Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads impossible and latest version of Firefox not recognized by captcha, connclusion: service level zero

2016-10-11 Thread Cor Nouws
Hi Jurriaan, Good to see a fellow Dutch guy reporting issues here :) Jurriaan Nijkerk wrote on 09-10-16 18:23: > I'd like to file serious complaints about Libre Office. > > A. The downloads > [...] We don't had any complaint about it until version 5.1.5 It > was'nt possible to download a prope

[libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Hi all, In my Master Document I have a couple of Appendices. One of the appendices is a bunch of scores, rendered as 'png's. These scores take up the whole page, and I don't want them to have headers (all the info is already on the score/png. I would like these scores/png's to have titles and pag

[libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

2016-10-11 Thread Dave
Hi Folks, Is there a way of inserting or pasting an image into a Writer text box, similar to images in an MS Word text box.? TIA Dave -- Please address any reply to the mailing list only. Any messages sent to this noreply@ address are automatically deleted from the server and will never be read

[libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Hello again, Hope this isn't seen as too cheeky... Does anyone have any templates they'd be willing to share as examples of decent contemporary layout (for my particular usage, it's a thesis)? Mines just, well, boring tbh (not far off the LO standard layout, which, though fine, is just that - so

Re: [libreoffice-users] loading a database with images

2016-10-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/10/16 02:05 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gary, Go it. The old primary key problem. Base insists that it create one and call it ID instead of using another name. How do you create tables? Every name for a field with primary-key is allowed.

Re: [libreoffice-users] loading a database with images

2016-10-11 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gary, > SELECT "event_name", "first_name", "middle_initial", "last_name", > "sex", "age", "email", "place", CASE WHEN "age" BETWEEN 0 AND 18 > THEN 'Youth' WHEN "age" BETWEEN 19 AND 59 THEN 'Adult' ELSE > 'Senior' END "Group", CASE WHEN "place" <=

Re: [libreoffice-users] loading a database with images

2016-10-11 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gary, 1. A subselect should only have one value (one row, one field). 2. If you will connect to the current row of the outer select, the table of the outer select must have an alias. SELECT "event_name", "first_name", "middle_initial", "last_name"

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

2016-10-11 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Dave, Dave schrieb: Hi Folks, Is there a way of inserting or pasting an image into a Writer text box, similar to images in an MS Word text box.? Is there a special reason why you want to use a text box instead of a frame? Kind regards Regina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr..

Re: [libreoffice-users] loading a database with images

2016-10-11 Thread Gary Dale
On 11/10/16 10:29 AM, Robert Großkopf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gary, SELECT "event_name", "first_name", "middle_initial", "last_name", "sex", "age", "email", "place", CASE WHEN "age" BETWEEN 0 AND 18 THEN 'Youth' WHEN "age" BETWEEN 19 AND 59 THEN 'Adult' ELSE 'Se

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 A normal frame works really well. I tend to add a caption and copy&paste in some text to go with the image. There is a "Style" specifically for captions so it's quite easy to set it up so that captions are quite distinct from normal body or default text. Also the image can then be moved

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I think you can just click into the ToC and edit as you like. If you do add text in there it might be a good idea to keep a copy of that text outside the document somewhere because when/if you "update" the ToC from the right-click menu then it reverts to the standard layout again. Good luck

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) The official place for people to put templates they would like to share is; http://templates.libreoffice.org/ As for fonts i am sure there are many crazy and fairly sane fonts out there. Are you planning to have your thesis printed professionally? If so it might be worth asking the printi

[libreoffice-users] How to change Writer form letter database connection

2016-10-11 Thread Gary Dale
How does one go about changing the database that a form letter connects to? I have this problem in several "form letters". I want to connect to a different database than the one they were created against for the simple reason that I have a different set of data that I want to print against. I

Re: [libreoffice-users] Downloads impossible and latest version of Firefox not recognized by captcha, connclusion: service level zero

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) +1 to all that Cor said. I think some of it didn't translate 100% perfectly, more like around 98-99% imo, but the intention is clear. Many of the answers so far have said it works on this or that system but this is mainly to help pin-point exactly where the problem is. They aren't saying t

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to change Writer form letter database connection

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Is it F4 to bring up a "connected databases" toolbar? Regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2016 at 17:00, Gary Dale wrote: > How does one go about changing the database that a form letter connects to? > > I have this problem in several "form letters". I want to connect to a > different databa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Thanks Tom, Top tip. Anyway of making it persistent? On 11 October 2016 at 16:46, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > I think you can just click into the ToC and edit as you like. If you do > add text in there it might be a good idea to keep a copy of that text > outside the document somewhere becaus

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Nope. Not that i know of. Hence why i find it important to save the extra text (and formatting if possible - and i am not sure how to handle creating links tbh) in a separated document. Apols and regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2016 at 17:23, Julian Brooks wrote: > Thanks Tom, > > To

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Dammit Tom, That it is *too* good advice. Ok, I'll slunk off and actually get back to work:) Nice take though. Chance is good but this thesis is very much deterministic. I guess it's from the endless books I've been neck-deep in for so long - some of them are beautiful to look at - I'd like some

Re: [libreoffice-users] multiple use of ifelse function

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Aaaarrrgh. Nope, no idea! Is there a helpful chapter in the Published Guides? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications or the Faq? https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Faq Sorry! Good luck and regards from Tom :) On 11 October 2016 at 07:56, message wrote: > Rea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) No worries about "the noise". It's what we are here for and hopefully others here can give better advice about beautifying it. I suspect though that others will want advice from you about how you made yours look so good 'even as it is'. Doubtless it already looks fantastic but it's difficu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Apostrophe prepended to MM/DD/YYYY

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Can find&replace get rid of the ' marks to make the values revert to 'numbers/dates' rather than being forced into being text? Regards from Tom :) On 9 October 2016 at 18:00, Brian Barker wrote: > At 18:01 06/10/2016 -0400, Doug McNutt wrote: > >> Brian had some questions about how I read

Re: [libreoffice-users] error installing LO 5.2.2

2016-10-11 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) Does this fix it? sudo dpkg --configure -a (of course that is two - signs in front of the word "configure"). It usually fixes most package errors on my Debian-family distros such as Ubuntu, Mint etc. At worst it usually gets me to a state where i can open Synaptic package manaager and the

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to change Writer form letter database connection

2016-10-11 Thread Gary Dale
No. I think you're thinking about Ctrl-Shft-F4 which brings up the the Data Sources toolbar. Actually, it's started working now for some reason. The error message I was getting has gone away. Weird. On 11/10/16 12:22 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Is it F4 to bring up a "connected databases" t

Re: [libreoffice-users] loading a database with images

2016-10-11 Thread Robert Großkopf
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Gary, would be good if you will send me the database with private mail - so I could have a look, which error appears. Regards Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJX/SOdAAoJELDKYwaoS9AIIu4P/j4ekD0mwALbnZUGVarosu2

Re: [libreoffice-users] How to change Writer form letter database connection

2016-10-11 Thread Gary Dale
Spoke too soon. The data source changes but not the fields. Unless I change the fields in the document (re-insert them from the current data source), they show up as blank. This is NOT what I want. I want the fields to move to the new data source. In fact, I can't think of a reason for the cur

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Steve Edmonds
Don't know if this works for you. I just added text to a blank page "Scores", header 1 style, so it appears in my TOC as "Scores". I then added an image and set it to "Wrap through" and resized it to cover the whole page. The image sits over the text so you can't see it but the text appears in

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

2016-10-11 Thread Dave
Hi Regina, On 11.10.2016 16:40, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Dave, > > Dave schrieb: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Is there a way of inserting or pasting an image into a Writer text box, >> similar to images in an MS Word text box.? > > Is there a special reason why you want to use a text box instead of a >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Julian, Julian Brooks schrieb: Hi all, In my Master Document I have a couple of Appendices. One of the appendices is a bunch of scores, rendered as 'png's. These scores take up the whole page, and I don't want them to have headers (all the info is already on the score/png. I would like thes

Re: [libreoffice-users] Master Document: Insert pages into ToC without visible Headers

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Thank you Regina, That works a treat. Steve, appreciate your pitching in too - I haven't tested your approach as Regina's works perfectly (I started with the most recent message:) Great stuff, thanks all. Julian On 11 October 2016 at 20:35, Regina Henschel wrote: > Hi Julian, > > Julian Broo

Re: [libreoffice-users] Image In Text Box?

2016-10-11 Thread Regina Henschel
Hi Dave, Dave schrieb: Hi Regina, On 11.10.2016 16:40, Regina Henschel wrote: Hi Dave, Dave schrieb: Hi Folks, Is there a way of inserting or pasting an image into a Writer text box, similar to images in an MS Word text box.? Is there a special reason why you want to use a text box instea

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread toki
On 11/10/2016 13:56, Julian Brooks wrote: >for my particular usage, it's a thesis Before changing anything in the template, read everything you can find about the institution's policies on thesis submissions. It isn't uncommon for educational institutions to have very specific design requirements

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Virgil Arrington
I developed an interest in typography when I wrote a legal brief for the U.S. Supreme Court and had to deal with it's very specific typesetting rules. (Did you know that 11 point Times New Roman really *isn't* 11 points? It's slightly smaller and the Court will not accept a brief written in 11 p

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
(apologies, meant to send to list too,below) Hi Jonathon, Thanks for the link. Perhaps I should have stated earlier that this is a music composition thesis. So the thesis is the scores, recordings, and documentation. I guess as such, I'm a specialist in one field, and quite pedantic about layout

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread Julian Brooks
Hi Virgil, Very interesting info, and the tech details are just what I'm after. Always wondered what the G in Libertine stood for. Like the different font for headings and text body too (currently have just the one font). Agree about underlining and minimal use of italics (is that what you mean t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-11 Thread toki
On 11/10/2016 22:33, Julian Brooks wrote: > Perhaps I should have stated earlier that this is a music composition thesis. Ah. Being enveloped in Greek, Coptic, Aramaic, Latin, and Hebrew texts, I wasn't thinking about music. > layout of scores, quality of recordings and documentation. For that,

Re: [libreoffice-users] error installing LO 5.2.2

2016-10-11 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
On 10/09/2016 09:11 AM, M Henri Day wrote: 2016-10-08 4:03 GMT+02:00 Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster < webmas...@krackedpress.com>: I just removed 5.2.0 and tried to install 5.2.2. Below is the error message I received. I do not know what dependencies are needed for 5.2.2 that was not for 5.2.

Re: [libreoffice-users] error installing LO 5.2.2

2016-10-11 Thread Tim---Kracked_P_P---webmaster
Sorry Tom, but it does not work. I do not think the "fix broken packages" would not be useful since the error was telling me that I do not have all the dependencies that was listed for 5.2.2, even though I did not have that error with 5.2.1.2. So something within one of the upgraded .deb fi