Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-08-02 Thread Jon Harringdon
Tim Deaton t...@timdeaton.org wrote: On 7/31/2014 7:06 AM, Jon Harringdon wrote: Someone with more knowledge about LO extensions than I have (nil) could probably do that, but then again those two macros are dead simple: I basically just macro-recorded the two actions, cleaned up the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-08-01 Thread Tim Deaton
On 7/31/2014 7:06 AM, Jon Harringdon wrote: Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if such a thing can be done as an Extension so that others can benefit from it too? If it is easy and gets released under the GPL or LGPL license then others could add a tool-bar button if they felt the

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-31 Thread Jon Harringdon
Brian Barker b.m.bar...@btinternet.com wrote: At 15:40 30/07/2014 +0100, Jon Harringdon wrote: I often highlight some text and have to un-highlight it a little later. This should work like setting/resetting italic or bold attributes: pressing the highlight icon does highlight the marked

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-31 Thread Jon Harringdon
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: Is the hanging only happening with 'large' files of 2Mb or more? No. It happens even with an empty file and it's reproducible. Have you massively bumped up the memory settings in Tools - Options - Memory (or something like that) I think those are still

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-31 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) That sounds like the best way of handling it. Nicely done! I wonder if such a thing can be done as an Extension so that others can benefit from it too? If it is easy and gets released under the GPL or LGPL license then others could add a tool-bar button if they felt the need. It's beyond

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-31 Thread Jon Harringdon
Tom Davies tomc...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if such a thing can be done as an Extension so that others can benefit from it too? If it is easy and gets released under the GPL or LGPL license then others could add a tool-bar button if they felt the need. It's beyond my own abilities. Is

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-30 Thread Jon Harringdon
I am reposting this message as the first never did show up. Sorry if some of you see it twice. original message From: Jon Harringdon jonathan.harring...@virgin.net Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2014 12:24:22 +0100 Subj: LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking Hi, I've

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-30 Thread Brian Barker
At 15:40 30/07/2014 +0100, Jon Harringdon wrote: I often highlight some text and have to un-highlight it a little later. This should work like setting/resetting italic or bold attributes: pressing the highlight icon does highlight the marked text and pressing it again (with the same text

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-30 Thread Jon Harringdon
Jon Harringdon jonathan.harring...@virgin.net wrote: Second, I want to set the page size (FormatPagePage) to 0.5cm on all sides. I enter 0.5cm in the first box and then press Ctrl-A/Ctrl-C to then copy that into the other three boxes. After pressing Ctrl-C, Writer completely hangs for three,

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Writer: Highlighting; setting page properties; some more nitpicking

2014-07-30 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is the hanging only happening with 'large' files of 2Mb or more? Have you massively bumped up the memory settings in Tools - Options - Memory (or something like that) I think those are still set for machines that only have 125Mb Ram or something like that and with most of ram just