7;60s and '70s by
choosing their own standards that were different from the accepted
standard:
It would be nearer the mark to say that whenever IBM got something
working right, the powers-that-be would then come up with an
after-the-fact "standard" that was completely diffe
at), but I don't know of any case of crashing the
system. For /most/ purposes, I already like 2.0 better.
Also Can I keep version 1.1.4 alongside v2.0 beta? MS Office never let
you do this.
Yes. No problem at all.
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"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubt
plain botch.
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should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman."
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John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple "do not
break" character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document full of
"Mr. Sh" and the like (actually, that's t
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Why, o why, o why, o why, o WHY can we not have a simple "do
not break" character attribute?
I'm working right now on transcribing an 18th-century document
full of "Mr. Sh&quo
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
No, it's a hyphen.
U+002D (hyphen/minus) short
U+2010 (true hyphen)short
U+2011 (non-breaking hyphen)short
U+2012 (en-dash)long
U+2013 (em-dash)longer
U+2014 (horizontal bar) long
Rod Engelsman wrote:
John W. Kennedy wrote:
Just as with quotation marks, Unicode is trying to undo confusion
introduced by cost-saving measures applied to Victorian typewriters.
(I have seen people -- usually in their late 50's or older -- who
will, if not stopped, use lower-case "
type -- interchangeable elements such as on the IBM Selectric,
or sometimes replaceable clip-on slugs on one or two typebars, such as I
had on my old Sears electric.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical
feminist agenda if you're not sure your
(or might not) be another manifestation of Issue 45472.
--
John W. Kennedy
"I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of
ignorant people is too dangerous to live in."
-- Garson Kanin. "Born Yesterday"
prevent "Sh" being broken if it happens to
hit the end of a line. All I can do is manually pad out the line with
extra spaces until the whole thing falls off onto the next line -- but
if I should need to alter the margins, or make a correction to the text,
I have to do the whole
operating system, which will be PalmOS on the outside and
Linux on the inside. So there should be a long-term solution.
--
John W. Kennedy
"...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
it was her."
sort of standard in the first place.
Sometimes a "pending" is just a "pending".
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"Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light."
-- Tom Stoppard. "Night and Day"
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Gary Edwards wrote:
And what do they do with OpenDocument? They mark it acceptable as an
open standard "pending" ratification by OASIS.
Why is OpenDocument the only file format in the Commonwealth's list
that requires ratifica
tr.v. ob-so-let-ed, ob-so-let-ing, ob-so-letes
To cause to become obsolete.
--The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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"Compact is b
adrian Greeman wrote:
Ah!! An AMERICAN dictionary. That would explain the misuse of the
English language.
Not in Collins ENGLISH dictionary is it a verb.
Collins makes (or used to make) some very nice pocket dictionaries.
"Obsolete" as a verb is in the OED.
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John W. Kennedy
&quo
The runner stumbles.
Le prano fumna ga bilti. The running woman is beautiful.
Le katmu ga prano janto. The cat hunts, running (lit., runningly hunts).
I understand that Chinese is much the same.
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"...if you had to fall in love with someon
as a
template, which will include all the styles.
B) In 1.9.104, at least,
Tools->Customize->Keyboard->Functions(Category)->Styles->(whatever)
--
John W. Kennedy
"The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a
Marcus Aurelius is as naïve as the fear
plorable in many ways, but the
author clearly got his legal education entirely out of comic books.
Actually, I take that back. I've never seen a comic book that didn't
comprehend the difference between a crime and a tort.
--
John W. Kennedy
"...if you had to fall in love with someo
promising is the Cobalt-on-Linux
version that PalmSource is said to be developing.
At present, the best thing to do is to use the Documents to Go package
and save your OOo files in Microsoft Word or Excel format.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless sho
ira wrote:
hello.
is it possible to download just writer and not the entire suite?
thanks.
About 90% of the OOo program is used by Writer /and/ by Calc, /and/ by
Draw, etc.,, so it's not worth the extra complexity.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Onl
ss of whether this outrageous grouping was arranged because of
some politics or ignorance, lumping of all those dissimilar and
unrelated – historically or linguistically, is unjustified and
The people actually doing the work seem to disagree with you on this point.
--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, i
- if possible. Footnotes, TOC, indexes, hyperlinks, other interesting
comodities ... good luck. A semblance? Maybe. Real recovery?
Probably a lng way off.
And even text recovery can become extremely difficult if you're working
with magazine-style layouts, with columns,
dvanced applications, and even then things like tables and indices will
get wholly balled up.
I'm not saying it can't be done, but don't think of it as a "filter".
Think of it as an entire application program, and a project size to match.
--
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"Those
has been done.
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-- "Alias"
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mean gradient instead of fading? Then I should agree, they
loog cheap and there must be an option to turn them off.
I still have no idea of what you're talking about. I see nothing
resembling a gradient on the toolbars, and they respond to theme changes
in the Windows Control Panel.
--
John
of
the standard.
(This is what is severely missing with the OpenDoc (OOo2) standard.)
OpenDocument. OpenDoc is the name of something else.
And there are at least two implementations.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have
always objected to bei
Bernard wrote:
I note a similar issue that 2.0beta always reverts to A4.
Not in my experience.
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more into an ice-cold hatred. This is an
example of why.
--
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"The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war."
-- Charles Williams. "Mount Badon"
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uot; alive under the name of "Seamonkey".
--
John W. Kennedy
"Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart
that you and the people are one, human beings all, and good government
sha
.
Has anyone encountered this problem?
Your document is probably set up in no language. Words in no language
cannot be spell-checked.
The language is set in the same dialog that sets the font.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obei
rendering your
entire objection pointless.
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Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated!
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html
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; because the word "crime" is subject to
the tyranny's definition is, frankly, nothing short of disgusting. We
had that out in 1945-49.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light."
-- Tom Stoppard. "Night and Day&
lude anything but
the changed language. (Though in English, at least, it is conventional
to present non-English words from languages that use the Roman alphabet
in italic type, or vice-versa, if the containing English passage is
already italicized.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"The pathetic hope
nished in the mid 1990's.
Someday we'll get a Justice Department that has the balls to prosecute
Microsoft under RICO.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That.
...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not becaus
right margine all on the same line?
What on Earth are you talking about? I don't know of /any/ modern word
processor that can't do it. Just use tabs.
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A proud member of the reality-based community.
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more than
4,000 required an extra chassis, about the size of a washing machine.)
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. &quo
ed the entire industry by at least ten
years.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Cha
rtment does not have the balls to prosecute Microsoft for
its open defiance of the antitrust laws.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is
Andrew Brown wrote:
"John W. Kennedy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:4393C60B.4090405
@attglobal.net:
Rubbish. Microsoft is on top because Bill Gates was a trust fund baby,
and because he and his gang use the methods of organized crime. "Nice
website you got here. I
t
has not been done.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. "Judgement at Chelmsford"
---
1:05 PM 167,999,781 test2.xml
12/05/2005 11:09 PM28,641,918 test2.zip
Clearly, the size of the tagname is fairly unimportant.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for
orld,
screenwriting programs are separate products (such as Final Draft) from
specialized firms, and I suspect it would be the same for FOSS.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for
e for other Commonwealth nations.
If, on the other hand, your system is set up for US English, this is normal.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
kd) do the same.
D) Unless we have a qualified diplomat here, I see no point in
continuing this subject. The Second Balkan War ended 93 years ago.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel,
eping daily watch on my
weight while undergoing radiation therapy.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charles Williams. &quo
sed under Mac OS 9.2.2 ??
Not EVERYBODY is using Mac OSX yet
It's not practically possible. MacOS 9 simply doesn't have the necessary
features to support OOo.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poor
e as Windows 2 or Windows 3, can work on MacOS 9 does not
mean that a far more recent program can. OOo requires an operating
system with approximately the same facilities as Unix, and MacOS 9 is
not such a system. OS/2, like MacOS X, is.
--
John W. Kennedy
"But now is a new thing w
Chad Smith wrote:
On 3/8/06, John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
This simply isn't true. The fact that a good many older programs, of the
same vintage as Windows 2 or Windows 3, can work on MacOS 9 does not
mean that a far more recent program can. OOo requires an operating
documents with the same title.
--
John W. Kennedy
"...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you
should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman."
-- Rupert Goodwins
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Peter Kupfer wrote:
I have about 30 files called test.sxw, but each is in a different folder
with a different title. So, now I am confused.
If they are in different directories, they have different filenames, by
definition.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, an
ing
1.1.2, I don't see it.
The Open dialog already does that, and has for as long as I remember.
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John W. Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in
their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is
suffused with humanism, our huma
e it .txt. Never has, for as long as I can remember.
Not so. Although it will not present "file.foo" as a choice if you
select the "Text documents" option, you can still type "file.foo" into
the file name.
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Skip further down to "Text CSV (*.csv, *.txt)".
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"The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have
Tony Pursell wrote:
On 10 Mar 2005 at 10:24, John W. Kennedy wrote:
Lars D. Noodén wrote:
Ok. Then we've found a bug in OOo 1.1.2 and earlier on OS X.
The File->Open dialog will *not* let me open a text file in Calc
unless I rename it to .csv.
Not so. It will also accept ".txt"
Theobald's "Double
Falshood" and Dunlap's "André".
--
John W Kennedy
"The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined the war."
-- Charles Williams. "Mount Badon"
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he de-facto standard across all word processors.
Where did Ctrl-E come from for selectiing all text? Perhaps you did
some key remapping at some time?
But note that he signs himself as being in Madrid, which might make a
difference.
--
John W Kennedy
Having switched to a Mac in disgu
On Dec 29, 2009, at 7:49 AM, DrNoiZ wrote:
> As I can recall there is no such language recognized in the whole world.
Take your hate-group bullshit and get the Hell out of here.
--
John W Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you
may come to
gt; that I need to select in order for the index to read Bryson City, 4,6,7.
> That is the guidance I need. Thank you very much, I know there is someone out
> there who has the answer.
It sounds to me as though, when you created it, you created a Table of Contents
instead of an Al
at iWork for iPad won't. On
the other hand, the iPad really isn't made to be used without a real computer
to host it; without a host, it can't print, it can't make backups, and it can't
install new releases of its operating system.
--
John W Kennedy
"But now is a new
ber of programs did not support it, and it was eventually
withdrawn as a standard (or perhaps it was only a recommendation). Some
programs, however, still support it. And some support <...>, even though that
was never a standard.
--
John W Kennedy
"Though a Rothschild you may be
In yo
modern markup language, for that
matter, if you adjust the terminology a little -- even for HTML -- going back
at least to when GML (without the S) was an IBM proprietary product for
mainframes and laser printers were the size of a VW bus.
You can use the point of a steak knife to turn a Philips-h
character. Then, under
Tools->Customize, set an available keystroke to invoke the macro.
--
John W Kennedy
"Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you
may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates.
You may come to thi
icons depending on type: test,
spreadsheet, etc..
--
John W Kennedy
"...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was
her."
-- "Alias"
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actually, since they have a minimum order of 100.
They're also charging, also with minimum orders, for what they call "Oracle
Open Office".
--
John W Kennedy
"Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the
obeisance of others! Thus is bad government
obably
difficult. It may also be that OOo is too large for the iPad, which does not
have file-based virtual memory.
I think it would be strategically wiser for someone to design an iPad
application from scratch that uses OpenDocument for file storage.
--
John W Kennedy
"You can, if you wi
a large overlap of function at the source level,
iPhone OS being pretty much a proper subset of Mac OS X when it comes to things
like strings and encoding, date and time handling, localization, and file and
memory management. At the GUI level, Mac OS X and iPhone OS are not compatible,
but they are
mainly intended for UI-heavy activity, so writing in any
language but Objective-C (or Objective-C++) is swimming upstream.
There are at least two interpreted languages that are supported for certain
purposes; they are included in the system: JavaScript and SQL.
--
John W Kennedy
"The bright
ndeed, cheaper to use coloured paper!),
Not to mention that most printers can't do full bleed.
--
John W Kennedy
"But now is a new thing which is very old--
that the rich make themselves richer and not poorer,
which is the true Gospel, for the poor's sake."
-- Charle
About all I can say is that it doesn't look that way on my Apple
running Snow Leopard.
--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Ta
se google.
It's "Rules", on Mac OS X Mail.
--
John W Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as
perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs
together as the 'sea-story' and
> If this is an option, the user must be given an obvious option to opt out.
>
> For the record, I would also like to suggest that an option to format date
> as YY/MM/DD or /MM/DD would be valuable. (It sorts simply.)
Format it the way you want in the table/spreadsheet, and save-
al more; Lewis devotes an entire chapter of
"Studies in Words" to it.
--
John W Kennedy
"Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light."
-- Tom Stoppard. "Night and Day"
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dPad can do that OOo can not is start quickly.
And neither one was ever designed for writing BASIC. Microsoft has never had a
BASIC for DOS or Windows that did not include its own editor. Notepad is,
however, useful for BAT files and CONFIG.SYS.
On Dec 22, 2010, at 2:08 AM, Peter Hyde wrote:
> O and by the way from a Christian,
"Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?"
--
John W Kennedy
"Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light."
-- Tom S
)
Actually, I grew up saying "Eh?" in Maine. These things aren't always as hard
and fast as people wish them to be.
--
John W Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charle
ay have made sense at some point, but this version boils down to nothing
at all beyond that if you do something to a computer, something will happen.
--
John W Kennedy
"'Your art then,' said Vertue, 'seems to teach men that the best way of being
happy is to enjoy unbroke
gain.
Macros can be saved either as a part of a document or within OOo (to be
available on many documents). Which did you do? If you put it in the
document, did you then save the document? Did you save it in
OpenDocument format? What do you mean by "my created button"?
--
John W. K
Peter Kupfer wrote:
Hello --
I thought TB had an option where it would strip all text below two
dashes (like the two above my signature) when you replied. Does anyone
else remember this or know how to enable it?
Two hyphens and a space, which your latest message correctly has.
--
John W
e the codepage of document
Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatibility
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
--
Francisco Saldana wrote:
Has the openoffice web team considered using bittorrent to deliver
openoffice? It could help offset bandwith usage.
Bittorrent delivery of OOo has been available for at least the last two
releases. It's right there with the other downloads.
--
John W. Kennedy
is no restriction on page sizes, except those imposed by your
printer.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through
le]" and "Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale]".
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
-
Metin Akbil wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the program as it stands. The choices are
"Turkish Lira [in the 'Kurdish(Turkey)' locale]" and "Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale]".
--
John W. Kennedy
The problem is with the "Kurdish (Turkey) l
Metin Akbil wrote:
Saturday, December 2, 2006, 3:37:04 AM, you wrote:
Metin Akbil wrote:
There is nothing wrong with the program as it stands. The choices are
"Turkish Lira [in the 'Kurdish(Turkey)' locale]" and "Turkish Lira [in
the 'Turkish' locale]&qu
e". I
stand corrected, bow my head towards all Hungarians, and shall dig
myself deeper in to Oo in just about a few moments. What a relief!
indeed! Thx again!
By an amusing coincidence, as I read this thread, I am listening to a CD
of Emmerich Kálmán's last operetta.
--
John W. Ken
en as
"unsportive" or even betrayal.
And blatantly illegal, in the case of their OEM contracts.
A pity the American government doesn't have a Justice Department anymore.
--
John W. Kennedy
If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can't he apply it to
rosoft, there will be no improvements to HTML,
because Microsoft doesn't wish there to be any. That's why progress
stopped dead seven years ago.
--
John W. Kennedy
"...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why
it was her."
-- "Alias"
*
Robert Funnell wrote:
On Thu, 12 Apr 2007, John W. Kennedy wrote:
... HTML doesn't even accomodate some of the most basic elements of
formatting, like first line indent!
Yes it does. See, for example,
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Amelia%20%282%29.html>.
In this example, it&#
e way to go, but I
don't know my way around .NET at all.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"
*
Robert Derman wrote:
It is a little known fact that German almost
became the official national language of the United States.
No. http://www.snopes.com/language/apocryph/german.htm>
--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perce
n be forced to do it, such as
Perl and Java. OpenOffice.org cannot, and I don't know offhand of any
other spreadsheet that can.
--
John W. Kennedy
Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated!
http://pws.prserv.net/jwkenned
s and Spacing". It could
be improved (the options are not explained, and there is no feedback as
to how much leading is the result of specifying "Single", "Double",
etc.), but it's there.
--
John W. Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even
in the running head.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical
feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite."
-- David Misch: "She-Spies", "While You Were Out"
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e American car manufacturing in
the 1950's: there's never any real improvement, just rearrangement of
chrome, and bigger and bigger tail fins.
--
John W. Kennedy
"Compact is becoming contract,
Man only earns and pays."
-- Charles Williams. "B
Office does it.
This is called "disposing of your garbage by tossing it over your
neighbor's fence".
--
John W. Kennedy
"There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump
of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way hold that
because t
, 9.8, was in 2002, but a fixpack was
released as recently as 2006. IBM has announced, however, that they will
not support it on Vista (though it is believed to work).
--
John W. Kennedy
"You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is
about as perceptive as classing th
...by version 2.5? Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!
While you're at it, what about a Universal Translator, an Automatic Car
Driver (with full government certification), and a universal solution to
the n-body problem?
--
John W. Kennedy
"I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A worl
exchange document.
Exactly how is that disturbing?
The 24-hour clock is not a standard in civilian America, and is not
likely to be one in the foreseeable future.
--
John W. Kennedy
"The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor
And the heart of our lord Taliessin determined th
time.
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/iso-time.html
For the present, at least, the 24-hour clock is simply not on the tapis
in the US, outside of the military. And "personal interpretation" is not
at stake here; the problem appears to be a flat-out bug in OOo's
Excel-import code.
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