[discuss] latex users

2007-04-17 Thread Fabrice MATHURIN
I am using the beta version of OpenOffice, and very fond of it. Although I really enjoy using it for all text purposes, I am not that delighted by the math-mode of Oo. Indeed, as every scientists on earth, in need for well-typed scientific documents, I rather use latex, and usually without any

[discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Massimiliano Cacciamani
Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always thought that a good feature for Open Office should be a Multi language bar. I find myself writing to relatives in Italy, writing job applications in English and writing to colleagues in

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-17 Thread André Wyrwa
Hei, Hei, could we setup a wiki page for these integration ideas? I had made a similar call (for suggestions) a couple of weeks ago, it would be good to gather them in a central place, so that they can be fine tuned, extended and devs know where to look. Of course we can. But

Re: [discuss] latex users

2007-04-17 Thread André Wyrwa
Hei, A very very very good software to copy should be : http://www.mackichan.com/ and as you could figure, this software uses the very common and suitable language that Latex is... as far as i understand how latex works, you'd need a whole latex installation to get any output. This adds

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hello Massimiliano, Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:05:39 +1200 schrieb Massimiliano Cacciamani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always thought that a good feature for Open Office should be a Multi language bar. This

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 17 avril 2007 12:15, Sigrid Kronenberger a écrit : Hello Massimiliano, Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:05:39 +1200 schrieb Massimiliano Cacciamani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always thought that a good

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Sigrid Kronenberger
Hi Nicolas, Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 12:25:59 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Nicolas Mailhot [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Le Mar 17 avril 2007 12:15, Sigrid Kronenberger a écrit : Hello Massimiliano, Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:05:39 +1200 schrieb Massimiliano Cacciamani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Multi language bar

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Bernd Eilers
Nicolas Mailhot wrote: Le Mar 17 avril 2007 12:15, Sigrid Kronenberger a écrit : Hello Massimiliano, Am Tue, 17 Apr 2007 10:05:39 +1200 schrieb Massimiliano Cacciamani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Richard/n
On Monday 16 April 2007 18:05, Massimiliano Cacciamani wrote: Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always thought that a good feature for Open Office should be a Multi language bar. I find myself writing to relatives in Italy,

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Nicolas Mailhot
Le Mar 17 avril 2007 13:13, Bernd Eilers a écrit : Using styles is not a workaround it´s a feature! ;-) No it's not. OO.o has a very powerful styling feature It's been used and abused for all sorts of things (langage, link objects) that have nothing in common with presentation. Styles are

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread Richard/g
On Monday 16 April 2007 18:05, Massimiliano Cacciamani wrote: Multi language bar idea. I Can speak and write 3 languages (English, Italian, German), and I always thought that a good feature for Open Office should be a Multi language bar. I find myself writing to relatives in Italy,

Re: [discuss] Re: ADVICE NEEDED

2007-04-17 Thread Lars D . Noodén
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007, Gordon wrote: Not /quite/ true unfortunately - there is an add-on converter for previous versions of office that will read Office 2007 documents. Thanks. That's good to know for emergencies. However, in both the short and logn run it is in jsut about everybordy's

Re: [discuss] Multi language bar idea.

2007-04-17 Thread André Wyrwa
Hei, No it's not. OO.o has a very powerful styling feature It's been used and abused for all sorts of things (langage, link objects) that have nothing in common with presentation. Styles are *not* a generic text attribute framework. Or rather they can be deep down but this concept should

Re: [interface-discuss] UNO Logging API

2007-04-17 Thread Joerg Barfurth
Hi, Sorry for being late to this discussion. I don't read those lists continuously any more. Frank Schönheit schrieb: Hi, looking for a possibility to implement some client-side logging facilities in our database drivers, I came across css.util.logging [1] - a UNO API which promises to

Re: [interface-discuss] Proposal: New Smart Tag API

2007-04-17 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Frank Meies wrote: Hi, with OOo 2.2, a first draft of a Smart Tag API has been introduced. That API only provided some basic Smart Tag functionality which had to be enhanced in many regards. An overview about Smart Tags and the current Smart Tag API can be found be:

Re: [interface-discuss] UNO Logging API

2007-04-17 Thread Stephan Bergmann
Stephan Bergmann wrote: Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: Hi Stephan, Sorry this feedback is rather late. Anyway, I am completely confused by what you propose. Some things in your mail make me think you read the old css.util.logging API, not the new one. Sure you visited

RE: [discuss] latex users

2007-04-17 Thread 文见
Last year, I gave similar suggestion, but the response is pessimistic. Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:38:36 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discuss@openoffice.org Subject: [discuss] latex users I am using the beta version of OpenOffice, and very

Re: [discuss] [moderated]100% free software

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
On 13/07/07, Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which are 100% free gratis software i can use at work in office? I ask for windows software due to i have no idea about what Linux is! Abou Linux which gratis distribution should i use first? Best regards, Ale, Italy naturally openoffice for basic

Re: [discuss] Re: ADVICE NEEDED

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
proprietry formats that's not what MS say, in fact I see no reason to contest that, bad format - likely, proprietry doesn't look like it To the OP for future notice try [EMAIL PROTECTED] for general help and advice -- Chris Monahan

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
In the case of integrating a Mozilla and an OpenOffice application what would that mean for the respective underlying frameworks (NSPR and UNO) I mean will they begin to merge, or form an extensive bridge between? or is it possible to ignore the underlying frameworks and just mash up some

Re: [discuss] latex users

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
I have a friend who isn't exactly a power user, who i've got onto OO, he says he finds OpenOffice fine except for Math, which he couldn't begin to understand how to do anything. And from this reply it doesn't seem to be very popular with the experts. I use it, but only out of neccessity and

Re: [discuss] latex users

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
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[discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread Chris Monahan
Styles do lead something to be desired in OO... Not the technical or the logical aspect of it, just the interface is slightly broken The way I see it OO uses styles a LOT more than MSO and unlike MSO actually encourages you to use them, however MSO enables styles to be used in a more natural

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread Robert Derman
Chris Monahan wrote: Styles do lead something to be desired in OO... Not the technical or the logical aspect of it, just the interface is slightly broken The way I see it OO uses styles a LOT more than MSO and unlike MSO actually encourages you to use them, however MSO enables styles to be

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wed, 2007-18-04 at 00:10 +0100, Chris Monahan wrote: Consider that MSO seems to have a real system for updating templates on the fly and for swapping templates applied to a document... Yes, and it's one of the main causes of document corruption, too. So far as I'm concerned, OOo does users

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread jonathon
Chris Monahan wrote: Styles do lead something to be desired in OO... A style for tables is one of the missing features. Not the technical or the logical aspect of it, just the interface is slightly broken The first step would be removing all formatting commands fromt ehUI, except to

Re: [discuss] [moderated]100% free software

2007-04-17 Thread Alexandro Colorado
I also recomend checking up inkscape and Songbird. On 4/17/07, Chris Monahan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/07/07, Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which are 100% free gratis software i can use at work in office? I ask for windows software due to i have no idea about what Linux is! Abou Linux

[discuss] Einstruction/CPS 4.0 suggestion/question

2007-04-17 Thread N Wilson
Good day, I'm a university student. I have a combination question (and/or) suggestion. Many of our professors are having great difficulty using 'Einstruction - CPS 4.0' classroom presentation software with its intended mate, powerpoint (various error codes... I don't have all the details).

[discuss] MyODBC - OOo base connectivity question on fedora linux fc 6

2007-04-17 Thread William W. Austin
I am running fedora fc 6 on an x86_64 (dual core athlon) box and am having problems connecting with a mysql database. Previously (IIRC over a year ago) I had this working on an i386 box (fc3 or 4 - I forget which), but with the x86_64 box. I am having problems. I can connect to the

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-17 Thread André Wyrwa
Hi, I would like to see OOo writer have the option of turning styles off completely at times and having totally manual formatting. what for? I would suggest quite the opposite... Remove all manual formatting and instead provide some kind of formatting palette which is always style bound and