Hi :)
I have cm in the ruler but seldom take much notice of what it's in. I just
shift tab-stops and things until they look about right rather than having a
strictly regimented thing. Same if i'm adjusting margins. I just shift it
until it looks about right.
Regards from
Tom :)
>
I use inches, but I have used "cm" when I needed to create a drawing
that used a "scale" of say 1 cm per foot or some other thing that was
large and needed to fit on a letter size paper, like a building 's
network layout to scale. Try making a building the size of a football
field [American-
> How about keeping this thread about the brochure issues and not the pros
and cons of Metric and Imperial [English] measurements.
>
> I started it, and if people want to go on with the pros/cons, maybe you
can start a new thread in the discuss list.
+100
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On 02/21/2013 05:58 PM, John Talbut wrote:
On 21/02/13 19:07, Paddy Landau wrote:
jowyta wrote
Webdings is a M$ font, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings
and is not Unicode.
Yes, the font is not Unicode; the font is merely the way to display a
character. The character is Ò (Unicode D2
On 02/21/2013 02:47 PM, James Knott wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40" or precisely 39.37".
BTW, the official definition of a foot is now 30.48 cm.
How about keeping this thread about the brochure issues and not the pro
Why do you transmit such FUD without doing some research? Carter's 1975
initiative, purely voluntary act, was a failure. Reagan signed the Omnibus
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, which promised a more effective
program for metrification. However, we Americans are a stubborn bunch, and
we ref
Let me shift gears slightly.
What measurement unit do y'all use in your Writer rulers and margin/spacing
settings. I've set mine to use Picas, which is a traditional unit of
measurement for typesetting. It's equal to 1/6 inch and provides for very
tight control of a document.
Do others use P
Mirosław
On 21/02/13 18:01, you wrote:
Forget about built-in bibliography feature. It is useless. Even MS
Word bibliography feature, far more sophisticated than Writer's one,
is considered unusable by academic writers that I know.
First of all, it is not useless, I am using it.
Secondly, if
On 21/02/13 19:07, Paddy Landau wrote:
jowyta wrote
Webdings is a M$ font, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings
and is not Unicode.
Yes, the font is not Unicode; the font is merely the way to display a
character. The character is Ò (Unicode D2), but the Webdings font displays
it as an a
On 2013-02-21 1:54 PM, James Knott wrote:
The longer the wait, the greater the long term cost of remaining with an
obsolete system. Regardless, my opinion of Reagan stands. He
demonstrated similar behavior on other issues too. He was an old geezer
who liked things the way they were, progress b
On 02/21/2013 03:00 PM, Rev. Nick Sharp wrote:
I have a spreadsheet to record financial transactions, and to save typing,
I maintain a list of common transactions which can be selected in certain
cells by a drop down box. I populate the list from a cell range in another
sheet.
When I add new tra
Children throughout the world can do it. Even you could! You'll
never do it until you determine to do so; the only problem is that
you haven't yet tried.
You're absolutely right, I haven't tried, because I've had no reason to. My
system has worked for me (and my fellow Americans) for my entir
On 02/21/2013 12:30 PM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote:
I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the
operating
system, or at least some of the fonts.
I'll explain my problem.
If I have a look at Character Map to find a character
Ah, thank you both againhopefully this is the last time ;)
Best,
Joel
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Alan Boba wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Joel Madero
> wrote:
>
> > What I have:
> >
> > A|B
> > comment|regression check
> > regression|
> > regression,BSA,i10n|
> > BLANK|
On 02/21/2013 01:38 PM, p...@fuery.com wrote:
A headless conversion gets as far as "convert
/home/paul/Desktop/test_crash/crashy_pleading.doc ->
/home/paul/Desktop/test_crash/crashy_pleading.docx using Office Open XML
Text", with soffice hanging in the background and using lots of memory and
100%
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Joel Madero wrote:
> What I have:
>
> A|B
> comment|regression check
> regression|
> regression,BSA,i10n|
> BLANK|
> BLANK|
> regression|
> regression,bibisected|
> BSA|
> BSA|
> cleanup0407|
>
> If that's not clear those are A1:B10, where | splits A and B columns
Brian Barker wrote:
Or more closely, 40" or precisely 39.37".
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision.
You mean you can't eyeball 39.37 cm? ;-)
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I have a spreadsheet to record financial transactions, and to save typing,
I maintain a list of common transactions which can be selected in certain
cells by a drop down box. I populate the list from a cell range in another
sheet.
When I add new transactions to the list, and try to redefine the Ce
I will submit the bug report and let you know the number
>>> On 2/20/2013 at 12:14 PM, Alexander Thurgood
wrote:
Le 20/02/13 16:18, Karen DInse a écrit :
Hi Karen,
> Unless someone has another idea, we will create an application that
will
> open the template from the network location. It's an
At 14:47 21/02/2013 -0500, James Knott wrote:
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40" or precisely 39.37".
Sorry, but you have delusions of precision. The claim I was
commenting on was that *estimating* (not my word) a yard was eas
Hi :)
It does take time to get used to it. We should really focus on helping people
that want to migrate to LibreOffice and worry about the rest later (Or never).
lol (yes i know i was being hypocritical there and it has been fun)
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> F
Brian Barker wrote:
(And anyway, if you are estimating, a metre *is* a yard!)
Or more closely, 40" or precisely 39.37".
BTW, the official definition of a foot is now 30.48 cm.
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Le 21/02/2013 20:10, Dan Lewis a écrit :
> I ran into a problem: it would not install the build. Here are the
> error messages that I found at the end of the make dev-install:
>
> ERROR: ERROR: Missing files at
> /home/dan/Downloads/LO-Build/libo/solenv/bin/modules/installer/scriptitems.pm
At 14:20 21/02/2013 -0500, Virgil Arrington wrote:
But, I think the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just
couldn't get the handle of visualizing and conceiving the actual
size of things in metric units. I can visualize and
estimate a foot, a yard, even a mile. I have a harder time
esti
Virgil Arrington wrote:
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the
metric system in America. At the time, it made a lot of sense to me
simply because everything metric is in multiples of 10. But, I think
the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just couldn't get the
-Original Message-
From: Virgil Arrington
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2013 2:20 PM
To: James Knott
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4
sizes
I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the metric
system in America. At the ti
Hi :)
The problem is not a technical one but a people one. If you are the one doing
the folding then the guides help but if it's someone else then there is a good
chance they really don't give a stuff how bad it looks. In which case the
lines wont help and may even add to the shoddy appearance
Hi :)
Wow!! Thanks for that! Seems that Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer
Maurice Quintal and the rest of the crew and all were totally heroic in
managing a landing with less than minimal gauges and less than basic
functionality with only minimal bumps and scratches to show for it. [ti
Ian,
Which version of MySQL are you using?
Girvin Herr
Ian Whitfield wrote:
On 21/02/13 13:21, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>From the console/command line, try to connect as the user ian that
you just created : mysql -u ianw -p
Can you connect to mysql as user ianw from the command line ?
Yes Alex
On 02/21/2013 01:10 PM, Alex Thurgood wrote:
Le 21/02/2013 13:41, Dan Lewis a écrit :
Hi Dan,
What I am going to do is run make again. This time I will use the
following so I have a log of the process: |
make 2>&1 | tee build.log
You have a successful LO build, congratulations.
You
At 10:43 21/02/2013 -0800, Joel Madero wrote:
I've asked this before but can't track down the thread so here it
goes again, the previous solution did not work (thought it had).
What I have:
A|B
comment|regression check
regression|
regression,BSA,i10n|
BLANK|
BLANK|
regression|
regression,bibis
jowyta wrote
> Webdings is a M$ font, see:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings
> and is not Unicode.
Yes, the font is not Unicode; the font is merely the way to display a
character. The character is Ò (Unicode D2), but the Webdings font displays
it as an aeroplane rather than as a capital O w
On 02/21/2013 12:32 PM, steveedmonds wrote:
They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar.
Tanstaafl wrote:
Opinions are...
Reagan was a "stick in the mud" conservative who didn't want change.
Economics would have meant moving to it, to keep up with the rest of
the world.
Economics meant it would have cost the govt a TON of money to change
over.
Arguments can be made for LONG-te
Tom Davies wrote:
Hi:)
I thought the plane one was due to switching to using Windows which ran
auto-updates in mid-flight and then forced a reboot (switching off and then
switching on again). (ie an urban myth)
Regards from
Tom:)
Read up on the "Gimli Glider". It actually happened.
http
On 2013-02-21 12:41 PM, James Knott wrote:
Economics had nothing to do with it.
Opinions are...
Reagan was a "stick in the mud" conservative who didn't want change.
Economics would have meant moving to it, to keep up with the rest of
the world.
Economics meant it would have cost the govt
Hi All,
I've asked this before but can't track down the thread so here it goes
again, the previous solution did not work (thought it had).
What I have:
A|B
comment|regression check
regression|
regression,BSA,i10n|
BLANK|
BLANK|
regression|
regression,bibisected|
BSA|
BSA|
cleanup0407|
If that's
Hi :)
I thought the plane one was due to switching to using Windows which ran
auto-updates in mid-flight and then forced a reboot (switching off and then
switching on again). (ie an urban myth)
Regards from
Tom :)
>
> From: James Knott
>To: LibreOffice
>
A headless conversion gets as far as "convert
/home/paul/Desktop/test_crash/crashy_pleading.doc ->
/home/paul/Desktop/test_crash/crashy_pleading.docx using Office Open XML
Text", with soffice hanging in the background and using lots of memory and
100% cpu.
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:33 PM, Jay Loz
I'm dealing with a bunch of archived, existing .doc files, rather than
attempting to create new ones, so re-saving each one as an .odt isn't ideal.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Tom [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]
wrote:
> Hi :)
> The ideal way to store documents is with OpenDocument F
At 11:48 21/02/2013 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote:
... when it becomes cheaper to make a printer which will print A4
[...] and the demand is high enough, printers will rather quickly
change to using A4 as the standard size.
Don't you realise that US companies already manufacture A4 printers
(or have
At 10:59 21/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
... if we taught our kids from the early ages to use metric ...
... business use letter size paper, letter size storage, letter size
presentation devices to hold their letter size paper, ...
All those things that are based on the letter size paper
Tom Davies wrote:
Even NASA use feet and inches.
You may recall a Mars mission that failed as it approached Mars due to
unit conversion error. There was also an Air Canada plane that ran out
of fuel mid flight, again due to conversion error.
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Hi :)
Going to the moon by foot sounds a tad tricksy. So, sometimes base 12,
sometimes base 20, sometimes base 8 (i think?) and sometimes base (some
horribly high number). I wonder if adult numeracy rates would improve if they
just stuck with base 10 for everything. Not sure it worked here tb
Le 21/02/2013 13:41, Dan Lewis a écrit :
Hi Dan,
>
> What I am going to do is run make again. This time I will use the
> following so I have a log of the process: |
> make 2>&1 | tee build.log
You have a successful LO build, congratulations.
You can now setup the build as a developer
On 21/02/2013 at 19:01, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> Take a look at Zotero, Mendeley and Citavi, which integrate with
> LibreOffice and are cross-platform solutions.
Correction: Citavi is not cross-platform. Zotero and Mendeley are.
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Hi :)
Even NASA use feet and inches. How many feet left to dock. Even their plans
to go to the moon go by feet. I wonder if half the computers they use are
purely to convert between feet and miles and another half to convert to the
metric systems used by everyone else they co-ordinate with.
John
Forget about built-in bibliography feature. It is useless.
Even MS Word bibliography feature, far more sophisticated than Writer's one,
is considered unusable by academic writers that I know.
Take a look at Zotero, Mendeley and Citavi, which integrate with LibreOffice
and
are cross-platfo
Hi :)
>From my experiences of office workers i would definitely avoid a line to guide
>folding. They will miss it. Whether on purpose or by accident they will find
>ways to avoid the line and probably in a different way for each leaflet.
Regards from
Tom :)
>___
Hello,
I am finding my way around using the bibliography facility in writer and
I am coming across one or two issues. Here is one.
In the bibliography index/table it is necessary to have a “Type”
allocated to each entry in order that the correct format can be applied
for the entry in the bib
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move
to it.
Economicsis the key. We do have most things in th
On 02/21/2013 12:11 PM, James Knott wrote:
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move
to it.
Economicsis the key. We do have most things in the grocery store
listing both
They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar.
The margin of 0.4 inches work well for t
On 02/21/2013 12:01 PM, Paddy Landau wrote:
I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating
system, or at least some of the fonts.
I'll explain my problem.
If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say
it is an aeroplane), I can find
Hi Paddy
Webdings is a M$ font, see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webdings
and is not Unicode.
If you use Unicode characters, e.g. U+2708 for an aeroplane (✈) it
should render consistently, substituting a character from a font that
has it if the current font does not (if you have a suitable f
webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
The USA had a movement towards Metric, but it failed big-time.
It failed because Ronald Regan canceled Jimmy Carter's plans to move to it.
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I am wondering if Libre Office has a separate set of fonts from the operating
system, or at least some of the fonts.
I'll explain my problem.
If I have a look at Character Map to find a character that I want (let's say
it is an aeroplane), I can find it in the Webdings font (Unicode 00d2, or
Ò).
On 02/21/2013 10:59 AM, webmaster-Kracked_P_P wrote:
On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
"everywhere-in
On 02/21/2013 04:01 AM, Marc Paré wrote:
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
"everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size
I've noticed that the *argv* statement can't be found under *sys* in
version 2.6.1 (r261, Jan 16 2013, 12:09:14) [GCC 4.0.1 (Apple Inc. build
5494)] for
L.O Version 3.6.5.2 (Build ID: 5b93205) and so also for L.O Version
4.0.0.3 (Build ID: 53fd80e80f44edd735c18dbc5b6cde811e0a15c) TinderBox:
Ma
Perhaps a switch for PDF output default.
Add PDF to
[Checkbox] Always use password when file is opened with password.
[Checkbox] Use same password as when opened
I say this because it appears that once you have touched a document, you
may not necessarily want it to be modified as version co
Hi all:
I suggest use Conditional Formatting like this:
For example: If you input "false" in cell A1, you can do:
1) Menu,Format,Condittional Formatting,Condition
2) Select the cell (in this case A1) where de dialog show range
3) Select "cell value is", and, " equal", input at right box "false"
NVM. Just rediscovered conditional formatting.
On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 5:47 AM, John Meyer wrote:
> I'm trying to write a macro that will turn an entire row's text red based
> upon a cell in that row. Is there a function available within the basic
> editor that will do that?
>
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Hi :)
The general idea is for a program to do one thing very well and then be able to
link in with a wide range of alternatives for fairly unrelated activities.
Hence why LibreOffice works well with email clients such as Claws, Thunderbird
(the one most people seem to prefer), Evolution and ev
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> We are carrying out PCI-DSS project for our organization and i am
presently
> using ubuntu 11.10 desktop. Are there tutorials or documents
available in
> Libreoffice to plan,schedule,track and deliver this
I'm trying to write a macro that will turn an entire row's text red based
upon a cell in that row. Is there a function available within the basic
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On 02/20/2013 10:21 PM, Dan Lewis wrote:
I have a 32 bit laptop running Ubuntu 12.04. On it I have
installed LO 3.6.5.2 and 4.0.0.3.
This evening I was going to built LO 4.0.0 with the native
connector for MySQL. In the process I had to download some files
needed for autogen.sh to wor
Le 21/02/2013 12:57, Ian Whitfield a écrit :
>
> [ian@localhost ~]$ mysql -u ianw -p
> Enter password:
> Welcome to the MySQL monitor.
>
This means that you should also be able to connect from LO. Looks like
your PHP and phmyadmin installation are screwed, can't help you there
I'm afraid, but yo
On 21/02/13 13:21, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>From the console/command line, try to connect as the user ian that
you just created : mysql -u ianw -p
Can you connect to mysql as user ianw from the command line ?
Yes Alex I can!!
[ian@localhost ~]$ mysql -u ianw -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MyS
On 21/02/13 13:21, Alex Thurgood wrote:
>From the console/command line, try to connect as the user ian that
you just created : mysql -u ianw -p
Can you connect to mysql as user ianw from the command line ?
Yes Alex I can!!
[ian@localhost ~]$ mysql -u ianw -p
Enter password:
Welcome to the MyS
Hi :)
The ideal way to store documents is with OpenDocument Formats such as Odt.
Only convert to MS formats if you have to share but leave the Odt in the same
folder so that you can re-edit the document easily without having to push a
document through so many conversions.
Regards from
Tom :)
Le 21/02/2013 09:57, Ian Whitfield a écrit :
Hi Ian,
> mysql> CREATE USER 'ianw'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'pwd';
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
>
> mysql> GRANT ALL ON db1.* TO 'ianw'@'localhost';
> Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.00 sec)
>
> But when I try to get into MyAdmin with this u
Le 21/02/2013 10:00, Marion & Noel Lodge a écrit :
Hi Noel,
> Can someone tell me what I'm missing?
>
Not sure, but you could try :
[D:01/07/2012]
Which version of LO are you using ?
What is your Base table's data source (embedded hsqldb, spreadsheet or
text file, mysql, postgresql) ?
Addit
Hi, at work we need to plot several charts from a spreadsheet. One per row,
with four values to be charted.
My question is whether it is possible to add some automation of title and
subtitle, pointing each one to a relative position.
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Escu
Hi,
I want to open a Base Table and filter the records to show only records
where the Date field is greater than or equal to the first of July 2012.
I click on the Standard filter icon and enter the following under the three
headings: -
Field Name ConditionValue
Date
Le 2013-02-20 21:33, webmaster-Kracked_P_P a écrit :
On 02/20/2013 05:11 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 14:36 20/02/2013 -0500, Tim Lungstrom wrote:
Europe A4 size
Perhaps that should be
"everywhere-in-the-world-except-the-United-States-and-Canada A4 size".
Brian Barker
I do not know about t
Hi Alex
Thanks for your reply. (Sorry about the delay but for some reason
yesterday I got no eMails in from the LO Forum???!!!)
On 20/02/13 20:44, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
1) Is your mysql server even running ?* YES*
>From the console/command line, try typing :
ps aux | grep mysql
[ian@l
Le 20/02/2013 23:16, Dan Lewis a écrit :
Hi Dan,
>
> checking for GCONF... yes
> checking whether to enable GNOME VFS support... yes
> checking for GNOMEVFS... no
> configure: error: Package requirements (gnome-vfs-2.0 >= 2.6.0 ) were
> not met:
> No package 'gnome-vfs-2.0' found
As you found o
Le 21/02/2013 04:21, Dan Lewis a écrit :
> So the reason for this email including the QA people is that I
> would like a simple test done by someone with a 32 bit Debian system and
> MySQL server. Please install the AOO MySQL native connector. Also
> install these two files: libmysqlclient18
Le 21/02/2013 04:21, Dan Lewis a écrit :
Hi Dan,
> These were the ones that autogen.sh had to have before it stopped
> with an error message at line 201: libgnomevfs2-common,
> libgnomevfs2-bin, libgnomevfs2-0, libgnomevfs2-dev, libgnomevfs2-extra,
> libgnomevfs2-0-dbg.
These unfortunately
Uytkownik upscope napisa:
What I am trying to do is open the .docx document, and then save it as odt.
This works fine is original doc is all text. But when graphics ixist in
document and get relocated, missed etc, then its hard to get a proper
document. It seems to work better in LO 3.6.3 than i
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