Re: [discuss] Re: Adding languages to the Tools = Language = For Selection menu

2011-01-12 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Stefan, On 12.01.2011 03:24, Stefan Monnier wrote: Thus if you have per default just listed English and French but like to see Spanish as well, then all you have to do is use Spain at least once! It does not need to be used for spell checking etc., a single word set to Spanish will be

Re: [discuss] Re: Oracle [NOT!] dropping OO.org

2010-10-15 Thread Thomas Lange - Oracle
Hi all, On 15.10.2010 13:13, Thorsten Behrens wrote: Christian Lippka wrote: Because the Novell go-oo people decided not to contribute theier gstreamer implementation to OOo and OOo respected that. Later Kai Ahrens was so brave and did another implementation of gstreamer for OOo. Due to

Re: [discuss] Oracle dropping OO.org and joining the community...

2010-10-13 Thread Thomas Lange - Oracle
Hi, On 11.10.2010 18:33, RA Brown wrote: On Mon Oct 11 2010 09:24:56 GMT-0700 (PDT) Zaphod Feeblejocks wrote: Come on, Oracle, do the decent thing. Release all the code, trademarks, everything to OOo back to the community, currently called LibreOffice. If you do - lots of people will

[discuss] Re: [users] Re: [discuss] Questionnaire for our Research

2010-08-18 Thread Thomas Lange - Oracle
Hi, On 16.08.2010 21:16, Alexandro Colorado wrote: On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 12:21 PM, Nitin Mohan moha...@onid.orst.edu wrote: Hi, This is with reference to the earlier mail sent by me regarding the questionnaire for our research. We are doing a research study on how different projects

Re: [discuss] dictionaries and spellcheck

2009-11-16 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi, J.J. Vastiau wrote: OK, I found the dictionary. What do I do with it? Download the extension (should be named *.oxt), save it and an install it with the extension manager Tools/Extension Manager. Regards, Thomas - To

Re: [discuss] Slow startup, I think I found reason

2009-03-10 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi, Mirce wrote: ... I wonder, why is OO connecting to the internet during every startup ? Machines and applications should do what they are told, so if a user says connect to internet then it should connect to internet. And then OO will startup slow. Which is not good. If a user

Re: [discuss] Erratic spelcheker

2008-07-10 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi Bret, Why is it, that, sometimes the spellchecker works, and, sometimes it doesn't? In those cases usually the problem is that the language attribute of the text to be checked is not correct and thus it does not get spell checked at all. Please select words (the whole of it!) that

Re: [discuss] Question / Suggestion

2008-07-08 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi Tim, Dear OO-Team, today, I stumbled over a tiny problem concerning writing aids: the custom dictionaries. It is not possible to have more than 2000 words in one dictionary. As I share a dictionary containing scientific phrases with my whole group, we have more than 2000 words

Re: [discuss] Re: Question / Suggestion

2008-07-08 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, Russell Butler wrote: Tim Köhler wrote: Dear OO-Team, today, I stumbled over a tiny problem concerning writing aids: the custom dictionaries. It is not possible to have more than 2000 words in one dictionary. As I share a dictionary containing scientific phrases with my

Re: [discuss] Re: Question / Suggestion

2008-07-08 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi Russell, ... Just a note: As of OOo 3.0 the dictionary.lst is gone since it is the reason for possibly loosing dictionary functionality when upgrading OOo. Thomas Thanks for the pointer, Thomas When will that happen, and will there be instructions somewhere as to how to build

Re: [discuss] Question / Suggestion

2008-07-08 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
, Tim On 08.07.2008 09:03, Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg wrote: Hi Tim, Dear OO-Team, today, I stumbled over a tiny problem concerning writing aids: the custom dictionaries. It is not possible to have more than 2000 words in one dictionary. As I share a dictionary

Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-04 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi Robert, Robert Funnell wrote: If I somehow end up with a mix of en-us, en-uk and en-ca (which has happened to me more than once) but also have a style for French quotations, I might want to force all of the English to en-ca without losing my French styles. Or I might have everything

Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi Robert, Robert Funnell wrote: I'd think that A would definitely be preferable. B seems to be more destructive, irreversibly wiping out the effects of carefully defined styles (if I understand correctly). However, I would question whether it's a good idea for a setting which claims

Re: [discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-03 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi John! John P. Baker wrote: How about providing two menu options? The first would apply only to those paragraphs whose style does not specify a hard language attribute. The second would apply to all paragraphs and would replace any hard language attribute that may be present.

[discuss] [Q] [developers need hints]: How should it work??? was [Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-06-02 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all! ^^ As a very late contribution to the discussion I have checked the spec and implementation and there is a way to remove the hard language attributes of the text. According to the spec http://specs.openoffice.org/appwide/linguistic/Set_Language_Attribute_for_Text.odt Using

Re: [discuss] Re: How can I remove the language attribute from text in Writer?

2008-05-13 Thread Thomas Lange - Sun Germany - ham02 - Hamburg
Hi all, Hi Ozma, Royal Ozma of Oz wrote (12-5-2008 14:09) Mathias Bauer wrote: The language attribute is kept separate from all other attributes. In OOo 2.4 you can change it easily using the language status bar control. There is no option to remove non-stylesheet language

Re: [discuss] Math syntax

2006-04-11 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi Unnilenni I'm trying to write a scientific research project. I want to use Dirac's bracket notation (very popular in quantum mechanics) but I can't. There's the operator langle ? mline ? rangle, but I need to write separately | and | . I've looked up in the help files, but i couldn't

Re: [discuss] Math syntax

2006-04-11 Thread Thomas Lange
If you need sth like | a | b | it works like this: langle mline b mline c mline rangle newline left langle mline a mline b mline right rangle Thomas - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands,

Re: [discuss] Re: OpenOffice Math

2005-09-12 Thread Thomas Lange
Hi all, 2. You can type them directly into an equation as in LaTex, except start with % sign instead of \ like %alpha, %beta, etc. And for the uppercase characters you have to use %ALPHA etc. See also the dialog Tools/Catalog they are all listed there. BTW: the names are localized. That is