Re: Publish A Software Users Guide for OpenOffice!

2016-08-29 Thread Bruce Byfield
one who is interested can contact me via this email. -- Bruce Byfield 604.421.7189 (Pacific time) Writer of "Designing with LibreOffice" http://designingwithlibreoffice.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@o

"Choosing Fonts"

2016-08-08 Thread Bruce Byfield
with LibreOffice, including indexes and suggestions from the French translation team. For more information, please contact br...@designingwithlibreoffice.com or j...@designingwithlibreoffice.com. -- Bruce Byfield 604.421.7189 (Pacific time) Writer of "Designing with LibreOffice&

Re: warning - Editor Wars!!!--how about some heresy on behalf of the Joe 6-Pack word processor user

2015-06-26 Thread Bruce Byfield
to the style, then it might become a more user-friendly environment. That's what character styles are for. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users

Re: Making graphics stay where you placed them.

2014-05-25 Thread Bruce Byfield
objects. (4) People do not know about the property Follow text flow. I just noticed that both OpenOffice and LibreOffice have Follow text flow turned off by default. This default may explain some of the problems. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-21 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 05:14:33 PM mt wrote: On 20/5/14 at 3:02 PM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote: Sorry -- you're waa behind the times. The vast majority of books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes, even, LibreOffice -- and the publishers set

Making graphics stay where you placed them.

2014-05-21 Thread Bruce Byfield
. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-20 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 09:22:08 AM Urmas wrote: Bruce Byfield: Yes, manual formatting is available. But using it is kind of perverse, because it means doing more work than necessary Take any book from your shelf. The number of lines on each page was adjusted manually. The hyphenation

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 Bruce Byfield
, and, from what I have seen while reading mailing lists, OpenOffice is no exception. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ --- List Conduct Guidelines: http

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
tell you what each style does. For example, Text Body is obviously the main paragraph style in the document, and Title the name of the document. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
into consideration. Also, your comments do not address the main point in my message, which was about revealing codes for document options that go beyond plain styling. I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you give an example of options that go beyond plain styling? -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-16 Thread Bruce Byfield
, I doubt that developers would make Reveal Codes a high priority unless there was a lot more enthusiasm that has been shown so far. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-14 Thread Bruce Byfield
imagine are even possible because of our limited view. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-13 Thread Bruce Byfield
of the style, then go to the tabs to change it. In other words, if you use OpenOffice the way it was designed to use, it already has a Reveal Code-like feature. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-12 Thread Bruce Byfield
, and are inefficient without them. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/ --- List Conduct Guidelines: http://openoffice.apache.org/list-conduct.html To unsubscribe, e-mail

Re: unique uses of frame styles

2013-10-13 Thread Bruce Byfield
Thanks, but since I *am* Bruce Byfield, I doubt it can teach me anything new. On Saturday 12 October 2013 11:53:27 PM Martin Groenescheij wrote: Have a look at the article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7733 writen by Bruce Byfield On 11/10/2013 6:04 AM, Bruce Byfield wrote: Hi

Re: unique uses of frame styles

2013-10-12 Thread Bruce Byfield
others) when chapters are uploaded to ODF Authors. -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/

unique uses of frame styles

2013-10-10 Thread Bruce Byfield
and sideheads, but if you can suggest a use that I haven't heard about, I'll credit you when the book is published. Thanks, -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/

template paths for OS X and Windows

2013-05-02 Thread Bruce Byfield
, -- Bruce Byfield 604-421-7189 (on Pacific time) blog: https://brucebyfield.wordpress.com website: http://members.axion.net/~bbyfield/