Re: [libreoffice-users] Special Character Hunting - Libre Writer

[Bruce Byfield]

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 14:28:09 -0400
Tim-L  wrote:

> On 04/04/2018 05:56 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:
> > Hi Charles,
> >
> > charles meyer schrieb am 04.04.2018 um 22:19:  
> >> WordPerfect has reveal codes which display the numbers for a
> >> special character so they're easy to find instead of scrolling
> >> down hundred of symbols in a chart.
> >>
> >> Ex. ►
> >>
> >> Will any version of Libre Writer do that, including LO 6?  
> >
> > Yes, it is implemented at least since 5.4. The command is "Toggle 
> > Unicode Notation" and it has the shortcut key Alt+X. It toggles the 
> > character left from the cursor to U+number and back.
> >
> > And in LO 6 a new special character dialog is implemented. It has a 
> > search field, where you can enter fragments of the Unicode name.
> >
> > Entering the code point directly in the dialog does not work 
> > correctly, but you can enter U+number in the text and toggle it. If 
> > you have at least one font on your system, that has a glyph for it, 
> > you will get it, at least via font replacement.
> >
> > If you only know the glyph, then you should use a tool, where you
> > can draw the glyph and get the character. Such is not implemented
> > in LO, but e.g. http://shapecatcher.com/ can help.
> >
> > Kind regards
> > Regina
> >  
> 
> If you do not remember the "U+number" code, this is a good place to
> start.
> 
> http://unicode.org/charts/
> 
> This is my default site to search for Unicode characters via. its
> place in the standard placement. There are several Unicode fonts that
> I have used, but each have their own set of which characters are
> included. Since I do not use many Unicode characters/glyphs, I have
> to tried find/replace for these characters very often.
> 
> There are several free Unicode fonts that have a large percent of the 
> Unicode character/glyph set. I tend look for good fonts every so
> often. I hope you get your needs met for this issue.

Thanks to the Harfbuzz font renderer added about LO 5.3 or early 5.4, a
lot of special characters like ligatures, small caps and nut fractions
should be added automatically if the font includes them.

You can also set up software keyboard locales to use advanced
typographical features.

https://lwn.net/Articles/741722/

You can also set up a software keyboard locale that uses international
characters, so you can type

o ___o
Bruce Byfield (on Pacific time) 604-421-7189
Writer of "Designing with LibreOffice"
www.designingwithlibreoffice.com

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Re: [libreoffice-users] Special Character Hunting - Libre Writer

[Tim-L]

On 04/04/2018 04:19 PM, charles meyer wrote:

WordPerfect has reveal codes which display the numbers for a special
character so they're easy to find instead of scrolling down hundred of
symbols in a chart.

Ex. ►

Will any version of Libre Writer do that, including LO 6?

Thanks,

Charles.


Charles,

Do you have a specific style of font in mind?  Or a specific font name?

I use both Arial Unicode and Code2000 for my first font choice, if I do 
not have a specific style of font needed for the document. I also have 
others for specific needs, but those are the ones I deal with.




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Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to another]

[anne-ology]

   yes, Thank You so much for verifying what I was attempting to
express.

   What you're able to do on your machine is what I was able to do, but
for some reason am no longer able to so do.

   I don't know why this no longer works, & am still hoping that
someone on this list can explain where it went or if it somehow was removed
for some reason.




From: Virgil Arrington 
Date: Wed, Apr 4, 2018 at 7:08 AM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] [Copying slides from one presentation to
another]
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" 


I'm confused as to the flow of the discussion, and I'm not at all sure I
know what the issue is, but I have no problem inserting an entire
Impress presentation into another Impress presentation.

Here's how I do it with LO 5.1.6 on my Linux Mint machine:

First, I open one Impress presentation file. I then make sure that the
"Slide Panel" is visible by clicking on the menu "View", "Slide Panel"

I then click on the slide in the Slide Panel where I want to insert
another Impress presentation, keeping in mind that the inserted
presentation will appear *after* the slide I click on in the Slide
Panel. From my experience, inserting a second presentation only works if
my cursor focus is in the Slide Panel.

Then, on the menu, I click "Insert", "File...", which on my machine is
down toward the bottom of the Insert menu list. From the resulting
dialog box, I select the Impress presentation I want to insert and then
I am presented with another dialog box from which I can select certain
slides from the inserting file. If I want the entire presentation, I
simply click on "Ok," and the file is inserted into the original
presentation file after the slide I had selected in my Slide Panel.

Virgil



On 04/04/2018 03:13 AM, Brian Barker wrote:

> At 18:48 03/04/2018 -0500, Anne Noname wrote:

>> Thank you for responding, ...
>
> No probs!
>
>> ... but I'm still confused, still inserted below my continued reply,
>>> From: Brian Barker
>>> Date: Sat, Mar 31, 2018 at 4:30 PM
>>> At 14:46 31/03/2018 -0500, you wrote:
 ... am re-sending because I really would appreciate an answer; nary
 a soul has responded yet.
>>>
>>> I'm frankly not surprised.
>>
>> [I don't understand]
>
> I meant simply that, as I explained later, your question was
> insufficiently clear to encourage or even allow people to offer any help.
>
 back then, & on the MsFt-compatible computer, I was able to make
 PPs, ...
>>>
>>> Er, what's a "PP", please? If you get no replies, wouldn't it be
>>> sensible to wonder if people did not understand your request? Do you
>>> perhaps mean a presentation (Impress) document? Or something else?
>>
>> [sorry, I thought everyone used 'PP' for Power Point presentation or
>> Impress]
>
> In fact not: it's only you. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PP . In
> any case, it is unhelpful to anyone trying to help you to confuse the
> name of a quite different application (Powerpoint) with a document
> that may have been created using LibreOffice (Impress). No-one can
> know whether you mean that your problem is related to presentation
> documents in general or a particular problem with one created in
> Microsoft Powerpoint itself.
>
  ... saving each version then I would place each of these together
 to save only the best parts.
>>>
>>> Why would you create any parts that were not "best"?!
>>
>> [for the same reason, when writing anything; first, I get the idea
>> down as quickly as possible, then I add flourish to it, then after a
>> few days, I return to the piece to edit]
>
> Oh, indeed so!
>
>>> Do you mean that you could edit slides from different presentations
>>> into a single presentation? Surely you can simply copy slides from
>>> the Slides panel in one document and paste them into the Slides
>>> panel of the other document? Doesn't that still work for you?
>>
>> [yes, it allowed me to insert each PP into one; in fact, that's one
>> of the main reasons I preferred LO to any of these others.
>
> I still think it is unhelpful to talk of installing an entire
> presentation document (your definition of "PP") into another. So I
> think you do mean combining slides from one presentation document into
> another. And you are far away from the truth if you think this is
> (was?) possible only in LibreOffice: it is certainly possible in
> Apache OpenOffice and presumably also in Microsoft Powerpoint. It
> would be a poor presentation program that did not allow this. And you
> don't have to copy them piecemeal: you can select, copy, and paste
> multiple slides - perhaps all the slides in a document.
>
>> ok, How can I see the slide panel of the other PP when only the one
>> PP is open?; are you saying, it's possible to somehow open LO more
>> than once?
>
> Generally no, but you don't need to: you need just to have two
> documents open at once. You have two windows open in the same instance
> of LibreOffice. That is 

Re: [libreoffice-users] Special Character Hunting - Libre Writer

[Tim-L]

On 04/04/2018 05:56 PM, Regina Henschel wrote:

Hi Charles,

charles meyer schrieb am 04.04.2018 um 22:19:

WordPerfect has reveal codes which display the numbers for a special
character so they're easy to find instead of scrolling down hundred of
symbols in a chart.

Ex. ►

Will any version of Libre Writer do that, including LO 6?


Yes, it is implemented at least since 5.4. The command is "Toggle 
Unicode Notation" and it has the shortcut key Alt+X. It toggles the 
character left from the cursor to U+number and back.


And in LO 6 a new special character dialog is implemented. It has a 
search field, where you can enter fragments of the Unicode name.


Entering the code point directly in the dialog does not work 
correctly, but you can enter U+number in the text and toggle it. If 
you have at least one font on your system, that has a glyph for it, 
you will get it, at least via font replacement.


If you only know the glyph, then you should use a tool, where you can 
draw the glyph and get the character. Such is not implemented in LO, 
but e.g. http://shapecatcher.com/ can help.


Kind regards
Regina



If you do not remember the "U+number" code, this is a good place to start.

http://unicode.org/charts/

This is my default site to search for Unicode characters via. its place 
in the standard placement. There are several Unicode fonts that I have 
used, but each have their own set of which characters are included. 
Since I do not use many Unicode characters/glyphs, I have to tried 
find/replace for these characters very often.


There are several free Unicode fonts that have a large percent of the 
Unicode character/glyph set. I tend look for good fonts every so often. 
I hope you get your needs met for this issue.




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[libreoffice-users] Base: opening from with macro requires delay?

[Albrecht Dreß]

Hi all,

I run LibreOffice 6.0.2.1.0+ (Build-ID: 1:6.0.2-1~bpo9+1) on Debian stretch.  
In a base document, connected to a PostgreSQL data base, I ran into a really 
confusing behaviour of forms.

The task: I have two forms.  In the first, when the user clicks a button, the 
second form (managing a list of contacts) shall be opened for entering a new 
item.  Following the manual, I wrote this macro and connected it to the 
“Execute action” of the button in the first form:

---8<
Sub newContact
oDstForm = thisDatabaseDocument.FormDocuments.getByName("Kontakte 
verwalten")
oDstForm.open()
oMainForm = oDstForm.component.getDrawPage.getForms.getByName("ContactForm")
oMainForm.load()
oMainForm.afterLast()
oMainForm.moveToInsertRow()
End Sub
---8<

This opens the form, but still displays the first entry, which should not 
happen.

Now for the /really/ puzzling part:  In the macro editor add a breakpoint at 
any statement in the macro.  Now step (shift-F8) through the remaining 
statements until “End Sub” is reached, and the form jumps to a new entry with 
all fields empty, i.e. does what I expect it to do.

When I place a ”wait 100” statement after “oDstForm.open()”, the form /also/ 
behaves properly, but I think this is not the correct solution.  Any idea what 
goes wrong at this point, and what would be the correct approach?

Thanks in advance,
Albrecht.
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Re: [libreoffice-users] Special Character Hunting - Libre Writer

[toki]

On 04/04/2018 09:24 PM, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> Oh no! Not the reveal codes’ flame war again, please! Search the archives

This isn't the standard "Reveal Codes" request.
So the rational for the usual flamewar isn't present.

jonathon

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