Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-28 Thread tk
Tom wrote: 3. Macros can be written in proper programming languages such as C++ or Python but people can use a slightly different version of Basic that is not so vulnerable. Macros are run slightly differently so that they can't cause infections. It is, however, easier to find material that

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread tk
M. Fioretti wrote: And along those lines, is there still a person, or group that constructs: * A Pan-Indian LibO DVD. Hi Jonathon, not sure what you mean here. Are you saying that there WERE such dvds, or that somebody SHOULD do them? Back in the days of OOo, they were such DVDs.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread tk
Urmas wrote: There is the only one ODF software: OpenOffice and its clones. a) The common base for the various OOo clones might be as recent as OOo 1.1.3, but I suspect it is several versions earlier. b) There are office suites that are not deroved from either OOo or MSO that fully

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread tk
Peter West wrote: or quietly being given, a copy of an employer's software meant that MS Office products gained near-ubiquity. Assuming the organization is not SoHo sized, or smaller, unless the person negotiating with Microsoft for licenses is a complete idiot, the license will allow for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread tk
James Knott wrote: Ever hear of Linux? That was dismissed, because it was developed in a university setting, as a research project. FWIW, using the provided definition, there has been no commercially successful Non-FLOSS software. jonathon -- Sent from the eating establishment at the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-11-30 Thread tk
Urmas wrote: b) There are office suites that are not deroved from either OOo or MSO that fully implement ODF specifications and criteria And those are... Koffice, for one. right, none. Are those fifteen office suites that are listed as supporting ODF, in the wikipedia article Comparison

Re: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-01 Thread tk
Marco . Fioretti wrote: Assuming the organization is not SoHo sized, or smaller, unless the person negotiating with Microsoft for licenses is a complete idiot, the license will allow for each employee to install MSO on their home computer, for the duration of their employment, or the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I set default date format in Writer?

2013-12-02 Thread tk
anne-ology wrote: Just curiously wondering how many seconds would be saved by not merely typing the date into document ;-) This is for those who do not know what today's date is. jonathon -- Sent from the eating establishment at the Far side of the Universe, at the begining of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: How do I set default date format in Writer?

2013-12-03 Thread tk
anne-ology wrote: Wow, they're in a nether world without any calendar ;-) I encounter it in two very distinct groups: * Days of the week are emphasized, whilst date of the month is ignored; * The Gregorian calendar is not their default calendar; Transitions into, or out of either group

[libreoffice-users] Running Macro's from keyboard

2013-12-13 Thread tk
All Is it just my system, or did the developers really remove the ability to attach a mavro to a keyboard key? LibO version 4.1.3.2 Build ID 70feb7d99726f064edab4605a8ab840c50ec57a Screen size 500 vertical 1066 horizontal. The OS started life as a 64 bit Xbuntu 13.10 distro of Linux. I'd

Re: [libreoffice-users] saving documents written in Thai

2013-12-14 Thread tk
Dale Erwin wrote: but when I open it later, all the Thai text is represented by small rectangles... i.e.garbage. That would be a font issue. More specifically, either the fonts in the template used for the document do not contain Thai characters. Either create a Thai-specific template,

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread tk
James E Lang wrote: I really wish there were a LO Calc implementation for Android to use in place of Kingsoft Office. I don't feel secure using a proprietary office product; especially one from China. There is AndroidOpenOffice. Whilst closed source, it is based upon Apache Open Office, to the

Re: Formats failed marketing, was: Fwd: Cost of MS Office relative to LO, was: Fwd: [libreoffice-users] Re: moving to new version of MS Office

2013-12-18 Thread tk
James Knott wrote: There is AndroidOpenOffice. I tried that a while ago, on my Nexus 7, and it didn't work very well. It is very inconsistent in how well it works. The updates, bug-fixes, etc. can either be much better, or much worse than the previous version. For the most part,

Re: [libreoffice-users] with styles, is not master document functionality unnecessary+

2013-12-18 Thread tk
e-letter wrote: What is the benefit of using master document function (presumably a gratuitous copy of m$), when styles function is available in LO? For all practical purposes, the advantages and virtues of using Master Document functionality is completely irrelevant to the advantages and

Re: [libreoffice-accessibility] Re: [libreoffice-users] help

2013-12-21 Thread tk
Christophe Strobbe wrote: Probably, the only way to make odt2braille accessible is rewriting it entirely in C++ in order to embed it into OpenOffice and LibreOffice instead of installing it as an extension. So far, no one has offered to do this. The real issue is that one can not select the

Re: [libreoffice-users] libreoffice writer freezes in ubunt 12.04

2013-12-31 Thread tk
Bala subramanian wrote: I am using libreoffice Version: 4.1.4.2 in ubuntu 12.04. I am able to Known bug in Ubuntu 12.04. AFAIK, the only work around is to use a different distro. Specifically a distro that nebver came close to Ubuntu, as its base.(That rules out Mint, which exhibits the

Re: [libreoffice-users] getting larger set of colors that the standard that comes with LO -corrected URL

2014-01-13 Thread tk
Did I send you a copyof the colour soc I use? (The one that is 2.5 MB in size, not the one that is 2.x GB in size. jonathon -- Sent from the eating establishment at the Far side of the Universe, at the begining of Time, and at the end of Space. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: