 Thread anne-ology
Which LO # are you using?; I would say you've found a bug in that LO # ;-) On Fri, Aug 16, 2013 at 11:39 PM, Uwe Dippel udip...@gmail.com wrote: I have made a large presentation. Then I removed all slides but two. Though, the file size has not changed at all. I think that the deleted

Re: [libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
It happened to me when one of my email hosting company's black listing services lists decided that the IP address of one of LO's servers was to be blacklisted. The IP address was blacklisted for a user 10 years before LO bought the IP address for the server. It could be that your email

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread T. R. Valentine
On 17 August 2013 03:47, Andrew Brown andre...@icon.co.za wrote: It has been found that a serif font with normal punctuation and spacing leads the eye to faster reading as opposed to sans serif. Man tests have been done with this. So the article written in the provided link, is found to be

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:47 17/08/2013 +0200, Andrew Brown wrote: In the read word punctuation taught us when to take a breath, as with a continuous sentence separated by a comma, and a long full breath after the period, plus a space. This suggests that the point of the printed word is solely to enable public

[libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ichitaro filter

2013-08-17 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought it might be good to forwards this to the Users List.  Please try to include Spidey-Westland in the CC field as he/she might not be subscribed to this list yet.  Does anyone know what .Jtd is or what program makes it?    Regards from Tom :) 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 08/17/2013 12:56 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 10:47 17/08/2013 +0200, Andrew Brown wrote: In the read word punctuation taught us when to take a breath, as with a continuous sentence separated by a comma, and a long full breath after the period, plus a space. This suggests that the point of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Mark's Google A/c wrote: I've been getting a *lot* of failed mail notifications from the mailing list over the last few weeks. After extensive investigation, there doesn't appear to be anything wrong with my mailbox or mail servers, so I'm curious, how many other people get this, either

[libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread Urmas
James Knott: Here's an article you can show to others. http://lifehacker.com/battle-of-the-office-suites-microsoft-office-and-libre-1147940828 What a ridiculous article. The LO suite inadequacy is clear to any who worked with it more than 15 minutes. The reason for this is implementing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread James Knott
Urmas wrote: James Knott: Here's an article you can show to others. http://lifehacker.com/battle-of-the-office-suites-microsoft-office-and-libre-1147940828 What a ridiculous article. The LO suite inadequacy is clear to any who worked with it more than 15 minutes. The reason for this is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Ichitaro filter

2013-08-17 Thread Mark LaPierre
On 08/17/2013 02:38 PM, Tom Davies wrote: .jtd files http://file.org/extension/jtd -- _ °v° /(_)\ ^ ^ Mark LaPierre Registered Linux user No #267004 https://linuxcounter.net/ -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Failed mail

2013-08-17 Thread Dave Liesse
That would be correct. It's the incoming mail that's scanned, not the outgoing -- and too many spam checkers look only at the IP address. It doesn't matter if there are 4000 users on your shared, hosted server; as far as they're concerned if one's guilty, all are guilty, as if we have any

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Paul
On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:22:43 -0400 Kracked_P_P---webmaster webmas...@krackedpress.com wrote: So, you can decide which font you wish to display any text that does not have a font identifier built in, and you can define the font of the text you are sending in your email, more than one if you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread Paul
Yeah, bad troll is truly terrible. Someone should teach him how to troll. On Sat, 17 Aug 2013 15:53:58 -0400 James Knott james.kn...@rogers.com wrote: Urmas wrote: James Knott: Here's an article you can show to others.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:22 17/08/2013 -0400, Tim Lungstrom wrote: In Thunderbird's Preferences, you can choose what font the text of your email will be displayed in. By default, it seems it is Times New Roman, but I now use DejaVu Serif. This is very confused. What do you mean by your email: presumably

[libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting

2013-08-17 Thread Larry Gusaas
On 2013-08-17 4:39 PM Brian Barker wrote:(You are now talking received messages again, right?)  Correct - but also even if the text was formatted, in fact.  In the case of this mailing list, for example, only the plain text version of what you send is distributed,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread Robert Holtzm
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:43:29AM +0700, Urmas wrote: James Knott: Here's an article you can show to others. http://lifehacker.com/battle-of-the-office-suites-microsoft-office-and-libre-1147940828 What a ridiculous article. The LO suite inadequacy is clear to any who worked with it more

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: [libreoffice-documentation] Ichitaro filter

2013-08-17 Thread Jean Weber
Perhaps someone here can help this person? -- Forwarded message -- From: Spidey-Westland spidey-li...@caiway.net Date: Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 3:27 AM Subject: [libreoffice-documentation] Ichitaro filter To: documentat...@global.libreoffice.org Howdy I need a filter for open

[libreoffice-users] Re: Battle of the Office Suites: Microsoft Office and LibreOffice Compared

2013-08-17 Thread Urmas
Paul: Yeah, bad troll is truly terrible. Meanwhile you could work on a feature parity with Microsoft Word 2.0, from 1991. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting