[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Owen Genat
jmadero wrote Are styles supposed to retain properties like bold. I am consistently getting mixed results using styles. The comments up-thread by Kevin O'Brien and Brian Barker are correct, despite a number of disagreements. So called direct or manual (directly applied) formatting will always

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Ahh, of course! The direct formatting remained on despite pressing Enter a few times. Seems a sensible way to do it thb. If formatting kept flicking back to the style rather than kept going the way the user had set it then it could become quite painful. When i went back to the file and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4

2014-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) It depends on which OS. If on Windows then i think you have to dragdrop the font files into somewhere like; C:\Windows\system32\fonts at which point each creates a pop-up that you have to Ok. Then all except LibreOffice will see your fonts. I'm not sure how to get LibreOffice to see the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 12/09/2014 08:38, Owen Genat a écrit : Hi Owen, My experience on several occasions has unfortunately been that the Default style in Writer has hard formatting characteristics which cause application of Heading 3 not to work correctly, and it seems hard to be able to ascribe any particular

[libreoffice-users] Re: Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4

2014-09-12 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 11/09/2014 19:04, Marc Grober a écrit : At a guess, more font substitution issues - depending on the font type (OTF seems to be a common culprit) and family font weights, LO appears to carry out font substitution - this might be why you are seeing different characters. There appears to be no

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4

2014-09-12 Thread William Gathoye
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi * I ever had such an issue on GNU/Linux and it was related to a font cache problem. As OS X is using the equivalent behavior; I would recommend you to clear your font cache and see if this solves the problem. On OS X, first close all opened

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Andrew Douglas Pitonyak
On 09/11/2014 02:15 PM, Stef Bon wrote: I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open it using LibreOffice. I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer did show the table totally wrong. I have seen that some tables do not show proper

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Luuk
On 11-9-2014 20:15, Stef Bon wrote: Hi, I got a template.docx of my education institution, and tried to open it using LibreOffice. Templates in MS-Word are not stored with the extension '.docx' I found out too late - after I sent it, I got comments of receiver - that writer did show the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4

2014-09-12 Thread anne-ology
Ah, I'm beginning to see a glimmer of light at the end of this long, dark tunnel ;-) I've already placed all fonts in that folder ... also in 'font' folder in each program [found with search then plopped in; should I have saved in some special way?] I don't

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4

2014-09-12 Thread anne-ology
so solution(s) ??? From: Alex Thurgood alex.thurg...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 3:31 AM Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Selected fonts are no longer displaying in LO 4.2.4.2 on OSX 10.9.4 To: users@global.libreoffice.org Le 11/09/2014 19:04, Marc Grober a écrit : At a

[libreoffice-users] Data loss in Math in LO Writer: Some Formulas irrecoverably lost every now and then

2014-09-12 Thread Paul O. Seidon
Hi all, every now and then some formulas get lost irrecoverably in my documents. Some boxes are empty then and a double-click into them opens the editor showing an empty pane. This behaviour is not reproducable and happens somewhere in my documents, not just where I edit it. This is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Luuk
On 12-9-2014 17:15, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) In common usage people mean something quite different when they say template. Proper templates, as we would use the term, are quite different and would probably be more useful to them. Many people have no idea what a real template is so they just

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-09-12 Thread Maurice
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 13:59:45 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Chapter 13 Working with Master Documents might help! https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/ Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide I've just started looking into Master Documents, although I have a suspicion it would be a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Data loss in Math in LO Writer: Some Formulas irrecoverably lost every now and then

2014-09-12 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) This is just in Math, nothing to do with Calc is it? I don't know what is causing it. Is there an alternative such as using Scribus or LaTeX? I think it's fairly easy to get LibreOffice to Save As ... into a format that Scribus can use easily but i don't know how difficult Scribus is to

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-09-12 Thread Maurice
On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 16:30:22 +, I wrote: Error window saying Can't create document. No hint of why not, so not sure what to try next... (Presumably there is some minimum structure missing, but what?!) OK - cracked it! Dumped that 'Master Documents' info doc and used instead:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO Writer (Linux): Way to do text search in set of documents?

2014-09-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 16:30 12/09/2014 +, Maurice Noname wrote: I've just started looking into Master Documents, although I have a suspicion it would be a 'sledgehammer to crack a walnut'. After studying the info I felt confident enough to try a test, but struck a rock almost immediately: I made a small

[libreoffice-users] Re: Data loss in Math in LO Writer: Some Formulas irrecoverably lost every now and then

2014-09-12 Thread V Stuart Foote
Tom, *, of course there are alternatives among the LaTex editors and Tex renderings, but rather than sending Paul off on a wild goose chase, better to ask him for the additional details we need triage his issue. So, Paul--are you working natively only with ODF format in Writer .odt, and Math

Re: [libreoffice-users] Errors in (google drive doc - gdoc) -- ( open doc -- odt ) conversion.

2014-09-12 Thread Alexandros Prekates
On Wed, 10 Sep 2014 14:47:44 +0100 Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Hi :) Sorry we couldn't help you with this! After you've done the current work it might be good to post a bug-report with google. It's likely to be google docs fault and it's a shame they don't offer good alternatives!

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Data loss in Math in LO Writer: Some Formulas irrecoverably lost every now and then

2014-09-12 Thread Paul O. Seidon
Hi Stuart, On 09/12/2014 07:15 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: Tom, *, of course there are alternatives among the LaTex editors and Tex renderings, but rather than sending Paul off on a wild goose chase, better to ask him for the additional details we need triage his issue. So, Paul--are you

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Stef Bon
Hi Mark an others like Tom, first of all there seams to be a misunderstanding. I meant with template a guide given by the teacher to me, as a layout the teachers expect the results will have. So not the technical term for it, it's just a document in the docx format. second I see myself since two

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Alex Thurgood wrote: My experience on several occasions has unfortunately been that the Default style in Writer has hard formatting characteristics which cause application of Heading 3 not to work correctly, and it seems hard to be able to ascribe any particular sequence of actions to make it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Mark Bourne
Stef Bon wrote: Hi Mark an others like Tom, first of all there seams to be a misunderstanding. I meant with template a guide given by the teacher to me, as a layout the teachers expect the results will have. So not the technical term for it, it's just a document in the docx format. Yes, I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Luuk
On 12-9-2014 20:28, Stef Bon wrote: c. I will provide a bug report. With stripped data. I really think that the importing and exporting foreign formats like docx, and especially the different versions of it, is very important. You speak about different versions. I know with Samba, the project

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Data loss in Math in LO Writer: Some Formulas irrecoverably lost every now and then

2014-09-12 Thread Paul O. Seidon
Hi Stuart, On 09/12/2014 08:30 PM, V Stuart Foote wrote: Paul, Great. In a sense that simplifies things tremendously. It also means it is a problem that falls squarely on the project to resolve. Need to try to pin down specifics of a cause--I know you've said it is spurious. So, one place

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong.

2014-09-12 Thread Stef Bon
Hi all, Thanks a lot for your reactions and support. I will add two things to my actions list, although I do not promise anything. I need my time. a. try to contact student organisations/university to ask them to provide more options. Brian Barker suugested I do convert it first at the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Table presented totally wrong

2014-09-12 Thread Brian Barker
At 22:30 12/09/2014 +0200, Stef Bon wrote: Brian Barker suggested I do convert it first at the university to a format I use (ODF). That's not an option. No, I didn't suggest that! I suggested using Microsoft Word (where you have it at the university) to save a copy of your .docx as PDF. And

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Styles Don't Retain Bold?

2014-09-12 Thread Heikki Jussila
I think that the percentages that Mark showed are also present in 4.3.1. At least that is my understanding. I have worked for an article to Elsevier today and that had some problems, with headers relating to the main header style. However, the main issue for me is that they want to have the