Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL Native Connector for 32 bit LibreOffice on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-22 Thread Heinrich Stoellinger
Hello, Just to confuse things a bit... When I installed LO 4.0.0.3 on my Debian-Wheezy system, the native connector worked fine from the beginning. It does NOT work on Mint-Nadia or Windows/Vista. Both are 32-bit systems. Obviously - as somebody posted earlier - the connector is VERY sensitive

Re: [libreoffice-users] Hidden field in bibliography

2013-02-22 Thread e-letter
On 21/02/2013, John Talbut j...@dpets.co.uk wrote: Hello, I am finding my way around using the bibliography facility in writer and I am coming across one or two issues. Here is one. You are making a big mistake trying to use LO, and word-processors in general, with a high quality

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-22 Thread Ian Whitfield
Hi Gavin and Heinz, On 21/02/13 21:16, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Ian, Which version of MySQL are you using? *MySQL 5.1.55 PCLOS 2011* Heinz asked about 'SHOW GRANTS' Well I'm in a real hole here!!! This morning I decided to go back to basics and re-installed all the MySQL packages (in case)

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-22 Thread Paddy Landau
Thank you all for your responses. It is helping me to learn more. doug-2 wrote I was recently looking at Mint … You need to find a good set of True-Type fonts and install them. As jowyta wrote, install ttf-mscorefonts-installer (it comes with the Ubuntu repositories, which you should have as

Re: [libreoffice-users] MySQL Native Connector for 32 bit LibreOffice on Ubuntu 12.04

2013-02-22 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Heinrich , Trie to install the connector with the latest working version then update this version to 4.0 and with a bit of luck you end up with a working connector in 4.0 hope it helps BUT: we need to find a solution for this problem, for aOO there is also a connector, it works fine

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/21/2013 03:09 AM, Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 20/02/2013 23:16, Dan Lewis a écrit : Hi Dan, checking for GCONF... yes checking whether to enable GNOME VFS support... yes checking for GNOMEVFS... no configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-vfs-2.0 = 2.6.0 ) were not met: No package

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: MySQL-Connector

2013-02-22 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) WoooHooo!!  Congrats!  That is really quite awesome to hear about :) Congrats and regards from Tom :)  From: Dan Lewis elderdanle...@gmail.com To: users@global.libreoffice.org Cc: LibreOffice QA libreoffice...@lists.freedesktop.org Sent: Friday, 22

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-22 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 22/02/2013 10:53, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Ian, Well I'm in a real hole here!!! This morning I decided to go back to basics and re-installed all the MySQL packages (in case) Seriously, that was an unnecessary, and potentially, bad move. I have no idea how PCLinuxOS packages mysql server

[libreoffice-users] [4.0/Win/Writer] Fold/unfold sections?

2013-02-22 Thread Gilles
Hello It looks like Writer is unable to do this, but I wanted to double-check. When writing longer pieces of text, it's handy to be able to folder other sections so that I only browse through the section I'm working it, à la NotePad++

[libreoffice-users] Re: Does Libre Office have its own distinct set of fonts?

2013-02-22 Thread Paddy Landau
krackedpress wrote The wording of embed standard fonts is my problem. Yes. I tried to find out what LO meant by that; all I can find is that it refers to 14 Postscript fonts. krackedpress wrote The last time I used Export to PDF, not all of the fonts I used were embedded… If it will embed

[libreoffice-users] Re: Moving Templates from 3.5.5 to 4.0

2013-02-22 Thread Karen DInse
Bug 61291 has been submitted on 2/22/13. On 2/20/2013 at 12:16 PM, Alexander Thurgood [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] ml-node+s969070n4038947...@n3.nabble.com wrote: Le 20/02/13 16:18, Karen DInse a écrit : Hi Karen, Unless someone has another idea, we will create an application

Re: [libreoffice-users] [4.0/Win/Writer] Fold/unfold sections?

2013-02-22 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Bonjour/Hello Gilles, Le 22/02/2013 16:09, Gilles a écrit : It looks like Writer is unable to do this, but I wanted to double-check. Yes, Writer can't un-fold sections. First, be aware that the notion of section in Writer is not the same thing as the one in MS-Word. Second, you may

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-22 Thread Urmas
webmaster-Kracked_P_P: THE best alternative to MSO. How many spell checking dictionaries do you want? The built-in spellchecker is absolutely useless. First, it does not support options. Second, it doesn't have thematic and user dictionaries available. Third, the checking method itself is

Re: [libreoffice-users] another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-22 Thread Kieran Peckett
Erm... It does have user dictionaries, you just click the Add button! Simples! (meerkat noise) On Friday, 22 February 2013, Urmas wrote: webmaster-Kracked_P_P: THE best alternative to MSO. How many spell checking dictionaries do you want? The built-in spellchecker is absolutely useless.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-22 Thread Dan Lewis
On 02/22/2013 02:45 PM, Urmas wrote: Kieran Peckett: Erm... It does have user dictionaries, you just click the Add button! Those are wordlists, not dictionaries. Generally useless for languages other than English. Just curious: does MS Word have definitions in its dictionaries?

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-22 Thread Doug
On 02/22/2013 01:55 PM, Dan Lewis wrote: On 02/22/2013 02:45 PM, Urmas wrote: Kieran Peckett: Erm... It does have user dictionaries, you just click the Add button! Those are wordlists, not dictionaries. Generally useless for languages other than English. Just curious: does MS Word

Re: [libreoffice-users] another funny one from ZdNet

2013-02-22 Thread Kieran Peckett
Oh, I see, I thought by custom / user dictionaries you meant like in MSO. Note that you can get pre-built dictionaries for other languages, either through the LO website or (I'm guessing) in the LO Download page, when you download a non-English build On Friday, 22 February 2013, Urmas wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Re-Connecting LO Base to an SQL DB

2013-02-22 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Alex Thurgood wrote: Le 22/02/2013 10:53, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Ian, Well I'm in a real hole here!!! This morning I decided to go back to basics and re-installed all the MySQL packages (in case) Seriously, that was an unnecessary, and potentially, bad move. I have no idea how

[libreoffice-users] Re: [4.0/Win/Writer] Fold/unfold sections?

2013-02-22 Thread Gilles
Thanks for the tip. I read the docs, but it didn't display the structure of the document (H1 = Main title, H2 = Chapter1, Chapter 2, etc.) Anyway, it doesn't look like what I had in need, which was to actually fold/unfold the contents of the document within the Writer window itself. I wonder