Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread pete nikolic
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:37:52 + Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Such attitude is dying out. > > Modern devices almost entirely force people into top-posting and > almost all people new to mailing-lists will have no idea about the > possibility of doing anything other than top-posting. Some allow

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-05 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 05/02/2014 21:48, e-letter ha scritto: On 05/02/2014, Marcello Romani wrote: For the record, I've been a happy user of "soffice" even before the 1.0 release (I started being happy right after they dictched that awful desktop-over-desktop Start Office thing ;-) I miss that! :) And starmail

Re: [libreoffice-users] Truce

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 I definitely agree with that. We are supposed to be pro-freedom so it makes a LOT of sense! Well said Peter Many regards from Tom :) On 6 February 2014 00:40, Peter West wrote: > I'll never proselytise for top posting if you never proselytise for > bottom-posting. > > When I see some

[libreoffice-users] Re: Connect Base to External HSQLDB

2014-02-05 Thread Alex Thurgood
Le 06/02/2014 06:59, Jean-Francois Nifenecker a écrit : Hi Mark, Jean-François, > Once this is set, click Class path > In the new dialog: > (1) Add an archive > Point to the hsqldb.jar on your PC (mine is C:\Program > Files\hsqldb-2.2.8.\lib) > (2) Add a file > Point to the above \lib subdir Not

Re: [libreoffice-users] Connect Base to External HSQLDB

2014-02-05 Thread Jean-Francois Nifenecker
Le 06/02/2014 05:50, Mark LaPierre a écrit : > Hey all, > > I have HSQLDB installed here: > /home/database/back/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar > > I want the Base front end here: > /home/database/recipe/recipe.odb > > On the LibreOffice Database Wizard: > 1. Select Database > I select the radio but

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Thu, Feb 06, 2014 at 09:40:08AM +1000, Peter West wrote: > On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: > >> > >>Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such > >>which office workers really do not have time f

[libreoffice-users] Connect Base to External HSQLDB

2014-02-05 Thread Mark LaPierre
Hey all, I have HSQLDB installed here: /home/database/back/hsqldb/lib/hsqldb.jar I want the Base front end here: /home/database/recipe/recipe.odb On the LibreOffice Database Wizard: 1. Select Database I select the radio button: [Connect to an existing database] I select [JDBC] in

[libreoffice-users] Truce

2014-02-05 Thread Peter West
I'll never proselytise for top posting if you never proselytise for bottom-posting. When I see someone hinting, suggesting, urging or just plain bullying a top-poster to reform his or her bad habits, I'll buy in. And of course, you can do the same thing if the shoe is on the other foot. Can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, On 2/5/2014 6:26 PM, Keith Bates wrote: On 06/02/14 10:21, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 6:16 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a tag. Well, actually, there was an HTML tag in the file before. Yo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Jonathon
On February 5, 2014 3:40:08 PM PST, Peter West wrote: That simply demonstrates that it is not beneficial to either the writer, nor the reader. >On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: >>> >>> Bottom posting requires a ton of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Felmon Davis
And a good job of trimming the post too! I wonder, does top-posting promote sequential reading of the argument? alright; just having fun now. this is losing all point. winter is getting to us. F. On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, anne-ology wrote: Well said, Peter. From: Peter West Date: Wed,

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread anne-ology
Well said, Peter. From: Peter West Date: Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:40 PM Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately? To: users@global.libreoffice.org On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: > >> >> Bottom posti

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Peter West
On 6/02/2014 5:31 am, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: Bottom posting requires a ton of extra work such as trimming and such which office workers really do not have time for. Trimming is a sensible thing to do, whichever way you post. It's wo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Felmon Davis
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Such attitude is dying out. Modern devices almost entirely force people into top-posting and almost all people new to mailing-lists will have no idea about the possibility of doing anyt

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Bates
On 06/02/14 10:21, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 6:16 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a tag. Well, actually, there was an HTML tag in the file before. You may not have seen it because the source was c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, On 2/5/2014 6:16 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a tag. Well, actually, there was an HTML tag in the file before. You may not have seen it because the source was crammed into one line. I think I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Bates
Yes!! It works! I see that as well as the other changes relating to the DOCTYPE line you've added a tag. Keith On 06/02/14 09:56, null wrote: Hello, On 2/5/2014 5:29 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Does this file work?: https://doc-0

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, On 2/5/2014 5:29 PM, Keith Bates wrote: Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Does this file work?: https://doc-0g-8s-docs.googleusercontent.com/docs/securesc/ha0ro937gcuc7l7deffksulhg5h7mbp1/8ka37k9nojan5h3m348ambggvqd7vnq8/139163760/12418654871184392135/*/

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Keith Bates
Hi, I've just tried all of those changes and none of them work. Additionally, I've tried opening from a blank Writer/Web document, from file manager, from the opening screen- all with the same result. Just for reference, as we seem to be getting very different results my version of LO report

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, I just discovered something. If the DOCTYPE of the HTML file is not the topmost line (line 1), LibreOffice renders the file fine (instead of showing the source). However, If there is a blank line before the DOCTYPE (like the HTML file Keith uploaded), the HTML parser is tripped an

[libreoffice-users] OOo derivatives on Android

2014-02-05 Thread James E Lang
In the FWIW category: In the past week I have discovered AndrOpen Office which is a fork of Apache OpenOffice 3.4. Though it has some significant issues, it is at present a more usable app than LibreOffice for Android. I use the spreadsheet feature (Calc) of office suites about 95% but AndrOpe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-05 Thread e-letter
On 05/02/2014, Marcello Romani wrote: > For the record, I've been a happy user of "soffice" even before the 1.0 > release (I started being happy right after they dictched that awful > desktop-over-desktop Start Office thing ;-) I miss that! :) And starmail too... -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: us

Re: [libreoffice-users] Appearance of cell borders in Calc

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 19:52 05/02/2014 +, David Lynch wrote: I have spreadsheets where the width of the cell borders varies and is important. I have about twenty different styles which I apply, by formula (STYLE()), to several hundred cells. The cells are square. There are two widths of border 0.05pt and 2.05

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, On 2/5/2014 2:45 PM, libreoffice-ml.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing "//EN" from the end). Not only that; ther

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
To edit HTML files, I tend to use Kompozer, an WYSIWYG HTML editor, or just a plain text editor. On 02/05/2014 02:45 PM, Mark Bourne wrote: Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transit

[libreoffice-users] Appearance of cell borders in Calc

2014-02-05 Thread david_lynch
I have spreadsheets where the width of the cell borders varies and is important. I have about twenty different styles which I apply, by formula (STYLE()), to several hundred cells. The cells are square. There are two widths of border 0.05pt and 2.05 pt. All is well when the magnification is 100

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Mark Bourne
Uploading the document to the W3C validator (http://validator.w3.org/) it appears the DOCTYPE is not valid. It should be: -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN (the file is missing "//EN" from the end). The original document doesn't fail with the version of LO I have, so cannot check, but try c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Feb 05, 2014 at 01:37:52PM +, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > Such attitude is dying out. > > Modern devices almost entirely force people into top-posting and > almost all people new to mailing-lists will have no idea about the > possibility of doing anything other than top-posting. Some

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Brien
I have been doing a little Google searching, and I may have led you down the wrong path. It may not be possible tot place footnotes within frames in LibreOffice. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 1:00 PM, J. Randal Matheny wrote: > Correct, I think I follow. Question is if frames would be same size on > eac

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Wow!!! It's rare for someone to go ahead and make something like that which many other people would also probably find useful!! Welcome in chap! Is there any chance of you uploading your Extension to http://extensions.libreoffice.org/ Preferably give it an Open Source / copyleft license s

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-05 Thread Jonathon
On February 5, 2014 1:53:59 AM PST, Kracked_P_P wrote: >both packages has the same "roots" OOo to LO and OOo to AOO, but we are now >different packages and offer different GUI styles and options, plus our base >coding has been changed and may not be reflected in AOO's base coding. Given the

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread J. Randal Matheny
Correct, I think I follow. Question is if frames would be same size on each page. But the process to insert the notes still would be something of a hassle, no? Thanks! -- J. Randal Matheny • http://randal.us/ You said / Você disse: > Well, what I am talking about is the page layout part of this

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Brien
Well, what I am talking about is the page layout part of this, not the adding a footnote part. For instance, a frame that is set for two columns would address your desire to have two columns of footnotes on a page that otherwise was only one column. And the Marginalia frame might address your desir

Re: [libreoffice-users] *Persistent* System Level Custom Options?

2014-02-05 Thread Stephan Bergmann
On 02/04/2014 08:01 PM, iveand wrote: For some of the settings, they aren't correctly seen by the user until after we remove the user's pre-existing "registrymodifications.xcu" (even if we didn't intentionally have any of those values overridden). It is my guess that is because there are some of

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread J. Randal Matheny
No, but would that solve the many steps required to insert data through the Fields option? From what I gathered, each time the user would have to go through multiple steps to insert a note. Or am I missing something? -- J. Randal Matheny • http://randal.us/ You said / Você disse: > Have you look

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Brien
Have you looked at creating a Page Template that contains the fields and frames you need? On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 10:54 AM, J. Randal Matheny wrote: > The solution I got earlier was to insert Fields into the frames, but it > was a convoluted process that would not appear to be workable for a > lar

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I would say yes to that. Since LO seems to be used as a web editor - i.e. LibreOffice Writer/Web options - we should not need to remove the DOCTYPE tag from the HTML files to get it to work. On 02/05/2014 10:59 AM, null wrote: Hello, It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread null
Hello, It looks like the problem is with LibreOffice interpreting DOCTYPEs. You see, every HTML is supposed to have a DOCTYPE at the top of the file, explaining what version of HTML (HTML5, HTML4.01, etc) the file uses. The file you uploaded has a DOCTYPE of HTML4.01 Transitional. Anywa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread J. Randal Matheny
The solution I got earlier was to insert Fields into the frames, but it was a convoluted process that would not appear to be workable for a large file of, say, hundreds of pages. Or would it? -- J. Randal Matheny • http://randal.us/ You said / Você disse: > I think Frames would be the best answer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread Kevin O'Brien
I think Frames would be the best answer to both problems. A Frame can be set up to have two columns, for instance, and there is one that would work well for side notes too I believe. On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > If it's not been done already then it might be worth p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) If it's not been done already then it might be worth posting a fresh new bug-report about this but using the LibreOffice bug-tracker rather than the AOO one. LO develops far faster and code clean-up has fixed things or smoothed things out without anyone directly focussing on some of the fixe

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: low traffic lately?

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Such attitude is dying out. Modern devices almost entirely force people into top-posting and almost all people new to mailing-lists will have no idea about the possibility of doing anything other than top-posting. Some allow users to reconfigure their devices to bottom-post but it's beyond

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Sorry! 2 waggle-the-wires 'answers'. Have you tried getting to the libreoffice splash-screen (ie with no documents open) and then dragging the html file into the grey area where a document would normally be showing? Also have you tried using File - Open and then navigated to the html file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Removing Index Markers from Writer: a How-To

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) CVAlkan (=Frank) is using Nabble to view things from the mailing-list and for posting. The 2 other ways are GMane and as just normal emails. Of those 3 ways it's only Nabble that has a system for uploading 'attachments'. Follow the links in Frank's email to get to the right place in Nabble

[libreoffice-users] Re: Writer printing problem

2014-02-05 Thread Owen Genat
krackedpress wrote > So why do I reproduce the issue on Ubuntu 12.04LTS OS with the 64-bit > 4.1.4.2 version [build - Build ID: > 0a0440ccc0227ad9829de5f46be37cfb6edcf72], but your Debian 7.3.0 OS does > not reproduce it? > > That is weird. Could there be some OS variant involved here? Same DEB >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Removal of non-allowed email

2014-02-05 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think the unsubscribe instructions give the link to the "postmaster" somewhere at the bottom of the page. It might be getting rejected if you are not sending it from the correct address. I'm guessing your @gbp emails get forwarded or pulled into your gmail one? If so then replying from y

[libreoffice-users] Re: Removing Index Markers from Writer: a How-To

2014-02-05 Thread CVAlkan
Hi Peter: Hmmm. I hadn't noticed that there was no "attachment" button on this forum, as I haven't ever uploaded anything longer than a few lines. Under the "More" button on the top of the message box, there is an option to "upload a file" but I don't know if other users will have easy access to

[libreoffice-users] Removal of non-allowed email

2014-02-05 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi, Can someone please manually re,ove the subscription to this list of my other email gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk? I can't unsubscribe myself as the reply to the confirm unsubscribe is rejected. Many thanks -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-05 Thread Marcello Romani
For the record, I've been a happy user of "soffice" even before the 1.0 release (I started being happy right after they dictched that awful desktop-over-desktop Start Office thing ;-) Even before LO existed I pushed OO over MSO in the company where I work (I'm the IT manager). I even introduced

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting language in LO Calc

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 11:01 05/02/2014 +0100, Graham Luffrum wrote: Thanks, Brian (amongst other for making me feel like an idiot). I'm not sure how you derive that reaction. The only obvious things are those you happen already to know. Brian Barker -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libr

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting language in LO Calc

2014-02-05 Thread Graham Luffrum
Thanks, Brian (amongst other for making me feel like an idiot). You are right it is not so different, only a matter of knowing where to look. I was expecting to find a menu item as in Writer where I could set the language, but on reflection the way it is in Calc is sensible. Graham On 5 Februa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 'deployment'

2014-02-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 02/05/2014 02:38 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 03/02/2014 17:47, Kracked_P_P---webmaster ha scritto: On 02/03/2014 08:48 AM, Marcello Romani wrote: Il 03/02/2014 13:21, IOmazic ha scritto: Hi, is it possible that you share this tools for windows? I will need to install it to around 450 pc,

[libreoffice-users] Side notes and footnotes

2014-02-05 Thread J. Randal Matheny
Five and a half years ago, I had a question, two actually, about side notes and footnotes. The question on footnotes was this: can footnotes be placed in two columns when the text is in a single column? Then side notes: Is there a workable option to have side notes rather than (or in addition to)

Re: [libreoffice-users] diff of 2 docx files

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 04.02.2014 16:55, Brian Barker a écrit : At 09:36 04/02/2014 +0100, Morel Bérenger wrote: Is it possible to have a diff between 2 .docx files in libreoffice? I am not fond of office suites, but at my work they sent me an outdated document describing what I have to do, and when I asked abou

Re: [libreoffice-users] diff of 2 docx files

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 04.02.2014 20:22, e-letter a écrit : On 04/02/2014, Peter West wrote: If you write the files out as .fodt (Flat XML) files from within LO, you will have straight XML files to compare. Beyond that, you could get the tika-app.jar from the Apache Tika project, which will let you extract pla

Re: [libreoffice-users] diff of 2 docx files

2014-02-05 Thread berenger . morel
Le 04.02.2014 13:49, som a écrit : On Tuesday, 4 February 2014 3:28 PM, "berenger.mo...@neutralite.org" wrote: > Hello. Is it possible to have a diff between 2 .docx files in libreoffice? i am not sure whether it works with docx but did you try the "compare document" option under "edit" (E

Re: [libreoffice-users] Setting language in LO Calc

2014-02-05 Thread Brian Barker
At 09:20 05/02/2014 +0100, Graham Luffrum wrote: In Writer I can set a language for a specific document, other than the default LO language, so that it correctly spell-checks when I type. It's important to realise that you can do better than this: you can set different languages for different

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Writer printing problem

2014-02-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I can reproduce the printing "issue" of it skipping back to the first page instead of where you started the printing at, i.e. page 5 or 6. I am using Debian 64-bit downloaded from LO running on a Ubuntu 12.04LTS system. I have several printers installed - Epson Aritsan-810, Canon MG5400, Can

Re: [libreoffice-users] Importing HTML in LO 4.2

2014-02-05 Thread Kracked_P_P---webmaster
I use 4.1.4 on Ubuntu I only had View / Print Layout, Web Layout when viewing an HTML file. Then I played around with the LO Writer and Writer/Web options, plus the Internet options. After I added the "browser plug-in optional check-box, the page now had View/HTML_Source. I did not save the H

[libreoffice-users] Setting language in LO Calc

2014-02-05 Thread Graham Luffrum
In Writer I can set a language for a specific document, other than the default LO language, so that it correctly spell-checks when I type. I cannot see how I can do this for a spreadsheet. To be more specific the LO default language is UK English, but I write a lot in Slovak. So I have installed

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Gridou

2014-02-05 Thread Gridou
Bonjour, je vous remercie de vos explications Je dois récupérer le fichier normal.dot et faire l'essai En tout cas merci de votre aide car je me sentais perdue ! Bonne journée Message original Sujet : [INTERNET] Re: Gridou De : TomD [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] Pour

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Gridou

2014-02-05 Thread Gridou
Bonjour, je vous remercie de vos explications Je dois récupérer le fichier normal.dot et faire l'essai En tout cas merci de votre aide car je me sentais perdue ! Bonne journée Message original Sujet : [INTERNET] Re: Gridou De : jdh111 [via Document Foundation Mail Archive] Po

[libreoffice-users] Re: Re: Gridou

2014-02-05 Thread Gridou
Bonjour, je vous remercie de vos explications Je dois récupérer le fichier normal.dot et faire l'essai En tout cas merci de votre aide car je me sentais perdue ! Bonne journée Message original Sujet : [INTERNET] Re: Gridou De : Joseph Hogan [via Document Foundation Mail Archive]