Re: [discuss] New Purchaser

2007-06-04 Thread Jonathon Blake
Catherine wrote: I purchased this product Saturday. It never downloaded. The set up downloaded, but the product itself never downloaded. I have been trying to get in touch with ANYONE!!!. You reached a volunteer run support list of OpenOffice.org. The best we can do, is point you to wher

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2007-03-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Dale wrote: It would be nice if a complete contact manager were added to the OpenOffice suite. That functionality is currently available. Depending upon what is meant by "complete contact manager" it may or may not be implemented. IOW, it all depends upon what,and how you define "complete co

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chris wrote: please, read that again, anything strike you as perhaps, odd? That is the starting point, when testing for Section 508 compliance. PPS: although when it comes to system recovery, there's nothing quite like bash to be able to fall back on :D Or using VI to stabilize a system t

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
André wrote: No, i do not want to create graphics via CLI or write them in the shape of an XML file.) a) It is/was easier to create RIP graphics using a text editor, than any of the supplied graphical editors. b) Try doing something that should be simple, like changing the background colour fr

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chris wrote: >A GUI interface is intrinsically user hostile,and best avoided. >Any GUI is going to be "awful:" and dysfunctional. The only question >is how dysfunctional it is going to be. with that kind of attitude a lot of the stuff i see in the openoffice 'user experience' makes a lot more s

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chris wrote: I'm afraid that the GUI is the way forward, while computers can talk GUIs were a step backwards, and have done nothing but ensure that accessibility issues maximize a loss of productivity for not only those with a11y issues, but the general population. beginning, a gui can actua

Re: [discuss] On a Wikipedia plugin, was: New Feature Request

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Marco wrote: Note that a M-W plugin for OO.o had already been requested last year: without (so far) any result. For such a plugin, yes, you'd also have How about modifying the Wikipedia macro for MW? And while I am about it, are there any other encyclopaedia, dictionary,or similar sites that

Re: [discuss] New Feature Request

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Florencio wrote: a) "The Wikipedia Connection" marked text and OO will open Wikipedia with the definition (if any) for the selection. http://oooconv.free.fr/wikipedia/wikipedia_en.html has the macro for the Wikipedia article. I do not know what happened to the Wictionary macro--- which sounds

Re: [discuss] Search files

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Adrian wrote: I think that this job is better done by the operating system or by a program that searches across all of your data. - Copernic Desktop Search (http://www.copernic.com) or - Google Desktop Search (http://desktop.google.com) Can either of those be used on a computer that does not

Re: [discuss] OpenOffice

2007-03-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Jacek wrote: But GUI -- is awful. A GUI interface is intrinsically user hostile,and best avoided. Any GUI is going to be "awful:" and dysfunctional. The only question is how dysfunctional it is going to be. Second thing is that it doesn't support automatic language recognition- Work on th

Re: [discuss] Suggestion about page numbering

2007-03-12 Thread Jonathon Blake
João Magalhães wrote: I'd suggest the following about page numbering: 1. Suppress page number / header / footer on first page Create a page style for that. 2. Start numbering at... Create a page style, and then selecting the number by using ">Insert New page" and changing the style,along

Re: [discuss] Vote for more pretty default colors in charts

2007-03-02 Thread Jonathon Blake
Ingrid wrote: > What about to increase the current colour of chart from 12 to 24 or 36? Where do you expect that to be used? I would rate charts with 12 I often do bar charts with 18 different fields. Duplicating six fields does confuse some clients. Then you would be free to create your own

Re: [discuss] PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2007-02-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Robert wrote: As of this time, OOo does not have anything like Outlook. There used to be a contact manager database for OOo, that hooked in with a calender database. Not group shareable (though I guess you could email the database around), but it was "barely adequate" for an individual. With

[discuss] Home for colour palettes, hatching palettes and the like

2007-02-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
All: Is there a current "home" for alternative colour palettes, hatching grids,and the rest of the things in /user/config? I currently am putting the ones I have found, or created, into my esnips folder: http://esnips.com/web/OOoRelatedThings If there isn't a current home, what objections would

Re: [discuss] PROJECT MANAGEMENT

2007-02-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Adrian wrote: I think a good idea will be to include a open source project management tool. Maybe something similar to gantt project. Have a look at this page: http://oopm.openoffice.org/ http://oopm.openoffice.org also points to the GANTT chart macro for using CALC as a project management too

Re: [discuss] Open Office sold on ebay!!

2007-02-19 Thread Jonathon Blake
Paolo wrote: I'm writing to let you know that Open Office is sold on Ebay: It is legal/acceptable for people to sell OpenOffice.org on eBay, or any other venue that they choose to sell it on, for whatever price they choose to attempt to sell it at. [I have seen OOo with a "buy it now" price o

Re: [discuss] Re: Opening WPS files in OO

2007-02-10 Thread Jonathon Blake
Ain wrote: Why should OO.o open all possible file formats in the world. a) Because the ability to open legacy documents is viewed as a strength by organizations that are migrating to ODF. b) What one person considers to be an obscure, insignificant file format, could be the mission critical

Re: [discuss] dates [OT] Easter

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
Lars wrote: Calculating holidays (e.g. Easter, Passover, Ramadan, J-dagen) would be a useful function to have in Calc. Maybe CPAN's Date::calc could be used as OOo 1.1.5 can calculate Easter correctly for the Gegorian Calender using the rule set of the Anglican Church. That formula is incorr

Re: [discuss] dates [OT] Easter

2006-10-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
Michael wrote: What feast of the apostles? Easter is pagan based. It is the first Sunday following the full moon, following the autumn equinox. If OO.o can calculate full moons, please tell me how. Answered on social, since it is completely off topic for this list. xan jonathon -- Ethical co

Re: [discuss] dates are never autoformatted correctly

2006-10-24 Thread jonathon . blake
Kyle wrote: personally like to write my dates .mm.dd however, as you may know Open Office Calc is VERY picky about them being one way and ONLY one That "pickyness" is because OOo is style dependent. Everything in OOo revolves around styles, and if you don't grok styles, you wont' be abl

Re: [discuss] MS Office plugin?

2006-10-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Robin wrote: Maybe MS is trying hard to find a way to make the conversion not work as That pretty much is what one can conclude, after reading the groklaw article on the Microsoft plugin. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima. ---

[discuss] ally writing systems & languages for Stylist

2006-09-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
All: The convention in Styles & Formatting is for writing systems to be a sub-division of the languge. EG: Turkish (Arabic), Turkish (Latin), Turkish (Cyrrilic). For writing systems that are used mainly/exclusivly for accessibility reasons, there are two possible options: a) * language (Braile)

Re: [discuss] Issue 69041 - ruled invalid on no known grounds

2006-09-05 Thread Jonathon Blake
Joe wrote: I wish the problem was #$&!# nonexistent or invalid, I seriously considering It ws closed as "invalid" since there was no report describing what the problem/issue is. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacarima. -

Re: [discuss] Idea: Email program

2006-08-29 Thread Jonathon Blake
Thomas wrote: 10 apps, which are needed in the office to write calculate and communicate aand surf I'm trying to figure out what the ten applications are: Text Editor Audio Editor Music Editor Graphics Editor Video Editor CAD/CAM Editor Presentation Program Spreadsheet Database Program Accou

Re: [discuss] Page numbering

2006-05-26 Thread Jonathon Blake
Rick wrote: Are there plans to simply page numbering, footers, and headers? I'm not sure how they could be simplified, without turning it into something which is non-functional for anything longer than one page. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto o

Re: [discuss] software patents

2006-04-18 Thread Jonathon Blake
Odec wrote: > How software patents might affect the development of open source applications > such as OpenOffice. At their best, patents prevent innovation. At their worst, they merely stifle competition. One factor to bear in mind: Every software patent that has ever been issued, hs been issu

Re: [discuss] Email Tool

2006-04-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Alexandro wrote: > What? I didnt get that at all. Can you clear your point. I'll rewrite that. a) There is a FLOSS equivalent to Outlook --- with all of the functions of outlook --- that is no longer being developed, because people were not using it; b) That OOo + several other currently existi

Re: [discuss] Email Tool

2006-04-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andrew wrote: > Because it appears that a project hasn't been started. a) You do realize that email integration was removed from OOo, don't you? b) You do realize that LAMP + OOo + Thunderbird + Firefox + the FLOSS version of Outlook (which is no longer being developed, because contrary to the

Re: [discuss] Email Tool

2006-04-17 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andrew wrote: >which is why so many of us are looking for an alternative built into OOo. Once upon a time, I would have agreed with you. However, given that the FLOSS equivalent to Outlook is no longer being developed, due to lack of interest, I suspect that claims of no alternative to Outlook

Re: [discuss] About Writer

2006-04-15 Thread Jonathon Blake
Charles wrote: > Good morning, I wonder if the new release of Open Office includes grammar > checking in Available as an add on utility. OR should I say Add on utilities . There are roughly ten grammar checkers, which provide grammar checking for roughly fifteen different languages. However,

Re: [discuss] Suggestion

2006-04-05 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 4/5/06, Sviatoslav Feshchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > similar to Microsoft Front Page for web page creation. Allready part of OOo, albeit with a different set of bugs, and annoyances thn Front Page. xan jonathon -- Ethical conduct is a vice. Corrupt conduct is a virtue. Motto of Nacari

Re: [discuss] Loading localization strings at runtime

2006-03-23 Thread Jonathon Blake
Tony wrote: > > Is that something worth adding to a wish list for some future revision? > If you want to swap language you need enough understanding of the current > language to go through the following longwinded process: Does anybody know why the code used in OOo 1.1.3-ZA to switch languages

Re: [discuss] Re: OPENOFFICE CALC

2006-03-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Liberty wrote: > Every Calculator, Spreadsheet, Compiler, and Interperter, that I've seen > defines 0^0 as 1. My Texas Instruments BAII Plus calculator says that 0 * 0 = 0. MY PDA says 0 * 0 = 0. My cell phone says 0 * 0 = 0. Gnumeric says 0 * 0 = 0, and gives a page full of error messages. Exce

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] 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] 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] Re: [users] Re: Reveal Codes

2006-03-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
Robin wrote: > I have tried to create styles (which was easy in WP) but I keep getting lost. How does can one get lost doing [for OOo 1.1.x] ">Format >styles >Catalog >select style type >Select style >New/modify" ? > where I go to change something into BOLD or underline and find that it > do

Re: [discuss] Great idea for Open Office

2006-03-15 Thread Jonathon Blake
Benjamin wrote: > the first to introduce a financial accounting/payroll program that would a) Office suites and accounting packages are two different things. b) There is a macro that lets OOo open QuickBook files. [Or at least some QuickBook file formats.] >Why I haven't seen this concept come b

Re: [discuss] Will Calc Match This?

2006-03-09 Thread Jonathon Blake
Dave wrote: > 1 million rows and up to 16 000 columns A fully populated worksheet of that size would require 96 768 GB RAM, just to load. > 1. Assuming Calc will be able to handle M$'s perverted form of XML, will it > be able to handle sheets of this size? The more pertinent question is if Exc

Re: [discuss] Why no Outline support in write?

2006-03-06 Thread Jonathon Blake
Michael wrote: > The navigator seems to need the use of standard styles, my enterprise use his > own styles, so we continue to use Word! Navigator can be configured to use custom styles. [Note: It is limited to ten styles.] xan jonathon --

Re: [discuss] Telugu Language Support

2006-02-20 Thread Jonathon Blake
Sree wrote: >Telugu is one of the major languages, I'm not sure what you want in the way of support. Teluga can be selected as the default language, _if_ CTL language is enabled. There are two IME's that can be used for Teluga input * Indic Transliterator This macro was written by the Bharatey

Re: [discuss] people selling OpenOffice on ebay

2006-02-20 Thread Jonathon Blake
Ray wrote: >and sell them at a reasonable price. Quoting Joel Rosenberg Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Me, I've got a standing offer to sell copies for $1.75 million. No takers yet, but I only need one . . ." Quoting Chad Smith Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I sold about 6 at $100 - $150

Re: [discuss] Exporting OpenOffice to IRAN

2006-02-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
YoYo wrote: > Is OpenOffice american? or is it 'countryfree'? It is developed and run by an American corporation. [Sun.] > Does it really have to abide by american laws? Only in the us. > Is exporting OpenOffice (or other opensource software) to IRAN restricted in > any way? In theory, OOo m

Re: [discuss] Re: Short list with Pro's & Cons

2006-01-20 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chuck wrote: > I think you guys may want to run some hardware diagnostics on whatever If it happened on one or two machines, you might have a point. But when it happens on machines at different Kinko's locations, half a dozen of their competitors, and assorted machines at places where I have wor

Re: [discuss] Re: Short list with Pro's & Cons

2006-01-18 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chuck wrote: > In all seriousness, when was the last time you experienced corruption in a > compressed document? About once a week for compressed files. Usually because of transmission glitches. As far as documents go, anytime I create a document with MSo, that contains 10 000 words, I can be

Re: [discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Jacqueleine wrote: > Please remember that we are all *real* people on the other end of these It would be really nice if the people responding to things filed in Issuezilla acted the same way. [The comments in the comma as decimal separator issues are just one example.] xan jonathon -- This is

Re: [discuss] Re: Official request for rectification of Mr. Andrew Brown's article

2005-12-10 Thread Jonathon Blake
Enrique wrote: > Currently, my impression is that the only channel to OOo developers is > isuezilla reporting and votes. I came to the conclusion that votes for issues don't count about two years ago. The issue with the second or third highest number of votes had several comments from developers

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: Email vital for Desktop Linux adoption, prime role available for OOo

2005-12-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >But I don't for a second believe they take your stuff when you close down. That's not only illegal, it's impossible. You obviously don't understand how their enforcers work. And equally obvious way out of your depth here. > Give me one shread of evidence that this ever happened.

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: Email vital for Desktop Linux adoption, prime role available for OOo

2005-12-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chadf wrote: > Care to give any evidence at all that this happened? Personal experience. xan jonathon

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: Email vital for Desktop Linux adoption, prime role available for OOo

2005-12-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > This is not, however, anything close to what MS did. What Microsoft did do, was go to second, third, and fourth tier vendors and say: "Pay us $100 for every system you sell that does _NOT_) contain an operating system. Pay us $200 for every system you sell that contains the operat

Re: [discuss] Google jamming "open" and "office" ?

2005-11-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
Lars wrote: > I get the distinct feeling that its marketing or lobbying team is trying to > dilute or confuse the phrase "open office" in the same way they tried with > the initials "RMS" For people on Gmail, take look at the sponsored links (right hand side of the page) for the OOo lists. [I

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Rod wrote: > Without an email/pim component many will do just that. It's called MSO. > Is that what you really want? Just what functionality does MSO + Outlook offer, that can not be replicated by using OOo + FireFox + ThunderBird + SunBird + the appropriate templates? >I have yet to hear a call

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-12 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >(5) OOo can already do it if you write this macro, hack this code, download this patch, compile this completely unrelated program, build this bridge in Perl, and it only works on Linux -- plus it's not gonna work exactly like you think it should.. (NOTE: #5 is an exaggeration to prov

Re: [discuss] a more complete office suite

2005-11-09 Thread Jonathon Blake
Rigel wrote: > An office suite typicaly includes e-mail, an address book, and schedule, as > well as a project management application, which hasn't been mentioned. The only one of those items that can not be done within OOo 1.0.3 is email. Unfortuntly, the templates for project mangement and s

Re: [discuss] Re: a more complete office suite

2005-11-08 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >Google has, from the beginning, stated their goal is to "Don't be evil." And to this point, they aren't. When you have a chance, start apply Forensic Lingusitic Analysis to Google's statements. Doing so will make it patently obvious that they re doing some nefarious things. >Providi

Re: [discuss] a more complete office suite

2005-11-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > Why? - WHY? > Because it makes *SENSE* to, that's why. It makes absolutely no sense to include an email client in an office suite. >spell-checker should draw from the same list of words. That is what elm is for. > It makes sense that since email is mostly words, and text document

Re: [discuss] Request to unsusbscribe (or at least ignore) Chad

2005-10-29 Thread Jonathon Blake
Marco wrote: > objective data, with a determination that can only be explained by: > 1) serious mental disability, or > 2) deliberate trolling 3) He still hopes to become a stand up comic. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

Re: [discuss] thanks, quick question

2005-10-29 Thread Jonathon Blake
Timothy wrote: >whether or not this is completely legal. It is legal to use. You can also sell, or give away as many copies as you want to. xan joanthon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Daniel wrote: >Jonathon and I inmediately realized that there was an error I didn't realize that what he wrote was not what he meant, until he rewrote it. Though it did cross my mind to wonder why anybody would mention psychosocial dynamics and applied philosophy to Chad, when he has demonstrate

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >What he said was a functional sentence, but it just didn't make sense in context. What he wrote makes perfect sense. What it means is not congruent with what he thought it meant. >doesn't mean I should try to translate his English emails into English! I realize that you lack the ab

Re: [discuss] Re: Re: Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Daniel wrote: > I think that we can figure out what he meant to say. I thought he was using the term "pretending" as a psychoepistemological concept of constructing shared social reality. > The word "encourage" would be closer to Marco's meaning. Which is nowhere close to what I thought he mean

Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0 - How to install multiple UI-Languages?

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
GRS wrote: > With 2.0 you can install language packs for those languages you need. This > assumes that they exist, of cource. They don't appear to exist for windows. >Please check the various native language pages to see what they have. And that ignores the l10n projects that do not hve native

Re: [discuss] Multiple character styles (was: Re: Mixed language text spellchecking question)

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Giuseppe wrote: > > you can't have multiple character styles for the same text > Is this really? Depends upon what is meant by "can't have multiple character styles in the same text". I've written documents where I liberally tossed Greek, Hebrew, Latin, Chinese, and Afrikaans together into the

Re: [discuss] Re: Mixed language text spellchecking question

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Nicolas wrote: > - and I may be wrong there, but can you apply multiple character styles to > the same word Each character in a word can have a different character style. A character may only have one character style and one paragraph style, though. > Separating language from styles would perm

Re: [discuss] Re: Mixed language text spellchecking question

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Shoshannah wrote: >should be able to handle mixed language documents transparently, Set the default Western language to English, and default CTL language to Hebrew. I don't remember if different fonts re required. [I use different fonts, purely becuase I think that David looks better than Lucida

Re: [discuss] Re: Mixed language text spellchecking question

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Cono wrote: > No, you just need ONE extra style for each extra language. Read my previous > message. What you recommend in that message works only if the document hs _one_ pragraph style. The moment you need two or more paragraph styles, that hve multi-lingual text in them, you need a chrcter

Re: [discuss] japanese input

2005-10-28 Thread Jonathon Blake
Pble wrote: > 1) I believe it would be relatively simple to add a function that > automatically fills in the This is one of those functions that is much more difficult than it looks. > 2) Japanese companies often use a single or a few kanji..ncased in a circle, Use Draw to create the appropria

[discuss] OOo a11y

2005-10-27 Thread Jonathon Blake
All: This is simply a list of a coupl of things that would be useful to include in OOo, to help with a11y. i) Macro that emulates a Perkins Keyboard. ii) Macro that converts text to Grade 2 Braille; One major issue: This has to be localized for every country. iii) Printer Driver: Convert the d

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread Jonathon Blake
Nicols wrote: > Home users like Chad do not realise the budgets corporations are ready to > extend on standardisation, because even if the sums are pharaonic At times I think Chad does mortgage closings, where the idea of uniform file formats is an alien, and strange thing. xan jonathon -- Doe

Re: [discuss] Re: re: Massachussetts registered voters

2005-10-27 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >I never had a single problem other than fonts transfer files from one to The only time I successfully transfer documents between MSOffice97, MSOffice2K and MSOfficeXP, is when I rewrite the entire 500 page document either from scratch, or transcribing the printout. In every case MSO

Re: [discuss] Feature in Lotus WordPro

2005-10-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Mark wrote: >in essence, an underline function that is only as long as the text. Sounds like you want:" >Paragraph styles >Underlining" Then check the check box "Individual Words". xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Justin wrote: > How about a button for integration with Wikipedia's sister project > http://en.wiktionary.org/ a dictionary wiki which seems a natural fit Once upon a time, a wikionary macro for OOo was available. However, I couldn't find it when I went hunting for it two or so months ago, and

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: >Google does not do those things. That is very wishful thinking on your part. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-

Re: [discuss] Google - no thanks

2005-10-13 Thread Jonathon Blake
Laurent wrote: > i already did it using OOoWikipedia > Well it is not Google completeness, It wouldn't take much to changer the OOoWikipedia macro to a G-OOogle macro. IIRC, all it requires is a simple change of the URL that is called. Off topic question: Are there _any_ search engines that pro

Re: [discuss] Office 12 interview

2005-10-04 Thread Jonathon Blake
Daniel wrote: > Incidentally, he doesn't really enter into a lot of detail about why it > whould be so difficult. He just says "it's very difficult". It is difficult for microsoft, becuase they would have to implement it correctly. And that means that they have to fix all of the bugs that cause

Re: [discuss] Good idea :-)

2005-10-03 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 9/30/05, Piotr Pondel wrote: > Outlook in near future. I think many peaple would like to see it a) OOo is an office suite, not an internet suite. b) Thunderbird is superior to outlook, and is FLOSS; xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? -

Re: [discuss] English GUI (not American)

2005-09-30 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chris wrote: > There does not appear to be a "English English" version of OO, Look for the English (UK) version. I have both OOo 1.1.4 English (UK) and OOo 1.9.130 English (UK) installed on my system. [What I'd really like is English (ZA)] > it would be a major 'selling' point for OO (as it i

Re: [discuss] Re: Beyond 2.0

2005-09-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > To stay current (read *AHEAD* of Microsoft) we need a functional, working, > easy-to-use, standards-compliant, WYSIWYG HTML editor. Upgraading the HTML output to HTML 4.01 + CSS 1.0 would be a good start. > But we could get rid of the useless ones like ` and ~ . The tilde is sign

Re: [discuss] Grammar Checker missing

2005-09-19 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 9/16/05, Mr susserj wrote: > Without a grammar checker similar to WordPerfect or Word it is not useful to > me. Is there any reason why you haven't installed a grammar checker for OOo, since you think one is needed? xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? ---

Re: [discuss] Office Writer

2005-09-19 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 9/19/05, Sweet Coffee wrote: > Are there any add-ons available that will do grammer checking in OOo. Grammar Checking The end user must download and install the grammar checker. An Gramadóir An Gramadóir is a Perl based grammar checker. More information is obtainable from http://borel.slu.

Re: [discuss] Office Writer

2005-09-11 Thread Jonathon Blake
Amy wrote: >it does not recognize numerals in the spell check. User configurable option. >It also does not detect repeated words, punctuation marks The grammar checker usually picks that up. >or extra spaces. User configurable option. > Also, there is not a grammar checker or at least ther

Re: [discuss] grammar

2005-09-11 Thread Jonathon Blake
CP Hennessy wrote: > > open the same document as OOo 1.9.128. > Well I hope that you've open a bug report with a sample document. I haven't had the time to create a non-proprietary document that has the same characteristics. I'll probably run into doing a rewrite of _OOo in Multi-Lingual Environ

Re: [discuss] selling open office

2005-09-11 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 9/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why is this ok? The LPGL does not prohibit commercial distribution. Which means tht anybody who desires to, can sell OOo, at whtever price s/he obtain for it. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards?

Re: [discuss] Text Direction Suggestions & Questions

2005-09-10 Thread Jonathon Blake
Ranger Lacy wrote: > make ANY text or language or font bi-directional. OOo 1.1.3 Use _Draw_ with FontWorks as your text editor. > Boustrophedon capabilities. The current workaround is to setup a L2R and R2L styles. At the end of each line, hit enter, and it _should_ wrap correctly. Adding/d

Re: [discuss] grammar

2005-09-10 Thread Jonathon Blake
On 9/10/05, CPHennessy wrote: > You should find that OOo2.0 will be much faster. You can now download and > test a beta of version 2 from http://openoffice.org With the doucments I work with, OOo 1.1.5 takes about an hour less to open the same document as OOo 1.9.128. I'm still trying to figur

Re: [discuss] Online usage?

2005-09-06 Thread Jonathon Blake
Daniel wrote: > unusual. OpenOffice takes up 268 MB on my system. My OOo 1.1.5 English (UK) directory: 164 MB / 2 181 Files / 133 Folders My OOo 1.1.4 English(UK) directory: 333 MB / 2 316 Files / 128 Folders My OOo 1.1.3-ZA directory: 453 MB / 4 395 Files / 258 Folders My OOo 1.9.125 English(U

Re: [discuss] Open Office Question

2005-08-25 Thread Jonathon Blake
James wrote: > 1. Will Open Office save a .pdf file and/or does it work in conjunction Saves/creates a PDF on your own. No need for acrobat. > called "Solver" that allows and creates various fitting parameters. ">Data >Dataplot" is the function I think youa re looking for. xan jonathon

Re: [discuss] grammar

2005-08-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Amy wrote: > I would like to see a grammar checker in future releases of English Open Download and install Language Tool. You can find it on Sourceforge. >it has no grammar checker Technically accurate. There are three grammar checkers that can be used with OOo. xan jonathon -- Does your Of

Re: [discuss] Re: "To Close for Comfort?"

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
Bruce wrote: > If you're going to use autocomplete successfully, you have to train it. The only way to train it, is to turn it off. Klagelieder Klagovisorna Matteus Matthaeus Matthäus Tit Tite Tito Titu Zec Zech Zecha Zechar Zechari For a couple of examples where autocomplete wants to use the w

Re: [discuss] Re: "To Close for Comfort?"

2005-08-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > I like the automations in OpenOffice.org - especially the autocomplete. I hate autocomplete. I'm guessing that before I turned it off, I was running a minimum of a hundred incorrect words, for every correct word. For consistent spelling, I end up creating a concordance of the doc

Re: [discuss] Re: Peter, and other volunteers, please stop duplicate messages, was: Greetings

2005-07-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Marco wrote: > > You conveniently ignored the critical thing in my message. > which would be, if I may ask? The procmail recipes. Without them, your entire thesis is invalid. With them, it probably is still invalid. xan jonathon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? --

Re: [discuss] Re: Peter, and other volunteers, please stop duplicate messages, was: Greetings

2005-07-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Mrco wrote: > Yes. I am seriously proposing to look, or at least put a request on the web > pages, for somebody who can do it. > I suggested something based on subject and sender, so it would work in > i), iv), v) and vi). You conveniently ignored the critical thing in my message. Post the pro

Re: [discuss] Re: Peter, and other volunteers, please stop duplicate messages, was: Greetings

2005-07-24 Thread Jonathon Blake
Mrco wrote: > No, it's something else, which is complementary to what you are already doing: So it took 50 or so messages to get to this point: > 1) Unsubscribed user posts to list > 2) procmail recognizes that message as coming from unsubscribed user, and > memorizes subject and original unsub

Re: [discuss] Eurasian Native-Lang Groupe

2005-07-21 Thread Jonathon Blake
Peter wrote: > There is no such thing as Eurasian Language Group. It does not exist. a) Would "Variant Cyrillic writing systems group" be meaningful to anybody but grammatologists? It is slightly more accurate, since all of the language groups that are currently part of that project, do, or di

Re: [discuss] Text Color Changing in Writer

2005-07-16 Thread Jonathon Blake
Zachery wrote: > However, I have been unable to make the modified template (i.e. _textRed) > reappear in the Stylist character menu after saving the template, ">File >Templates >Save" >File >Templates >Organize" Find the file you just saved, then select it to be the default template. xan jona

Re: [discuss] 1.15rc v 2 beta

2005-07-14 Thread Jonathon Blake
Andrew wrote: > why is it still being developed with 2 so near completion? a) It is a bug fix of 1.1.4. b) It looks like the 2.0 beta has been knocked back another month or two; c) 1.1.5 was originally scheduled for release in April, or May. [It was also going to be simultaneous with, or after th

Re: [discuss] Re: translation option on OpenOffice 2.0

2005-07-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Lisa wrote: > purchased the software and I have a paper that was written for grad Email it to me,. Do you just want the text in an emai, or a PDF? xan joanthon -- Does your Office Suite conform to ISO Standards? - To unsubscr

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > - you have to install *Java* for the Database to work. Psst., WRONG answer. You can use the database component, without having Java installed. > It seems to me that MSO has more includes than OOo, once you include Seems to me that you didn't read what I wrote. OTOH, that is pa

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Chad wrote: > -Um, so? Outlook is a part of MS Office! It wasn't part of the first version of Office I looked at [Looked at the CD. (Can Microsoft not afford to hire web designer that knows what the phrase "accessible format" means?)] > a part of every single version of MSO available on the m

Re: [discuss] Re: Why I had to switch back to MS Word

2005-07-07 Thread Jonathon Blake
Bruce wrote: > "OpenOffice.org 1.1 gives you everything you'd expect in office software." So what do you expect in an Office Suite: i) Database functionality; ii) Spreadsheet functionality;; iii) Word Processing functionality; iv) Graphics functionality; v) Contact Management functionality; vi)

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