[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress spontaneously changes formatting
Hi Tom, No, no real answer. Not really sure what the cause of it is either, because a very similar problem happens in MS Word: When you copy and paste stretches of text with (a) non-Roman fonts, (b) lots of tabs, and/or (c) lots of different text formatting all kinds of strange things happen. Tabs disappear or jump around, certain characters are represented wrongly, or have their fonts changed automatically, etc. Rik -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-spontaneously-changes-formatting-tp3987335p3988402.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Re: Impress spontaneously changes formatting
The tabs are relative to the text box, as far as I can see. I am not really sure where I can find the adjust text size to space available, but I'm pretty certain I didn't select it. In the 'Text' tab of the 'Text...' right-click option, Fit height to text is selected and not Fit to frame. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-spontaneously-changes-formatting-tp3987335p3987918.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Impress spontaneously changes formatting
I've been encountering a rather annoying while making a presentation in Impress: Text with complex layout pasted from Writer keeps spontaneously changing. Here's what happens - I copy a stretch of text from Writer and paste it into a slide as an RTF-formated text frame - I apply formatting to it: insert a bunch of tab markers to align words, change the fonts, italicize some parts, smaller fonts for some words, etc. - I then go to another slide, and then move the slide with the formatted to another position in the presentation - Lo and behold! The formatting of the imported text frame is all screwed up, without me changing anything. Tab markers have disappeared, sometimes the font changes, sometimes all text becomes smaller. - -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Impress-spontaneously-changes-formatting-tp3987335.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Calc chart gets mysteriously scrambled
Hi guys, I'm trying to make a beautiful chart in Calc, but something always goes horribly wrong. My problem. I want to create a chart that looks like this: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3361274/Chart_BeforeChangingSize.gif No problem so far. When I try to resize it, or change anything about it, this happens: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3361274/Chart_AfterChangingSize.gif Data from the two axes are transposed and the entire layout gets destroyed. Anybody any idea why this is happening and what I can do to prevent it? -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-chart-gets-mysteriously-scrambled-tp3361274p3361274.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc chart gets mysteriously scrambled
Maybe some more information :-D: - I'm running Win7 and version 3.4.3 of LibreOffice. - This problem only happens after I create a chart in one sheet and then cut and paste it to another sheet. -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Calc-chart-gets-mysteriously-scrambled-tp3361274p3361293.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Feature request: Cross-references in complex documents
Hi all, I'm not really sure how to go about lodging a feature request, so I'll just disguise this as a question. I'm trying to write a fairly long book with OpenOffice and in general things go very smoothly. So far, I'm pretty happy that I ditched Word (very fickle with long documents) for LibreOffice. The problems start when I have to insert cross-references: There is no obvious way to change how your cross-reference is formatted or represented. For example, my sub-headings are like this: 1. and the dot will show in my in-text cross-reference, whatever I'm trying to do to make it go away. There is no search option in 'Headings' or 'Numbered paragraphs'. Why would you need that? Well, wait till you're writing something with 20 chapters, 200 section headings, and 2000 numbered example sentences. The only option then is to scroll through all items in the pane on the right-hand side. Problem is, you can't resize the pane and scrolling takes a while with hundreds or thousands of items. If I'm not mistaken, LibreOffice does not have an obvious way to search for broken cross-reference links, unlike Word, which turns your link into a bolded Error! Blablalbalbla. That's a problem if you just changed all headings in Chapter 20 and you want to check if all references to it in Chapter 1 are still ok. Does anybody have similar problems? Are there any plugins to give you more versatile cross-ref options? Am I overlooking some clever tricks? Best, Rik -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Feature-request-Cross-references-in-complex-documents-tp3117338p3117338.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Re: Bullets with different outline levels
Arrgh, now you make me feel guilty for just freeloading (or should I say libreloading). I'll get in touch with them. Didn't manage to solve my problem, though. For now it's just manually reformatting the Level 2 and 3 lists... Best, Rik -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Bullets-with-different-outline-levels-tp3047259p3058653.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@global.libreoffice.org In case of problems unsubscribing, write to postmas...@documentfoundation.org 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
[libreoffice-users] Bullets with different outline levels
Hi,
I am trying to make a nice style sheet with bullets at different outline
levels, and with each outline level at a different indentation. The
indentation just won't work out, whatever I try. Here's what I did:
Created a paragraph style 'CV Bullets'
Made its indent 7.4mm
In 'Outline Numbering', I put the numbering style on 'List 1' and the
Outline level at 'Body text', and also tried 'Level 1'.
In the list style 'List 1', I defined different bullets for different
outline levels. That works fine.
Then, under the 'Position' tab, I tried to change the alignment of the
different outline levels. Doesn't work. The Bullets indent at 7.4 mm and the
text of each list item follows some indentation law that I don't understand.
Tried to define different paragraph styles ('CV Bullets 1', 'CV Bullets 2',
etc.) and link them to different outline levels in list 1 ('CV Bullets 1'
has Outline level 1 in 'Outline Numbering', 'CV Bullets 2' has level 2,
etc.). No success, all kinds of things happen, but not the indentation is
not what I specified in the 'List 1' style.
The only thing that appears to work is to strip all paragraph styles from
the list and then apply outline levels. But this means I cannot control the
paragraph style of my lists anymore.
Result: Frustration *gna gna gna*
The online documentation that I could find is very rudimentary. Any ideas?
Did I overlook something or are LibreOffice lists just confusing?
Rik
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[libreoffice-users] Re: Complex page styles for book layout
Wow, a lot of feedback for one weekend. Thanks everybody. Jean: I'll expand upon my previous answer. Don't use Left Page/Right Page if the only difference is that margins are mirrored and the info in headers and/or footers is different. Use a mirrored page style instead. Then the lefts and rights will take care of themselves when they follow a first page style. You can set the First Page style to be left and right (it defaults to right only). Thanks Jean. Who would have thought it was so simple! That's exactly what I was looking for. --- Tom: ... Have you considered using Desk Top Publishing programs such as Scribus? ... For typesetting that might be worth a try, but writing a 500-page book in Scribus would be pretty painful, I think. In the past, I would have used MS Word. As Jean said, most publishers / editors want either MS Word or PDF. This is also one of my reasons for not using LaTeX: it's to difficult to convert it to Word documents if publishers would ask for it. But luckily I'm writing something for an academic publisher and, since they don't have large profit margins, they want writers to deliver camera-ready copies. (Well, 'luckily', it would be nicer if they would have typeset the whole thing for me.) This means they don't care what program I use, as long as it produces something that looks identical to all other books in the series. --- Krackedpress: Well, LibreOffice can certainly save the work in Word .doc or Adobe .pdf file formats. Jay: I have to sometimes submit MS Word format to people and what I do is save the document as both DOC and ODT. I use ODT as the primary and save to DOC when I need to submit it. A few people actually know I am not using Word but LO because they know my primary OS is Linux and they have never reported a problem. I assumed that outputting to .doc is not without its problems, especially if your document contains complicated tables. I've had all kinds of problems importing Word into LibreOffice, and I assumed it would be the same the other way around. Rik solved -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Complex-page-styles-for-book-layout-tp2934485p2946568.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Complex page styles for book layout
Hi guys, I am trying to set up a template for a book, but I am struggling to find a way to set up the page styles to make them conform to the publisher's style sheet. Here is what they are asking for: Preface or Acknowledgements or Dedication begins on page v. Contents begins on page v if there is no preface, etc., otherwise on the next right-hand page Main text (Chapter 1) begins on page 1 All left-hand pages have even numbers All right-hand pages have odd numbers In an authored work, begin each new chapter on a new page (right- or left- hand). ... Please make sure that neither a running head nor a page number is printed on the first page of the Preface, Contents, Appendix, Notes, References, Index, or on the opening page of a new chapter or article. Place the page numbers at the outer margin, to the left or right. The main body of the text is ok: you just us the Left page / Right page styles and everything works fine. I created a new style 'Prefatory' to deal with the different page numbering system in the preface and made 'Prefatory left' and 'Prefatory right' to make them alternative between headings. Then the problems start: I can make a style 'First Page' for the first page of each chapter which does not have a header. However, you have to specify a 'Next style' in Modify... Organiser Next Style and in my case this style is Left Page when the First Page is a right page and right page when it is the other way around. LibreOffice appears to enforce this next style and you can't override it manually. In other words, if I have a nice left page / right page thing going, and I change one left page into 'First Page', the next style will automatically change to left page and my page numbering goes horribly wrong. It is also impossible to have chapters of just one page because it is impossible to have two First Pages following each other. Is there a way to overrride this? In other words, I need to find a way to create a stylesheet that: has two different page numbering systems, one with Roman and one with Arabic numerals, with different styles for left and right pages allows the first page of each chapter to have no header at all allows that first page to occur on a left and a right page allows for one-page chapters Ideally, I'd like to accomplish all this in a reasonably elegant way, without splitting up all my styles into substyles. Anybody knows how that would work? Thanks Rik -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Complex-page-styles-for-book-layout-tp2934485p2934485.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Re: Ignore spacing before and/or after paragraph possible for paragraphs of same style?
I tried to look for a function like that in conditional formatting, but it does not seem to be there. Would it be a good idea to request this feature and do you do that? If you're writing a book /thesis / longish document, this can be a dealbreaker when you're considering switching to LibreOffice, because you don't want to fiddle around with three times the amount of styles you need in MS Word... -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Ignore-spacing-before-and-or-after-paragraph-possible-for-paragraphs-of-same-style-tp2698526p2902615.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] RE: Negative time values
Hi JBF, Great tip! changing it to [HH]:MM:SS did do the trick. Rdb -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Negative-time-values-tp2888622p2892857.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] Negative time values
Hi, Is there a straightforward way in Calc to calculate negative time values? By default, this does not appear to be possible, e.g. 00:00:00 - 02:00:00 is always 22:00:00, not -02:00:00. rdb-- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Negative-time-values-tp2888622p2888622.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
[libreoffice-users] RE: Negative time values
Hi Simon, Thanks for your answer. Strange, I did exactly what you said and still have the same problem. All fields are formatted as time HH:mm. Both with the standard formula (=Cell1-Cell2) and using the TIME function (=TIME(0,0,0)-TIME(2,0,0) I get 22:00:00 as my output. Best, Rik -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Negative-time-values-tp2888622p2888746.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+h...@libreoffice.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
