[users] Re: IBM Advice on Via Voice for Open Office

2006-11-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
John Boyle wrote: To Users and Eric: Sorry, but at least in Windows Dragon and Knowbrainer and Univoice, a new add in, have a fighting chance to work with Open Office! It has become MORE than just a macro package and there are two places to go read up on the package, One is the Knowbrainer sale

[users] Re: IBM Advice on Via Voice for Open Office

2006-11-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
users@openoffice.org wrote: Has anybody tried adding the Java Speech Recognition Engine to OOo, and seeing how that works? which engine? sphinx 4? it's a medium vocab (20k words) continuous recognition system. I believe it is speaker independent. also not ready for prime time. needs a few

[users] Re: IBM Advice on Via Voice for Open Office

2006-11-01 Thread Eric S. Johansson
John Boyle wrote: To users: why not contact Lunis Orcutt at Know-brainer and get his add- on to Dragon? That is the program I use and it does very well thank you. IBM has abandoned its software to include for open source, why I do not know! Nuance refuses to support open source or Linux, wh

[users] Re: printing signatures

2006-10-23 Thread Eric S. Johansson
arnold huzen wrote: I'm afraid I don't know what you mean by 'as in book signatures'. Arnold Huzen Eric S. Johansson schreef: as in book signatures. any way to print them automatically in OO? from wikipedia: A signature is a large sheet printed with several pages, in

[users] printing signatures

2006-10-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
as in book signatures. any way to print them automatically in OO? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[users] Re: WRITER: Split screen

2006-10-05 Thread Eric S. Johansson
RBL wrote: Kirill S. Palagin wrote: Do you think that all the menus and toolbars taking twice of the screen pixels is more efficient? I don't use toolbars. :-) My screen is clean. As a professional writer, I can tell you that the split screen feature is a huge asset -- especially when de

[users] Re: IBM Advice on Via Voice for Open Office

2006-09-29 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Dave Bib wrote: Contacted IBM before asking Open Office. They say they are no longer supporting Via Voice & referred me to Nuance, which apparently has distribution rights. Nuance answers are very ambigious (e.g..."should work" & "works with several programs"). Further research has indicated t

[users] Re: Fw: Two Nuns

2006-09-27 Thread Eric S. Johansson
SandyU wrote: It has been sent to several addressees, probably a group. It may be that the users' list has been included inadvertently in the group. yes, I think it was an honest mistake. Many e-mail clients auto complete addresses and usually get the wrong one if you aren't exceedingly car

[users] Re: notes associated with the document

2006-09-26 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Harold Fuchs wrote: More work for the OP but what about keeping notes in a simple html file with links to relevant parts in the OO document using the "#name" feature of html? This way individual (named) notes can be moved around without affecting the references; and references can be moved around

[users] Re: notes associated with the document

2006-09-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Barrie Backhurst wrote: On Fri, 2006-09-22 at 11:00 -0400, Eric S. Johansson wrote: is it possible to maintain a notes file in parallel and as part of an open office document? I found the notes menu item which lets you put in little bits of notes in different pages but what I need is

[users] notes associated with the document

2006-09-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
is it possible to maintain a notes file in parallel and as part of an open office document? I found the notes menu item which lets you put in little bits of notes in different pages but what I need is literally a parallel document so that I can put my research notes in the notes document, my r

[users] Re: Via Voice Installation

2006-09-22 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Dave Bib wrote: Am using version 2.0 of Open Office and would like to use voice recognition program. Do not believe Open Office has this feature (like Microsoft Word's Speech program), and would like to install Via Voice version 10. If I do this, will the Via Voice work with Open Office version

[users] invoicing and more

2006-07-29 Thread Eric S. Johansson
saw the article on news forge about using open office for a invoice management system. I need something a little more sophisticated and I wonder if it is something open office can do. I need to build a journal of what activities are performed for customer plus record information that might be

[users] converting impress presentation to the Web with audio track

2006-05-24 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I have a presentation I wish to make available on the Web and I wanted to have an audio track of my talk associated with the slides. What's the best way to do this? My initial thought was making the slide image available via the Web with some form of embedded audio player. I'm not terribly e

[users] Re: synchronization with same document in different format

2005-12-27 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Eric S. Johansson wrote: this may fall in the category of "too difficult to be worth it". I want to maintain the same document in two different places. Formatting is not going to be complex. At most simple font or style changes (bold, italics etc.). One place would be on a Web si

[users] synchronization with same document in different format

2005-12-26 Thread Eric S. Johansson
this may fall in the category of "too difficult to be worth it". I want to maintain the same document in two different places. Formatting is not going to be complex. At most simple font or style changes (bold, italics etc.). One place would be on a Web site (higher-level markup, not HTML), a

[users] Re: seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-06 Thread Eric S. Johansson
Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: Before a user edits a document, they should enable change tracking Edit | Changes | Record. You can view all of the changes inline using Edit | Changes | Show. You can then individually accept or reject any change, you can know who made the change, and you will

[users] Re: seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-05 Thread Eric S. Johansson
G. Roderick Singleton wrote: Have you checked out OOo's revision management and versioning features? This might work for you. As I interpret what you are asking, there is no facility for more than one person to work on the same file at the same time, just like MSO. By the same token, OOo revision

[users] seeking collaborative revision tools

2005-06-04 Thread Eric S. Johansson
I am looking for some way for a writers group to do collaborative revisions on various pieces of work. Obviously we could just e-mail open office documents to each other and you change tracking but that seems little crude and error prone. are there any suggestions for collaborative revisions