Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: 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 whi

[discuss] OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Clark Gonzales
I love your product, but will you be coming out with an Email editor/Calendar similar to Outlook anytime soon? That would just make the perfect package. Thank you for all the work you guys do…! Clark Gonzales -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Ve

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread André Wyrwa
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:11 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: > André Wyrwa wrote: > > >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 th

Re: [discuss] latex users

2007-04-18 Thread Peter Vandenabeele
On 4/17/07, André Wyrwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Also, doesn't Math use the official MathML 2.0 nowadays? And what is the relationship with changes in Open Document Format (ODF) v1.2 that are discussed in OASIS ? Peter - To

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Mathias Bauer
Chris Monahan wrote: > In the case of integrating a Mozilla and an OpenOffice application > what would that mean for the respective underlying frameworks (NSPR > and UNO) That depends on the depth of integration. IMHO we should start with integrating TB functions into the OOo menus and perhaps vi

[discuss] Terminology in OOo Impress

2007-04-18 Thread Michele Zarri
Dear All, Since this is my first email to this list a few words about myself My name is Michele Zarri, an Italian working in the UK for a German company with an Austrian boss who on turn reports to an American, so yes, my work life is complicated enough. I have been using OpenOffice for a couple

Re: [discuss] Terminology in OOo Impress

2007-04-18 Thread Michael Adams
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:48:34 +0100 Michele Zarri wrote: > Dear All, > > Since this is my first email to this list a few words about myself > My name is Michele Zarri, an Italian working in the UK for a German > company with an Austrian boss who on turn reports to an American, so > yes, my work li

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

2007-04-18 Thread Frank Meies
Hi Stephan, thank you for your feedback. Please find my comments inline: On 04/17/07 17:54, Stephan Bergmann wrote: Frank Meies wrote: - A SmartTagRecognizer is used to find smart tags in a document. Usually there are a couple of SmartTagRecognizer components installed. - A SmartTagAction

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
André Wyrwa wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:11 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: André Wyrwa wrote: 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 th

Re: [discuss] Terminology in OOo Impress

2007-04-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Michael Adams wrote: On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:48:34 +0100 Michele Zarri wrote: [...] So my question: would it be ok to suggest to replace "Page Master" and "Master slide" with "Slide master" throughout the Impress user interface and online help? Sounds perfectly reasonable, i'd vote for that

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Robert Derman wrote: André Wyrwa wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 02:11 -0500, Robert Derman wrote: André Wyrwa wrote: 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 opposit

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
Mathias Bauer wrote: Chris Monahan wrote: In the case of integrating a Mozilla and an OpenOffice application what would that mean for the respective underlying frameworks (NSPR and UNO) That depends on the depth of integration. IMHO we should start with integrating TB functions into

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-04-18 Thread Alexandro Colorado
You can download these packages from the mozilla project under Thunderbird and Sunbird projects. On 4/17/07, Clark Gonzales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I love your product, but will you be coming out with an Email editor/Calendar similar to Outlook anytime soon? That would just make the perfe

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Robert Derman wrote: I would vote for having Thunderbird go to Writer whenever you hit the reply button so that you would have all the features and power of Writer available. A send button would be in the Writer toolbar durring this function, and anything that couldn't be handled in an email

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Robert Derman
Cor Nouws wrote: Robert Derman wrote: I would vote for having Thunderbird go to Writer whenever you hit the reply button so that you would have all the features and power of Writer available. A send button would be in the Writer toolbar durring this function, and anything that couldn't be h

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Monahan
ooh Robert and Andre are arguing over the old, what's the way we use OOo again, how quaint, I made a suggestion about this earlier, see 'Configuration Sets' but the response was relatively lukewarm... Most of the responses i've received regarding the style features i've mentioned appear to be qui

Re: [discuss] Terminology in OOo Impress

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Monahan
On 18/04/07, Cor Nouws <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Michael Adams wrote: > On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:48:34 +0100 > Michele Zarri wrote: > > >>[...] >>So my question: would it be ok to suggest to replace "Page Master" and >>"Master slide" with "Slide master" throughout the Impress user >>interface and

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

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Monahan
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Re: [discuss] Einstruction/CPS 4.0 suggestion/question

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Monahan
I should imagine that a third party software package will be actively looking for powerpoint, and OOo doesn't provide a way of emulating the way that third party software links into MSO, that would probably involve hacking either MSO or the third party application. So i'm afraid it's likely that

Re: [discuss] Re: Microsoft Office 2007

2007-04-18 Thread Robin Laing
Robert Derman wrote: Mathias Bauer wrote: Chris Monahan wrote: I would vote for having Thunderbird go to Writer whenever you hit the reply button so that you would have all the features and power of Writer available. A send button would be in the Writer toolbar durring this function, a

[discuss] Open Office Calc Deletion

2007-04-18 Thread Elliot Martin
This is a suggestion that I forgot to put in the survey. I have used open office Calc for a few years and recently installed the 2.2 on my computer. I think that the prompt to delete something after one presses the delete key is by far the most annoying feature that I have encountered in Open

[discuss] Re: DDE functionality - Quickbooks integration possible?

2007-04-18 Thread Charles Marcus
So... Apparently there is no interest in such a feature? Or maybe there is some technical reason why this is impossible? I was just curious... Firefox has the ability to masquerade as Internet Explorer. I know this is simply by changing the User Agent string that is returned, so is trivial,

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Wed, 2007-18-04 at 20:18 +0100, Chris Monahan wrote: > >Yes, and it's one of the main causes of document corruption, too. So far > >as I'm concerned, OOo does users a favor by not implementing something > >similar. > > interesting point, although I don't quite follow the argument that MSO > do

Re: [discuss] Open Office Calc Deletion

2007-04-18 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Elliot, Elliot Martin wrote: This is a suggestion that I forgot to put in the survey. I have used open office Calc for a few years and recently installed the 2.2 on my computer. I think that the prompt to delete something after one presses the delete key is by far the most annoying featu

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread Chris Monahan
That's not the argument. The argument is that switching templates on-the-fly or piling template on template are both such involved procedures that attempting either of them greatly increases the risk of something going wrong. they shouldn't be 'such involved features' as long as you use the same

Re: [discuss] Configuration Sets

2007-04-18 Thread Friedrich Strohmaier
Hi André, Chris, *, André Wyrwa schrieb: >Hei, > >> for example: >> 1:power user. >> 2:simplified. >> 3:Microsoft Office like. >> 4:Open Office Classic > >sorry, but i always thought that such a choice is big non-sense. this is a hard word..^ >That is, o

Re: [discuss] Styles Handling

2007-04-18 Thread André Wyrwa
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:18 +0100, Chris Monahan wrote: > ooh Robert and Andre are arguing over the old, what's the way we use > OOo again, how quaint, I made a suggestion about this earlier, see > 'Configuration Sets' but the response was relatively lukewarm... Well, i think i was among them. ;-)

[discuss] Re: latex users

2007-04-18 Thread Marc Schwartz
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