[discuss] Re: Open office, a godsend and a nuisance?

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Cor Nouws wrote: Gordon wrote (12-12-09 18:05) Just the same as MS Word then.THAT has some horrific annoyances as well Not really... Oh yes it does.write a paragraph, press tab to indent the first line and the WHOLE DAM PARAGRAPH indentsyou have to turn that off in advanced

RE: [discuss] Re: Open office, a godsend and a nuisance?

2009-12-14 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Fellow Writers: I have had this on occasions, especially when the text has been imported or pasted from another application or possibly a website. Since this doesn't ALWAYS happen, it suggests that that block of text has a hidden character in it that may be the problem. I have also had the

RE: [discuss] Re: Open office, a godsend and a nuisance (autocomplete, judgemental applications)?

2009-12-14 Thread Bruce Martin
Dear Gordon: I agree, auto-complete is frequently a nuisance, as it ass a judgemental application. Like all applications that make judgemental decisions or do diagnostics, they are trouble prone and always will be. A computer has no real intelligence! Only a human being has that. Hence there are

[discuss] Missing Parts

2009-12-14 Thread Michael Harold
Hi the List, I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it. I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work. To make sure that I was doing the 'right thing' I downloaded 'Getting

[discuss] Re: Missing Parts

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Michael Harold wrote: Hi the List, I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it. I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work. To make sure that I was doing the 'right

[discuss] Re: Missing Parts

2009-12-14 Thread NoOp
On 12/13/2009 08:27 PM, Michael Harold wrote: Hi the List, I hope that someone has had this problem and has found a fix for it. I am at present running Ubuntu 9.10, as upgraded from 9.04, and tried to print envelopes from OOo 3.10 Writer and found that it did not work. To make sure that

Re: [discuss] Tab in OpenOffice.org Writer

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-12-17 08:38:26, jonathon wrote: On Dec 14, 2007 2:32 AM, java sunshine wrote: I think an application like OpenOffice.org Writer should has tab function too. Currently available as an add on. (SNIP) I had some interest in seeing what that would look like, so I started looking at

Re: [discuss] Re: Deleting a document

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-11-04 02:33:33, Bob Long wrote: [CC:d to user] Beni von Weissenberg wrote: Hello, first thank you for a great product. (Writer). However I would like to have one more feature in the EDIT menu. DELETE with maybe Delete document and its pathname meaning that the document

Re: [discuss] I have written a 1500 page book with OpenOffice Writer.

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-11-20 11:36:29, MasonCide wrote: Hi, I've nearly completed a long book with OpenOffice 2.0 Writer in Debian Linux Etch. I think the Writer is great. I didn't have any problems with it. While I haven't done any books, I _have_ written technical reports running to over 2400

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice 2.3.0

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-10-04 23:23:34, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:06:36 -0500, John B Kittredge jbk4...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I'm an old IBM LotusSuite user with LOTS of Lotus WordPro, 1-2-3 and Approach files. I'me very disappointed to see that OpenOffice 2.3.0 does not read

Re: [discuss] Separating style from content (was: Just a notion)

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-11-26 15:45:45, Stefan Monnier wrote: In support of separating content from presentation. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_style_and_content BTW: my wife seems to have trouble doing that. She always ends up with a piece of text where everything is using the default

[discuss] Joining paragrphs in writer

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
I have used first StarOffice and now openoffice since the days of SO-4-or-5.something, and find it to be the best office suite for my purposes. My thanks go to everyone who has contributed to it :-) Recently I installed fedora 7 on a machine, and much to my surprise I found that the old

Re: [discuss] Will Bug 48822 be worked on before the next major release

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
On 2007-11-21 20:31:47, jonathon wrote: Mike wrote: , then Open Office should not be telling users that they have to adapt to some arbitrary standard. ISO standards are not arbitrary. (At least, in theory they aren't arbitrary.) Suggesting that one use an ISO standard instead of an

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

2009-12-14 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

[discuss] Question about possible style/format extension ...

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
I was wondering about the desirability of a possible extension to formatting/styles. I am a programmer / software architect now, but in a former life (ages ago) I worked as the sysadmin at a commercial typesetting house (probably a nearly-dead breed by now). There I was in charge of all

[discuss] Something that change in 2.1 font handling ... a question

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
A lng time ago I was in charge of the care and feeding of some fairly large (for the time) computer systems at a commercial type-setting house (not many of those left around these days). As as result I ended up with an interest in the development of various typefaces going back

[discuss] Is this a bug or ... (long)

2009-12-14 Thread William W. Austin
After years and years of using OpenOffice (and before that StarOffice), I have run into a repeatable problem. But I don't know whether it is the result of very specific formats on which my office standardized about 8 or 9 years ago, or whether it is a real bug worth reporting. Here's the