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Re: [discuss] how to insert more formula into Writer of OpenOffice2.0

2006-03-17 Thread Mathias Bauer
Hi Le Trung Ha, TrungHa Le wrote: > Dir sirs/madame > I am using the Writer of OpenOffice2.0. It is very good and I am interesting > it. > I have just write a formula change number to text such as: > 12345 -> "Mười hai ngàn ba trăm bốn lăm ngàn đồng" (Vietnamese) > I hope you tell me how to inse

Re: [discuss] custom xml inport HOWTO?

2006-03-17 Thread Mathias Bauer
Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > How would I go about setting up an import filter for some simple customized > xml as attached? Can anybody give me any pointers to an INTUITIVE > introduction? What I found through goolge does not seem to address what I > want ... I recommend asking on a dev

[discuss] Upping a Priority

2006-03-17 Thread Liberty
I have been using OOo for a few weeks now and was looking forward to completely uninstalling MSO on my home computers and at work. There is only one problem. Calc doesn't support engineering notation. Engineering notation is simular to scientific notation except that the numbers to the right of the

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread James Walker
Let's remember that this is a family friendly email list and watch the language. James Walker Central US MarCon Chad Smith wrote: On 3/16/06, Rigel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - if you are going to participate in this form of communication you HAVE TO F'ING READ. If you aren't goi

Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
It's problem # 5930 : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 and has 13 votes now, including mine. Engineering notation is common enough that Calc should support it. -Lars Lars Noodén ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Keep the market open by keeping software patents out

[discuss] Re: Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Liberty
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 07:16:30 -0500, James Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Let's remember that this is a family friendly email list and watch the >language. > Ya know I always thought that the F'ing was what families were all about. By the same token I can't for the life of me understand what F

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > I marginallized his pet project of ODF What you fail to understand is that Microsoft has lost: i) The office suite war; ii) The server war; iii) The desktop war. iv) The file format war; xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 3/17/06, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What you fail to understand is that Microsoft has lost: > i) The office suite war; > ii) The server war; > iii) The desktop war. > iv) The file format war; What color is the sky in your crazy world? I have billions of reasons to not believ

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Rigel
I disagree that Microsoft has lost the desktop war. However, they are gradually "losing" the desktop war. Rigel On 3/17/06, Jonathon Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chad wrote: > > > I marginallized his pet project of ODF > > What you fail to understand is that Microsoft has lost: > i) The off

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > What you don't seem to understand is that it's not over. What you don't understand is that a war can be _lost_ before the first bullet is fired. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima.

Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc

2006-03-17 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi, Lars D. Noodén wrote: It's problem # 5930 : http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5930 and has 13 votes now, including mine. Engineering notation is common enough that Calc should support it. I see it has 17 votes now ;-) A somewhat related isue, is the accounting under

[discuss] Re: Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Rod Engelsman
Jonathon Blake wrote: Chad wrote: I marginallized his pet project of ODF What you fail to understand is that Microsoft has lost: i) The office suite war; This war won't even seriously begin until the open-source crowd *seriously* takes on Outlook on the Windows platform. ii) The server

Re: [discuss] Re: Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 3/17/06, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jonathon Blake wrote: > > Microsoft has lost: > > i) The office suite war; > > This war won't even seriously begin until the open-source crowd > *seriously* takes on Outlook on the Windows platform. +1 -- - Chad Smith http://www.gimpshop.n

Re: [discuss] Google Acquires Writerly

2006-03-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:33 +, Jonathon Blake wrote: > Chad wrote: > > > What you don't seem to understand is that it's not over. > > What you don't understand is that a war can be _lost_ before the first > bullet is fired. I think we have been here many times before. The difference between

[discuss] OOoCon 2006 Call For Papers

2006-03-17 Thread Louis Suarez-Potts
The OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2006) Call for Papers *Your proposal should be sent before 1 June 2006 in order to guarantee that it will be considered for inclusion in the Conference.* We are soliciting papers from the broad OpenOffice.org community on topics ranging from developing

[discuss] OOo Writer Crashing

2006-03-17 Thread Steve
Hi, I don't know why but my OOo Writer keeps crashing every time I start it up it just shuts back down not sure why at all. -- Steve, Admin Shotokansite.com http://www.shotokansite.com/ - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECT

RE: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Andrew Robertson
Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the priority. :) Sincerely, Andrew Robertson derma e(r) Natural Bodycare Export Manager Ph. 805-582-2710 xt. 244 Fx. 805-582-2730 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.dermae.net On Thu, 16 Mar 2006, Liberty wrote: > I have been using OOo for a f

Re: [discuss] OOo Writer Crashing

2006-03-17 Thread Alexis Pigeon
On 17/03/06, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I don't know why but my OOo Writer keeps crashing every time I start it > up it just shuts back down not sure why at all. The first step to make people on this list able to help you woud be to be a bit more precise. What operating system do

[discuss] Re: supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Rod Engelsman
Andrew Robertson wrote: Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the priority. :) Not really. You can easily find issues that are years old with dozens of votes. I'm not sure how priorities are actually set, but votes is at best a minor factor. -- Rod -

[discuss] Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/16/032943.php It Looks Like Google's Buying Sun After All The prospects that search engine giant Google is due to buy the U.S.'s most > sophisticated hardware company "have been swirling around trading floors and > Silicon Valley for more than a week," repo

Re: [discuss] Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Ian Lynch
On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 13:04 -0500, Chad Smith wrote: > http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/16/032943.php > > It Looks Like Google's Buying Sun After All > > The prospects that search engine giant Google is due to buy the U.S.'s most > > sophisticated hardware company "have been swirling aroun

Re: [discuss] Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 3/17/06, Ian Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That OOo is backed by one of the fastest growing companies in history. > That OOo could well get greater investment to support Google services in > health care and finance. > That ODF will get a massive boost in credibility. > > Can't see too m

Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andrew wrote: > Have that large community of users vote for it; this should raise the > priority. :) I was going to show the correlation between priority and votes, but all my vote search inquiries are coming back "Your query returned no results." Aargh. All of my searches are coming back with

Re: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006, Jonathon Blake wrote: I was going to show the correlation between priority and votes, but all my vote search inquiries are coming back "Your query returned no results." Aargh. All of my searches are coming back with that result. ... My searches usually do that too. That

Re: [discuss] Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Robin Laing
Chad Smith wrote: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/16/032943.php It Looks Like Google's Buying Sun After All The prospects that search engine giant Google is due to buy the U.S.'s most sophisticated hardware company "have been swirling around trading floors and Silicon Valley for more

Re: [discuss] OOo Writer Crashing

2006-03-17 Thread Richard/g
On Friday 17 March 2006 13:07, Steve wrote: > Hi, > I don't know why but my OOo Writer keeps crashing every time I start it > up it just shuts back down not sure why at all. > > -- > Steve, > Admin Shotokansite.com > http://www.shotokansite.com/ When mine does that, 1. I back up all my files

[discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Rod Engelsman
Robin Laing wrote: Chad Smith wrote: http://blogcritics.org/archives/2006/03/16/032943.php It Looks Like Google's Buying Sun After All The prospects that search engine giant Google is due to buy the U.S.'s most sophisticated hardware company "have been swirling around trading floors and Si

Re: [discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 3/17/06, Rod Engelsman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would think that Google would have some interest in ODF taking off > simply because it would be easier to parse and index than doc. > That maybe true - but I doubt it's easier to parse than MSO 2003 XML or the next version. I mean, XML

RE: [discuss] supporting Engineering Notation in Calc (was: Upping a Priority )

2006-03-17 Thread Andrew Robertson
LOL! Ok, I retract my statement. Hehe! Thanks for letting me know; if voting truly has such little impact on priority, then I probably won't end up voting much. Hehe! Perhaps nagging works better? >:-) Sincerely, Andrew Robertson derma e(r) Natural Bodycare Export Manager Ph. 805-582-2710 xt.

Re: [discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chad Smith wrote: I would think that Google would have some interest in ODF taking off simply because it would be easier to parse and index than doc. That maybe true - but I doubt it's easier to parse than MSO 2003 XML or the next version. I mean, XML is XML. Saying "XML is XML" is stupid. T

Re: [discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Chad Smith
On 3/17/06, Daniel Carrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Saying "XML is XML" is stupid. The point is - I doubt the difference will matter to Google's search. They can already search docs - so I doubt searching has much to do with it. There's not much of a point in discussing this anyway. G

Re: [discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Daniel Carrera
Chad Smith wrote: The point is - I doubt the difference will matter to Google's search. They can already search docs - so I doubt searching has much to do with it. The advantage of OpenDocument from a search engine's point of view is that it allows more scemantics. You can search for document

RE: [discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Andrew Robertson
So here is a question...what if MSO adopts the ODF format? As in Import/Export or part of the native save/open. OOo has MSO's formats, what would stop MSO from using these too? I mean, if I were MS, and ODF started becoming a major threat, I'd just include it. Why not... This wouldn't level the p

Re: [discuss] custom xml inport HOWTO?

2006-03-17 Thread Alexandro Colorado
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 02:04:03 -0600, Mathias Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, How would I go about setting up an import filter for some simple customized xml as attached? Can anybody give me any pointers to an INTUITIVE introduction? What I found through go

Re: [discuss] OO For Mac

2006-03-17 Thread Sven Aerts
ok... but MS Office is plain bad.. the only usefull thing in it is Excell. How does it compare to the draw function in Appleworks? Sven-Belgium beers On 16 Nov 2005, at 12:49, Scott Morrison wrote: Let me start by saying, I love OpenOffice. I use it at work on my PC. However, the Mac verison

[discuss] Re: supporting Engineering Notation in Calc

2006-03-17 Thread Liberty
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:34:34 +0100, Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > >Lars D. Noodén wrote: > > >I read the OP writing "Calc is so feature rich and in many ways superior >to Excel" on the OOOforum. >Since my experience with spread sheets is limited, could you pls give >some examples?

[discuss] Re: Google to buy Sun

2006-03-17 Thread Liberty
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:14:04 -0800, "Andrew Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Just makes common sense to me...MSO did incorporate WordPerfect formats and >Lotus formats when they became big enough players; seems to me they will do >the same with ODF as well, perhaps in the next version or