Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-12 Thread Julian Brooks
Yep, Lilypond is 'the one'. Most of my scores are 'text scores, so have a quite particular layout - I utilise .txt for text scores too (seems appropriate) so pnd's simplifies greatly layout issues. On 12 October 2016 at 00:19, toki wrote: > On 11/10/2016 22:33, Julian

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer

2016-10-12 Thread Virgil Arrington
The G in Libertine stands for the Graphite font engine that makes all the extra features available. The regular Libertine O font doesn't have these features (or if it does, I haven't figured out how to access them). If you have the Libertine G font, then to gain the features, you add codes to

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[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 -

[libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now [not being an oxt] will not install into my current version of LibreOffice. Anybody have a working version of this extension or know a workaround to achieve

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Gabriel Risterucci
Rename the file you're downloading to add the .oxt extension by hand; it should work. -- Cley Faye http://cleyfaye.net 2012/11/8 Adam Tauno Williams awill...@whitemice.org http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now [not being an oxt] will not install into my current version of LibreOffice. Anybody have a working version

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Adam Tauno Williams
On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:35 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now [not being an oxt] will not install into my current

Re: [libreoffice-users] Template Changer Extension / Change template of an existing document

2012-11-08 Thread Dan Lewis
On 11/08/2012 08:47 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:35 -0500, Dan Lewis wrote: On 11/08/2012 07:49 AM, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: http://extensions.libreoffice.org/extension-center/template-changer I previously have used this Template Changer extension. Only it now