The “cm” is Computer Modern. It’s a type family created by Donald Knuth
for use with Tex. They often seem to get installed by some application––
it may even be Libre Office.
The cryptic are possibly a reflection of the whimsical Tex (or rather
Knuth) world.
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. . . cryptic _names_, I meant.
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I have just noticed a very undesirable problem with Libre Office, and one that
I cannot find a way around.
When a word is selected to be an index entry (Insert Indexes and tables
Entry), the width of the word is increased slightly––sometimes enough to push
the last word on that line on to
My version of Libre Office (4.0.2.2) on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 13.04) has a feature
that I decidedly don’t want: illustrating the styles in the pull-down style
menu in the actual typeface and size (some huge, some tiny). I’ve searched
everywhere for the option of turning it off, but with no success.
Hello, Girvin.
No, it’s the pull-down menu of paragraph styles––beside the font names. I
already have the latter de-embellished (?), but I don’t see a similar option
for the former. And I’m pretty sure this is a new feature.
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This is not a new feature. I have seen in in Writer since OOo
2.0 or before.
What you want to remove is a tool in one of the toolbars. You
can hide this menu by right clicking between any of the tools in that
toolbar. Click Visible Buttons in the pop up window. Then
selectApply
Thank you, Mirosław. I suspected it was something that cannot be turned off.
It is only a small irritant, and I can live with it.
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The PDF specification is now the subject of a formal international
standard, ISO 32000, part 1 (2008), so it is no longer proprietary.
And most of the PDF readers are free, and many of them are open-source.
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A white line is a blank line between paragraphs.
In Libre Office you can delete them all with find and replace (making
sure “regular expressions” is selected). Find ^$ (just those two
characters) and replace all with nothing (i.e. no characters in the
“replace” box).
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Andrew wrote:
A blank line does not have to be an empty line. (^$)
She didn’t say “blank line”: she said “white line.” A white line is a
line space between paragraphs that contains no text. (In a
word-processor file I take this to be a line created by pressing the
“return” key a second time.)
Tom wrote:
So, where did boot-up come from?
“Boot” (restart) a computer was originally “bootstrap,” from “pull
(oneself) up by the bootstraps,” i.e. to start by oneself. The “up” is a
gratuitous addition.
Now back to work, everyone.
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I wonder whether anyone else has noticed a peculiar fault in recent
versions of Libre Office (mine is version 3.6.2.2, on Ubuntu 12.10).
When a hyphenated term is the first item in a line after a line with
looser word-spacing, i.e. with enough room for the part before the
hyphen, this part is
Tom wrote:
I think LaTeX is far more sophisticated for proper professional
printing. My guess would be that commercial publishing houses convert
from Writer or Word into LaTeX (or something) and then perhaps reapply
formatting.
I doubt that. Most professional printing and publishing nowadays
John Jason Jordan wrote:
I'm also curious why this works only with the LinuxLibertineG
fonts. Adobe InDesign had these features 14 years ago, and
they have always worked with any OTF font installed on the
computer . . .
The reason is that Graphite and Opentype (OTF) are rival formats for
I wonder if some regex wizard knows of a way to delete HTML (or XML or
whatever) tags from a text file: in other words, selecting everything
from each occurrence of to the next occurrence of .
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Thanks for that tip, Simon.
Unfortunately that site seems to have gone missing.
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Gene wrote:
A Google search will find a download site. It does work well.
I did a web search, but all the references pointed to the same site,
which does not work.
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Andreas wrote:
Open the html in your browser and copy the visible text?
Now that’s clever! And indeed it works.
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Thank you very much, Brian. I’ll try that also.
(I think your wizardry has already been established.)
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I wonder if anyone can shed any light on a peculiar (but serious!)
problem that I’ve had all day.
Libre Office (on Ubuntu 11.10) constantly quits without warning. It
happens sometimes when I use certain keys, such as page up and page
down, or backspace or delete, or when I copy and paste text, or
Hello, Jay.
I should have said that it’s in Writer only. I’m using Libre Office
3.4.3 (build 302), from the Ubuntu repository. I’m using Gnome Classic,
not Unity (and on a fairly dated computer).
Today was a disaster, but also may have led to a discovery. Having tried
everything else, I resorted
Steve wrote:
When you paste from the docx, can you try paste special, unformatted
text and gain success.
That’s what I normally do, and I’m sure I did it on this occasion.
Can you paste the text from docx into a file, save and view it with
ghexedit to identify the character.
You might be
Just a quick question, slightly off topic: how did you assign a
keyboard short-cut to paste unformatted text?
Tools Customise Keyboard . . . In the bottom-left panel, Functions
Category, choose Edit; in the right-hand panel, Function, go down to
Paste Unformatted Text; then in the top
NoOp wrote:
... Let me know if I can be of help. Bugzilla requires that cookies be
enabled, so make sure that you have those turned on in your browser.
Nothing else special is required (no Java, Flash etc).
Ah, that’s what it was. I should have thought of that. I have them
blocked
I have a number of alternative colour palettes, including one I want to
use generally. Most of them seem to be designed for a palette that is 10
boxes across, but the palette in Libre Office 3.4.4 is 8 boxes across,
so breaking up the pattern.
I seem to recall that the palette in Open Office was
Thanks, NoOp. I’ll try that now.
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Libre Office (3.3.4) on GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 11.10) creates faulty spacing
with some characters. Letter combinations that have the same width as
the equivalent ligature (for example fl as two separate letters v. the
f-l ligature) are spaced differently. It is possible to open a font in
Fontforge and
Tom wrote:
Are you looking for mono-spaced fonts? A font that has all characters the
same fixed width? There are plenty out there.
No, these are conventional fonts. Certain characters are spaced wrongly
in Libre Office (but are correctly spaced in other applications).
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Jay wrote:
Is this a screen resolution or a printing problem. Could you specify
which font(s) are troublesome?
Also, I forgot - what OS are you using?
GNU/Linux (Ubuntu 11.10).
Various fonts, including Plantin, but mostly my own (work in progress).
In all of them I have verified the
The claims being made for the improved typographic features of
Libreoffice 3.5 are disingenuous, to put it mildly. All are related to
Graphite, a minority “smart font” technology that is not widely used
(and that is implemented for Libreoffice with precisely two fonts).
Meanwhile the mainstream
Brian wrote:
For what it's worth, the German for diaeresis appears to be Trema.
The umlaut looks the same, but it's a different mark: it is an accent,
whereas the diaeresis is (as you describe) also a diacritic but not an
accent.
Not quite. “Umlaut” is not a character or a mark but the
Tom wrote:
I thought the umlaut was a specific type of such a mark and that there
were quite a few different markings, and in different languages, that
could change the way a letter sounds?
Diacritical marks are used for lots of different purposes in different
languages though the marks
Tom wrote:
Many of us are far more familiar with copyleft agreements that aim to
help people share and spread ideas and knowledge rather than to try to
contain and cage it to prevent people from learning things.
That is a most ill-considered and sweeping statement. Copyright exists
primarily
David:
You should probably be aware that the automatic bullet feature (and the
automatic numbering feature) in Microsoft Word does not place the
appropriate characters within the text, as it seems to do, but simulates
them by means of templates that are stored in another part of the file
(if I
avamk:
I downloaded and opened that file with Libre Ofice 3.3.4 (on Ubuntu
11.10), and the bullets and the numbers are presented correctly.
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Regina wrote:
They are usually written via AutoCorrect. The simple hyphen is replaced
with the en-dash or em-dash when the following word is finished . . .
That is _not_ a good idea. The hyphen, en rule and em rule (dash) are
distinct characters with distinct uses in conventional typography
Doug:
Using the compose key, the default settings are:
dash (em rule) ---
en rule:--.
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Tom wrote:
How do you do that if your system (openSuSE 12.1) only allows two (2) key
composition?
I didn’t think there was such a restriction. I have a custom compose
list (on Ubuntu), and I just created a three-key combination, and it
works.
Is this something unique to SUSE (which seems
I wonder if there is any way to rearrange the colours in the palette
(Tools Options Colours), and likewise in the array that is presented
under Background Colour and Font Colour.
I’m prepared to bet it’s in an XML file hidden away somewhere. But
where?
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Regina:
Found it. Danke schön!
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The U stands for Unicode (the universal character set). The notation U
+ is a way of making it explicit that the number is a Unicode
reference.
Unicode 2009 is a thin space, traditionally considered a fifth of the
nominal type size in points, defined by Unicode as either or a fifth or
a sixth
I only was able to find 2 messages from Brad, both lacking any
Nazi-symbol-like shape.
I think you are mistaken. His messages contain a graphic embedded in
the header, using a new technique called X-face, which places a
graphical image in all e-mail messages. Perhaps your e-mail program is
not
Are you talking about the ASCII art capital B?
No, the thing that looks like a Nazi symbol.
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Could Brad Rogers explain what the symbol embedded in his e-mail
message is?
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It’s not too difficult. The dictionary used in a spelling check is a
plain-text file that you can modify with a text editor, subject to a
few conditions.
I don’t know what operating system you are using, but on Ubuntu my
English dictionary is at /usr/share/hunspell/en_IE.dic. If you are in
South
My customised system-wide dictionaries (Ubuntu 5.2.2.2) are
in /usr/share/hunspell/ and are named (for example) ga_IE.dic and
en_IE.dic. They are accessible by all applications and work perfectly
with Libre Office and other applications. They can also be easily
customised.
I don’t know whether
No, I’ve already got rid of “Track changes.”
In the meantime I have to say (blushingly) that I think I’ve found the
problem. This particular document had been created by someone who was
using that feature, and although I didn’t (and don’t), the document
keeps a record of changes. If I go to Edit
Having just installed Ubuntu 16.10, and with it Libre Office 5.2.2.2, I
find that I can no longer detach the highlight colour or background
colour panels from the menu bar and drag them outside the document
area. I can’t find anything in the help information.
Is this a known fault, or is there
Yesterday (3 May) I wrote:
> I want to disable the setting “Use printer metrics for document
> formatting” in Libre Office Writer (Libre Office 6.0.3.2 on Ubuntu
> 18.04). When I deselect it it is automatically selected again every
> time I open a document, whether a new document or an existing
After much trawling and peeking into corners, I find that another
setting has to be changed first for this to stick.
(1) Tools > Options > Load/Save > General: Load user-specific settings
with the document: ON
then
(2) Tools > Options > LibreOffice Writer > Compatibility: Use printer
metrics
Greetings.
I want to disable the setting “Use printer metrics for document
formatting” in Libre Office Writer (Libre Office 6.0.3.2 on Ubuntu
18.04). When I deselect it it is automatically selected again every
time I open a document, whether a new document or an existing one.
I have made the
I was dismayed to discover recently (and surprised that I never noticed
before) that Libre Office disregards the difference between, say, á and
a in spelling checks, and in find and replace. (Dismayed also to
imagine that someone thinks this is a good idea.)
I wonder if anyone knows how (or
Thank you, all.
The .aff file is somewhat outside my comfort zone, but I’ll certainly
experiment with it.
I may have caused some confusion with my use of the word “accents,”
which I used (for simplicity’s sake) instead of “diacritical marks.”
I’m concerned with words in which the acute accent is
Well, I simply reinstalled a back-up .aff file that I had, and it seems
to work as it should (and as it did––I think). Perhaps I had a
corrupted .aff file.
But I’m intrigued by some of the options in the .aff file, and I intend
to go into it more deeply as soon as I get the time.
In the
I wonder if anyone can shed any light on where Libre Office hides its
settings for the formatting of comments.
Inside a comment there is a button labelled “Format all comments.” I
have repeatedly specified a particular typeface and size here, but each
time a new comment is created it specifies
Thank you, Philip.
I opened the default template
(/home/sob/.config/libreoffice/4/user/template/New.ott) and verified
the required font setting for the default document template. Then
I created a comment in the template document, formatted it as I
require, used the little button to select “Format
Some time ago Brian Barker provided a brilliant formula for finding all text
between less-than and greater-than signs, namely
<[^>]*>
I’ve been trying to adapt it to finding text within brackets [thus], but
without success. I know that brackets as such, as distinct from regular
expressions,
Thank you (once again), Brian. I’l test all this in the morning.
What I’m trying to achieve is to select all the terms inside the brackets and
then in one fell swoop (1) to change them all to italic (and therefore
excluding the brackets) and (2) to change the language of the text within the
Thanks to everyone for your help. The job is now done, and it’s a pleasure to
behold! I’m very grateful for all the help.
Séamas
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Can anyone explain the purpose of the setting “Pair kerning” under “Format >
Character > Position”?
For some time now Libre Office has implemented the principal Opentype features,
most notably kerning and ligature substitution, by means of the options
“kern=1” and “liga=1,” respectively,
In marginal comments, the identification line at the bottom displays the user
name and the date and time. The program offers no obvious way to format this,
but the default (for me) is reasonably acceptable. In working on a document,
however, I notice that at some point this line has silently
I have a long and fairly complex document, with numerous styles. My
problem is that a small amount of visual line-spacing is being added
between paragraphs, which I do not want.
I was defining line-spacing in paragraph styles as a percentage of
nominal size, so after investigating everything else
Can something be done about the political propaganda in the recent
message from Uwe Brauer?
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> I didn't see any 'propaganda'.
> I saw expression of a political opinion . . .
I’m afraid that’s semantic trickery for renaming political propaganda
that you agree with.
> if it bothered me I'd ignore it.
It bothers me, and it contravenes the norm of email discussion, and I
can’t ignore it.
Thank you, Brian and Virgil.
Well, if this was a video call you would see a bright red face here,
because I’ve just discovered that this problem exists only with one
paragraph style, and that style has a little bit of spacing added
above (now eliminated).
And I only discovered this because of
Thank you, Robert. I’ve solved the original problem now. I can see that
there could be uses for this distinction, but I was surprised that the
default setting was to insert extra space automatically, especially if
one hadn’t noticed this setting (which is where I blundered).
Unfortunately I can’t
Days were indeed reckoned from sunset to sunset; so the Twelve Days of
Christmas are from the evening of the 24th of December (Christmas
Night) to the evening of the 5th of January (Twelfth Night)––not the 4th
(otherwise there wouldn’t be twelve days).
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