[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office - older version

2016-03-25 Thread charles meyer
Thank you! Subject:Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office - older version Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:21:40 + From: Brian Barker To: At 11:15 24/03/2016 -0400, Charles Meyer wrote: >Does anyone know where I can download a trusted/official older version of >Libre Office ­ specif

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Dave Stevens
Quoting Dan Lewis : On 03/25/2016 05:22 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Bruce Byfield wrote: On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote: On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, but I downloa

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Dan Lewis
On 03/25/2016 05:22 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Bruce Byfield wrote: On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote: On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, but I downloaded the PDF version an

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread libreoffice-ml . mbourne
Bruce Byfield wrote: On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote: On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of chapters I need the most. I'm quite

[libreoffice-users] Re: behaviour of autocorrect for inserting special characters

2016-03-25 Thread CVAlkan
In Linux I use the quite extensible "Onboard" screen keyboard, and I would guess that there must be something similar for Windows. It's actual intent is so that when you have input methods set up to permit your keyboard to act as if they were typing different scripts (e.g. Thai, Hebrew, whatever),

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday, March 25, 2016 11:53:49 AM CVAlkan wrote: > As the author stated, if anyone has a good generic solution, I'd love to > hear it. I do believe, however, that if the original document is designed > reasonably well, and the pdf is produced with tablet reading in mind, it > remains the best

[libreoffice-users] Re: New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread CVAlkan
Re: James Knott's comment: I *generally* agree that text-centric e-pubs are a better (or at least more flexible) choice on tablets, but Bruce's pdf version seemed just fine to me (on a Galaxy 10-S) and I'm an old cranky retiree with astigmatism and such. I suspect that part of the reason for the a

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday, March 25, 2016 01:51:25 PM James Knott wrote: > On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: > > This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, > > but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of > > chapters I need the most. I'm quite impressed.

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread James Knott
On 03/25/2016 01:42 PM, Dave Liesse wrote: > This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, > but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of > chapters I need the most. I'm quite impressed. Good job! > An epub version would be nice. I find they work b

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Dave Liesse
This is my busy season at work so I haven't had a lot of time, yet, but I downloaded the PDF version and took a quick look at a couple of chapters I need the most. I'm quite impressed. Good job! Dave Liesse -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http

[libreoffice-users] behaviour of autocorrect for inserting special characters

2016-03-25 Thread And Rosta
LO 5.1.1.3, Windows 10 1. Background: After 22 years of using MS Word, I decided to switch to LO Writer, which entailed losing hundreds of keyboard shortcuts I'd set up for inserting special characters, such as IPA. Recreating the system in LO by creating a macro for each character and assigning it

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot assign template to existing writer odt file

2016-03-25 Thread Eric Beversluis
On 03/25/2016 07:05 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:09 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: I cannot assign a template to an existing writer odt file using the menu item File->Templates->Assign template (current document). Whenever I select a template from the list which pops up by

Re: [libreoffice-users] Cannot assign template to existing writer odt file

2016-03-25 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Wed, 2015-12-16 at 16:09 +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > I cannot assign a template to an existing writer odt file using the > menu item File->Templates->Assign template (current document). > Whenever I select a template from the list which pops up by a double > click, the following message is returne

Re: [libreoffice-users] New LibreOffice Book

2016-03-25 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Hi Bruce! how strange: I was wondering lately how your book was going... Le 24/03/2016 18:22, Bruce Byfield a écrit : On Thursday, March 24, 2016 08:04:58 AM CVAlkan wrote: The book is also featured on Jean Hollis Weber's site http://www.taming-libreoffice.com/2016/03/new-book-designing-with-