Re: [tdf-discuss] Question

2011-05-27 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2011-05-27 at 22:21 +0300, Marius Popa wrote: Good evening! It is Marius Popa again, with a new question for you. How can I set a certain page size for a document that is already written? I mean that I wrote a long document (over 90 pages, but less than 100 pages), and when I completed

Re: [tdf-discuss] Question

2011-05-26 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
on Fields in the Writer Guide. User guides such as the Writer Guide have variable footer information. --Jean Jean Hollis Weber LibreOffice Documentation Team -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Mailing List FAQ

2011-05-25 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2011-05-26 at 15:35 +1200, Steve Edmonds wrote: A regular (monthly) post of the faq would be good. In regards http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Local_Mailing_Lists/ it may not be linked anywhere because it seems empty There is currently no text in this page. steve Remove the

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: OpenOffice dead and burried?

2011-05-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 10:51 -0700, NoOp wrote: Given that Oracle has tossed OOo back over the fence, I wonder if that also includes the Sun ODF Plugin... the one they first offered for free, and then changed to a purchase. If so, then that might be worth salvaging. The free version of the Sun

Re: [tdf-discuss] Mirrors : Australia.

2011-05-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 20:24 +1000, Laurence Jeloudev wrote: Speaking about mirrors Libreoffice should be able to have a mirror on mirror.aarnet.edu.au as it is unmetered for Telstra customers in Australia and open-office has one as well. Another benefit is that it is very fast for customers in

Re: [tdf-discuss] Question

2011-05-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 21:36 +0300, Marius Popa wrote: Good evening! My name is Marius Popa, a user running both the latest stable version and the latest beta version of LibreOffice, and I want to know what should I do to digitally sign a document? Thanks in advance and I am looking forward for

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: Paid developers

2011-05-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 12:29 +0100, Ian Lynch wrote: How do you get to those parents? Through the schools? ..Wait, isn't it the schools that are not ready to change? I think it varies with the country and perhaps the State. In Australia we have Parent-Teacher Associations, which could be the

[tdf-discuss] Draft user guide chapters on wiki

2010-10-22 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Apologies for posting to two lists, but I think this is of general interest. I have placed copies of some draft chapters of a Getting Started guide and a Writer Guide for LibreOffice (in .ODT format) on the wiki, http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation These chapters are ported from the

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-21 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 17:09 -0500, Barbara Duprey wrote: On 10/20/2010 11:50 PM, Drew Jensen wrote: Every web forum I know of send notification email to the original poster whenever a response is posted to a thread they created. Well now, that's *very* interesting! I clearly haven't used

[tdf-discuss] Supporting customers (ordinary users)

2010-10-20 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I am appalled at the level of hostility and contempt being expressed by a few people regarding the support of ordinary users -- our customers. Why are we expending so much time and energy to produce the best office software, if we're not going to do our best to support our customers at their own

Re: [tdf-discuss] [SC] How to define Membership within TDF?

2010-10-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 09:15 +0200, Erich Christian wrote: Hi Jean, * Am 19.10.2010 08:46, schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: On Mon, 2010-10-18, André Schnabel wrote: To get things started, I put some notes at the wiki: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Membership It looks good

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-19 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 07:49 -0400, Charles Marcus wrote: ... how about making suggestions for how to improve things going forward and stop complaining about what is already done? IIRC, several people have suggested some small changes to the current website that would make a significant

[tdf-discuss] Re: LibO Beta 2 Writer/Web (Html Document)

2010-10-18 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2010-10-17, Paul A Norman wrote: Can you send me a copy of the original file to have a look at? Save it as an .odt. Thats part of the problem as well, I used to be able to do that in OOO ... But now while in an HTML document Save As is only offering me these types:- HTML

[tdf-discuss] Re: We're on slashdot

2010-10-18 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 20:07 +1000, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk Here is my favourite response so far. It made me

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-18 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 13:54 +0200, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 12:57:23, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: AG, I've just confirmed: Gianluca's method causes the cursor to do what you want, in OOo but not in LibO. Believe me, it does so

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-18 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 17:09 +1300, Paul A Norman wrote: Yep I've had two confirmtatoin that I have left the list and still the emails come rolling Does this constitute nuisnace email now? It's probably a glitch in the email system. Unfortunately, it's the middle of the night for the people

Re: [tdf-discuss] Houston, we have a problem.

2010-10-18 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
found any way? Can you all yet see it form the point of view of the potential millions of people who might like to use LiBO on day? I hope so. Paul On 19 October 2010 16:58, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 16:11 +1300, Paul A Norman wrote: Hidden

[tdf-discuss] We're on slashdot

2010-10-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
We're on slashdot. I mention this for info purposes only, not suggesting anyone should waste their time responding to the inevitable stupid comments. --Jean http://goo.gl/qmIk -- E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org for instructions on how to unsubscribe List archives are available

Re: [tdf-discuss] A few initial comments on Beta2

2010-10-17 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sun, 2010-10-17 at 11:34 +0100, AG wrote: On 17/10/10 11:06, Gianluca Turconi wrote: In data 17 ottobre 2010 alle ore 11:53:29, Jean Hollis Weber jeanwe...@gmail.com ha scritto: I don't see anything for where to have the document open: first page, or where last edited. I see Load

Re: [tdf-discuss] unsubscribed posters

2010-10-16 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I agree with what Barbara Duprey wrote in response to Bernhard, in a long note that I'm not quoting here. We really need some way of supporting ordinary users, especially the vast majority who just want their questions answered and/or who don't have the time or interest to join our community.

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 22:32 +0200, Cor Nouws wrote: Sophie Gautier wrote (13-10-10 22:27) I remember Jean request, but not yours sorry. Again, I've tried to get these information displayed with no success. It did help. Finally we started to add some data to the council wiki. See

Re: [tdf-discuss] Oracle to put effort to OOo

2010-10-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-14, Nikola Yanev wrote: Oracle announced that it is going to put a lot of effort in OO.org now. http://www.facebook.com/libreoffice.org/posts/166628840020524 Here is the original Oracle press release without going through Facebook or Yahoo News: Oracle Demonstrates

Re: [tdf-discuss] Events

2010-10-14 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 20:15 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: HI, Am 14.10.2010 20:05, schrieb Florian Effenberger: Hi, Find out where to meet The Document Foundation and members of the Community: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Events Just looked at the page - it looks very German

[tdf-discuss] Next Decade Manifesto

2010-10-13 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
To Florian and all-- Excellent 10th anniversary of OOo announcement and Next Decade Manifesto. Well said! http://www.documentfoundation.org/pdf/tdf_nextdecade.pdf http://www.documentfoundation.org/pdf/tdf_manifesto.pdf http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/TDF/Next_Decade_Manifesto --Jean --

Re: [tdf-discuss] Donations ?

2010-10-13 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-12 at 23:27 +0200, elcico2001 wrote: Maybe it's a little early but... I would suggest, as I already said to Italo Vignoli, a page on the website to show a TDF annual financial report, like, for example, wikimedia: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Finance_report I

[tdf-discuss] Problem with wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I'm having a problem with the wiki. I have created an account (user:jeanweber) and validated my e-mail address, but every time I attempt to edit the first page I get this message: You do not have permission to edit this page, for the following reason: You must confirm your e-mail address before

Re: [tdf-discuss] Problem with wiki

2010-10-11 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:31 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Drew Jensen wrote on 2010-10-11 11.27: Ran into the same problem also - both pages I've added required more then one try to get started - meaning that it tossed my first edit both times- after getting past the initial

[tdf-discuss] [Fwd: Re: Docs page on wiki]

2010-10-11 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Forwarded Message From: El Cico elcico2...@yahoo.it Reply-to: documentat...@libreoffice.org To: documentat...@libreoffice.org Subject: Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Docs page on wiki Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:03:23 +0100 (BST) Da: Sophie

[tdf-discuss] LinkedIn group?

2010-10-08 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
Do we have a group on LinkedIn yet? A search didn't find one. --Jean -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at

Re: [tdf-discuss] LinkedIn group?

2010-10-08 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 13:41 +0200, Markus Gommel wrote: Hello Jean, Am 08.10.2010 13:36, schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: Do we have a group on LinkedIn yet? A search didn't find one. --Jean Yes we have ;-) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?mostPopular=gid=3469260 Best whises and see you

Re: [tdf-discuss] I like the name LibreOffice

2010-10-08 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 20:29 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: Hi Jean! Am Freitag, den 08.10.2010, 06:28 +1000 schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: It's okay with me! I wrote a blog post too (in addition to my note to the list), but it's nice to be quoted in someone else's blog. :-) http

Re: [tdf-discuss] Document Foundation - list archive - emails in clear

2010-10-08 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 14:38 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi, Am 08.10.2010 um 10:13 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier: I believe this should be prevented. I just found in docs that there is a SPAMMODE option: http://mhonarc.org/MHonArc/doc/resources/spammode.html +1

Re: [tdf-discuss] Re: LibreOfficeForum.org is now functioning

2010-10-07 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 07:28 -0400, Marc Paré wrote: Just out of curiosity, are you able to register the country specific domain even if you are not a citizen of that country? I know that with a .ca (Canada) domain, that you agree to a testament citing your citizenship to Canada -- legally

Re: [tdf-discuss] I like the name LibreOffice

2010-10-07 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 20:39 +0200, Christoph Noack wrote: Hi Klaus, all! Before I forget it: I really had to smile today when I read some of your messages - starting with the one by Jean. So I took some and compiled a blog posting [1]; I hope that's okay to you. [1]

Re: [tdf-discuss] Unsubscribe link broken

2010-10-07 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 12:56 -0700, Earl Melton wrote: The first try bounced back and that was when I noticed that the link at the bottom of each e-mail is only hot past the plus sign following the word discuss. I then highlighted and copy/pasted the full link into the second try. Somebody

Re: [tdf-discuss] [DOC] Status of user guides

2010-10-07 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Thu, 2010-10-07 at 11:00 -0430, Richard wrote: Great work, Jean. I'd like to help with the English side: proofing, upgrading, etc. Send me a link or name for a document to use as a trial. Thanks, Richard! We've got a mailing list now for documentation, so you might want to subscribe to

Re: [tdf-discuss] New name

2010-10-05 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 14:47 -0700, Andy Brown wrote: Just what I said, the message only repeats the same statement. Again no name or reference to where the full statement can be found. Who made the statement? What is their position at Oracle? Anyone can make a statement but how much

Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION

2010-10-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 00:23 -0500, Nancy Ward wrote:  From: Jean Hollis Weber Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 10:39 PM To: discuss@documentfoundation.org Subject: Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION Yes, indeed. This past week I've been writing some better, clearer instructions (long

Re: [tdf-discuss] LO Quickstarter for GNOME?

2010-10-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Sat, 2010-10-02 at 20:02 +0100, AG wrote: On 02/10/10 19:12, Cor Nouws wrote: Hi ag, AG wrote (02-10-10 18:22) I've just installed LO on Debian testing and fired it up and all seems well. Great. You installed the beta of LibreOffice, I understand ;-) ( The abbreviation we

[tdf-discuss] [DOC] User docs: planning ahead

2010-10-02 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
I want to start developing a wish list for documentation for ordinary users (things like user guides, howtos, FAQs, tutorials, training materials, and others). We won't have enough people to do everything on the list, but it might encourage new people to contribute in areas that most interest

Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION

2010-10-01 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
to authors-subscr...@documentation.openoffice.org Regards, Jean -- Jean Hollis Weber Co-Lead, OpenOffice.org Documentation Project -- To unsubscribe, send an empty e-mail to discuss+unsubscr...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot

Re: [tdf-discuss] DOCUMENTATION

2010-10-01 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Fri, 2010-10-01 at 22:22 -0500, Nancy Ward wrote: On 10/1/2010 7:26 PM, Jean Hollis Weber wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-01, Nancy Ward wrote: How I think I may be of help: I am a very good proofreader and beta tester. I can take a set of instructions and try them out. If I can muddle

Re: [tdf-discuss] User guides for OOo / LibreOffice

2010-09-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 18:14 +0200, André Schnabel wrote: Hi Jean, Am 28.09.2010 14:45, schrieb Jean Hollis Weber: I was glad to see the announcement of The Document Foundation. And we are glad to read all the positive feedback - you are welcome :) As Co-Lead of OOo Documentation

Re: [tdf-discuss] OOoES as sponsor

2010-09-28 Thread Jean Hollis Weber
On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 00:05 +0200, Florian Effenberger wrote: Hi Alexandro, Am 28.09.2010 um 20:38 schrieb Alexandro Colorado: Hi I would like to know how we can add the Hispanic organization to the sponsor list. Since we just got a 24hr notice, it was hard to get the approval from