Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Dennis Heuer
Hello, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:57:08 +0200 Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Dennis, > > I suggest to use lists. Define for each person a numbering style. Set > the "before" field to the name of the person and the "after" field to > a colon for example. You can set the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
Indeed this is the right and canonical way to do that (as I use to teach :) Could you link a screenshot or the document somewhere to analyze your issue? Il 16 ago 2017 12:47 AM, "Dennis Heuer" < e...@verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de> ha scritto: > Hello, > > On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:41:14

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Dennis, Dennis Heuer schrieb: Hello, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:01:16 +0200 Gabriele Ponzo wrote: Anyway the idea of customizing list to have a name for each level is really interesting indeed. In that way you could just switch among people with tabulations and avoid to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Dennis Heuer
Hello, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 15:41:14 +0200 Ricardo Berlasso wrote: > You can always define tab stops on a paragraph style level. The > "trick" goes like this: > > 1- Define a paragraph style with "space before" at, say, 3cm, a > negative indent of -3cm (both under Space and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Gabriele, Gabriele Ponzo schrieb: [..] Anyway the idea of customizing list to have a name for each level is really interesting indeed. In that way you could just switch among people with tabulations and avoid to write their names every time. I do not mean, to bind the people to levels,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Dennis Heuer
Hello, On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 20:01:16 +0200 Gabriele Ponzo wrote: > Anyway the idea of customizing list to have a name for each level is > really interesting indeed. > > In that way you could just switch among people with tabulations and > avoid to write their names every time.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Wiebe van der Worp
On 15-08-17 12:43, Brian Barker wrote: > At 12:14 15/08/2017 +0200, Wiebe van der Worp wrote: >> Please also be aware of the fact that data itself is not copyrighted. >> In other words, copying data to Calc and use it to create a graph and >> an accompanying table should never be a problem - if my

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Gabriele Ponzo
What Ricardo reported is something I never miss to teach at my trainings. I add that the tabulation is not required as the paragraph margin (3cm in that example) is an implicit tabulation itself. Lists function uses the same technique, since automation can't invent magic solutions but just do

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 2:03:06 PM PDT Dennis Heuer wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to write a protocol- or storyboard-alike document in which > the paragraphs are indented and a name is put before the paragraphs > (like a bulletin list with a text-field instead of the bullet.) I tried >

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help off list on a Asus Win10/Ubuntu laptop

2017-08-15 Thread Philip Jackson
On 15/08/17 16:17, Tim-L--Elmira-NY wrote: > The real problem was/is the fact that after Windows 10 updates itself > and then changes the BIOS to remove the boot order. Also it damage the > GRUB boot software. Yes - I've had that problem on a dual boot desktop : W7 (later upgraded to W10) and

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread jorge Rodríguez
Hi all: As I understand, there is a way to use some information from other authors: Put quotation marks to the information that we need to reference and put a footer where we have to put the information of the authors and more. When we use a graph, we can do similar. And I think it

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help off list on a Asus Win10/Ubuntu laptop

2017-08-15 Thread Tim-L--Elmira-NY
On 08/15/2017 12:36 AM, gordon cooper wrote: Tim, Not sure if this would help on Win 10, but maybe worth a try. I gave up on new MS versions not long after XP, but still work on a few multi-boot systems and run into Grub issues. The cure used here is to set up and adjust partitions with

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Dennis, Dennis Heuer schrieb: Hello, I am trying to write a protocol- or storyboard-alike document in which the paragraphs are indented and a name is put before the paragraphs (like a bulletin list with a text-field instead of the bullet.) I tried several ways to make this work without

Re: [libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Ricardo Berlasso
2017-08-15 14:03 GMT+02:00 Dennis Heuer < e...@verschwendbare-verweise.seinswende.de>: > Hello, > > I am trying to write a protocol- or storyboard-alike document in which > the paragraphs are indented and a name is put before the paragraphs > (like a bulletin list with a text-field instead of the

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Quick Reference Guide and Cheat-sheet

2017-08-15 Thread Tim-L--Elmira-NY
Were you wanting to post this on LibreOffice's User list? You emailed the post to me and not the thread. I will forward it to the user's list. On 08/15/2017 05:18 AM, Patrice DUMAS wrote: Hi, >Thought it would be better to start a new thread for this. . . . >I have been doing some work on

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Ricardo Berlasso
2017-08-14 16:24 GMT+02:00 Gilles : > Hello > > I'd like to use LO to redraw graphs scanned from a book, such at this one: > > > > Is there a simple way in LO to do this, ideally without using maths (unless > it's

[libreoffice-users] Indendet paragraphs with names, hints or comments at the left side?

2017-08-15 Thread Dennis Heuer
Hello, I am trying to write a protocol- or storyboard-alike document in which the paragraphs are indented and a name is put before the paragraphs (like a bulletin list with a text-field instead of the bullet.) I tried several ways to make this work without using cumbersome tables... Actually I'd

[libreoffice-users] Re: Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Gilles
Regina Henschel wrote > Or in case the scan is too ugly, you have to read the scan and enter the > coordinates as data in the table. From the image I guess, that five points > are sufficient. You need an XY-chart, because otherwise the years > are not at the ticks but between the ticks. > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Brian Barker
At 12:14 15/08/2017 +0200, Wiebe van der Worp wrote: Please also be aware of the fact that data itself is not copyrighted. In other words, copying data to Calc and use it to create a graph and an accompanying table should never be a problem - if my memory serves me well. This may be true in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Wiebe van der Worp
On 15-08-17 09:34, Mike Scott wrote: >> Gilles schrieb: >>> I'd like to use LO to redraw graphs scanned from a book, such at this >>> one: >>> >>> > Can I also point out that LO isn't necessarily the correct tool? I've > lately

Re: [libreoffice-users] need help off list on a Asus Win10/Ubuntu laptop

2017-08-15 Thread Tim Lungstrom
On 08/14/2017 08:49 AM, James Knott wrote: On 08/14/2017 12:16 AM, Tim-L--Elmira-NY wrote: Windows updated itself to a newer version of Windows 10. That, again, dumped the GRUB system to be able to boot to Ubuntu-MATE 16.04LTS. I have been trying to get it working for over 14 hours. I use a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Simple way to draw graphs ?

2017-08-15 Thread Mike Scott
On 14/08/17 16:15, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi, Gilles schrieb: Hello I'd like to use LO to redraw graphs scanned from a book, such at this one: Is there a simple way in LO to do this, ideally without using maths (unless it's a