-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Carlos E. R. wrote: > > The Tuesday 2007-09-18 at 09:42 +0100, G T Smith wrote: > <snip> > I need a manual for dummies... O:-) >
I do have the OpenOffice.org for Dummies book ... bloody useless on this aspect .... >> <snip> > < more snip> > >> However a question remains.... how do you handle something like?... > >> Programming Perl, by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Jon Orwant ... > >> :-) > > Gotcha! Ie, "gotme". O:-) > > I don't have a good solution. What I have is two more fields named "second > author" and "third author". The complex one would be another linked table: > > > index to book index to authors > ---------------+------------------- > 1 10 > 1 11 > 1 23 > 1 47 > Tend to use the latter kind of "link table" a lot... I have come across a number of references to fields holding array values, but at the moment MySQL does not support this. Postgresql apparently does. Suspect this may also be a bit beyond the ordinary user... <snip> >> On the other hand I >> would definitely not consider OpenOffice for your requirement.... The >> two things have somewhat different focuses. > > Pity. Agreed.. > > I think of OOo as a replacement for M. Office, and this is a thing Access > could do quite easily. I don't like Access (I have been bitten by it), but > I can't deny the user and design interface are good, for me at least. Define easy :-| with Access one spent as much time dealing with effects of the last patch as dealing with getting Access do something one expected.. I have also used used Lotus Approach which although radically different from Access was highly usable. Lotus Script was/is very tidy which is more than I can say for the Access Basic Scripting... Main complaint I have with OpenOffice is the scripting documentation is very poor.... <snip> - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFG7+btasN0sSnLmgIRAj5VAJ997PUAlO0O84KcFOZe6gwBHd/+fwCgpFhT 7Vyxxs+8obc3nOfFTdZ6YGU= =Us3h -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
