[libreoffice-users] Re: AltGr functionality + Swedish Keyboard

2019-06-18 Thread Peter Maunder
Greetings,I have attached a copy of the Swedish Keyboard that I have on my Linux+Mint Mate system after I added Swedish to my system. The four characters on each keyboard are the standard Lowercase and Uppercase on the left hand side and the AltGr Lowercase and AltGr Uppercase on the right hand sid

[libreoffice-users] Re: AltGr functionality

2019-06-16 Thread Peter Maunder
I suggest you check your system/keyboard settings to sort out the default system settings. How you do this will depend on your system first not LibO and the actual keyboard, language and brand. What operating system and language are you using, and what keyboard setting is defined? AltGr is control

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO upgrade under Linux - delete old files

2019-06-04 Thread Peter Maunder
The Linux Mint update will update the same versions. Hence 6.1.6 will update 6.1.5 or 6.1.4 etc. It will not remove 6.0.x versions. Unlike Windows that has no version control and can only run once version of LibO. This means I, for example, on my Mint system run versions 5.4, 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2. So I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Help creating a locale xml file for Nigeria

2018-08-27 Thread Peter Maunder
LibreOffice uses Unicode, which supports the Nigerian Naira sign. Unicode U+20A6 is Nigerian Naira Sign ₦ Unicode U+20B5 is Ghanaian Cedi ₵ But the font you use needs to support the sign. For example the Liberation Sans I am using. And your operating system setup also needs to support your u

[libreoffice-users] Re: Non-ASCII/UTF-8 double quote characters in text format?

2018-01-24 Thread Peter Maunder
You do not say which Language or operating system or version of LibO you are using, however in general terms I hope the explanation below helps. LibreOffice only uses Unicode, that is to say UTF-8 in your terms. The characters you are seeing are actually Unicode. This provides support for about 1

[libreoffice-users] Re: 5.1.1 breaks anchored-as-character frames

2016-03-03 Thread Peter Maunder
If you really want to install older versions of LibO, https://downloadarchive.documentfoundation.org/libreoffice/old/4.2.8.2/ will point you to 4.2.8, although I would not commender going back to these older versions. The normal download site currently gives the options of 5.04, 5.0.5 and 5.1.0. Re

[libreoffice-users] Re: Thunderbird potential as the official/default email-client for LO? Re: [board-discuss] BoD decision from 2015-10-05

2016-02-28 Thread Peter Maunder
Hi Tom, We use both LibreOffice and Thunderbird running under Linux-Mint. I have been concerned about the future of Thunderbird since the Mozilla statement concerning the future of the software. I am delighted that The Document Foundation is considering bringing TB under its wing, thoroughly supp

[libreoffice-users] Re: LibreOffice 4.4, 5.0 : firefox personas not work with path url...why?

2015-11-16 Thread Peter Maunder
I was pleased to see this interest in using Firefox and Thunderbird Personas with LibreOffice. My wife and I use personas that I have created and stored on our computers all the time. I don't normally download them from the internet. There are several bug reports that may be or general interest. 8

[libreoffice-users] Re: Which components do you use most?

2014-05-12 Thread Peter Maunder
Virgil Arrington wrote > I'm curious to find out what components of LO are used most by the > people on this list. I think it helps to know different folks' area of > experience. It might also help us in learning new ways to integrate the > different components. For myself, my approximate usage

[libreoffice-users] Re: Imported document becomes corrupted, when edited.

2014-05-04 Thread Peter Maunder
Ian McCarthy wrote > I have a document - > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/qp6rf6edhuui8qb/SpeyElectrics.v16.odt > > It consists of a number of pages, the first two should have only writing > on them, then there are some line drawings, then a page with an > annotated image (page 6), followed by som

[libreoffice-users] Re: Create Firefox Personas for LibreOffice further notes

2014-04-29 Thread Peter Maunder
krackedpress wrote > I wish there was a better way to do this. > I added a number of personas to the FF system, but LO did not [back > then] take the text color option correctly from the FF persona > settings. Yes the font color is really important for the darker > backgrounds. Also, the icons

[libreoffice-users] Re: Create Firefox Personas for LibreOffice further notes

2014-04-26 Thread Peter Maunder
My original response was just to show where the Personas were actually kept on the LibreOffice system. These notes may be of interest for those who wish to dabble further. Adding Personas to LibreOffice does seem slightly convoluted, especially compared with Firefox and Thunderbird. Don't forget

[libreoffice-users] Re: Create Firefox Personas for LibreOffice 4 in LibreOffice 4

2014-04-25 Thread Peter Maunder
The Personas used by LibreOffice is stored in the User/Gallery/Personas folder. The access information is stored in the User/registrymodifications.xcu file. The settings are in the PersonasSettings. An example is given below. Header.jpg;Footer.jpg;#ff;#f5f5f5 Where the header and footer are

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-29 Thread Peter Maunder
♪͡♪♪͡♪Neil Ren♪͡♪♪͡♪ wrote > Thanks for the suggestion. After reading your reply, I suspect this might > be issues of LibreOffice on Windows (or more precisely Windows with asian > code page configured for non-Unicode applications) but not on Linux. > > As for keyboard direct input, Windows appear

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-29 Thread Peter Maunder
Well there are three main issues that meet here and it helps me to keep them separate. I hope I am not confusing matters further by describing them. 1) Unicode, which your system supports, the standard characters that the system understands. 2) The Fonts you are using and are installed on your sy

[libreoffice-users] Re: Limited Unicode Support in LibreOffice 4.1.4.2? Character insertion, non-zero (SMP, SIP) planes, and multi language documents.

2014-01-28 Thread Peter Maunder
Neil, I was interested to read your note and have a few thoughts. >>> Environment: MS Win7 64bit Ultimate English with French and Chinese >>> language pack, non-Unicode code page: Chinese (CP936), LibreOffice >>>4.1.4.2, JRE 1.7.0_09 (both 32-bit and 64-bit). Is their any reason you ar

[libreoffice-users] Re: how many languages can LO support at the same time. . .

2014-01-28 Thread Peter Maunder
>> Inserting "special characters" for Español [Spanish] and Français >> [French] is easy if you have a Unicode font or a good inclusive one that >> has the needed characters when viewed with the Insert Special Character >> option. I have done that myself for a few things. When typing European Lan

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing problems - US Letter / A4

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Maunder
The system PAPERSIZE is usually set when installing and updating an Ubuntu system using PAPERCONFIG. If the papersize file does not exist, programs using the paper library default to using letter as a fall-back value. Permitted papersize values include a3 a4 a5 b5 letter legal executive note and

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-24 Thread Peter Maunder
I have been trying to summarise the current Personas situation to clarify the situation in my mind. I am documenting it in case it may be of interest to any of you. Does it need to be reported as a bug? Is it just a Linux problem? My environment is UBUNTU 12.04 (x2) and LINUX-MINT MATE 13. I am r

[libreoffice-users] Re: Printing problems - US Letter / A4

2013-07-23 Thread Peter Maunder
In an Ubuntu system, the default papersize is held in the /etc/papersize file. If you set the language to say US, papersize can be set to US Letter even though the printer default is actually A4. Similarly an English system in America can be set to A4 although the actual printer is US Letter. It is

[libreoffice-users] Re: desktop-integration

2013-07-21 Thread Peter Maunder
I confirm that the 4.1.0.3 can install alongside 4.0.4.2 on DEB systems, except for the application panels. One reason may be that they use the same ./config/libreoffice/4 folders. I have 3.6.4.3, 4.0.4.2 and 4.1.0.3 all installed on two systems an Ubuntu 12.04 desktop and a Linux-Mint-Mate 13. I

[libreoffice-users] Re: Unable to change url for persona settings

2013-07-21 Thread Peter Maunder
Bad2theBone wrote > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Just recently started checking out Fedora 19 on another system. This > version comes with LibreOffice 4.1. I found that I was not able to > setup my Persona settings in this version. My main system has 4.0.4.2 > and just on a

[libreoffice-users] Re: [4.0.1.2/Win/Writer] Printing labels with odd sheets?

2013-03-18 Thread Peter Maunder
When you insert a table you can define the number of rows and columns and the column (label) widths . Then select all the table and adjust the row height to that of the labels. There isn't a table fill command in the table definition that I know about. Good luck... -- View this message in conte

[libreoffice-users] Re: [4.0.1.2/Win/Writer] Printing labels with odd sheets?

2013-03-18 Thread Peter Maunder
Yes, you can print on labels with no margins between them. I would suggest you use a PAGE STYLE to set the top, bottom, left and right printable areas. Make them a little larger than the actual margin to give room for error. Then the table will be the same size as the labels. If you add a narrow c