Re: Possible Violation of Copyright buy 3rd party developer

[Drew Jensen]

In fact this company seems to think it has a registered trademark on the
word BASE.
https://www.baseonline.com/about-us.html

That application is not a database front end development system so I
suppose they don't really mind with regards to AOO or LO, that and it is
rare to speak of Base as something separate, it is a module of Apache
OpenOffice.

Best wishes,

Drew

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020 at 7:40 PM Fernando Cassia  wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 19:47 James Weil  wrote:
>
> > A 3rd party developer, Menial Software (n...@menial.co.uk  > i...@menial.co.uk>.,https://menial.co.uk/base/ <
> https://menial.co.uk/base/>)
> > is marketing a commercial SQLite database for the Mac as a commercial
> > product and has named it ‘Base’. This can be at the least, potentially
> > confusion to users of your free database product
>
>
> Aren't you confusing trademarks with copyright?
>
> The is IMHO no copyright infringement unless we are talking about the same
> source code being used.
>
> Trademarks, maybe, if someone registered "Base" but it's such a generic
> word that I doubt it.
>
> Remember once upon a time the PC/DOS database standard was DBase.
>
> FC
>
> >
> >
>

Re: Possible Violation of Copyright buy 3rd party developer

[Fernando Cassia]

On Sun, Feb 23, 2020, 19:47 James Weil  wrote:

> A 3rd party developer, Menial Software (n...@menial.co.uk  i...@menial.co.uk>.,https://menial.co.uk/base/ )
> is marketing a commercial SQLite database for the Mac as a commercial
> product and has named it ‘Base’. This can be at the least, potentially
> confusion to users of your free database product


Aren't you confusing trademarks with copyright?

The is IMHO no copyright infringement unless we are talking about the same
source code being used.

Trademarks, maybe, if someone registered "Base" but it's such a generic
word that I doubt it.

Remember once upon a time the PC/DOS database standard was DBase.

FC

>
>

Re: Suggestions for Apache Open Office writer 4.1.7.

[Andrea Pescetti]

Ashutosh Airi wrote:

1. If the spell check facility of writer can be improved to have keyboard
shortcuts then the usage for regular users like me can increase.


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I think we already support most of your requests. There is a keyboard 
shortcut for the spell-checker (F7 but may depend on language) and the 
Menu key triggers the local menu for adding/ignoring etc.



2. If the spell check facility is improved to allow inclusion of external
text files as reference files for spell check then one can have his own
custom built spell check file that will eventually result in lesser and
lesser time being spent on spell check. In 4.1.7 (En-US) "Writer" I could
not find the path to the spell check file like custom.dic of Word 2000.


We support custom dictionaries, just I'm not sure they are in the form 
of text files. You add to these dictionaries from the interface. See 
documentation (press F1) for more.



3. Macro facility of Word 2000 does not allow external txt files to
attached in a VB project thereby limits the spell check correction and it
cannot be increased to several thousands of corrections. I get an error on
an Lenovo I3 L412 after the vb code length increases more than 2200 words
per file and has therefore resulted in entering about 45 files to the spell
check macro whenever I format the device. Generally format of the device is
to be done after about a month. The OS being used is Win XP sp2.


I don't see a need for using a macro for this task.


4. I have not been able to use the available "Autocorrect" facility on the
spell check popup window. My suggestion would be to use this tab
exclusively for the user to have his own spell check system:
a) a few attachable, modifiable and increasable txt dict reference files.
b) a macro facilitation that is able to correct a few thousand already
corrected and recorded strings/ string sequences (an ocr text can present
even a simple word as: "Pres-ident" "butthe" "isan" etc.
c) Auto text entries that are too frequently needed to be corrected.


The autocorrect works mostly the way you describe, with the exception 
that it is not based on text files (so you need to manage it through the 
UI) and that you setup it manually in the preferences (not in the popup).


Regards,
  Andrea.

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Re: more field fun.

[Felmon Davis]

On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Rory O'Farrell wrote:



[...]

The automatic page numbering will appear static if no pages are inserted before 
or between them.


understand.

If the perception is that "static" page numbers are needed because 
of references from other locations in the document, there are 
automatic ways of doing this, where the references update when (if) 
the page numbers change.


I haven't explored the reasons the author wants just to have those 
Roman numerals plugged in like that (no automatic updating). there may 
be some better way for them to achieve whatever their purpose is but 
my goal was to produce the document according to their description. I 
was just trying to do a favor but in the course of it I've learned 
some valuable wrinkles.


I haven't yet implemented any of the solutions for the roman numeral 
pages; will get to that sometime today.


f.

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Suggestions for Apache Open Office writer 4.1.7.

[Ashutosh Airi]

Dear Sir/Madam,

1. If the spell check facility of writer can be improved to have keyboard
shortcuts then the usage for regular users like me can increase.

2. If the spell check facility is improved to allow inclusion of external
text files as reference files for spell check then one can have his own
custom built spell check file that will eventually result in lesser and
lesser time being spent on spell check. In 4.1.7 (En-US) "Writer" I could
not find the path to the spell check file like custom.dic of Word 2000.

3. Macro facility of Word 2000 does not allow external txt files to
attached in a VB project thereby limits the spell check correction and it
cannot be increased to several thousands of corrections. I get an error on
an Lenovo I3 L412 after the vb code length increases more than 2200 words
per file and has therefore resulted in entering about 45 files to the spell
check macro whenever I format the device. Generally format of the device is
to be done after about a month. The OS being used is Win XP sp2.

4. I have not been able to use the available "Autocorrect" facility on the
spell check popup window. My suggestion would be to use this tab
exclusively for the user to have his own spell check system:
a) a few attachable, modifiable and increasable txt dict reference files.
b) a macro facilitation that is able to correct a few thousand already
corrected and recorded strings/ string sequences (an ocr text can present
even a simple word as: "Pres-ident" "butthe" "isan" etc.
c) Auto text entries that are too frequently needed to be corrected.

I can send you the text samples that I correct everyday.

With regards.
Ashutosh Airi
9818869041

Re: more field fun.

[Rory O'Farrell]

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020 23:00:36 -0500 (EST)
Felmon Davis  wrote:

> On Sun, 23 Feb 2020, Brian Barker wrote:
> 
> > At 17:33 22/02/2020 -0500, Felmon Davis wrote:
> >> imagine you have ten consecutive pages all without footer and unnumbered 
> >> except for pages 3, 5 and 7; on those pages you want a footer and you want 
> >> a roman numeral, for instance ix on page 3, xi on page 5 and xiii on page 
> >> 7. inserting a number generates the same numeral on each page. ah, I guess 
> >> the trick is to do a different page style for 3, 5 and 7.
> >
> > The usefulness of automatic page numbering, of course, is that you can 
> > modify 
> > the text or layout of the document with the page numbers being preserved 
> > and 
> > updating appropriately and not being displaced. If you need such a random 
> > collection of numbers and the document is at a late stage of preparation - 
> > when changes to the text are less likely - it may be simpler just to 
> > position 
> > manual page numbers where the footer would be, without having any footer.
> >
> > If you need a footer for other information on such pages but want page 
> > numbers only on some, you can still do this. Create a Frame to contain the 
> > required page number (it doesn't need to have any border) and ensure that 
> > it 
> > is anchored To Page. Position the frame in the footer where is needs to 
> > appear. Because it is anchored to the page, not to anything within the 
> > footer, it will not be repeated within the footer on other pages.
> >
> > The second technique is also more robust to changes in paper size, margins, 
> > and so on, as well as to font substitution on a foreign system.
> >
> > I trust this helps.
> 
> very much so! I will try out some of this when I return to the task 
> tonight or tomorrow. I think I favor the 'frame' approach, basically 
> just sort of 'paint' the footer in. these numerals do not need to be 
> automatically updated; quite the contrary, they must be static.
> 
> (perhaps I should ask them why. maybe there's a better way to achieve 
> their goals but I don't have time to dig too deep.)
> 
> again, thank you. I'll report back.
> 
> f.
> 
> -- 
> Felmon Davis

The automatic page numbering will appear static if no pages are inserted before 
or between them.

If the perception is that "static" page numbers are needed because of 
references from other locations in the document, there are automatic ways of 
doing this, where the references update when (if) the page numbers change.


-- 
Rory O'Farrell 

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