Hi Alex, Hi Ben
2007/3/21, Alex Thurgood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Le mercredi 21 mars 2007 07:MM, Ben Allardyce a écrit:
Hi Ben,
>
> I'm not sure if I have contacted the right person.
Unfortunately not, it seems, since your problem appears to be related to
NeoOffice (unless you have misstated your problem, of course). This is, to
all intents and purposes, a different product, but with the same origins, and
is not managed by the OpenOffice.org development team.
>
> I was just wondering whether there will be a fix for the
> incompatibility between the mac version of OpenOffice (specifically
> NeoOffice)
Unfortunately, the "official OpenOffice.org community" Mac version isn't
NeoOffice, but OpenOffice.org for Mac running on X11.
> and MS Office when it comes to unicode symbols. I have to
> regularly use greek symbols and I have traditionally used the insert
> symbol command in MS Office which works on both the Mac and Windows
> versions of MS Office. These symbols do not show up in NeoOffice but
> they do work on OpenOffice for Windows.
>
Have you tried to see if they show up in the OpenOffice.org version for Mac ?
> I understand the problem is to do with MS Office not correctly
> supporting handling the unicode script associated with it but I was
> hoping OpenOffice would be able to deal with it when it imports .doc files.
>
Hmm, you are mixing up OpenOffice.org and NeoOffice again - which one exactly
causes the problem ? There are known issues for certain fonts (e.g. Japanese)
on the Mac platform with OpenOffice.org/X11 - I wouldn't know whether these
issues also apply to the Greek fonts that you use.
Confirmed with OOo 2.1 / MSOffice Word X for Mac :
insert some greeks characters with the Insert/Special Characters (symbol font)
save as .doc
open with OOo 2.1
some rectangles appear in place of the greek characters (even if
Language is toggled to greek in OOo's prefs)
What should be tried is to use the Mac keyboard input system under MS
to see wheteher the same problem arise ..
> Also, will there ever be support for endnote cwyw in OO?
>
> One more thing, I don't really understand what the difference is
> between an aqua version of OO and NeoOffice- are they part of the
> same project or is NeoOffice made by different developers than OO?
>
The Aqua version of OpenOffice.org is the projected native Mac OSX version. At
present, OpenOffice.org has to use the X11 windowing environment to function
on OSX, so a group of volunteers has decided to try and do away with this
requirement and get OpenOffice.org to look and behave as if it were just any
old OSX application. The development is going rather well, considering the
very limited ressources that are available, but no stable version is likely
to appear before the end of the year (unless things have changed radically of
which I'm not aware). As I mentioned above, NeoOffice is a "competing"
product based on the same original source code, but modified to use Apple's
system Java integration to make the program look like an OSX application.
NeoOffice is released under a slightly different licence to OpenOffice.org,
but the differences are such that reintegration of code developed by the
NeoOffice team into OpenOffice.org is nigh on impossible.
Alex
Manuel
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