Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 13/06/2011 05:34, planas a écrit : It is hard to see, maybe it should be more obvious like a thicker line? Indeed, it has always been and most people I know didn't see it at once. I'd suggest a change to the default color and thickness. I for one set it to red anytime I install OOo/LibO.

Re: [libreoffice-users] How can I make long words stay on their starting line?

2011-06-12 Thread Stephan Zietsman
never punctual wrote: > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I understand how manual > hyphenation works now! >From how you explain it, it looks like you understand, yes. > By the way I tried out Ctrl + Enter, and all it did was move my cursor down > to the next page. I think the key comb

Re: [libreoffice-users] Ldap Setup

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Gordie On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 18:00 -0700, Geo wrote: > Hi > I would like to connect to ldap server over a lan. I find the help section > not very clear. The Database Wizard makes no mention of a ldap connection > and the addressbook setup complains about an sdbc. My version of LibreOffice > 3.3.2

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Barbara On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 20:16 -0500, Barbara Tobias wrote: > From: planas > > > I inserted a few page breaks in document with normal pagination. The > manually inserted breaks have line at the top of the page while pages > breaks due to text length do not. It is easy not to notice

[libreoffice-users] Ldap Setup

2011-06-12 Thread Geo
Hi I would like to connect to ldap server over a lan. I find the help section not very clear. The Database Wizard makes no mention of a ldap connection and the addressbook setup complains about an sdbc. My version of LibreOffice 3.3.2 OOO330m19 (Build:202) tag libreoffice-3.3.2.2, Debian package 1

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Barbara Tobias
From: planas > I inserted a few page breaks in document with normal pagination. The manually inserted breaks have line at the top of the page while pages breaks due to text length do not. It is easy not to notice, in fact I had never realized what the dark line meant until now myself when I was

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress leads to system log out

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Karsten On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 22:32 +0100, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2011-06-12, Karsten Breitig wrote: > > > I've got some issues with LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity). > > > > I have a presentation file here (.odp, used to be .pptx). When I open > > it, the system logs off. This happe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 13/06/11 9:03 AM, Jean-Francois Nifenecker wrote: Le 12/06/2011 22:26, Barbara Tobias a écrit : I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4. This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook for an annual artists tour. It has lots of photos, maps, and such that must

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Eric On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:45 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 6/12/2011 3:08 PM, planas wrote: > > If you trying to each 300 word block its own page one way to get consistent > > formatting across web pages is to use an external CSS sheet with the > > default formatting you want > > > >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress leads to system log out

2011-06-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-12, Karsten Breitig wrote: > I've got some issues with LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity). > > I have a presentation file here (.odp, used to be .pptx). When I open > it, the system logs off. This happens only with this presentation (and > one else), others work fine. The problem

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Barbara, On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 15:40 -0500, Barbara Tobias wrote: > On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 22:34 +0200, elcico2001 एल्चिको wrote: > > > I have tried anchoring pictures to page and to paragraph, but that > > does > > > not seem to affect this problem. What else could I be doing wrong? > > > > > >

[libreoffice-users] Impress leads to system log out

2011-06-12 Thread Karsten Breitig
Hey guys, I've got some issues with LibreOffice 3.3.2 on Ubuntu 11.04 (Unity). I have a presentation file here (.odp, used to be .pptx). When I open it, the system logs off. This happens only with this presentation (and one else), others work fine. The problem can be repeated several times. In

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Barabara, Barbara Tobias wrote (12-06-11 22:26) I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4. I think 3.2.2 is a wrong number... Could it be 3.3.2? This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook for an annual artists tour. It has lots of photos, maps, and such tha

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 12/06/2011 22:26, Barbara Tobias a écrit : I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4. This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook for an annual artists tour. It has lots of photos, maps, and such that must be precisely placed. In the past I have had a little d

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Roxy Robinson
Pretty obvious you used OO on the previous 3 - I wonder if something was left out of/forgotten about in developing LO Options or defaults changed??? The problem I'm having with the merge cell function - no problems in OO, but have problems in LO - is really making me begin to wonder if LO is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Barbara Tobias
On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 22:34 +0200, elcico2001 एल्चिको wrote: > > I have tried anchoring pictures to page and to paragraph, but that > does > > not seem to affect this problem. What else could I be doing wrong? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Barbara > > > > > > > Hello, > Maybe page breaks co

Re: [libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread elcico2001 एल्चिको
Il 12/06/2011 22:26, Barbara Tobias ha scritto: I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4. This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook for an annual artists tour. It has lots of photos, maps, and such that must be precisely placed. In the past I have had a little

[libreoffice-users] Keeping Pictures in Place with Writer

2011-06-12 Thread Barbara Tobias
I am using LibreOffice 3.2.2 and Ubuntu 11.4. This is the fourth year I have been using Writer to create a guidebook for an annual artists tour. It has lots of photos, maps, and such that must be precisely placed. In the past I have had a little difficulty with things not staying put, but this y

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 6/12/2011 3:08 PM, planas wrote: If you trying to each 300 word block its own page one way to get consistent formatting across web pages is to use an external CSS sheet with the default formatting you want The CSS (cascading style sheet) will have the format information. Each web page must

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread planas
Eric On Sun, 2011-06-12 at 09:38 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: > On 6/12/2011 2:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > > 1. The hard part is the 300-word chunks. If you really mean exactly 300 > > words (and not the average writing assumption of the space that 300 > > 5-character words take),

Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2

2011-06-12 Thread Roxy Robinson
Yes, it is weird. I'm doing just exactly what the Help says to do to accomplish this. Both for merging and un-merging. I saw in another posting someone had a problem with their Spellchecker "disappearing". I have had this problem twice since moving from OO to LO. Spellchecker was working and the

Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2

2011-06-12 Thread Roxy Robinson
When I did a previous list, just for my class, I used the merge cells function without any problems whatsoever. That was over a year ago, so that spreadsheet was probably developed using OO, not LO. So, that makes me wonder if there is something lacking, or a bug in LO that is causing this. I st

Re: off-list Re: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2

2011-06-12 Thread Roxy Robinson
When I did a previous list, just for my class, I used the merge cells function without any problems whatsoever. That was over a year ago, so that spreadsheet was probably developed using OO, not LO. So, that makes me wonder if there is something lacking, or a bug in LO that is causing this. I st

Re: [libreoffice-users] Merge cell problem LO3.3.2.2

2011-06-12 Thread Roxy Robinson
I don't know if I did something wrong when I started using Base to get my spreadsheet, or what, but I couldn't do anything with the Table function of Base. The only thing that was available when I first started was the Query function??? The spreadsheet sheet that you have already can be the mai

RE: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
See if you can create a page header that has a Header paragraph style. I know that is strange, but it is technically allowed in the ODF. It may not work, or the Send to HTML may not do anything with it, ... but you never know. - Dennis PS: I always found, except for the lucky case of exporti

RE: [libreoffice-users] helping Users and LibreOffice - proposal

2011-06-12 Thread Dennis E. Hamilton
I use the Microsoft Compatibility Pack with Office 2003, and it works well. I didn't realize they had got that working all the way back to Office 2000 finally. It helps if the folks who produce .docx files using Office 2007 and Office 2010 use what is called compatibility mode so that there

Re: [libreoffice-users] helping Users and LibreOffice - proposal

2011-06-12 Thread Nuno J. Silva
On 2011-06-11, planas wrote: > The wierd part about MSO compatibility is I need both for different > reasons. At work our server MS Server 2003 does not understand any MSO > format after XP/2003 but a group I work has users who insist that > everyone uses MSO200&?2010 even those who have earlier M

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 6/12/2011 10:16 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: This export uses the content to divide it into several files. When you choose "Heading 1" from the drop-down list, you will get one html-file for each chapter. works nicely per chapter but I need per page. If I could stuff something in the header,

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Eric, Eric S. Johansson schrieb: On 6/12/2011 2:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: [..] 3 Then you can experiment with the File | Send> Create HTML Document to see if it will make a set of web pages for you. My experience is that the converter for this is very flaky, but it might work for the

Re: [libreoffice-users] text frame

2011-06-12 Thread e-letter
-- Forwarded message -- From: Mail Delivery Subsystem Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 13:22:27 + Subject: Delivery Status Notification (Failure) To: inp...@gmail.com Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently: us...@libreoffice.org Technical details of permanent fail

Re: [libreoffice-users] specialized HTML generation

2011-06-12 Thread Eric S. Johansson
On 6/12/2011 2:21 AM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: 1. The hard part is the 300-word chunks. If you really mean exactly 300 words (and not the average writing assumption of the space that 300 5-character words take), you need to process the text file in some sort of program that inserts separat

Re: [libreoffice-users] removing hyperlinks

2011-06-12 Thread Joep L. Blom
On 12/06/11 04:17, planas wrote: On Sat, 2011-06-11 at 23:19 +0200, Joep L. Blom wrote: I have a small problem in a master document. Sorry for you problem reaching us, on Thursday or Friday all the email addresses were changed to following from destinat...@global.libreoffice.org. (the link

[libreoffice-users] 2+ dictionary extensions for the same language: which is used?

2011-06-12 Thread Gonzalo HIGUERA DÍAZ
Hi everybody, In my current installation I have more than one extension which provide dictionary services for the same language, Spanish from Spain, es_ES (actually three: the preinstalled “Spanish spelling dictionary” 2008.07.01, the “Diccionario de corrección ortográfica, separación silábica