[libreoffice-users] assembling an OTM into an EPUB.

Hi, all. Subject says it. OTM -> EPUB so I can get it on a Kindle. Kindles can handle PDF. However I'm told PDF is more graphics in nature and doesn't necessarily work well with every Kindle as far as easy readability. LO Writer Export claims to be able to do this. I get an error when I

Re: [libreoffice-users] can't open PDF on Mac

How come I can’t open a PDF on my Mac? I just purchased LibreOffice for the sole purpose of editing PDF. Uh, you purchased LibreOffice? It's free unless you give a donation. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin, now, writer /When I die, I want to go peacefully

[libreoffice-users] How did y DOCX become read only?

Hi. Running LO 7.5.7.1 on  Ubuntu 23.04. The goal here is to submit a DOCX to my editor who will do corrections etc to the document and put in margin comments. Said DOCX has to be read/write to do this. I've been assembling the DOCX by hand chapter by chapter, which is a pain in the butt.

[libreoffice-users] after the fact page numbers

Hi. Whole book, each chapter is a file. No page numbers. My bad. Without going through each and every page, is there a way to propagate headers and footers on every page with the requisite page numbers and whatever else throughout a chapter. I realize I will likely need to do this one

[libreoffice-users] Assembling a Master Document.

Hi. Thank you for your replies. Much appreciated. The fog my be beginning to lift. Have another one. I'm trying to create a Master Document. I did this once before. I'm beginning to think it only worked because I was having really a good day. I'm following the directions at

[libreoffice-users] Styles

Hi. A few details might change, but stories submissions to publishers and editors have pretty much the same characteristics, in the States anyway; 1.00 inch margin top and bottom, 1.25 inch margins right and left, Times Roman or Times New Roman font, 12pt, double spaced. Page numbers are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles

Hi. On Sun, 22 Oct 2023 11:18:28 -0400 "Chris J." dijo: Is there a list of common mistakes I can look at to try figuring out I'm dong wrong? Mistake 1) You didn't mention page styles. They would solve some of your problems. Mistake 2) Once you get a document created with the

[libreoffice-users] Fwd: LOWrite page numbers

Hi. Running Ubuntu 22.04 with LO 7.3.4.2 Ubuntu package 1:7.3.4. Before you ask, yes I RTFMed. Still can't get this working. I write stories where the chapters are individual files. First chapter has pages 1-15. Second chapter in a whole other file has to start with page 16. Is there a

[libreoffice-users] output formats.

Hi, First thank you for answers to previous questions. Took some fiddling but it all worked. Phil, that trick with the page numbers was neat. New problem. The Master Document works great for assembling. But publishers and editors want DOCX files. The virtual document you get from the

[libreoffice-users] Styles etc.

HI. Thank you, I'm beginning to figure out Master Documents. Still a few issues but we'll get to them or solve them no doubt with the least convenient method. Book editors and publishers have submission formats they will accept. They want a certain type face, size, margins and top and

[libreoffice-users] LO Calc, limits(?)

Hi. Is there some practical limit to the number of rows specifically, but columns too, that an LO Calc spreadsheet can have? I've run into this before with my checkbook. The spreadsheet is arranged such that down is back in time, the current amount is at the top. There's a formula in one

Re: [libreoffice-users] LO Calc, limits(?)

Hi. As Johnny says, we probably need more information to help. #VALUE normally means that the number is too big to fit in the space it is allowed. You should be able to see the value by selecting the cell and looking at the contents in the display above the top of the sheet. Or make the cell

[libreoffice-users] hyphenation

Hi. I likely know the answer to this. I'm looking for verification or a better answer. The only hyphenation ability in LO Write I'm seeing is for word splitting and end of a line. What I'd really like is help with compound adjectives. Does anything like that exist in LO Writer? --

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer word counts.

Hi, I've known for a while now that LO Writer's words counts and MS Word counts are close but not the same. I was entering an asterisked scene break just now and noticed the word count increased by three. A little experimenting revealed that Writer counted three asterisks as words. This

[libreoffice-users] Cutting a block of multi page text

Hi. This would seem to be a common thing to do for a writer. I'm missing it. I'm in LO Write. I need to cut a multi-page block of text between two bookmarks, save it and insert the text in a different chapter. The insert is easy part. How do I cut a block of text between two bookmarks

Re: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

Hi. It's not the paragraph style but the page style you need to look at. Typically a document has several page styles of which 'First page' could be one - and that wouldn't propagate through to the other page styles. The bulk of the document probably uses something like 'Default page style'

[libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

Hi, Next problem. I can get a nice page number centered in a footer propagated for all pages no problem. I want to do the same kind of thing in the header, right justified with some words preceding a page number. Again, no problem for the first page only. For some reason it isn't

Re: [libreoffice-users] common to all pages header

Hi. Does your first page have a 'First Page' page style rather than the 'Default Page Style'? - Robert Both files say they're using the "Default Paragraph Style". There's only one and I've never knowingly messed with it. -- Chris Johnson rchristopherjohn...@gmail.com Ex SysAdmin,

Re: [libreoffice-users] disappearing impress.

Hi. LO 7.3.7.2 Linux 6.1 environment Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS Release: 22.04 Codename: jammy I am experiencing something I remember having before, but I forget how to deal with it. Somehow, when I try to open an impress file, it is nowhere to be found. The Icon

[libreoffice-users] A curiosity.

Hi. This isn't so much a problem as a curiosity. Running Libre Office 7.6.4.1 on Ubuntu linux 23.10. In Writer, very simple format that matches most submission requirements, nothing fancy. New paragraphs get indented with a tab. Very often, not quite always, There's a little green

[libreoffice-users] LO Writer master document defaults.

Hi, Ubuntu linux 23.10 and earlier, LO 7.6.2.1and earlier. I've made a master document. The end result is a DOCX. I get this by creating an ODT and then saving that as a the DOCX. So far so good. However, the Master Document is read-only. This property propagates  to the ODT and the

[libreoffice-users] Annoying reformatting issue.

Hi, Ubuntu linux 23.10 LibreOffice 7.6.5.2 Before I had figured out what styles could do in Writer, I made the newbie mistake of hand formatting everything. You can see where this is going. I only needed a massively huge three styles to do everything I needed. Most story submissions are

[libreoffice-users] Table Of Contents

Hi, I'm in the manual (Yes, I've read it) at "Creating a Table of Contents". Based on the first paragraph it looks like the default is to key off a heading. Makes sense. I did create my own heading style based on Heading 1. This is what I'm using for chapter numbering. I made a few changes,

[libreoffice-users] Strange style application behavior.

Hi. This is just an observation at the moment. It was easily fix. I wouldn't bother mentioning it except that it happened twice in two different files. Ubuntu 23.10 LibreOffice 7.6.6.3 I've set up three styles for story writing; paragraph indented, chapter, and scene break. They've all

[libreoffice-users] Saving an odm as a docx in editable form.

Hi. LO 7.6.4.1 Ubuntu linux 23.04 with updates. I have an odm master compiled from chapter files. I want to save it as a docx in editable form. There was a way to do this. It was a little kludgy, You had had to go through an odt intermediary file. But it worked. In 7.6.4.1 this no longer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Strange style application behavior.

Hi. Hi Chris, without an example it is nearly impossible to reproduce and help here. You know there are character styles also? If you have set a character style, which defines the font to 12 pt, you could also set the paragraph style with a font of 18 pt. The font will appear with the