[users] Getting text in non-Latin script to run top-to-bottom correctly

2010-09-13 Thread Paul Anderson
I am implementing OpenType fonts for the Tifinagh script. Its default directionality is left-to-right, but it can be written right-to-left, or top-to-bottom like Japanese, for example. I am trying to get these alternative directions working with OpenOffice.org 3.2 Writer. When I enable CTL and Asi

Re: [users] hello

2010-09-13 Thread RA Brown
sainath rao wrote: Dear Sir/madam i am a new user for open office pls tell me how to use this software bye sai OpenOffice.org consist of Writer (for word processing), Calc (for spreadsheets), Base (for databases), Draw (for vector graphics), Math (for formula editing). Asking how it use it

[users] hello

2010-09-13 Thread sainath rao
Dear Sir/madam i am a new user for open office pls tell me how to use this software bye sai

Re: [users] Paragraph vs Page break

2010-09-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 13/09/2010 17:25, James Wilde wrote: [cut] Thanks, Peter. The second one was already on. I have now turned on the first, and coloured page breaks red, as you suggest, and now I see a very thin red line where I have a page break in the adjusted document. However, when I go back to the origi

[users] First line indent

2010-09-13 Thread James Wilde
OOo 3.2.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4 I wonder how OOo handles - creates - the first line indent when one is specified in a style. The reason I ask is because I am working on converting an odt file to epub, using Calibre, and I find a number of   code snippets at the beginning of each paragraph. The an

Re: [users] opinion

2010-09-13 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
Den 2010-09-10 08:17:21 skrev Daryl Dy : Never before have i been more frustrated by an office suite in my entire life. It is the most half assed program i have ever had to use and i hope that i will never have the displeasure of using it again. That's entirely up to you. You are free to use w

Re: [users] Paragraph vs Page break

2010-09-13 Thread James Wilde
On Sep 13, 2010, at 18:14 , Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: >> > > Are Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org>Appearance > and > Tools>Options>OpenOffice.org Writer>Formatting Aids > > unsatisfactory for you? I find that turning on Page Breaks and colouring them > Red more than adequate. Thanks, Peter. Th

Re: [users] Paragraph vs Page break

2010-09-13 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
On 13/09/2010 15:54, James Wilde wrote: OOo 3.2.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4 I've just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find why an odt file comprising 69 chapters has repeatedly given me 84 chapters when converted to epub. I have now found that 15 paragraphs had a page break the end instead

Re: [users] opinion

2010-09-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 12/09/2010 21:42, Barbara Duprey wrote: and you may find that it is actually just as easy or even easier to accomplish what you want. For example - MS Office 2007 is APPALLINGLY bad at printing Booklets - it's a know problem. OO is a breeze!

[users] Paragraph vs Page break

2010-09-13 Thread James Wilde
OOo 3.2.1 on Mac OSX 10.6.4 I've just spent an inordinate amount of time trying to find why an odt file comprising 69 chapters has repeatedly given me 84 chapters when converted to epub. I have now found that 15 paragraphs had a page break the end instead of a paragraph. Page break is used pr

Re: [users] how to specify a macro for "Graphics load successful"?

2010-09-13 Thread Mike Scott
On 13/09/10 12:15, Uwe Fischer wrote: On 09/09/10 20:26, Mike Scott wrote: Subject says it the help file says Choose Insert/Format - Picture - Macro tab but nowhere can I find a Macro tab. (OOo 3.2/ubuntu, Impress.) (yes, this is related to the video query! I'm now trying to trigger a mac

Re: [users] how to specify a macro for "Graphics load successful"?

2010-09-13 Thread Uwe Fischer
On 09/09/10 20:26, Mike Scott wrote: Subject says it the help file says Choose Insert/Format - Picture - Macro tab but nowhere can I find a Macro tab. (OOo 3.2/ubuntu, Impress.) (yes, this is related to the video query! I'm now trying to trigger a macro on load of a new slide - this seeme