[libreoffice-users] macro to search and replace from a table?

2013-10-15 Thread T. R. Valentine
I want to do a Romanization of a text. I know I can write a (lengthy!) macro to look for each possible character and substitute accordingly, but was wondering if it would be possible to have a macro refer to a substitution table which could be changed from time to time and do a substitution for all

[libreoffice-users] Base Report Builder much better, but...

2013-10-15 Thread Girvin Herr
Greetings, Using LO 3.6.7.2 under Linux. I have just worked with Base Report Builder for a few hours and I must admit, it is *much* faster now than the last time I worked with it. Congrats to the devs for fixing the sloth bug(s). However, I still see that lines still are not supported. It ap

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Virgil Arrington
By the way, what's the story behind X-Libreoffice? What's its function other than being portable? Virgil -Original Message- From: Virgil Arrington Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2013 7:57 PM To: Pedro ; users@global.libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Insta

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Virgil Arrington
Pedro wrote, If you unpack LibreOffice Portable or X-LibreOffice to your hard drive (e.g. to C:\X-LibreOffice412) it will remain contained in the unpack folder. It does *not* overwrite *any* files and it will not use your Profile files. So, all is completely separate. In fact if you miss s

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO 4.1.2 Hebrew parentheses bug

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  Sorry!  I don't know and it looks like no-one else here knows either.  Iit might be better to ask on the international translators list, and subscribe to it; l...@global.libreoffice.org If it were me, at this point i would probably just post a bug-report but definitely would return to

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Base Sub Forms

2013-10-15 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
If I remember correctly (and I have not looked at this in a while), I think that you need to link the "master and slave fields". So, if you open your form in edit mode, load the form navigator, right click on your sub-form and choose properties, navigate to the Data tab, do the values in the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Pedro
Hi again Virgil Virgil Arrington wrote >>Why don't you run it from your hard drive? You can unpack it anywhere and >>it won't affect the installed version in any way... > > The last time I installed a new version, I went from 3.5.7 to 4.0.5. The > version 4 completely deleted my 3.5.7, which I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Virgil Arrington
Pedro wrote: "It is much slower" because it's running on a jump drive... I know that. Why don't you run it from your hard drive? You can unpack it anywhere and it won't affect the installed version in any way... The last time I installed a new version, I went from 3.5.7 to 4.0.5. The ver

[libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Pedro
Hi Virgil Virgil Arrington wrote > Having said all that, I just downloaded 4.1.2 Portable to my jump drive. > It's a good way to test out a new version without committing it to my hard > drive, although it is much slower. "It is much slower" because it's running on a jump drive... Why don't y

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Virgil Arrington
I went with 4.0.5 several weeks ago on my Win7 machine and couldn't be happier. It added some features I wanted (better support for the Libertine G fonts) and fixed the regression bug dealing with remembering my style list hierarchical listing. I imagine I'll be slower to upgrade from here as,

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing extensions

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Springer
On 10/15/13 3:25 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 14/10/2013 21:02, Ken Springer a écrit : Hi Ken, I say this because I thought I read in a help file somewhere all you had to do was place the extension in that folder and restart LO. Which didn't work. LOL So, went to find said help file, now I ca

[libreoffice-users] Re: Font charts

2013-10-15 Thread Ken Springer
On 10/15/13 5:30 AM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 10/14/2013 09:58 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 10/14/13 6:01 PM, Ken Springer wrote: On 10/14/13 3:37 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Ken Springer wrote: On 10/14/13 12:46 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: On 10/14/2013 12:44 PM, Gabriel Risterucci

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The 4.1.x branch is getting really near to the number we generally consider turns it into stable branch.  It's the time i typically get stuck procrastinating.  Do i wait 'just a few more days' or go ahead with the 4.0.5?  So, it's only the machines i am most active on that ever get upg

[libreoffice-users] LO 4.1.2 Hebrew parentheses bug

2013-10-15 Thread Gabriel Kaufman
I just updated to LO 4.1.2 (English US) on Intel Mac OS X 10.7.5 and the parentheses mapping for Hebrew text seems to be broken. When I switch the input language to Hebrew, the parentheses are reversed when I use the Times New Roman font... However, some Hebrew fonts appear to be working properl

Re: [libreoffice-users] Retrieve a specific message from the ML

2013-10-15 Thread e-letter
On 15/10/2013, Ady wrote: >> >> Assuming your are referring to digest mode, all is correct. Sometimes >> the delay to receive the retrieved message is quite long (> 10 minutes >> at a guess). >> > > No, I'm not referring to digest mode. > > I am referring to "nomail" mode, and then retrieving spec

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I cannot go with 4.1.2 line due to the font drop-down list error. So until that line fixes the issue [told it was already in the bug list], I cannot use it for Ubuntu. Late this month 4.0.6 come out. I will run that till I find that 4.1.x works on my test Ubuntu system. Hopefully 4.1.4 will ha

Re: [libreoffice-users] stopping superscript text in Calc

2013-10-15 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
I would suppose that the logic is that if it recognizes special font control scenarios, a part of the command would automatically revert the control after completion of special font. On 10/11/2013 2:21 PM, John R. Sowden wrote: Been having the problem for a long time. Using Calc, I write a da

[libreoffice-users] LO Base Sub Forms

2013-10-15 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi All I'm still stuck with LO Base Sub Forms!! I've been at this for some time, off and on, but over the past few months I have been very busy converting, editing and checking/updating my DB to now run on MySQL. I must say it is a GREAT improvement!! OK - My OpSys is PClinuxOS 2012-10. LO 4

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/15/2013 07:31 AM, Pedro wrote: > Hi krackedpress > > There shouldn't be any installer error under XP SP3. Installer errors are > usually indicators of a corrupted installer. You should try to download it > again from another mirror > http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/15/2013 07:15 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-10-14 8:07 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster > wrote: >> But it seems that I may need to see if there is a newer Windows >> Installer package or some other fix. >> >> BUT, MS's web site really does not let you find what you really need for >> XP systems

[libreoffice-users] Re: Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Pedro
Hi krackedpress There shouldn't be any installer error under XP SP3. Installer errors are usually indicators of a corrupted installer. You should try to download it again from another mirror http://download.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/stable/4.0.5/win/x86/LibreOffice_4.0.5_Win_x86.msi.mirro

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Font charts

2013-10-15 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/14/2013 09:58 PM, Ken Springer wrote: > On 10/14/13 6:01 PM, Ken Springer wrote: >> On 10/14/13 3:37 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: >>> Ken Springer wrote: On 10/14/13 12:46 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: > On 10/14/2013 12:44 PM, Gabriel Risterucci wrote: >> 2013/10/14 Ken Springer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Win XP Windows Installer Error - what was he fix again?

2013-10-15 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2013-10-14 8:07 PM, Kracked_P_P---webmaster wrote: But it seems that I may need to see if there is a newer Windows Installer package or some other fix. BUT, MS's web site really does not let you find what you really need for XP systems easily. http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=latest+windows+instal

[libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL Native C Connector Extension for Linux 32, 64 and OSX 64 bit versions of LibreOffice - built against future LO 4.2

2013-10-15 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 14/10/2013 18:24, Fernand Vanrie a écrit : Hi Fernand, is this due to the Extension or is it a problem after changing the datetime stuff in the API ? Probably the API change. The extension to which Heinrich is referring is a PPA built one (or does Ubuntu now ship 4.1.2.3 ?), I guess, as

[libreoffice-users] Re: Installing extensions

2013-10-15 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 14/10/2013 21:02, Ken Springer a écrit : Hi Ken, I say this because I thought I read in a help file somewhere all you had to do was place the extension in that folder and restart LO. Which didn't work. LOL So, went to find said help file, now I can't. That's not good. I'm not convince