[libreoffice-documentation] base chapter 3 review and proofread

2013-03-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, I have completed the review and proofreading of the Base Guide, chapter 3, Data Input and Removal. It should be located here: http://www.odfauthors.org/libreoffice/english/base-guide/feedback-lo3.4/portal_factory/File/file.2013-03-16.0808251049/edit The filename should be: BG36

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Unable to log in to ODFAuthors?

2013-03-13 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Sigrid, A couple of days ago, you told me I would be getting an email with my new temporary password for my odfauthors account (girvinh). I have yet to receive such an email (and, yes, I have looked in my spam folder). Thanks in advance. Girvin Herr -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to doc

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-25 Thread Girvin R. Herr
f a practice or suggestion than a rule. --Dan On 02/24/2013 06:28 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Steve, Hmmm. I have never tried that. In some instances, it may be a shortcut to the Insert drill-down. Thanks. Girvin Herr Steve Edmonds wrote: Hi. I have used a number of drawings from Draw in my Wr

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-25 Thread Girvin R. Herr
n 23/02/2013 19:37, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I am about to create a figure in Draw for one of the Base Guide documents. I can either create an external Draw file and insert that file into the document, or I can use the embedded (OLE) Draw version and have the figure embedded in the docume

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-24 Thread Girvin R. Herr
and they are embedded in the writer file. Steve On 2013-02-25 11:04, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Peter, Thanks for the suggestion. Your last sentence appears to me to be confused. When I state Draw OLE object, what I mean is: Insert -> Object -> OLE Object -> LibreOffice 3.6 Drawing Thi

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-24 Thread Girvin R. Herr
ust another tool. Use whatever fits one's hand. Girvin Herr -------- *From:* Girvin R. Herr *To:* Peter Schofield *Cc:* Lo documentation *Sent:* Sunday, 24 February 2013, 22:04 *Subject:* Re: [libreof

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-24 Thread Girvin R. Herr
..@gmail.com On 23 Feb 2013, at 20:37, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I am about to create a figure in Draw for one of the Base Guide documents. I can either create an external Draw file and insert that file into the document, or I can use the embedded (OLE) Draw version and have the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I need backups

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
:) *From:* Hazel Russman *To:* Tom Davies *Cc:* Jean Weber ; Girvin R. Herr ; Lo documentation *Sent:* Saturday, 23 February 2013, 15:26 *Subject:* Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I need backups A simpler

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Dan Lewis wrote: On 02/23/2013 02:37 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I am about to create a figure in Draw for one of the Base Guide documents. I can either create an external Draw file and insert that file into the document, or I can use the embedded (OLE) Draw version and have the

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
s from Tom :) *From:* Girvin R. Herr *To:* Lo documentation *Sent:* Saturday, 23 February 2013, 19:37 *Subject:* [libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings Greetings, I am about

[libreoffice-documentation] How to insert or embed drawings

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, I am about to create a figure in Draw for one of the Base Guide documents. I can either create an external Draw file and insert that file into the document, or I can use the embedded (OLE) Draw version and have the figure embedded in the document. The former requires the Draw file

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I need backups

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
tine. Also i tend to find that however long it took first time i can generally do it a lot faster 2nd time around after i lose work. Decisions that were agonised over or researched are taken in moments 2nd time around. Regards from Tom :) ----------

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] I need backups

2013-02-23 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Hazel Russman wrote: A simpler solution is to make a small change (to activate the save icon) immediately after loading and then save the file. Once it has been saved by hand, autosaving no longer does any harm. I can't remember who discovered this but it was notified on this list, and I have n

[libreoffice-documentation] I need backups

2013-02-22 Thread Girvin R. Herr
I configured my system per the instructions in Chapter 2 of the Contributor's Guide, reluctantly including the part about disabling the Autorecovery and backup features. I just lost most of today's work on the Base Guide because LO crashed on me. How hard and fast is the reason for disabling

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Do I need to update the wiki?

2013-02-18 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Dan Lewis wrote: On 02/17/2013 04:03 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, I came across a reference in the Contributor's Guide to changing the wiki when I download a document file in order to reflect that I am reviewing/proofreading that file so that efforts are not duplicated. I

[libreoffice-documentation] Do I need to update the wiki?

2013-02-17 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, I came across a reference in the Contributor's Guide to changing the wiki when I download a document file in order to reflect that I am reviewing/proofreading that file so that efforts are not duplicated. I think this is the wiki that was referred to: https://wiki.documentfoun

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Offer of help

2013-02-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
soon, regarding things like the version being documented and other matters. --Jean On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Greetings, Some time ago, it was suggested I offer to help out with the LibreOffice documentation. I have looked at the documentation guides and I think I ha

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Offer of help

2013-02-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Dan Lewis wrote: On 02/15/2013 02:19 PM, Girvin R. Herr wrote: Want you to help I'm absolutely delighted!!! You are the very person that we have been looking for. I'm look forward to seeing your corrections. I do have a request. When you are reviewing thes

Re: [libreoffice-documentation] Uninstall

2013-02-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Tom, Some of those "stray bits" are DLLs or Dynamic Link Libraries. One of the problems with DLLs is that when the install software attempts to install a DLL it needs, it may find another program may have already installed that DLL. If so, it may opt to not install its version, but use the a

[libreoffice-documentation] Offer of help

2013-02-15 Thread Girvin R. Herr
Greetings, Some time ago, it was suggested I offer to help out with the LibreOffice documentation. I have looked at the documentation guides and I think I have an understanding of how to proceed. My focus is with the Base documentation, since I believe that is the most immature and in most ne