LyX too complex? ... Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-14 Thread Todd Denniston
Fernando Cassia wrote, On 12/23/-28158 02:59 PM: On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Hiisi wrote: From: Fernando Cassia On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Hiisi wrote: If you just want to create quality looking documents and you want it easy try LyX. It's TeX based document processor ROFL!! You

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-14 Thread gilpel
> On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 08:54 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: >> I wished I could find a book/web page with only lists of commands to >> achieve effect X, like I provided here: >> >> https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-September/msg00891.html > > The problem with these sort of recipes,

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-14 Thread gilpel
William Case wrote: > gpelil, I was trying to tell you that there really are several ways to > set up page numbering. I will definitely have to take a closer look to Styles :) This point you made very clear. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.c

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-14 Thread Tim
On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 08:54 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > I wished I could find a book/web page with only lists of commands to > achieve effect X, like I provided here: > > https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-September/msg00891.html The problem with these sort of recipes, quoting

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread William Case
Hi; On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 07:26 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > Tim wrote: > > I was referring to the following message from William Case. that I had > completely misunderstood: > > You can set it up as a page style in Styles and Formats; (...) ; or, add > the page style as part of template

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread gilpel
Craig White wrote: > There used to be many choices for word processing but they have > definitely dwindled. Indeed. And the new universal spirit seems to the good old WP one, the goal being to convince the user that word processing is pure rocket science. There seems to be a huge book and course

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread gilpel
Tim wrote: > I don't know why people sound so surprised at that. Since the default > is not to do that, and the defaults are set by the default template, > making a new default template (one way or another) is the way to change > *your* default new documents setup. It's the same for any word > p

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 13 September 2009 16:49:08 Craig White wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:27 +0930, Tim wrote: > > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 00:56 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > > > The only way to get automatic page numbering on every new document > > > seems indeed to create a template this way > > > > I

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-13 Thread Craig White
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 15:27 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 00:56 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > > The only way to get automatic page numbering on every new document > > seems indeed to create a template this way > > I don't know why people sound so surprised at that. Since the defau

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread Tim
On Sun, 2009-09-13 at 00:56 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > The only way to get automatic page numbering on every new document > seems indeed to create a template this way I don't know why people sound so surprised at that. Since the default is not to do that, and the defaults are set by the de

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread gilpel
Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other > than creating a document or document template The only way to get automatic page numbering on every new document seems indeed to create a template this way: (Note: Translation from french.

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Hiisi wrote: >> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:01:45 -0300 >> From: Fernando Cassia >> Subject: Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice >> To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using >

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread Hiisi
> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 12:01:45 -0300 > From: Fernando Cassia > Subject: Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice > To: "Community assistance, encouragement,       and advice for using >        Fedora." > Message-ID: >        <52733fad0909120801x73ff8e

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread Fernando Cassia
On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 4:03 AM, Hiisi wrote: >> gil...@altern.org wrote: >> Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. >> Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need >> is just elementary. >> >> For now, all I want to do is set automatic page

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-12 Thread Hiisi
> gil...@altern.org wrote: > Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. > Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need > is just elementary. > > For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y > format, e.g.: 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, e

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread William Case
Hi; On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 21:26 -0600, Frank Cox wrote: > On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:15 -0400 > Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other > > than creating a document or document template which you open for each > > new document

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread Frank Cox
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:30:15 -0400 Christopher K. Johnson wrote: > I'm not sure whether there is any way to set this up automatically other > than creating a document or document template which you open for each > new document you start. If you set it up as the default template it will load ev

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread Christopher K. Johnson
gil...@altern.org wrote: Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need is just elementary. For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y format, e.g.: 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, etc., for ev

Re: Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread William Case
On Sat, 2009-09-12 at 03:47 +0500, gil...@altern.org wrote: > Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. > Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need > is just elementary. > > For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/

Automatic page numbering in OpenOffice

2009-09-11 Thread gilpel
Sometimes OpenOffice reminds me of the bad old days of WordPerfect. Everything is so complicated, even though the document formatting I need is just elementary. For now, all I want to do is set automatic page numbering in the x/y format, e.g.: 1/5, 2/5, 3/5, etc., for every new document I create.