-Original Message-
From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:20 PM
To: James Knott
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4
sizes
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the metric
system in Ameri
Children throughout the world can do it. Even you could! You'll
never do it until you determine to do so; the only problem is that
you haven't yet tried.
You're absolutely right, I haven't tried, because I've had no reason to. My
system has worked for me (and my fellow Americans) for my entir
Do others use Picas? If not, what are you using?
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 3:46 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letterand A4
sizes
Children throughout the world c
When I install fonts to my Win7 computer, I just copy the font files to the
"C:\windows\fonts" folder using Windows Explorer. I've never had a problem
doing it this way.
Virgil
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From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 12:48 PM
To: users@global.li
y desktop first and Win XP and Win7 on laptops, as needed.
On 02/25/2013 01:21 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
When I install fonts to my Win7 computer, I just copy the font files to
the "C:\windows\fonts" folder using Windows Explorer. I've never had a
problem doing it this way.
While I wouldn't call it anger, I was honestly surprised that LO 4.0
*replaced* my previous install of LO 3.6.x. I thought it would install
side-by-side. I confess I install these things so quickly, that I may have
missed an install option somewhere.
But, I concur about some features that work
Believe me, I understand the massive task facing the LO developers, so I won’t
complain too loudly if things aren’t perfect.
Virgil
From: Joel Madero
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:07 PM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Why is
ing of how end users perceive their work.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Cor Nouws
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:13 PM
To: Joel Madero
Cc: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Why is Impress screwed up
withEVERYrelease?
Joel Madero
I'll check it out.
If there's a way that I think I can help, I'll be more than happy to do so.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Joel Madero
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2013 6:23 PM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re:
nd these other font folders, is make sure I copy the
fonts to a "storage" folder and then install them so the rest of the
packages can access them. I did that with the LO fonts including the
DejaVu ones.
On 02/25/2013 05:40 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I should have added my caveat th
The way I do it is insert a text frame into the margin (Insert/Frame). You
can size the frame and move it to your liking. Then, double-click inside the
frame and you can insert text.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Farlie A
Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 8:32 AM
To: users@global.libreo
Interesting discussion. For years, I have been an RTF fan for the very
reasons mentioned by Robert. A small word processor I use a lot, called
Atlantis, uses RTF as its native format. I also found that nearly every word
processor on the planet is able to read RTF files.
But, as Robert found an
I have played around a lot with converting documents to Kindle format. I
have used a couple different methods.
1. With LO, I use the "Save as" command to save the document in an HTML
format. Do NOT use the Export to HTML feature as, for whatever reason, the
resulting HTML file is not nearly as
Thomas wrote:
Is there any chance of selecting a certain file, click somewhere and
wait until the conversion process completes (automatically)?
That is essentially what Calibre does. < http://calibre-ebook.com.>
It converts a variety of formats, including EPUB, HTML and ODT directly to
Kindl
Brian wrote,
Everyone will have giggled at your original suggestion ("I tend to
distrust freeware") in the context of the mailing list for a freeware
product.
I didn't giggle because I fully understood Tom's distinction between
freeware and the open source LO.
LO is not a "freeware" product
I'm sure it's not quite what you want, but in the Character/Font Effects
dialog, you can insert an overline and an underline on the highlighted text.
You just don't get the right and left side of the box.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Dave Liesse
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:15 P
This wasn't my problem to begin with, but I just tried Girvin's suggestion
for fun and it didn't work for me. I deleted both the "tab" and "page
number" entries. Updating the TOC did nothing. I tried deleting the TOC and
starting from scratch, this time not including the dot leader tab or the
p
I redid it with Girvin's reminder to delete the tab and page numbers for
each TOC level used in my document. This time it worked, so as I suspected,
for me at least, it was user error, or at least user ignorance.
Each level in the table of contents is formatted separately. I suppose this
is a
Bill,
I hate to say it, but that was my experience as well with 4.0. There was an
important feature (to me at least) that worked well on 3.6 but no longer
worked in 4.0. I found the regression to be especially distressing.
I simply uninstalled 4.0, and reinstalled 3.6. If I recall, the uninst
Henri wrote:
Bill and Virgil, it might be helpful to the developers if you could point out
the specific bugs/missing features, etc, that have been causing you problems in
4.0
Henri
I did.
Virgil
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I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a retired lawyer who led a local government law office. When I was
working at that office, I tried in vain to get my employees to use paragraph
styles. For them, styles were a bother to set up and maintain. I love using
them, b
: [libreoffice-users] Paragraph styles
On 04/29/2013 03:52 PM, T. R. Valentine wrote:
On 29 April 2013 13:00, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'd like to get some general opinions about paragraph styles.
I am a huge fan of paragraph styles, page styles, and character
styles. I wish they were more widely
Dave and Doug,
I appreciate, Dave, hearing your perspective as a true end user. Your
sentiments are those I've heard from my employees. They just need to get a
brief done and filed, and they don't have time to learn the styles.
Doug, obviously, nobody's trying to "force" styles on anyone. Wha
Several of the posts have brought me to thinking a few random thoughts.
1. There's a difference between *using* styles and *creating/editing* them.
In the LyX/LaTeX world, as well as the HTML/CSS world, one is indeed forced
to used styles (called "environments" in LaTeX speak) because that's th
Dave asked,
Are you implying that if I want to, say, indent one paragraph with no
other changes, I should create a new style for that? Seems like a lot
of work since it can be done with one mouse clicks (or, if I ever get
around to learning how to create shortcut keys, one keystroke
combinatio
Alex wrote,
4. Document collaboration is a real bugaboo. We lawyers share documents
repeatedly. I would create a document using styles, and send it off to a
colleague for further edits. I would get it back with a mess of styles
>and direct formatting. I see no answer to this conundrum, simply b
I tend to agree with Wolfgang on this one.
I think the difference for Felmon is that you are the "master of documents."
Sounds like its your job to clean up everyone's mess and you seem to get the
final say on how the document will be structured. In the legal arena, it's
rare that one person w
Great idea as long as I'm not the one paying the $25 per document. :)
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Ken Springer
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 10:56 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles
On 4/29/13 12:00 PM, Virgil Arrington
A program is intuitive if it matches something in our previous experience.
Before computers, business professionals used typewriters. If you want a
computer to be intuitive, you need to make it work as much like a typewriter
as possible. (I'm still amazed that, after 30+ years, the typewriter re
ssage-
From: Doug
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:20 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles
On 05/05/2013 01:19 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Doug wrote,
I may be wrong, but it would seem to me that all this fuss about styles
is
Sure, I'll give it a try.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 4:48 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; Doug ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles
Hi :)
Virgil, is there any chance you you uploading your tem
Milos,
I'm no expert, nor can I tell you why you're having those issues, but I can
confirm that there are many differences in the way Word and LO Writer work.
I use a lot of outline styles and they just don't translate well between the
two programs. For me the differences seem to be in the spa
I have not read this entire thread, so forgive me if I'm repeating others or
writing something that doesn't quite fit.
I've found that I can change the size of superscripts by changing their
attribute in the Superscript character style.
The problem I've found (which may be the same as y'all)
If I recall, I tried Kingsoft a few years ago, and found it woefully
deficient for my needs. I don't recall specifically what the issue(s) were,
but I recall concluding that it couldn't hold a candle to LO.
As to the Ribbon, I pray LO never adopts it. A short while ago, we had a
discussion abo
This has been fascinating reading all of the opinions about user interfaces
and the dreaded ribbon. I've not found *anyone* who actually likes the
ribbon. I agree with several of you who have observed that the ribbon makes
using styles much harder. And, since it's harder to use styles, it only
ad PC-Write onto my computer, but it won't run
on a 64-bit computer. *sigh*)
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Doug
Sent: Friday, June 07, 2013 8:39 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] CNET is claiming the best free MSO
alternative is not LO
On
William,
Your document would use page styles. The page style for the first page would
not have any headers. Then the page style for the subsequent pages would
have a header. You can then format the lines (paragraphs) within the header
to any left and right margin you would like. (To have margi
This question makes me wonder, just why there are so many LO versions and
frequent new releases. I can't keep up, and I find myself torn about
upgrading. I want the latest and greatest, but I've had problems with newer
versions resurrecting old bugs.
I'm sure there's an overriding philosophy t
Been there...unfortunately as the one looking for a calculator, he said with
a blush.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2013 12:52 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; LibreOffice List
Subject: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Need header outside right margin
There are two ways of setting a left and right margin in a header.
One way is to do it in the page formatting and page style settings where you
set left and right margins for the page and header. LO doesn't seem to
recognize negative header margins in the page formatting/style dialogs.
The ot
o find and implement.
When I need more advanced features, like tables, or a spreadsheet, then I
use LO, but it has grown too complex and uncertain for my more basic needs.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2013 1:28 PM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: users@gl
Hit "reply all."
This is the only list I belong to that requires that selection. Then, the
person you're replying to gets two emails, unless after hitting "reply all"
you go into the "To" box and manually delete the extra emails.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Blasejewicz
S
ow it does infuriate some other
people though. My main worry is if no-one on the list sees my replies so i
usually quickly glance at the "To" and "CC" fields to see who is getting
the response.
Regards from
Tom :)
____
From: Vir
I confess that I don't understand this type of "improvement" in software
development. It's sort of like when MS decided that users couldn’t
understand the Windows menu structure that had been used for two decades and
gave us the ribbon.
The LO/OO method of organizing templates has been around
I'll probably be (justifiably) ostracized for this on a LO user list, but to
me trying to write a book with LO Writer is like trying to force a square
peg into a round hole. Yes, it can be done, but the labor involved may not
be worth it. In my mind, Writer is a business application, useful for
hing an
e-book.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Mirosław Zalewski
Sent: Monday, July 08, 2013 5:51 PM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
On 08/07/2013 at 22:58, "Virgil Arrington" wrote:
but to
me trying to write a bo
Ferand wrote,
Virgil,
please stop this crap, LO and OO are the right tools to produce any
document any form any size, only the lack of knowledge is a barrier .
All professional tools to produce a book are XML based like LO and OO, so
start writing, use a simple style model , understood the
, depending on the output you want, you have an
education ahead of you. Either learn LO’s master document/table of contents
system, or learn how to make some changes to LaTeX’s default settings.
Virgil
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 5:27 AM
To: Virgil Arrington ; Mirosław Zalewski
Getting back to Pablo's original question, he asked about using master
documents with sub-documents for each chapter. This is, in fact, the model
used by many systems, from LaTeX to yWriter, as well as LO.
But, I'm wondering how necessary it really is. The purpose of the master
document/subdoc
Jack,
Just curious. Do you use LO's master document system for your books?
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Jack Wallen
Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2013 7:12 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Sorry, my original reply went off lis
Kracked_P_P wrote:
I use LO to export my work to a PDF document that would work well on my
tablets. All I needed to do is format the page size to the proper one that
works best for tablet reading. I choose something along the page size used
for paper-back books. So I format the page to abou
Urmas wrote:
The tool that you use does not matter. Everything thay you write will be
decomposed and virtually remade in the DTP program, most likely InDesign.
You may be right if the project goes to a professional publisher for final
output. But, Pablo's original question stated he would be
Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by selecting
the text and hitting . Everything should then snap to the
style-controlled formatting.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Jan Andersen
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 1:50 AM
To: libreoffice
Subject: Re: [libreoff
iginal Message-
From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 9:08 AM
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
On 07/10/2013 08:37 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Urmas wrote:
The tool that you use does not matter. Everythi
Wolfgang,
I don't believe I've heard of "structure markup style concept" and I'm not
sure I understand what you mean. I used WordPerfect for years and could
never quite get the hang of WP's styles, all the while I took to Word's and
OO's (now LO's) styles quite easily. When I used WP, everythi
That works just fine. For my tastes, however, it's not quite as smooth a
process or polished a result as with LyX/LaTeX. But, as I've said before,
LyX/LaTeX have their own sets of problems.
Perhaps the best solution is the one a person will actually use to get the
job done. One Scrivener revie
I fully agree. I use outline level styles all the time, and they make a
world of difference, especially when used in headings. They make jumping
from one heading to the next actually work on my Kindle.
Virgil
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From: Fernand Vanrie
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 3:22 AM
To: users@global.libre
Wolfgang,
Forgive my ignorance, but I'm trying to understand what you're saying. You
wrote:
In essence, this boils down to the fact that all sane document
processing applications (whether Wordperfect, Framemaker or dozens
of others, LaTeX or anything that outputs structured XML) use nestable
Wolfgang,
You also wrote:
The style concept of both Word and LO/OO however is so severely screwed
up that I've never ever seen a document that would have allowed to
re-use content in any other way (within the same application!) than by
copying and pasting it as unformatted text and then re-appl
al Message-
From: Gabriel Risterucci
Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2013 5:33 PM
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] A feature, or ...?
2013/7/13 Pablo Dotro
On 11/07/13 07:50, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by
sel
urday, July 13, 2013 5:33 PM
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] A feature, or ...?
2013/7/13 Pablo Dotro
On 11/07/13 07:50, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Once you apply your style, you can clear any direct formatting by
selecting the text and hitting . Everything should
I just tried this following the same instructions with an HTML file. Rather
than saying "it doesn't work," I would simply say that in LO 3.6.6.2 running
under Win7, there is no option under the "View" menu to select "HTML
source."
Is this a new feature found in LO 4 or is the online documentat
Yes, I also have "Data Source" in my View Menu (LO 3.6.6.2, Win7), but when
I select it on an HTML file, I do *not* get HTML source code. Rather, I get
a link to a "Bibliography," which my document doesn’t have. If I recall,
"Bibliography" is one of the default registered databases, which of cou
I’m just writing to see if anyone else has experienced my particular problem.
I use LO 3.6.6.2 on an Win7 Sony laptop. When running LO, I will often
experience either long delays in executing functions or outright freezing of
the program. When this happens, I’ll get the never ending circle curso
Are there any known conflicts with having LO 4.0.4 and AOO 4.0 installed on the
same computer? In my never-ending, obsessive (and admittedly futile) search for
computing perfection, I want to try both programs to see which better meets my
techno-needs.
Virgil
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uld be any
problem).
Under GNU/Linux, you need to install them with the official packages from
their respective website. Using the version delivered by your distro may
lead to dependency problems.
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Le 23/07/2013 21:38, Virgil Arrington a écrit :
Are there any known conflicts with having LO
Thanks, Tom. I always disable quickstarter as a matter of course.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2013 7:13 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; us...@openoffice.apache.org ;
users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
Hi :)
I
In an attempt to compare the latest LO and AOO offerings, today I installed
both LO 4.0.4 and AOO 4.0 on my Win7 machine.
Until now, I have been happily using LO 3.6.6.2, having previously tried an
earlier release in the LO 4 series.
When I previously installed LO 4, I noticed that it seemed to
Stuart wrote,
Recognizing that this is the normal use case--that is how the LibreOffice
installer behaves by default. If you need it to do >something else you have
to do more than click on the installer. And, fyi, the Apache OpenOffice
installer behaves exactly the >same, but is less function
Or, people have upgraded, have had problems, and are too disappointed to
keep reporting them.
For example, as I reported before, LO 3.6.6.2 properly loads the style list
in the format it was in on the last close out. For me that is
"hierarchical," my preferred way of displaying styles.
LO 4.
Amit wrote:
The main problem here is that the user does not know wheher the next
release is more stable than previous one or not. And the user will get
caught in the conflict in the sense that he will think that may be if he
does not upgrade then he might be losing out on some features. This
con
I certainly hope the primary motive for FOSS such as LO is not a disdain for
MS. I personally don't care how much money MS makes. I hope the LO
developers are motivated by a desire to produce a great product that can be
used worldwide. Hatred usually doesn't provide a very effective motive for
riginal Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 3:35 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; us...@openoffice.apache.org ;
users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Conflicts?
Hi :)
Just out of curiosity has anyone tried the Apache OpenOffice 4.0 yet?
I really liked t
Yes, thank you for the information. I now get it, and it does make sense.
Now, if we can just get a new branch of LO (x.y.0) to stop overwriting an
older branch (x.x.7) by default, I would a most happy man.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: jorge
Sent: Sunday, August 04, 2013 4:41 P
On 08/05/2013 05:03 PM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
That is weird.
On this fairly crumby laptop, 2.2GHz (hmmm, not so crumby after all) it took
about 0-1 seconds for the LO splash-screen to appear. Same on my really nice
desktop, 1.86GHz (hmmm, not so nice after all!). Both running Ubuntu and
On 08/06/2013 11:49 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
Hi :)
I tend to take the view that some users will always manage to infect Windows
without even seeming to try. Others will find their system gets infected
despite elaborate precautions that no other sane person would bother with.
It's more a case of
On 08/06/2013 02:07 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
I still abide by a statement attributed to Adam Osborne back in the
80s: "He, who lives on the cutting edge of technology, gets sliced to
bits."
Since the 3.6 series works fine for me, I will wait until the knife
edge dulls a bit before I make the
Tom,
Do you have a link to one of the guides? I may have a go at trying different
ways of converting one to EPUB just to see how it works. Might be kind of
fun.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 8:31 AM
To: e-letter ; Virgil Arrington
Cc
ns after a half-hour experiment.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:46 AM
To: Virgil Arrington ; e-letter
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Hi :)
Sorry, got distracted.
good tool as long as you understand what it will,
and will not, do. Work within its parameters and you'll like the result. Try
to make it work *your* way, and it will disappoint.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 2:41 PM
To: Virgil Arri
conflicts when
installed side by side on the same machine (registry perhaps which is beyond
my knowledge). Since I'm finding that LO is progressing better than AOO, I'm
happy to commit to just one of the suites.
Virgil
-Original Message-----
From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Tuesday,
3.x, another for 4.0, and a new Beta one.
So you may need to look into which one you are using for which version
of LO or AOO.
I found this out by Googling "odf to epub converter"
On 08/13/2013 04:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
Another thing I noticed about the writer2epub extensi
cannot now recall the order of all my changes.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: jorge
Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2013 10:43 PM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: Kracked_P_P---webmaster ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
Hi all !
Vir
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: e-letter
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 5:44 AM
To: Virgil Arrington
Cc: users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book-writing with Writer
On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I
The strange thing was I didn’t extract the oxt from the zip. I simply renamed
the zip to an oxt. There was no oxt file inside the zip.
Virgil
From: Tom Davies
Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2013 2:36 PM
To: Virgil Arrington ; users@global.libreoffice.org
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Book
Joaquin wrote:
Then again, I'm going to try to export one of the LibO manuals and see what
happens.
Good luck. I just tried it and, as you allude, the manuals have much too
complex formatting for my Kindle. The Writer2epub extension wouldn't even
produce an epub file from the two manuals I t
The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences with
proportionally spaced fonts. However, if you use a fixed-width font, like
Courier, then using two spaces is appropriate. But, you should only use a
fixed-width font if you are required to by some outside party.
Virgil
--
Ruth,
I think you may be right about digital typesetting programs like LaTeX. By
default, it automatically inserts a wider space after sentence ending
punctuation. This can be disabled with the \frenchspacing command.
However, word processors, like LO, aren't as smart. I don't believe they
m
tween sentences.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: James Knott
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2013 10:22 AM
To: LibreOffice
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Can't find setting
Virgil Arrington wrote:
The typographic standard is to only use one space between sentences
with proportionall
On 08/16/2013 03:06 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
o I would suggest that two spaces are probably useful with fixed-pitch
text as on a typewriter, especially when the sentence-ending full stop
will be spaced so far from the last character of the sentence. So
that's why we all learned that way. But t
On 08/15/2013 08:20 AM, Fernand Vanrie wrote:
trie the Elaix extension
On 13/08/2013, Virgil Arrington wrote:
I just did a couple experiments with LO and Writer2epub. I tried
converting
the entire 390 page Getting Started book to EPUB. It choked. I then
tried
doing the same with just the
Okay, here's a weird one.
I'm using a Sony Vaio Win7 laptop. I've been wanting to play with Linux,
so I installed Ubuntu 12.10, using the full dual boot install (not the
Wubi) complete with a partitioned hard drive.
Ubuntu came with LO 3.6.2.2. I've done nothing to the Linux LO
installation
On 08/16/2013 10:50 AM, James Knott wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
I would suggest that two spaces are probably useful with fixed-pitch
text as on a typewriter
A wider space between sentences is useful, no matter how the text is
created. It clearly defines the beginning and end of a sentence and i
On 08/16/2013 11:18 PM, Larry Gusaas wrote:
On 2013-08-16 8:22 PM James Knott wrote:
I just tried a little experiment. I typed a sentence, with a period at
the end. I then started typing the next sentence with a lower case n.
I then placed the cursor directly over the first vertical line in th
On 08/16/2013 10:08 PM, James Knott wrote:
Virgil Arrington wrote:
Just curious, since nearly every professionally published book since
the mid-1900s has had one space after sentence ending punctuation, do
you find reading books difficult?
I just picked up the closest book I had at hand. It&#
On 08/18/2013 01:17 AM, Urmas wrote:
"Paul":
Yeah, bad troll is truly terrible.
Meanwhile you could work on a feature parity with Microsoft Word 2.0,
from 1991.
The think I've learned about features is that it doesn't matter how many
a software program has, as long as it has the one th
On 08/18/2013 07:43 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
On 08/18/2013 01:17 AM, Urmas wrote:
"Paul":
Yeah, bad troll is truly terrible.
Meanwhile you could work on a feature parity with Microsoft Word 2.0,
from 1991.
The think I've learned about features is that it doesn'
On 08/18/2013 04:35 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 07:55 18/08/2013 -0400, Virgil Arrington wrote:
On 08/18/2013 07:43 AM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
... LO allows me to control widows and orphans separately, which I
appreciate since widows aren't nearly the problem that orphans are.
And, of c
On 08/18/2013 06:39 PM, Jay Lozier wrote:
On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:51:10 -0400, Mike McCallister
wrote:
On 8/18/2013 10:11 AM, Urmas wrote:
"Werner F. Bruhin":
Now a productive use of time would have been to tell us what the one
feature you would like to have which existed in Word 2.0 in 199
On 08/19/2013 08:44 AM, Denis J Navas wrote:
LaTeX which is known as a standard with typography of technical and
mathematical documents, use a wider space after the end of sentence
point, than the space between words. Even more, the inter word space
is dependent of the main font size (the opti
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