Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-18 Thread xliang9550
Sending the proprietary Microsoft OOXML format means surrendering to Microsoft's social inertia, and forcing others to submit to it as well. That LibreOffice supports Microsoft OOXML poorly is not LibreOffice's fault. It is because Microsoft hoards numerous patents on OOXML format and it refu

Re: [Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-18 Thread Caleb Herbert
On 1/18/20 5:48 PM, beh...@protonmail.com wrote: > Alternatively does anyone know how to make LibreOffice more compatible > where the receiving end is Microsoft Word? LibreOffice follows the DOCX definition more strictly than Word does, ironically. Microsoft diverges from its own standard on purp

[Trisquel-users] LibreOffice Alternative

2020-01-18 Thread behmen
Hi everyone I'm doing some translations and need to send with a .docx extension however even though I save by choosing .docx the formatting is messed up and the person I'm sending it to has to delete extra spaces and tabs where there should be none. Alternatively does anyone know how to mak

[Trisquel-users] Re : Will Icecat be kept up to date in Trisquel 9?

2020-01-18 Thread lcerf
Both Trisquel 8 and 9 now have Abrowser 72.0.1, based on the same version of Firefox, the latest.

[Trisquel-users] 3D printing with free software

2020-01-18 Thread jbahn
I would like to experiment with and help my daughter to learn 3D printing. I noticed that on ryf.fsf.org there's the lulzbot printers: https://ryf.fsf.org/categories/3d-printers They are quite expensive so I want to look for something cheaper - perhaps second hand. But, while I can find 3D

[Trisquel-users] Setting ip a server part II (at least)

2020-01-18 Thread jbahn
I have tried a number of times to set up a server. The last time was when I created this thread: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/setting-server I still have not succeeded, which probably mostly say something about my knowledge, skills and capacity for learning! Anyway, I wish to give it anot

Re: [Trisquel-users] Trisquel install over win 8.1

2020-01-18 Thread tr33hugger
Thanks for the help.