Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Felmon Davis
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012, Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/6/2012 6:47 PM, Dan wrote: Doug wrote: On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager wrote: Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation outside of LO that supports the theory espo

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/6/2012 6:47 PM, Dan wrote: Doug wrote: On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager wrote: Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation outside of LO that supports the theory espoused? That "register true" is for "adjust

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Doug
On 08/06/2012 10:04 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 03:05, Doug wrote: ROTFL! Do you care to elaborate what have you found so funny? When you said that it would not be of much use here--there are relatively few Americans (or Brits, either, I guess) who read Polish. Absolutely c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Why does bold font in full screen look ugly?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Wu
Please disable the hardware acceleration ( Tools > Options > LibreOffice > View > Graphics output ) to see if it helps. Regards, Michael --- 原始郵件 --- 主旨: [libreoffice-users] Impress: Why does bold font in full screen look ugly? 從: Liang Wang 到: user

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 07/08/2012 at 03:05, Doug wrote: > ROTFL! Do you care to elaborate what have you found so funny? -- Best regards Mirosław Zalewski -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Po

[libreoffice-users] Impress: Why does bold font in full screen look ugly?

2012-08-06 Thread Liang Wang
Impress: Why does bold font in full screen look ugly? Hi everyone, I found an annoying issue with bold fonts in full screen mode. They look normal when I zoom in many times in editing mode but become stretched in full screen mode. They also look normal in font manager or in libreoffice write PS

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Dan
Doug wrote: On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager wrote: Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation outside of LO that supports the theory espoused? That "register true" is for "adjust to baseline" or whatever? Take a

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Doug
On 08/06/2012 08:58 PM, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager wrote: Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation outside of LO that supports the theory espoused? That "register true" is for "adjust to baseline" or whatever? Take any book about

Re: register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 07/08/2012 at 02:40, Andrew Brager wrote: > Without meaning to fan the flames, can you provide another citation > outside of LO that supports the theory espoused? That "register true" is for "adjust to baseline" or whatever? Take any book about typography. I can cite at least three differen

register true origins (was Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles)

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/6/2012 4:53 PM, Dan wrote: On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature "Register true". Kind regards Regina anne-ology wrote:

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread Dan
On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature "Register true". Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what "Register true" was for, th

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread anne-ology
newspapers were pre-computers therefore pre-LO ;-) On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Dan wrote: anne-ology wrote: > >> Dan, you've been mis-informed re. newspapers. >> > > Are you sure?: http://help.libreoffice.org/** > Writer/Printing_Register-true

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread anne-ology
Andrew, you're referring to post-computers ;-) On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 8:13 AM, Dan wrote: > >> Andrew Brager wrote: >> >>> On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: >>> Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by usi

Re: [libreoffice-users] "insufficient user rights" if I change the filename

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Barker
At 14:56 06/08/2012 -0500, Anne Noname wrote: Brian, that may be how your computer operates; that may be how other computers operate, but each of the computers I've had - including those I've seen of others - operates the way I so stated ;-) Good-oh! It follows, then, that I - along with mil

[libreoffice-users] RE: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom
Hi :) Is it possible to upload the file to Nabble? If you reply to any of the messages then just above the bit where you are supposed to type your message there are buttons. Click on the "More" button and the top option should be "upload file". It put s a clickable link into the message so you

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread Dan
anne-ology wrote: Dan, you've been mis-informed re. newspapers. Are you sure?: http://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Printing_Register-true --Dan On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines ar

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
On 8/2/2012 8:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the feature "Register true". Kind regards Regina I have in fact wondered what "Register true" was for, thanks for that info

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread anne-ology
Dan, you've been mis-informed re. newspapers. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 10:13 AM, Dan wrote: Andrew Brager wrote: > >> On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: >> >>> >>> Aligning baselines are not done by inserting a line, but by using the >>> feature "Register >>> true". >>> >>> Kind

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Steve Edmonds
On 2012-08-07 08:22, carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: I want to get rid of the white lines which are between the paragraphs in a document. In Windows Office I do it this way: I find and replace paragrah ends and that works, but I can't find the way to do that in Libre Office. I tried to do it your w

Re: [libreoffice-users] inserting (exactly) a line before a paragraph using styles

2012-08-06 Thread anne-ology
Andrew, I so agree; it's so frustrating trying to remember the inane naming of some things; and let's abolish the use of double entendre acronyms as well. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 9:56 AM, Andrew Brager wrote: On 8/2/2012 6:17 AM, Regina Henschel wrote: > >> >> Aligning baselin

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Andrew Brager
First make sure the "regular expressions" box is checked (ticked as you Europeans say). Then try the previously mentioned suggestion by Andreas. If that still doesn't work, try and Use [:cntrl:] as your search string. On 8/6/2012 1:22 PM, carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: I want to get rid of

[libreoffice-users] RE: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Säger
http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n3999573/replace_para.png http://www.mediafire.com/?rr03nrkrgj47t9j -- View this message in context: http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/LibreOffice-Stay-on-Top-property-tp3999136p3999573.html Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -

RE: [libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread carlamarion
I want to get rid of the white lines which are between the paragraphs in a document. In Windows Office I do it this way: I find and replace paragrah ends and that works, but I can't find the way to do that in Libre Office. I tried to do it your way, but it doesn't seem to work for me. Carla

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread carlamarion
Yes thank you, I found the keys, but I tried to eliminate the white lines using them and the way I did it did not work. I tried to type ^$^$ and replace it with ^$, but it gave an error. Carla -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Verzonden: maandag 6

Re: [libreoffice-users] "insufficient user rights" if I change the filename

2012-08-06 Thread anne-ology
Brian, that may be how your computer operates; that may be how other computers operate, but each of the computers I've had - including those I've seen of others - operates the way I so stated ;-) On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 9:33 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 08:09 01/08/2012 -0500, Anne Noname

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Dan
carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: Yes, you are right! How do you know how to type the invisible marks in LibreOffice? Carla Things like this are done with "regular expressions". Help has a list of regular expressions that you can use. --Dan -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Mirosław

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you have already found the keys you need?  The ^ mark is a shift 6 on UK keyboards, i think the same on US ones and no idea on others.  On a UK keyboard the $ is on the 4.  If you can't find them they might be in "Special Characters"?  Is that on the insert menu? Regards from Tom

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Because he is a genius and has done a lot of exploring.  There is some documentation and it's possible to google-search a lot of things but experience and genius trumps all.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 6/8/12, carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: From: carlamar...@xmsnet.nl Subject: RE

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc Pivot Table format preservation

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.08.2012 13:06, Zappaz wrote: Andreas Säger wrote The number formats are taken from the source cells. Anything else can be set in the styles that are generated for the pivot tables. Hi Andreas, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately the formatting of the cells in question does not carr

[libreoffice-users] Re: Calc Pivot Table format preservation

2012-08-06 Thread Zappaz
Andreas Säger wrote > > The number formats are taken from the source cells. Anything else can be > set in the styles that are generated for the pivot tables. > Hi Andreas, thanks for your reply. Unfortunately the formatting of the cells in question does not carry forward to the pivot table

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread carlamarion
Yes, you are right! How do you know how to type the invisible marks in Libre Office? Carla -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Mirosław Zalewski [mailto:mini...@poczta.onet.pl] Verzonden: maandag 6 augustus 2012 12:31 Aan: users@global.libreoffice.org Onderwerp: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: par

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread carlamarion
I am sorry but I don't know how to type ^$^$! Can you telle me? And the answer you gave is exactly what I want! Thank you, Carla -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: Tom Davies [mailto:tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk] Verzonden: maandag 6 augustus 2012 11:43 Aan: users@global.libreoffice.org Onderwerp

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Hmm, is backing up a bad idea? There are some people here that never make mistakes but it's unlikely that will always be true for all of them.  Regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 6/8/12, Andreas Säger wrote: From: Andreas Säger Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks To: users

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Mirosław Zalewski
On 06/08/2012 at 11:43, Tom Davies wrote: > I think Andreas might have meant replace ^$^$ > with > ^$ > to reduce all the doubles with a single rather than to remove all paragraph > marks. That's how things works in MS Office. In LibreOffice we actually have regular expressions (they are quite

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Brian Barker
At 10:43 06/08/2012 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: Am 06.08.2012 08:43, Carla Marion wrote: I want to replace two paragraph endings punctuation marks by one, because I want to replace white lines. How do I do that? I think Andreas might have meant replace ^$^$ with ^$ to reduce all the doubles with

[libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.08.2012 11:43, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Of course make a back-up (just a normal copy) of your file before taking our advice. I think Andreas might have meant replace ^$^$ Contrary to you, I know very well what I mean and I use test what I suggest. I bet, you don't even have LibreOffice i

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Of course make a back-up (just a normal copy) of your file before taking our advice.  I think Andreas might have meant replace ^$^$ with ^$ to reduce all the doubles with a single rather than to remove all paragraph marks. Regards from Tom :)  --- On Mon, 6/8/12, Andreas Säger wrote:

[libreoffice-users] Re: paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Andreas Säger
Am 06.08.2012 08:43, carlamar...@xmsnet.nl wrote: I want to replace two paragrah endings punctuation marks by one, because I want to replace white lines. How do I do that? Carla -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 12759 of my spam emails to date. Get the free

Re: [libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Errr, delete one of the pair?  My guess is that it is not so simple as you make it sound tho.  Is it something to do with paragraph styles?  Note that if a normal enter creates an extra wide gap then try Shift Enter to see if that is closer to what you want.  Note that Ctrl Enter creates

[libreoffice-users] paragraph marks

2012-08-06 Thread carlamarion
I want to replace two paragrah endings punctuation marks by one, because I want to replace white lines. How do I do that? Carla -- I am using the free version of SPAMfighter. SPAMfighter has removed 12759 of my spam emails to date. Get the free SPAMfighter here: http://www.spamfighter.com/len Do