Hi :) Abiword is a lot lighter-weight than KWord and might be good for the first comparison Regards from Tom :)
----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Stern <[email protected]> > To: Girvin R. Herr <[email protected]> > Cc: Michael Manning <[email protected]>; > "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013, 21:08 > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a > document? > > On Fri, 17 May 2013, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > >> Alan Stern wrote: >> <snip> >> > Here's another odd thing I encountered. Moving the cursor one >> > character at a time (using the right-arrow key), I find what appears > to >> > be two hidden characters: one at the beginning of the readonly field >> > and one at its end. >> > >> > That is, start with the cursor just to the left of the blank space >> > before the "(9)" field. Pressing right-arrow advances the > cursor to >> > the right of the space, leaving it on the left-hand edge of the > '('. >> > Pressing right-arrow again doesn't move the cursor at all. > Pressing it >> > once more advances the cursor between the '(' and '9'. >> > >> > Alan Stern >> > >> Alan, >> Did you try viewing hidden objects? >> Check the following: >> View -> Field Names >> View -> Nonprinting Characters >> View -> Hidden Paragraphs > > I have tried these. They make no difference. > >> Maybe one of those will make your "hidden characters" visible and > give >> you a clue as to what it is doing. > > Nope. > >> Another more painful option could be to unzip the file and look at the >> text to see what is there at these "hidden" characters, > optionally >> editing it out manually. > > Interesting; I didn't know one could do that. The content.xml file > shows the following (the "..." part is where I erased a lot of > irrelevant material; I also wrapped a couple of long lines): > > Normal</text:span> > <text:span text:style-name="T3"> </text:span> > <field:fieldmark-start text:name="__Fieldmark__24_1596095481" > field:type="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.UNHANDLED"> > <field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.code" > field:value=" ADDIN EN.CITE <EndNote> ... "/> > <field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.id" > field:value="81"/> > </field:fieldmark-start> > <text:span text:style-name="T5">(9)</text:span> > <field:fieldmark-end/> > <text:span text:style-name="T1"> </text:span> > <text:span text:style-name="T2">Normal again. > > I don't know enough to interpret all that, but clearly there is a field > of a sort that LibreOffice isn't ready to handle. > > Is there some way to get this information from within LibreOffice > itself? I would that the field name and/or value should be accessible. > >> Third, maybe another ODF processor, such as KDE's editor, Kword, may > not >> support this readonly attribute and allow you to edit it normally. > > Maybe. I don't see where in there the field is marked as readonly. > > Alan Stern > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
