On 2008-10-04 bug 94630 was submitted to OOo. It reports "a defect in the way that user-defined Table Autoformats are saved". Some others including myself confirmed thwe bug still existing in subsequent releases. The bug is an important one, because OO, but also LIBO are badly missing table styles. Those are complex to design and will take more time to develop. In the meantime combining autoformats and mocros do the job for me.
Nevertheless as nothing had been happening in OOo, I was happy to see the Document Foundation coming to live, and even more happy to see flourish with people working hard to improve the software base. I resubmitted the original OOo bug to LIBO, where it is registered as 31005. Somehow I was convinced this community would soon solve it. So in the debate "Proposal to join Appache OpenOffice" I boldly stated: "I resubmitted the original bug report to the new TDF bug repository. There, within a quarter of a year, it has been evaluated and elevated to the "Easyhack" status. I would not be surprised if that problem would be solved by the end of this year. They have already done quite a pile of cleaning code and bug fixing. My confidence as a user is with them. The indians have to prove as yet. That is what matters at the end of the day." I am happy to say that the majority of problems have been solved now (nightly builds 3.6). Muhammad Haggag has saved my reputation :) It certainly was not an easy hack. He spent a lot of time. It wasn't the end of the year, but in line of history pretty close. I would like to take the opportunity to honour and praise Muhammad and the others who do take the not always so rewarding an glamorous task of bug fixing. The Document Foundation can be proud of what it is achieving. Pieter -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.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.documentfoundation.org/www/discuss/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
