[libreoffice-users] Re: Underlinng? easy. How do I overline?

[V Stuart Foote]

DavidBTeagueAt Comporium.net wrote
> Underlining is a common task in LO, and it is easy. Control U. But I 
> need to overline (also called overscore or overbar), some text, in my 
> case digits. Overlining is common in scientific fields, and I use it to 
> indicate a shift, a motion of the hand, on double bass music.
> 
> How do I do this? I'd like to have a font, not unlike the underline 
> font. (I hope I'm not missing something here.)

Two simple ways, results will vary by font.

A. this is artificial in that it does not follow the font designers intent,
but gives clean "calculated" overlines of various forms.
1) enter the text string
2) select what needs overline
3) context menu select "Character" dialog
4) in character dialog -> Font affects tab
5) "Overlining" drop list to select desired effect

B. this uses the font designers specification, OK for a symbol but does not
work well for words or sentences.
1) enter the text string
2) advance cursor over each character and enter +X
3) character will convert to its Unicode point, e.g. A -> U+0040,  a ->
U+0060
4) append the Unicode combining glyph to each character;  i.e. for COMBINING
OVERLINE U+0305, or COMBINING DOUBLE OVERLINE U+033F, or COMBINING DOUBLE
MACRON U+035e, or other from the Unicode block 0300-036F
5) merge the characters with another +X at the end of each Unicode
string.



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[libreoffice-users] Underlinng? easy. How do I overline?

[David B Teague sr]

Libreoffice community:

Underlining is a common task in LO, and it is easy. Control U. But I 
need to overline (also called overscore or overbar), some text, in my 
case digits. Overlining is common in scientific fields, and I use it to 
indicate a shift, a motion of the hand, on double bass music.


How do I do this? I'd like to have a font, not unlike the underline 
font. (I hope I'm not missing something here.)


With Warmest Regaard
David Teague

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening 'Pages' documents

[Alexander Thurgood]

Le 07/09/2017 à 12:12, Tom Davies a écrit :
> Hi :) 
> 1.  Is there an easy work-around such as using "Pages" to save in a
> different format?

Pages 6.2 (latest version available on OSX 10.12.6) can export to :

PDF
Word (DOCX or DOC97-2004)
Plain text
RTF
ePub
Pages'09

so potentially, there are one or more workarounds.
>
> 2.  Does Microsquish Office open such files any better? 

No - Word thinks the file is OpenXML and fails to parse it correctly,
resulting in no file being loaded/displayed.

>
> 3.  Is it easy to file a bug-report against "Pages" with better
> likelihood of Apple fixing it?  
>
No. It isn't Apple's problem after all, they haven't broken their own
product. The LibreOffice import filter isn't up to the job, that's all.
One might go out on a limb and suspect that Apple deliberately changed
its file format to thwart importation into LibreOffice, but that would
be just paranoid thinking, wouldn't it...


Alex




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Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Opening 'Pages' documents

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
1.  Is there an easy work-around such as using "Pages" to save in a
different format?

2.  Does Microsquish Office open such files any better?

3.  Is it easy to file a bug-report against "Pages" with better likelihood
of Apple fixing it?

It seems that other companies try to force users into becoming dependant on
their software by making their software incompatible with everyone else.
The resulting documents are often difficult to open successfully with more
recent versions of their software.  It seems crazy that so many people fall
for it!

Regards from
a Tom :)




On 7 Sep 2017 09:32, "Alexander Thurgood"  wrote:

> Le 06/09/2017 à 18:51, anne-ology a écrit :
>
> FWIW, only older versions of Pages (version '09) documents can be opened
> with reasonable fidelity using LibreOffice.
>
> Current versions of Pages (5.6.x) documents do not open correctly. There
> is at least one bug report (bug 105211) about this in the LibreOffice
> bugzilla system.
>
>
>
> Alex
>
>
>
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Opening 'Pages' documents

[Alexander Thurgood]

Le 06/09/2017 à 18:51, anne-ology a écrit :

FWIW, only older versions of Pages (version '09) documents can be opened
with reasonable fidelity using LibreOffice.

Current versions of Pages (5.6.x) documents do not open correctly. There
is at least one bug report (bug 105211) about this in the LibreOffice
bugzilla system.



Alex




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[libreoffice-users] Re: Changing Default Page Size

[Alexander Thurgood]

Le 06/09/2017 à 19:17, Budge a écrit :

As I understand it, and perhaps I am misguided, the default page size is
locale dependent. In other words, if you download the US version of
LibreOffice (the default dependent on your browser identification), but
don't install the language packs for en-GB, then your default
installation will use Letter as the default page size, instead of A4.

If you are still getting Letter as page default even after having
installed a en-GB version of LibreOffice, then this would be a bug that
needs reporting (if not already reported).


Alex



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