Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-11 Thread jonathon
On 7/5/19 9:39 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > To my knowledge, that sort of thing doesn't happen with LO, making reveal > codes unnecessary. In general, I agree with you. However, there were one or two times when the RevealCodes4Cal macro showed me what was going wrong with the styles in the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-06 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den lör 6 juli 2019 kl 00:34 skrev fudmier : > Styles the way they are supposed to be is > > Just that it's worth the time to make sure you have all the styles you'll need and always use them, rather than using direct formatting. There are a bit more to styles that first meet the eye. At

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 7/5/2019 4:28 PM, James Knott wrote: > > Many years ago, I used Wordstar 2000 at work and it had similar issues > with all the formatting codes.  I'd often go through documents clearing > up the mess others had created because they didn't understand what the > formatting codes did.  Like WP,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 4 juli 2019 kl 18:16 skrev John : > On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 07:45 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > Hi > > > > > From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support > > Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and sometimes > > it is stated that this feature could

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread James Knott
On 2019-07-05 04:10 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: > Some 25 years ago, the government law office where I worked used > WordPerfect exclusively and we all relied on Reveal Codes, which was a > necessity because of the way we worked with WP. Although it had some > style functionality, we never used

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-05 Thread Virgil Arrington
On 7/4/2019 10:32 PM, jomali wrote: > I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes were > appropriate then. However, ODF files have a complex SGML or HTML or XML > type format, along with a form of CSS, unlike WordPerfect and similar > programs, which used embedded code to

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
Indeed... A single style may cause multiple changes. I don't remember how that is displayed in the macro. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Jul 4, 2019, 10:33 PM, at 10:33 PM, jomali wrote: >I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes >were >appropriate then. However, ODF

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread jomali
I don't remember the details of the sxw format. Perhaps reveal codes were appropriate then. However, ODF files have a complex SGML or HTML or XML type format, along with a form of CSS, unlike WordPerfect and similar programs, which used embedded code to delineate format changes. That is, there are

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
I don't think it was that much code. I might even have a working copy from a few years back, but won't have computer access until next week. Might have deleted it. If you can't make it work, remind me next week and I can take a look. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On Jul 4, 2019, 11:04 AM, at 11:04

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Andrew Pitonyak
just so we're clear, the macro functionality was not even close to the functionality in word perfect. all the macro did, was displaying a dialogue all of the codes. There is certainly a lot of use for this, but nothing near what you do automatically in word perfect. ⁣Sent from BlueMail ​ On

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread John
On Thu, 2019-07-04 at 07:45 +0200, Uwe Brauer wrote: > Hi > > > From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support > Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and sometimes > it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a > macro/extension. > > Now I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den tors 4 juli 2019 kl 08:03 skrev Uwe Brauer : > Hi > > >From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support > Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and sometimes > it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a > macro/extension. > > Now I remember

[libreoffice-users] Reveal code, old macros convert them to LO

2019-07-04 Thread Uwe Brauer
Hi >From time to time the question pops up whether LO could support Wordperfects reveal code. The developer are not too keen, and sometimes it is stated that this feature could be implemented by a macro/extension. Now I remember that long time ago such macros existed and using the wayback