Hi :) You might find much better guidance about all this on the international translators list. They tend to speak/write English almost all the time. I think their address is [email protected]
If you think you have found the cause and that makes it awkward for you then perhaps start a fresh new document and try your theory out. If it makes the new document unable to save and even crashes it then the L10n team might have some better work-around. If it doesn't then chalk it up to "some weirdness" and carry on as before = in which case keep saving fairly often to avoid having to retype hours worth of work. I tend to find that something that took hours to write first time seldom takes more than 15-20mins because i already know which wrong turns to avoid, which decisions i took and what problems i encountered. Generally i don't directly remember but my fingers seem to know all by themselves. Regards from Tom :) On Wednesday, 9 October 2013, 6:31, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 03:53:14 +0100 (BST) Tom Davies <[email protected]> dijo: >Hi :) >I am not sure what the problem is but might be able to shed some light >on the error message. > >If you create a copy of the file and rename the file-name's ending >from .odt to .zip and then double-click on the .zip then the file >opens in your archive manager. (Ok, so in Xubuntu and most other >Gnu&Linuxes (Linii?) that can be done without renaming the >file-ending. Just right-click and choose "Open With" - "Archive >Manager") > >You will now see several .xml files and several folders (such as >"images") inside your file. The number 1 most crucial file is the >"contents.xml", which you can open with a text-editor such as Leafpad. > Somewhere in Leafpad it tells you that the file is open as a "Plain >text" file. Click on that and a drop-down should appear allowing you >to choose different languages and hopefully one of those is "xml". If >you choose "xml" then Leafpad cleverly figures out all the different >bits of xml-coding and colour codes them allowing you to more easily >spot the real text you typed in buried in amongst all the xml coding. > >My guess is that somehow Writer managed to get in a muddle and >stuffed-up it's coding somehow. Perhaps a coding bracket didn't get >closed or something else weird. I think i vaguely remember something >like this happening once before in the last 3 years but it's a tad >rare. Thanks for the explanation. If it happens again I'll try File Roller or something. In the meantime, I think I know what caused it. I had been typing in Greek and suddenly needed a gave accent over an iota. Silly me, I am new to Greek keyboards and did not realize that the Greek (Simple) keyboard I was using did not have polytonic diacritics. Being in a hurry I just used Insert Character and placed a gave accent on the iota as a combining diacritic. It was shortly thereafter that I discovered that I could not save the document. Now, I have been using combining diacritics with LibreOffice and formerly with OpenOffice.org for many years, and there has never been a problem. I work in linguistics where I need several dozen different diacritics that compose keys never heard of. Ctrl-Shift-u is ingrained into my fingers and I keep a list of the code points at hand. I use a *lot* of combining diacritics, so if I say there has never been a problem, I mean the system has always been rock solid. I am a bit worried that this experience might mean that something has changed and a bug has been introduced. And speaking of Ctrl-Shift-u, it doesn't work when the Greek keyboard is selected. Nor does Ctrl-Shift-upsilon (the u key actually produces a theta). I had to use Insert Character instead to add my combining diacritic. I suppose I need to find a Linux help page for Greek users in order to learn what the equivalent key combination is on a Greek keyboard. Except I'm just beginning Greek and the instructions would be, umm ... Greek to me. -- 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
