Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Doug
On 05/16/2014 03:12 AM, mt wrote: On 14/5/14 at 12:17 PM, j...@jt-mj.net (Julian Thomas) wrote: As a longtime Star office and now OO user, I am new to styles. I'd still like to see some helpful information on how to get started with styles (better than 'my pets' and 'my cats'; [I tried

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday 16 May 2014 11:35:46 PM James Knott wrote: On 05/16/2014 09:29 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote: If people don't want to learn how to use Writer the way it was designed, they might be better off with some simpler tool. Notepad? ;-) :-) But I didn't say that to put anyone down. It's

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Catherine RIOBÉ
please dont send me emails any more. I am a particular person. Le 17 mai 2014 à 05:24, Bruce Byfield a écrit : On Friday 16 May 2014 10:28:44 PM Julian Thomas wrote: But more basically, OpenOffice is for people like Julian and me. If people like me and Julian put forward a suggestion, it

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On 05/16/2014 03:12 AM, mt wrote: To those who chimed in to justify styles: it is quite obvious to me that you are missing the point. For starters, it sounds like you don't really know WordPerfect, and imagine Reveal codes to be something other than it was. In my case, what is quite

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to be because of some style that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix it, because__ __it's built into the style. _ Are your experiences with styles with someone else's

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 17 May 2014 00:18:32 -0700 Bruce Byfield bbyfi...@axion.net wrote: On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to be because of some style that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix it, because__ __it's

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Richard Detwiler
What I don't understand, and I'm sure I must be missing something so please explain, is how come this discussion seems to suggest that it's either/or -- meaning, use styles for all formatting or we HAVE to have reveal codes to not use styles. I've used styles a lot with Open Office and I

Re: Second attempt to send

2014-05-17 Thread Carson Chittom
art...@aol.com writes: Dear Ms/Mr? Carson, (at car...@wistly.net) It's mister, for the record. Carson is a name of Norse origin from the words for marsh and son. You'd think that with the word son actually in it, people would only use it for boys, but this turns out not to be the case.

Re: OpenOffice mac

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Johansson wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take advantage of 64-bit Mac OS X applications and avoid the dependency on now deprecated build tools. It was discussed at length on the dev list, since it was clear

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Doug Johnson
I agree with the On the spot need. Quite simply, Reveal Codes allows me to see what's going with a glance. With so many features, the interaction between them can make formatting unexpectedly difficult. Like salt and pepper, use when needed! On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Richard Detwiler

Re: Reveal Codes Query

2014-05-17 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-05-16 20:38 GMT+02:00 japples japp...@europa.com: Does a list exist for OO users to vote for proposed future functionalities? I would like to vote for Reveal Codes. Reveal Codes is a very useful tool. It works independently of the Style rules and does not require the user to take time

Re: Integration des dt. Wörterbuches in mein kürzlich install. App Andropen office Ver 1.5

2014-05-17 Thread Jörg Schmidt
Hallo Stefan, From: Heinz-Stefan Neumeyer [mailto:hsn.debian_u...@arcor.de] Dann glaube ich, daß Du hier nicht an der richtigen Stelle bist. Was dort angeboten wird ist keine Bestandteil des OpenOffice- bzw. Apache-OO-Projektes, sondern eine eigenständige Entwicklung. Ich kann Dir auch