[libreoffice-users] Re: record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 20/12/2012 00:19, Dennis E. Hamilton a écrit : Hi Dennis, This requirement seems to emerge from users in public administration, somewhat akin to the use in law firms. I can certainly second the law firm requirement, and as a lawyer that also has to work with French public

[libreoffice-users] Re: Referring to an input list variable

2012-12-20 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 19/12/2012 20:24, Michael Nachtigal a écrit : Hi Michael, I'm trying to create a form that does two (main) things: Lets the user select one of two options, and depending on which option is selected, certain sections of the form will appear or disappear (be hidden). I originally tried to

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base scenario

2012-12-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 18/12/12 12:04, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Hi Ian, On my Main Membership Form I have added a button to bring-up the eMail SubForm. (I have this part working!) But what I see as the best way to do the last step is to add a ListBox named Find Member to the SubForm and this will read from a

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :)  That is the way we do our newsletter at work.  I use LO to pull together articles written by various different people using different programs (sadly mostly just different versions of MSO).  When we used Word for our newsletter it took ages to sort out all the strange and different

[libreoffice-users] huge print jobs for MS Publisher Imagesetter printer

2012-12-20 Thread Anna Martynova
Hello. I noticed a strange thing in Windows version of Libre Office. When I print to printer that is configured with driver MS Publisher Imagesetter, sometimes print files are really huge. For testing purpose I used Print to file option. For example I attached a 13 kilobyte odt file that turns

Re: [libreoffice-users] huge print jobs for MS Publisher Imagesetter printer

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I thought it was just me not understanding printers and having set-up ours badly in GnuLinux but i might have had a similar issue with a Ricoh photocopier.  My company paid 'an expert' for about 2 hours on 2 separate occasions to set-up the Ricoh for Windows.  So, i figured it was just me

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice no longer works with Windows 1252 encoding ?

2012-12-20 Thread Fernand Vanrie
Maybe not the right forum ? but is this new encoding behaviour intentional or a issue ? since 3.6.3 LO no longer shows correctly non-standard-ascii characters with text imported from a database using Windows 1252 encoding(during the import), UTF-8 encoding now works fine but gives problems when

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Base scenario

2012-12-20 Thread Ian Whitfield
On 12/20/2012 01:52 PM, Alexander Thurgood wrote: What do you mean exactly by inserted into the Subform ? Your e-mail subform just contains e-mails, or does it hold something else ? I imagine that there is a foreign key reference to the member in the e-mail table ? I'm a bit confused about

[libreoffice-users] LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Just in case anyone here is not on the announce list i just thought you might like to know that LO runs on a machine that is about as small as the smallest mobile phones, possibly even smaller.  Regards from Tom :)   From: Italo Vignoli

Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Thanks :)  It is this sort of improving co-operation between different products that i really like about OpenSource.  Imo It beats having 1 massively bloated program with tons of features that almost no-one ever uses and that ends up with those features creating problems or

[libreoffice-users] Re: Base scenario

2012-12-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 20/12/12 14:46, Ian Whitfield a écrit : Thanks for the feed-back Alex - appreciated!! OK - I have two Tables (Members and eMails). The Main Form brings up the Members Table with a button to pop-up a sub-Form with eMails that the Member has sent or I have sent to him/her. (This part I

Re: [libreoffice-users] typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread Dan Lewis
On 12/19/2012 11:18 PM, Brian Barker wrote: At 00:14 20/12/2012 +0800, Nobody Noname wrote: ... there is a thing that, if we cannot strictly to define as a BUG, is, at least, a defect regarding the right typography. I mean the behavior of footnotes versus the text body contained in

Re: [libreoffice-users] huge print jobs for MS Publisher Imagesetter printer

2012-12-20 Thread Jay Lozier
On 12/20/2012 08:12 AM, Anna Martynova wrote: Hello. I noticed a strange thing in Windows version of Libre Office. When I print to printer that is configured with driver MS Publisher Imagesetter, sometimes print files are really huge. For testing purpose I used Print to file option. For example

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread Jay Lozier
On 12/20/2012 02:49 AM, e-letter wrote: On 19/12/2012, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: I have never seen anyone use this feature in MSO (or LO). IMHO most people find the it confusing or annoying. What seemed to work best for most collaborative documents was to have one person be

Re: [libreoffice-users] LibreOffice runs on the Raspberry Pi, with the right license

2012-12-20 Thread M Henri Day
2012/12/20 Tom Davies tomdavie...@yahoo.co.uk Hi :) Just in case anyone here is not on the announce list i just thought you might like to know that LO runs on a machine that is about as small as the smallest mobile phones, possibly even smaller. Regards from Tom :) Nice Tom - thanks for

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff)

2012-12-20 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I take it you have tried all the different ways, such as File - Close File - Exit and the red cross in the corner.  They should all work but if one isn't the others might help someone identify what is going wrong.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Chris

[libreoffice-users] Re: typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread siren
On 20/12/12 Dan Lewis wrote: I thought I had seen something about this some time ago either on this mailing list of the A00 mailing list. The topic was Register true. [...] unfortunately, *register true* does not work in this case and can't help to preserve the right alignement of footnotes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Libre Office Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff)

2012-12-20 Thread Chris Heath
Thanks for the reply, Tom. Yes, I have tried all of those and, if I have a database loaded, nothing happens and the only way I can close Libre is to use Windows Task Manager. I have now tested both Writer and Calc with existing files and they both close normally whichever route I use. For

[libreoffice-users] Re: Libre Office Version 3.6.4.3 (Build ID: 2ef5aff)

2012-12-20 Thread Alexander Thurgood
Le 19/12/12 21:29, Chris Heath a écrit : Hi Chris, When I load Libre Base with an existing database I can edit and save the database but Libre will not close without forcing it using Windows Task Manager. No data is lost but Libre will not close down properly. This problem does not

[libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

2012-12-20 Thread lordmax tdf
Hi all I'm on libreoffice 3.6 italian version I'm working on many ebook in epub format. Fortunately libreoffice has a great extension, writer2epub, who's wonderful My problem is that original files (word exported by indesign) are a mess with styles, fonts, etc Really a chaos. I need some way

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

2012-12-20 Thread VA
This may not be much help, but when I have been faced with a converted file that was such a formatting mess, I would just save it as a plain text file and format from scratch, creating and applying the specific Styles I wanted. There are drawbacks to this, as you will lose some of your content,

Re: [libreoffice-users] huge print jobs for MS Publisher Imagesetter printer

2012-12-20 Thread webmaster-Kracked_P_P
On 12/20/2012 09:34 AM, Jay Lozier wrote: On 12/20/2012 08:12 AM, Anna Martynova wrote: Hello. I noticed a strange thing in Windows version of Libre Office. When I print to printer that is configured with driver MS Publisher Imagesetter, sometimes print files are really huge. For testing

Re: [libreoffice-users] Referring to an input list variable

2012-12-20 Thread anne-ology
One of these programs might help - http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-web-form-filler-password-manager.htm On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 1:24 PM, Michael Nachtigal mnach...@mail.usf.eduwrote: Hi, there, everyone! I'd appreciate anyone replying who can help me with the following task.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Referring to an input list variable

2012-12-20 Thread anne-ology
One of these programs might help - http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-web-form-filler-password-manager.htm free for the individual user; rated by actual users; This site checks programs in Msft as well as other OS ... promoting those which keep

[libreoffice-users] [Calc] Data sorting

2012-12-20 Thread gordom
Hallo everyone. Let say I have a list of my customers. Each raw consist of his/her name and the postal address (separate columns). The address is a mixture of letters and numbers. Now I would like to sort this list according to customers lactation. As the result I get something like this

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] Data sorting

2012-12-20 Thread Doug
On 12/20/2012 03:57 PM, gordom wrote: Hallo everyone. Let say I have a list of my customers. Each raw consist of his/her name and the postal address (separate columns). The address is a mixture of letters and numbers. Now I would like to sort this list according to customers lactation. As

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] Data sorting

2012-12-20 Thread Brian Barker
At 21:57 20/12/2012 +0100, Gordom Noname wrote: Let say I have a list of my customers. Each raw consist of his/her name and the postal address (separate columns). The address is a mixture of letters and numbers. Now I would like to sort this list according to customers [location]. As the

Re: [libreoffice-users] [Calc] Data sorting

2012-12-20 Thread gordom
W dniu 2012-12-20 22:32, Doug pisze: However, lactation refers to giving milk! (latin, lac = milk.) What you need is location. (Latin locus = place.) Well I'm a little bit embarrassed :-). I know what a lactation term mean. It was just a typing error. Regards, gordom -- For unsubscribe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Fwd: Printing Labels From Google Address Book

2012-12-20 Thread Keith Bates
Thanks, Gabriele, for that suggestion. I will look into it. Keith On 19/12/12 22:30, Gabriele Ponzo wrote: The first thing it comes to my mind is to export from Google in CSV format, and then re-open it in Calc. From there You should be able to easily convert it into a LO DB. Regards. ---

[libreoffice-users] Re: typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread NoOp
On 12/19/2012 08:16 AM, siren wrote: in these months Libreoffice gained new useful features and team has fixed many long-time-unsolved bugs but there is a thing that, if we cannot strictly to define as a BUG, is, at least, a defect regarding the right typography I mean the behavior of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Styles and regular expression in libreoffice

2012-12-20 Thread anne-ology
When I do this, nothing is lost except the formatting ... merely 'select all' - copy - paste to notepad - all the text will be there; just re-format everything and place back in line ;-) On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, VA cuyfa...@hotmail.com wrote: This may not be much

[libreoffice-users] bugzilla report emails are including HTML

2012-12-20 Thread NoOp
No response on the discuss list, so I'll try here. Why are the emailed bug reports also including HTML? Example: From: bugzilla-dae...@freedesktop.org To: ... Subject: [Bug 57873] mork (Thunderbird / Icedove / Seamonkey / ...) multi address books multi profile support Date: Thu, 13 Dec

[libreoffice-users] Re: typographic freaks: footnotes not vertically aligned to last line of body text in following page (as in good typographic style)

2012-12-20 Thread NoOp
On 12/20/2012 12:27 AM, siren wrote: On 20/12/12 Dan Lewis wrote: I thought I had seen something about this some time ago either on this mailing list of the A00 mailing list. The topic was Register true. [...] unfortunately, *register true* does not work in this case and can't help to

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread Robert Funnell
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Would an acceptable work-around be to send 2 versions of the document?  The old and the new? In 'most' (?) cases people would hopefully already have the old version, or an even older one.  Then hopefully the Compare Documents feature in the

[libreoffice-users] Writer - Export Doc to Bitmap Graphic

2012-12-20 Thread precutcolours
Can Writer 3.6.4.3 export a doc to png or jpeg bitmap? It can export PDF and HTML, I know, but we need bitmaps. Print to file makes a PDF for me (Linux). Maybe print-to-file can be jiggered? The only way I know is tedious labor requiring an external app! It should not be so hard: 1. Set

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Export Doc to Bitmap Graphic

2012-12-20 Thread Jay Lozier
On 12/20/2012 10:13 PM, precutcolo...@mailcan.com wrote: Can Writer 3.6.4.3 export a doc to png or jpeg bitmap? It can export PDF and HTML, I know, but we need bitmaps. Print to file makes a PDF for me (Linux). Maybe print-to-file can be jiggered? The only way I know is tedious labor requiring

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread e-letter
On 20/12/2012, Jay Lozier jsloz...@gmail.com wrote: If I am writing code I almost certainly would not use LO but either an IDE or an enhanced text editor. The formating I need is to highlight syntax and possible syntactical errors as I enter the code. Understood, but the point being made is

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread e-letter
On 19/12/2012, NoOp gl...@sbcglobal.net wrote: On 12/19/2012 12:26 AM, e-letter wrote: Readers, Have done a bug report on both LO and AOO, about the 'changes' feature of the word processor. (It's excellent that there are multiple ... And the link to that bug report is... ? For LO (RSS

Re: [libreoffice-users] record changes weakness compared to m$

2012-12-20 Thread e-letter
On 20/12/2012, Dennis E. Hamilton dennis.hamil...@acm.org wrote: I trust there's no surprise that the OASIS Standard ODF documents are developed and maintained as ODF documents. Tracked changes are critical to the work of the ODF TC and the review processes that the work goes through. In

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer - Export Doc to Bitmap Graphic

2012-12-20 Thread precutcolours
I am not aware of any word processing program that directly exports to a bitmap file. I am aware of several, but let Writer leapfrog the herd anyway. Every app in the LibreOffice suite should do it, AFAIAC. MS Word does it. If you're using Office 2003 you can print to the Microsoft Document