[discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Enrique
Ian Laurenson wrote: At the risk of getting flamed I think that Marco has a good idea, Hi Ian, Yes, the idea of standarisatin is a really good one. Internet is the proof: it wouldn't have been possible without common standard protocols. I can imagine a world where all applications share a comm

Re: [discuss] Why can't v2.0 save in WordPerfect format???

2005-06-08 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 05 June 2005 04:39, Sweet Coffee wrote: > Hello! > Why isn't there an option to save files in WordPerfect formats? > I know v2.0 can open WordPerfect files but I do not see an option to save > in WordPerfect format. I guess because there is more work to be done on that format conversti

Re: [discuss] Openoffice for mobile devices

2005-06-08 Thread CPHennessy
On Sunday 05 June 2005 07:02, + Timothy Schoenheider wrote: > I think you guys should make a open office's big program suite for mobile > devices such as pocket pcs, palm pilots, and etcetera. The word and excel > on my pocket pc don't do anything except the basic stuff, and that is > basically the

Re: [discuss] Openoffice for mobile devices

2005-06-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 05 June 2005 07:02, + Timothy Schoenheider wrote: I think you guys should make a open office's big program suite for mobile devices such as pocket pcs, palm pilots, and etcetera. The word and excel on my pocket pc don't do anything except the ba

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Enrique wrote: > Is it possible to define a common API to manage OpenDocument > programmatically?(not including GUI aspects), yes, of course. And with > some more rounds of standarization and agreement between software makers > it will be a reality. Not in the short term, but an idea that deser

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Mathias Bauer
Mathias Bauer wrote: > Enrique wrote: > >> Is it possible to define a common API to manage OpenDocument >> programmatically?(not including GUI aspects), yes, of course. And with >> some more rounds of standarization and agreement between software makers >> it will be a reality. Not in the short

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
On Mer 8 juin 2005 0:39, Ian Laurenson a écrit : > At the risk of getting flamed I think that Marco has a good idea, I > would like to bounce some ideas about how it could be implemented. > > I can see two, not mutually exclusive, possibilities: > > 1. With XML forms and probably JavaScript Pleas

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting Bernd Eilers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi there! [...] please let me know what you think of my reply to Daniel, where I talk of a set of python functions etc What I think is that you think about things that in reality are very hughe and complex as being small and simple things. When

[discuss] OpenOffice - " Calc "

2005-06-08 Thread Jens Kellermann
First of all :Sorry for my bad english ! I need some help with following problem : If i insert a graphic in a new table and "bring it to background", i'm not able to bring it back on top. The graphic becomes a "watermark" and is no longer accessable. While the text is still open, i use "Edi

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice - " Calc "

2005-06-08 Thread cono
Hello Jens, Jens Kellermann wrote: First of all :Sorry for my bad english ! No prob for me. I need some help with following problem : If i insert a graphic in a new table and "bring it to background", i'm not able to bring it back on top. The graphic becomes a "watermark" and is no lon

[discuss] Re: OpenOffice - " Calc "

2005-06-08 Thread Jens Kellermann
THANK YOU! It works ! "cono" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hello Jens, > > Jens Kellermann wrote: > > > First of all :Sorry for my bad english ! > No prob for me. > > > > I need some help with following problem : > > > > If i insert a graphic in a new t

Re: [discuss] Cursor Issue

2005-06-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
Quoting eng edu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am a writer and I am using OpenOffice for quite sometime now. One of the features that I find very useful (and as a matter of fact unique to OpenOffice) is that every time I reopen a document, the cursor will be exactly at the place where I have left it las

Re: [discuss] Cursor Issue

2005-06-08 Thread cono
Hi Alexandro, Alexandro Colorado wrote: Quoting eng edu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I am a writer and I am using OpenOffice for quite sometime now. One of the features that I find very useful (and as a matter of fact unique to OpenOffice) is that every time I reopen a document, the cursor will be e

[discuss] non-initial hanging indent

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
I'm using OO 1.9.104 but the question can be generalised to any version. Is it possible to start a line with some text, then tab to some position and then begin a hanging indent from that position. I've tried various things but bullets and the indents only seem to like to be at the beginning of

[discuss] Re: non-initial hanging indent

2005-06-08 Thread Ain Vagula
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > I'm using OO 1.9.104 but the question can be generalised to any version. > Is it possible to start a line with some text, then tab to some position > and then begin a hanging indent from that position. I've tried various > things but bullets and the indents only seem to like

[discuss] Re: non-initial hanging indent

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Ain Vagula ha escrit, a 08/06/05 18:03: Jonathan Kaye wrote: You can use predefined paragraph style 'List indent' and look at this style properties to fit this to your needs. ain Thanks Ain, It works brilliantly. Exactly what I wanted. Yet another example why OO and this list are fa

[discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Chuck
My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to commercial software. Most people believe that a program's quality is proportional to it's price. In their minds, free = piece of crap, expensive equals great software with great support. I'm not saying this is true, but it's wha

[discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
Greetings, in the last two days I've been able to check this list only through webmail, that is in an almost unreadable interface. I have seen there have been a lot of posts about my "obsession" with doing portable OpenDocument macros in Python or whatever else. Due to the problems above I've been

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Sam Hiser
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 12:43 -0400, Chuck wrote: > My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to > commercial software. Most people believe that a program's quality is > proportional to it's price. In their minds, free = piece of crap, > expensive equals great software with

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Robert Derman
Chuck wrote: My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to commercial software. Most people believe that a program's quality is proportional to it's price. In their minds, free = piece of crap, expensive equals great software with great support. I'm not saying this is tr

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Robin Laing
Chuck wrote: My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to commercial software. Most people believe that a program's quality is proportional to it's price. In their minds, free = piece of crap, expensive equals great software with great support. I'm not saying this is tru

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Top posting. I think that adding Javascript-like functionality would be a worthy goal. In fact... we should Javascript itself the first macro language and make it do everything Javascript currently does on web pages. Why? I'm glad you ask! Gary Edwards has this great idea of talking to W3C t

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 19:45:26 PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 19:14 +0200, M. Fioretti a écrit : > > >define what could be a limited, more realistic goal (the > >"javascript-like", in-document only macros), and list what one > >should d

Re: [discuss] MS Office Import/Export

2005-06-08 Thread A Fuller
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Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread M. Fioretti
On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 13:54:43 PM -0400, Daniel Carrera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Top posting. > > I think that adding Javascript-like functionality would be a worthy > goal. In fact... we should Javascript itself the first macro language > and make it do everything Javascript currently does

Re: [discuss] Re: OO.o Macros with Python interpreter?

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
Alexandro Colorado wrote: I think marco's point is something similar to for example Python relationship with Mysql, there are two libraries, MySQLdb-python and mysql-python which are wrappers sometimes overlapping each other. But you see, that's very different. MySQL is a specific program. m

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Daniel Carrera
M. Fioretti wrote: Please help me to understand it better: I read online that "XForms is a platform independent markup language for data capture and validation". Not necessarily data processing. Do you mean that one should "only write these "macros" in Xforms markup language" or that one should

Re: [discuss] Some explanations on my "macro standard" nagging

2005-06-08 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le mercredi 08 juin 2005 à 14:38 -0400, Daniel Carrera a écrit : > M. Fioretti wrote: > > > Please help me to understand it better: I read online that "XForms is > > a platform independent markup language for data capture and > > validation". Not necessarily data processing. > > > > Do you mean t

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Alexandro Colorado
That's why you can build your company on the support of free software. And is NO easy task, you need to have a lil army of experts around the clock. You just dont have developers but you still have manteinance support, trainning, and other services. example, how many people actually pay for MSO,

Re: [discuss] GetStorage, name: "No Content!

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathon Coombes
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 08:33 -0700, Carl Shewmaker wrote: > Following weekend thunderstorm had problems with lan > and accessing internet, since mostly resolved. But > when I try to open OpenOffice.org 1.1.4 I get an error > message, > "OpenOffice.org cannot be started due to an error in > accessin

[discuss] WIPO Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society

2005-06-08 Thread Jacqueline McNally
Some of you that are interested in intellectual property and OSS may wish to comment on the themes presented as part of the WIPO Online Forum on Intellectual Property in the Information Society, see: http://www.wipo.int/ipisforum/en/ It started at the beginning of the month, but has a few days

Re: [discuss] Re: HBS WK: Who will win Microsoft or Linux?

2005-06-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chuck wrote: > My point is that OSS will never be more than a small niche compared to > commercial software. It is such a small niche that microsoft has announced that they have lost, and will continue to lose market share in the desktop, and office suite, due to FLOSS products. >free = piece o