Re: [users] verse layout, widows and orphans
mike scott wrote: I understand how to control widowed and orphaned lines when the text is free-flowing within a paragraph, with line ends determined by OOo. However, I'm producing a song-book where end-of-line control is necessarily mine, not automatic. I'm having trouble finding a satisfactory way of preventing song titles, single/double lines of verses, and 'chorus' and other labels from appearing alone at start or end of page. If I end a line with a simple 'return', that's means each line is a new paragraph for OOo, and the widow and orphan control doesn't apply (at least not in any useful way). If I use shift-return, OOo treats the whole such as a unit, and refuses to split at all across page boundaries. The only way I can see at present is to manually format the whole lot with return, shift-return and 'keep with next para'; but obviously changes to the text are then a nightmare! I assume someone, somewhere must have met this already - is there something obvious I'm missing please? Or are there any other thoughts on laying out verse so page splits behave reasonably? The method that Ross mentions will work, but */I/* wouldn't do it that way. I would set up a style, say 'verse_line' which has 'keep with next' set, and then another style, say 'verse_end' which is identical, except 'keep with next' is not set.. Then, at the end of each section of verse, chorus or whatever, apply the the 'verse_end' style. Since this is the same as 'verse_line', you should get the next paragraph as 'verse_line'. So a good idea, might be to associate 'verse_end' with a key-stroke combination. If you want different formating with verses and choruses, then create another pair of styles for the chorus. I hope this helps to give some ideas for your formatting. -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Multi-item clipboard in OOo?
Adrian Try wrote: Is there such a thing as multi-item clipboard in OOo? No, not inside OpenOffice.org. But I feel that a multi-item clipboard is something that should be handled outside of OOo anyway, so that it is available for all programs. My favourite clipboard extender for Windows is Yankee Clipper. You can find out about it at http://www.intelexual.com/products/YC3/ I believe that Clipomatic is also a good program. You can read about it at http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml Both of these programs are free of cost. There are other options, too, including some commercial programs. Hope this helps! Adrian I use Cliptomatic on Windows and I find it's great. I'm duel booting to Suse 10.1; is there anything equivalent that can be recommended for Linux? -- -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Multi-item clipboard in OOo?
Andy Pepperdine wrote: On Wednesday 05 July 2006 12:16, Derek J. Carr wrote: Adrian Try wrote: Is there such a thing as multi-item clipboard in OOo? No, not inside OpenOffice.org. But I feel that a multi-item clipboard is something that should be handled outside of OOo anyway, so that it is available for all programs. My favourite clipboard extender for Windows is Yankee Clipper. You can find out about it at http://www.intelexual.com/products/YC3/ I believe that Clipomatic is also a good program. You can read about it at http://www.mlin.net/Clipomatic.shtml Both of these programs are free of cost. There are other options, too, including some commercial programs. Hope this helps! Adrian I use Cliptomatic on Windows and I find it's great. I'm duel booting to Suse 10.1; is there anything equivalent that can be recommended for Linux? I don't know quite what you mean, but Suse comes with Klipper automatically configured on KDE, which keeps a history of recent clips and keyboard shortcuts to select the one you want to paste in. Oh, thanks. I haven't tried klipper (I saw that it was there, though) and didn't realise that it could do that. Learning lots of things slowly! -- -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Windows with and without JRE
Dave Barton wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 03:40 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please tell me what JRE is. How would I find out if my version of Windows has this? My OS is Windows XP Professional with the current recommended updates (Express). Thanks for your help. Charles Smart Start menu, select Run, then in the dialog box type cmd (without quotation marks) and click OK button. In the window that opens type java -version (without quotation marks). If you see something that includes the phrase Java(TM) 2 Runtime Environment, you have a version of Java installed. Ideally, you should have Java version 1.5.0_06 installed. If not, then download the version of OOo (OpenOffice.org) with JRE. Hope this helps. Dave I have JRE version 1.5.0_04. What is the difference with the extra 2 points and do I really need this update? -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Re: Calc time format bug or user error?
Randomthots wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree with the basic point that time formats aren't real easy to use for many applications of it. But I have to say I had very similar frustrations with Excel. I often deal with timed results of sporting events where the times range from around 20 minutes (with seconds) to 140 minutes. I'd love to be able to just enter times as 35:16 or 76:45 etc., and have them interpreted properly as minutes and seconds, but I can't figure out how. In a message dated 11/2/2005 7:30:10 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, as I just replied to Joe, I'm disappointed at this. Why on earth would anyone want a MM:SS format then? Rhetorical question, I suppose. Certainly I think it's a bug (in the help/documentation if nowhere else) that the display format does not match the input format. This may be a dumb question, but... Since there are 60 minutes to an hour just like there are 60 seconds to a minute, why not just use a format code of [HH]:MM and pretend the minutes are hours and the seconds are minutes? You get the display the way you want it and it would be trivial to adjust any calculations where that would matter. First, sorry for any confusion to Joe and Anthony replying as [EMAIL PROTECTED] - that's my default account and I forgot to change to this name. Rod, that is a fantastic idea using [HH]:MM much easier. Next time I'll use that (assuming it's fairly soon so I remember it :-)) many thanks. -- -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] Calc time format bug or user error?
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: On Tue, 2005-11-01 at 12:03 +, Derek J. Carr wrote: Hello, Using OOo 2.0 on windows XP + SP2 (but it seems to be the same in 1.1.4). This is my first time in trying to use calc to do time calculations, and I'm having trouble with the formating. I've looked at most of the user docs that I can find, and very little is said about time formating. Basically I want a 'true' format of MM:SS both for input and for output. So I'd like to input 42:34 and have interpreted as 42 min and 34 sec, not 42 hours and 34 min - which is what it seems to be doing at the moment and then just showing the minutes and seconds part. I'd then like a cell to show 73:05 when added to a cell with 24:33. I think this might be a bug. I looked at issue tracker, but it's a complected item to search for. Have you set the cell parameters for that time format? Should be mm:ss Roderick, hi, that's part of the problem, setting to the right format: MM:SS truncates the hours part, and interprets 45:36 as 45 hours - so you just see 36:00 - which I think is a bug (but a bug that seems to have been around since 123 for DOS, I wouldn't wonder!) -- -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Calc time format bug or user error?
Hello, Using OOo 2.0 on windows XP + SP2 (but it seems to be the same in 1.1.4). This is my first time in trying to use calc to do time calculations, and I'm having trouble with the formating. I've looked at most of the user docs that I can find, and very little is said about time formating. Basically I want a 'true' format of MM:SS both for input and for output. So I'd like to input 42:34 and have interpreted as 42 min and 34 sec, not 42 hours and 34 min - which is what it seems to be doing at the moment and then just showing the minutes and seconds part. I'd then like a cell to show 73:05 when added to a cell with 24:33. I think this might be a bug. I looked at issue tracker, but it's a complected item to search for. -- -- With best regards, Derek Carr, Birmingham, UK http://alldruid.co.uk/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: users Digest 15 Apr 2005 05:47:17 -0000 Issue 3357
At 05:47 15/4/05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 16:37:31 -0600 From: Doug Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] MIME-Version: 1.0 To: users@openoffice.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [users] Re: users Digest 14 Apr 2005 10:19:31 - Issue 3354 fred verno wrote: Please unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: users@openoffice.org Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2005 6:19 AM Subject: users Digest 14 Apr 2005 10:19:31 - Issue 3354 - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] As you are clever enough to figure out how to send an email to the list, I'm betting you can figure out how to follow the instructions appended to the bottom of every post (and repeated above so that you can find it). Unless it is your goal to just be obnoxious, in which case you'll be pleased to learn you succeeded. Doug -- Copy sent directly to OP Actually, not true. Fred probably has digest. To unsubscribe from that you need to e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] from the address you subscribed with. This could well be Fred's confusion. It took me a while to sort out that stuff when my mail program was hiding the headers. I hope this helps you Fred. Also note that Fred didn't post to the list, it seems to have been forwarded by [EMAIL PROTECTED] according to the header. Best regards, Derek J. Carr, Birmingham, UK - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] Re: users Digest 9 Apr 2005 00:31:38 -0000 Issue 3337
At 00:31 9/4/05 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: users@openoffice.org From: Rod Engelsman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2005 11:13:33 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Calc not storing Spellcheck's Ignore All additions Paul B. wrote: Using the new build, I'm getting an error I had seen before. Adding strings to Ignore All doesn't stick, even after saving the file. Closing and reopening shows the red lines underneath again. Is there a separate Ignore All data file? Because I don't see one in my designated custom dictionary folder. Thanks, Paul SNIP An option I would like to see is the ability to turn off spell-checking for URLs. That just drives me batty. Rod In Write I change the style of hyperlinks (assuming that you allow OOo to automatically change the style) so that the language is none. Trouble is that Calc seems to have a bug in that it changes the style of hyperlinks (making it blue) without actually changing the style, which it should. If it did it properly, then it would be simple. Has this bug been fixed in version 2.0 or should it be reported as a bug? (Sorry not very often on-line to check these things - I also very rarely use spreadsheets.) PS - there's a bug in the digest - the reply-to address line I've just noticed is Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] which is obviously incorrect. Any chance of getting it changed? Best regards, Derek J. Carr, Birmingham, UK
