Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

At 17:07 30/06/2013 +, Maurice Noname wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:57:05 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: If you want to make life easier, it may be useful to leave an empty paragraph before using the three-symbol technique to create a border. Then the border is attached to a further empty parag

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Sat, 29 Jun 2013 16:57:05 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: > If you want to make life easier, it may be useful to leave an empty > paragraph before using the three-symbol technique to create a border. > Then the border is attached to a further empty paragraph and will be > very much easier to delete

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

The style 'horizontal line' does exist. It format a paragraph with a double line of 0.3 pt height (or depth). You can modify the width to 3.05 pt to have a nice double horizontal line, coloured grey. If we use '---' or '___' or '~~~" will get wider lines, of grey color. Of course, this is di

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

At 15:33 29/06/2013 +, Maurice Noname wrote: On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:44:49 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: you will see one of a variety of borders attached to the preceding paragraph. This line is a property of that paragraph, not an entity by itself My problem with those is they seem impossib

RE: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

@global.libreoffice.org Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:44:49 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: > you will see one of a variety of borders attached to the preceding > paragraph. This line is a property of that paragraph, not an en

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Fri, 28 Jun 2013 14:44:49 +0100, Brian Barker wrote: > you will see one of a variety of borders attached to the preceding > paragraph. This line is a property of that paragraph, not an entity by > itself My problem with those is they seem impossible to delete! -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubs

Triaging Competition, was: Fw: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

Davies >Cc: "users@global.libreoffice.org" >Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013, 17:54 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is >missing > > >On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > >> Hi :) >> I

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

When I want to draw horizontal line I use: Automatic lines in Writer 1. If you start a new line in a Writer text document by typing three or more hyphen characters and press the Enter key, the characters are removed and the previous paragraph gets a line as a bottom border. To create a single lin

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 12:33:14 -0700, V Stuart Foote wrote: > I have started a UX-Advise thread on design review of how Horizontal Rulers > can be reintroduced to the Writer GUI. Great news, Stuart! Good hunting -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@globa

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Tom Davies wrote: > Hi :) > It would be really great if more of us could learn how to "mark as > duplicate" and other triaging stuff. Even just a few people here learnt > what is in some of those drop-downs that would be good. I'm completely > hopeless at rememb

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

Hi, Tom, :-) On 6/14/13 5:46 AM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) You are making it sound more complicated than it really is. No, not really. Maurice's point is the abandonment of the horizontal rule breaks his older documents. Readable or not. Steve's point is the breaking of old documents by r

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

;Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013, 0:32 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is >missing > > >On 6/13/13 5:12 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Hmm, there are many reasons for preferring non-MS.  Backwards compatibility >>

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On 6/13/13 5:12 PM, Tom Davies wrote: Hi :) Hmm, there are many reasons for preferring non-MS. Backwards compatibility is just 1 of the issues. Current compatibility with it's own current formats is another. A third is whether it's current formats work with non-MS products that do follow th

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On 6/13/13 3:10 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: On 2013-06-14 02:48, Maurice Batey wrote: Having installed Mageia-3 on a trial basis, I have come across an omission in its LO 4.0.3.3 that I have been using on Mageia-2's LO 3.5.7.2, namely 'Insert: Horizontal rule' The result is that any document prep

Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

y thanks again to him for all his work.  Regards from Tom :)  > > From: Maurice Batey >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 13 June 2013, 20:01 >Subject: [libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

I have started a UX-Advise thread on design review of how Horizontal Rulers can be reintroduced to the Writer GUI. How-to-provide-horizontal-rule-paragraph-separators Stuart -- View thi

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:45:40 +0100, I wrote: > I still don't have a bug report number. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65719 (Marked as a duplicate of : https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60858 -- /\/\aurice -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr..

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

Maurice, Your bug was fdo#65719 but that has been consolidated as a duplicate of fdo#60858 . Please comment against fdo#60858 Stuart -- View this message in context: http://nabble.d

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 15:32:49 +, Maurice wrote: > I shall raise a bug report. Now raised, but I still don't have a bug report number. The gist of it is that the omission* of the Horizontal Rule option has created a problem for documents that already have such lines, i.e. it was an *incom

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

I've gone ahead and reopened the fdo#60858 bug. But, is it a regression or a needed enhancement? In either case, please make your usage case for needing horizontal rule as separators. Should address both direct styling (i.e. from the menu) as well as page styling (i.e. the horizontal rule app

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

Maurice, Simply reopen issue fdo#60858 , but you will need to make a strong case from a UX position as to why a horizontal rule direct style object is needed. Also, HTML styles and direct editing still support use of or tagging so the "hori

[libreoffice-users] Re: LO 4.0.3.3: 'Insert: Horizontal rule' is missing

On Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:07:53 +0100, Tom Davies wrote: > Feel free to post a bug-report or wish-list item about it > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/BugReport > > There might already be one Could not see one - but there is one (53852) asking for an improvement to the now omitted function! (L