Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc data in Writer

2014-08-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Not sure what happened there, some sort of "bad hair day" or something. I couldn't see any mention of copy&paste in the original question so i'm guessing someone got their wires crossed. There is a guide that covers "mail merge" and that might help; https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Docu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Calc data in Writer

2014-08-18 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:17 18/08/2014 -0400, Dave Boland wrote: I have a small Calc file of information I want to put into Writer - like mail merge, but the data is not address. What is the best way to do this? Copy and paste? In what sense is this "like mail merge"? The data is actually: ... What I want to d

[libreoffice-users] Re: Question about kerning and opentype features (ligatures)

2014-08-18 Thread Owen Genat
Ivan Ivanov wrote > Maybe the option "Pair Kerning" disables the default kerning, but most of > the fonts use the GPOS table for kern pairs and that can't be disabled... There is at least one comment in the source code indicating that GPOS kerning is handled by HarfBuzz. GPOS kerning should howeve

Re: [libreoffice-users] Currently Using Spreadsheet for Personal Project - Thinking About Database

2014-08-18 Thread jonathon
On 8/11/2014 5:11 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > extremely fast readers who seem to churn through tons of books very > quickly. So, 17 books/year sounds quite low to me. I guess it might be a > lot to a 'normal' person (if there is any such person). Librarians and book vendors have a slightly lower

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/18/2014 11:08 AM, P. . wrote: btw, it should work with LO, gnumeric etc... On 18 August 2014 18:05, P. . wrote: yes, but python in gnumeric seems to be easier, at least i found it to. Have you already taken a look at this: PyWorkbooks I believe I have, at the same time I was looking at

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread P. .
btw, it should work with LO, gnumeric etc... On 18 August 2014 18:05, P. . wrote: > yes, but python in gnumeric seems to be easier, at least i found it to. > Have you already taken a look at this: PyWorkbooks > > > pdf attached > > On 18 August 2014 17:28, Jim Byrnes wrote: >> On 08/18/2014 07:4

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread P. .
yes, but python in gnumeric seems to be easier, at least i found it to. Have you already taken a look at this: PyWorkbooks pdf attached On 18 August 2014 17:28, Jim Byrnes wrote: > On 08/18/2014 07:47 AM, Peterle, Alex wrote: >> >> It could be easier if LO had a python macro based system like g

[libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Jim Byrnes
On 08/18/2014 07:47 AM, Peterle, Alex wrote: It could be easier if LO had a python macro based system like gnumeric has, isn't it? You can write macros using Python in LO. About half of my macros are in Python. A couple of years ago when I was looking for an alternative to LO because UNO is

[libreoffice-users] Calc data in Writer

2014-08-18 Thread dave boland
All, I have a small Calc file of information I want to put into Writer - like mail merge, but the data is not address. What is the best way to do this? The data is actually: Date, Sender, Subject, Description, Comment. Waht I want to do is something like this: Date Sender Subject

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Question about kerning and opentype features (ligatures)

2014-08-18 Thread Ivan Ivanov
Thank you for your reply, @Owen! The problem is that the bug affects my TTF fonts, too (including OTF). Maybe the option "Pair Kerning" disables the default kerning, but most of the fonts use the GPOS table for kern pairs and that can't be disabled... The alternative solution is to remove the k

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think Python is one of the languages that can be used for Macros It might be possible to convert Gnumeric ones into LibreOffice but it might need a bit of re-working. Regards from Tom :) On 18 August 2014 13:47, Peterle, Alex wrote: > It could be easier if LO had a python macro based

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Acess2Base

2014-08-18 Thread Peterle, Alex
It could be easier if LO had a python macro based system like gnumeric has, isn't it? I've found convenient to install LO from the official release instead of the deb of ubuntu. I have ubuntu maverick 10.10 with LO Version: 4.2.1.1 Build ID: d7dbbd7842e6a58b0f521599204e827654e1fb8b, installed in a

[libreoffice-users] Re: Question about kerning and opentype features (ligatures)

2014-08-18 Thread Owen Genat
Ivan Ivanov wrote > I hate kerning and I always disable it if there is such option. But the > option in the most recent versions of LibreOffice does not work. I disable > the "Pair Kerning" option, but kerning is still enabled. The last version > without this bug (where you can disable kerning) is