Re: [users] Re: Fw: Re: Fw: Re: your program

2009-02-05 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 5, 2009, at 8:32 AM, Mike Scott wrote: I'm taking a sabbatical from the list before I get further drawn in to this discussion. Ditto. -- John W Kennedy "Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born

Re: [users] Re: Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
the System/360, have IEEE binary and decimal floating-point. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...

Re: [users] Two decimal numbers added give non two decimal number... bug?

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
is unfortunately stalling on.) Yes, there is a difference between base 16 and base 2. In 1964, IBM thought there wasn't. They were wrong. -- John W Kennedy Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated! http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-04 Thread John W Kennedy
On Feb 4, 2009, at 6:54 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On Feb 3, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Uwe Fischer wrote: For example, in the German spelling bible called "Duden", the umlauts Ä. Ö, Ü are sorted as if they are just plain A, O, U characters. Really? I worked for Americ

Re: [users] Sorting order

2009-02-03 Thread John W Kennedy
tructed to collate them as equal to AE OE UE (and ß as equal to ss, of course). -- John W Kennedy "Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite." -- David Misch: &q

Re: [users] Re: 3.0.1 on WinXP requires a reboot?

2009-01-31 Thread John W Kennedy
On Jan 31, 2009, at 10:52 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: James Knott wrote: [cut] I installed the version without Java and it wanted to be rebooted. One of life's mysteries :-) New font installed, perhaps? -- John W Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only t

Re: [users] Formatting a poem

2009-01-14 Thread John W Kennedy
ty at once." -- John W Kennedy "...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her." -- "Alias" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For a

Re: [users] font size

2009-01-11 Thread John W Kennedy
t. I would appreciate it if someone would give me step by step instructions on how to correct the problem. Thanks. You say it "looks like" it's larger. What do you actually mean by that? -- John W Kennedy "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow lik

Re: [users] Help!

2008-12-11 Thread John W Kennedy
y narrower than Palatino letters of the same point size. The difference in word count probably depends on a difference in how "word count" is defined in the two programs. Is a number a word? Do you count the page headings? Etc., etc -- John W Kennedy "The grand art mastere

Re: [users] OOo3.0 Custom Installation

2008-10-19 Thread John W Kennedy
there a reason for this change? Because OOo is, and has always been one large program. For example, most of the spreadsheet code is needed by the word-processing code to handle tables. The "install individual components" feature saved almost nothing. -- John W Kennedy &

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:18 AM, mike scott wrote: On 9 Oct 2008 at 16:28, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 9, 2008, at 9:50 AM, Laurent Duperval wrote: How do you prevent Writer from hyphenating email addresses at the end of a line? For that matter, how can you force it to not hyphenate certain

Re: [users] Preventing hyphenation on emails and URLs

2008-10-09 Thread John W Kennedy
ing in No Language. -- John W Kennedy "...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was her." -- "Alias" - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] openoffice.org

2008-10-07 Thread John W Kennedy
Use that to send the necessary request to shut it down. -- John W Kennedy "Never try to take over the international economy based on a radical feminist agenda if you're not sure your leader isn't a transvestite."

Re: [users] OT Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-05 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 4, 2008, at 6:04 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2008, John W Kennedy wrote: On Oct 4, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Robert Holtzman wrote: My memory may be slipping but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. No. x^1 is x. x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which is

Re: [users] Re: Web Site Hijacked?

2008-10-04 Thread John W Kennedy
but I remember it as anything to the zero power equal zero. No. x^1 is x. x^-1 is 1/x, except for x=0, which is illegal. x^(1 + -1) is x * 1/x, which is 1, except for x=0, which is illegal. 0^0 is illegal. Otherwise, x^0 is 1. -- John W Kennedy "The whole modern world has divided i

Re: [users] Re: OOo for technical writing: observations from writing experiments

2008-10-03 Thread John W Kennedy
Grab a stopwatch as fast as you can and start writing down the durations of the flights of those insects!" -- John W Kennedy "When a man contemplates forcing his own convictions down another man's throat, he is contemplating both an unchristian act and an act of treason to th

Re: [users] Re: Brochure printing under Mac OS X in OO 3.0

2008-10-01 Thread John W Kennedy
On Oct 1, 2008, at 2:37 AM, Henning Lorenz wrote: On 2008-10-01, at 01:01 , John W Kennedy wrote: On Sep 30, 2008, at 5:33 AM, Brian Barker wrote: Sorry, but I think you are missing the point here. The original query (as evidenced by the message subject) was about printing what OpenOffice

Re: [users] Re: Brochure printing under Mac OS X in OO 3.0

2008-09-30 Thread John W Kennedy
. "Printer Settings" is disabled altogether, which is completely unacceptable. -- John W Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can't he apply it to Windows? - To unsubscribe, e-ma

Re: [users] OpenOffice.org Colour (color) wheel

2008-09-08 Thread John W Kennedy
by most human beings) is three- dimensional, not two, and shaped more or less like a cylinder. (Four- dimensional, if you include a transparent-opaque axis.) And the axes aren't linear, either. There's a reason that color matching is a billion-dollar industry. -- John W Kennedy &

Re: [users] Replacing "standard" quotes with "custom" quotes

2008-07-25 Thread John W Kennedy
tandard quotes with custom quotes" before doing the Format>Auto-Format>Apply? That will change new quotation marks on the fly; it won't change them in an existing document. -- John W Kennedy "The first effect of not believing in God is to believe in anything" -

Re: [users] Re: Replacing "standard" quotes with "custom" quotes

2008-07-25 Thread John W Kennedy
h for the remaining " characters and fix them manually. Then, of course, you would have to search for apostrophes and left and right single quotes in a similar process. Version 3's Regular Expression support is better than Version 2's, though it is still rather backward compared

Re: [users] CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT MICROSOFT OFFICE?

2008-07-15 Thread John W Kennedy
Mac, and I'm using all of OOo 2.4.1, OOo 3.0 beta, and iWork 2008, which does some things better, and some things not as well. -- John W Kennedy "There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump of a world of ours. I suppose these ginks who argue that way ho

Re: [users] Document Editing Features- text strike through

2008-06-30 Thread John W Kennedy
in others. I thought I used Writer for that but maybe that was when I as still using Word 97. Anyway, I cant seem to find what I'm looking for though it is here - just hidden from my eyes. Format->Character->Strikethrough, or an equivalent style. -- John W Kennedy "Thos

Re: [users] Re: Strange disappearing pound signs.

2008-06-26 Thread John W Kennedy
t its native output which was still called “.doc”. I don’t know what you mean by “glorified”. I seem to recall /a/ release of Word that used RTF format for its .doc files. Rumor that it that it was an emergency workaround to make ship date. -- John W Kennedy "The blind rulers of Logres

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
To James Knott: I find your attitude towards people who do believe in religion, OFFENSIVE and ARROGANTLY SO, as WELL AS IGNORANTLY SO! Until now, I had thought you had some intelligence but this proves otherwise!!! >:o I will be deleting any and all messages with your name attached!

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
s who have been using "Xtian" and "Xmas" since long before you were born. Here's a bit of Hebrew for you to look up: "chillul ha-Shem". -- John W Kennedy "Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns an

Re: [users] Making the result of a Calc function permanent

2008-06-16 Thread John W Kennedy
adsheets, going all the way back to VisiCalc. But I notice that I cannot find it in Numbers '08 (from Apple's iWork suite) at all, and OOo's way of doing it is a little on the arcane side. -- John W Kennedy "The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of ratio

Re: [users] Re: How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-15 Thread John W Kennedy
spelling preferred by C. S. Lewis (in his letters, of course, not his published works). -- John W Kennedy "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." --

Re: [users] How to make MS window OS to treat OO as MSO

2008-06-15 Thread John W Kennedy
to be understood as a Greek chi, as in "Χριστος", rather than as a Latin eks. Cf. "Xmas". It is neither a particularly Christian nor a particularly un-Christian use, but it is quite informal. It's much older, however, than tex

Re: [users] Re: ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-27 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 27, 2008, at 2:01 PM, Jim Allan wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: If you mean the SORT statement of COBOL, of course it did! No. I mean the standard IBM DOS sort. I was at several shops all of which used a third-party sort because the IBM DOS sort “did not work properly”. I don’t know

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-25 Thread John W Kennedy
Thus I end up with something like the following two examples you may have a look at the definition document / REF/ Or the syntax of variables to be substituted look like $ {Name} Vote for Issue 46414. Some of us have been asking for a fix in this area for many years. -- John W Kennedy &qu

Re: [users] ODF incompatible variants, was: Microsoft and ODF

2008-05-24 Thread John W Kennedy
e, and often could not wait for the standards to catch up. (Standard COBOL, for example, did not get around to supporting disk files until 1968.) Microsoft, on the other hand, deliberately pisses in standards simply to protect their monopoly. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in d

Re: [users] keeping characters together

2008-05-24 Thread John W Kennedy
together on one line? Mark it "No language" under Format->Character->Font. -- John W Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts" -- J. Michael Straczynski. "Babyl

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office: Move enhances customer choice and interoperability with Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 23, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Jim Allan wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: If you have something to blame Microsoft for, then document it, as people have for the OOXML fiasco or discrepancies from standard HTML, or some of their dirty tricks or mistatements. Your comment about broken glue doesn’t

Re: [users] Re: Microsoft Expands List of Formats Supported in Microsoft Office: Move enhances customer choice and interoperability with Microsoft's flagship productivity suite.

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
arted the unapproved and frequently maddening trick of putting a BOM into UTF-8. -- John W Kennedy "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." -- G. K. Chesterton. "The

Re: [users] Character Encodings

2008-05-23 Thread John W Kennedy
John W Kennedy "You can, if you wish, class all science-fiction together; but it is about as perceptive as classing the works of Ballantyne, Conrad and W. W. Jacobs together as the 'sea-story' and then criticizing _that_." -- C. S. Lewis. &q

Re: [users] Re: OpenOffice and portable harddrives

2008-05-15 Thread John W Kennedy
peat their rational. It is not Lashon Hara to warn against future evil. -- John W Kennedy Well-informed Goy - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Problem with installing Open Office on MacBook Pro

2008-05-13 Thread John W Kennedy
e cycle of failure. Any way that I can install and use Open Office? Older versions of OSX required you to download, and if you downloaded it, it's that older version you got. Leopard puts it on the OSX DVDs; install it from there. -- John W Kennedy "But now is a new thing which is

Re: [users] Problem with formulas in Beta 3 for iMac

2008-05-13 Thread John W Kennedy
to a quadrate with a 'W' inside) Can somebody tell me if this is a bug? I can confirm that it is happening, and that it is a bug. I don't know whether an issue has been opened on it. -- John W Kennedy "The grand art mastered the thudding hammer of Thor And the heart of our

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 11, 2008, at 5:47 AM, Bob Estes wrote: John W Kennedy wrote: On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a

Re: [users] shortkeys

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
laptop, Home and End are Fn-LeftArrow and Fn- RightArrow. PgUp and PgDn are Fn-UpArrow and Fn-DownArrow, and Fn- delete is PC-style delete. -- John W Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community. - To unsubsc

Re: [users] Money, Currency, Federal Reserve (subject line updated, hope that's okay)

2008-05-11 Thread John W Kennedy
y theorist, spreading ridiculous pseudo-legal arguments that have been repeatedly rejected by the judiciary as "frivolous". 2) This subject is also completely off-topic. 3) *PLONK* -- John W Kennedy "Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light."

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 10, 2008, at 4:38 PM, Michael Adams wrote: On Sat, 10 May 2008 16:23:31 -0400 James Knott wrote: Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-10 Thread John W Kennedy
On May 10, 2008, at 7:44 AM, Bob Estes wrote: Jerry Feldman wrote: On Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:48 -0400 John W Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago. Let's bring back pieces of

[users] Beta issues?

2008-05-08 Thread John W Kennedy
Anybody know when http://qa.openoffice.org is going to start accepting 3.0 beta issues? -- John W Kennedy "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to

Re: [users] Re: Download time for open office

2008-05-07 Thread John W Kennedy
the cent picked up the "penny" name.) Note that the New York Stock Exchange continued to trade in 1/8ths of a dollar until just a few years ago. -- John W Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why can&#

Re: [users] MacroMedia Flash UpDate ReSets Computer Wide Open

2008-05-04 Thread John W Kennedy
Your Plugins to use the site fully or see all content or something like that, with a green jigsaw icon displayed. The code on the website runs a program on your computer ... so it has access past your firewall. Do I detect bogosity? -- John W Kennedy "The bright critics assembled in t

Re: [users] Re: Re: N-dashes

2008-04-29 Thread John W Kennedy
use Tools->Macros->Record Macro to make a simple macro that uses Insert->Special Character to insert an en-dash, and then use Tools- >Customize->Keyboard to set some key combination to execute that macro. -- John W Kennedy "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed ba

Re: [users] Inserting field names

2008-04-28 Thread John W Kennedy
ot be so obvious, but look at all the different options in the Insert->Fields->Other dialog. Sometimes you want to know just what the heck the thing is. -- John W Kennedy "...if you had to fall in love with someone who was evil, I can see why it was he

Re: [users] Inserting field names

2008-04-28 Thread John W Kennedy
t;Page number or File name. Instead of obtaining the desired page number as a digit, I have the text "Page Number" and of course the text "File name" but not the the proper file name. What happens ? Has anybody experienced the same ? It's a toggle. View->Field Na

Re: [users] Standard US English

2008-04-23 Thread John W Kennedy
And Wiktionary is not divided into separate US and UK lists in the first place. As an examination of any real dictionary will show, "judgment" is the normal US spelling, and the normal UK spelling in legal work, while "judgement" is the normal UK spelling outside of legal

Re: [users] Re: OOXML

2008-04-20 Thread John W Kennedy
files, you're not likely to notice -- which is the reason that the cheaper USB is the de-facto standard for general-purpose work. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. -

Re: [users] "Installer has ceased to respond"

2008-04-11 Thread John W Kennedy
d the Palm/ Tomtom package, I'll get by. -- John W Kennedy Having switched to a Mac in disgust at Microsoft's combination of incompetence and criminality. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional comm

[users] "Installer has ceased to respond"

2008-04-01 Thread John W. Kennedy
ready for that, yet, and I was hoping that Aqua OOo would be ready first. Does anyone have any further ideas, short of restoring to factory status, which, considering the amount of various software I have installed, is a job that will take me about two weeks to complete? -- John W. Kennedy

Re: [users] Re: Advice re ECDL

2008-03-19 Thread John W. Kennedy
Henning von Roeder wrote: actually i wa snot, and ..computer driving license sounds quite as silly to me as early childhood development Neddie: Up, up, and away! GRAM: Sound of high-performance engine and tires squealing. F/X: Police siren: GRAM: Brakes squeal. Grytpype-Thynne: Now, sir, wh

Re: [users] formating problem

2008-03-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
th sidebars, wordwrapped figures, bled index tabs, and similar gaudy devices. -- John W. Kennedy "The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the

Re: [users] spell check in open office

2008-03-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
your documents in? If you go to Tools->Options->Language Settings->Languages, what is selected under "Default languages for documents"? Select a bit of text that you think isn't being spell-checked. If you go to Format->Character->Font, what does it say under "Lang

Re: [users] Like WordPerfect?

2008-02-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
ssage to another; opening a OOo document isn't so cheap. -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start ano

Re: [users] Emailing: 7 years

2008-02-11 Thread John W. Kennedy
Tom Bell wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: This is a hash sign: # I believe that you may call this a number sign, but the technical name for it is hash. Actually, it's called an octothorpe. Hash is food (at least it pretends to be ). It has se

Re: [users] Emailing: 7 years

2008-02-10 Thread John W. Kennedy
lthorpe". But note that "octothorpe" was made up by a practical joker in the 20th century. The notion that it is somehow the "proper" name is an urban myth. (It is also sometimes used as a substitute for the musical sharp sign, but it's not really the same.) -- John

Re: [users] OOo Writer crashes when Format | Page

2008-02-09 Thread John W. Kennedy
completely different driver? -- John W. Kennedy "Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born! Hold in your heart that you and the people are one, human beings all, and good government shall arise of its own a

Re: [users] openoffice compatability

2008-02-01 Thread John W. Kennedy
). I've been using SO/OOo since before Sun purchased Star, and I use it all the time, but if I ever had to write even one script, I'd get Final Draft. (My wife has it, so I know.) -- John W. Kennedy "The pathetic hope that the White House will turn a Caligula into a Marcus Aurelius

Re: [users] Voting on Issues

2008-01-25 Thread John W. Kennedy
easy way to get time in C (though I don't know why it was chosen), and it /is/, as a result, common as muck, even though it's stupid. -- John W. Kennedy "The blind rulers of Logres Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue." -- Charles Willi

Re: [users] Voting on Issues

2008-01-25 Thread John W. Kennedy
; which is so much easier to interpret? I don't know why, but it's the native time format of C, so it's found all over the place. -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidator

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: But it is easy to give cases where "+" should be a break, and easy to give cases where "‘" should, even in the same documents. I'm sure it's possible, but easy? I can't think of a case where I'd like "a

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: You can't, in general. You just have to deal with the fact that there are always going to be exceptional and difficult cases. A problem that I had a couple of years back, for example, was in transcribing an 18th-century play (William Dunlap&#

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-24 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Harold Fuchs wrote: Wouldn't he have to do that for every occurrence, just in case one occurrence overflowed a line without him noticing? Unfortunately, yes. The same is largely true of the "no-width no break" solution, except tha

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 23/01/2008 23:22, John W. Kennedy wrote: Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Format it as "no language". That's not a very attractive option, because I want to be able to spell-check those paragraphs. In the documents I write, many paragraph

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
Scott Meyers wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Format it as "no language". That's not a very attractive option, because I want to be able to spell-check those paragraphs. In the documents I write, many paragraphs have the word "C++" in them, and foregoing spell check

Re: [users] Re: Writer: Preventing line breaks in "c++"

2008-01-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
d, so I don't think this is a hyphenation issue. Format it as "no language". -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,'

Re: [users] X11 2.1.2 stops OpenOffice.org from starting

2008-01-15 Thread John W. Kennedy
you must have checked it. -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another company to-morrow!" -- Sir Willia

Re: [users] Two questions about OpenOffice from a professional...

2008-01-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
James Knott wrote: Svyatoslav Zaborov wrote: Hi all! If you wish to post to this list, please do so in an intelligent manner. Your post is not appreciated and certainly didn't sound as though it came from a "professional". Not to mention that it's racist crap. -- Joh

Re: [users] scrolling in openoffice.org + Windows XP + Thinkpad R60

2008-01-06 Thread John W. Kennedy
assis, and used as a trackball). The UltraNav is the more complex ThinkPad T-series equipment that includes both a TrackPoint and a touchpad. -- John W. Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve

Re: [users] scrolling in openoffice.org + Windows XP + Thinkpad R60

2008-01-05 Thread John W. Kennedy
er. Does anyone else have this problem? It works for me, under virtually identical conditions, so I imagine it's a question of Tools->Options->OpenOffice.org->View->Middle mouse button. -- John W. Kennedy "There are those who argue that everything breaks even in this old dump

Re: [users] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2007-12-02 Thread John W. Kennedy
Harold Fuchs wrote: On 03/12/2007 00:21, NoOp wrote: Anyone else getting bounces from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Not here. I just did. -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, &

Re: [users] Re: Calc: Format/Formula help

2007-12-02 Thread John W. Kennedy
fluid on the screen to change spelling mistakes. Blonde, male, British secretary? :-) "Blonde" is female by definition. A male is "blond". -- John W. Kennedy "...if you had to fall in love with someone who was e

Re: [users] Re: Use of open office.

2007-11-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
e the same size as pre-1928 dollar bills, so that they would fit into drawers meant for cash. -- John W. Kennedy "...when you're trying to build a house of cards, the last thing you should do is blow hard and wave your hands like a madman."

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-11-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
supported -- neither are Bengali and Tulu. If you know a computer programmer who speaks both Kannada and English, by all means ask him if he can help out. -- John W. Kennedy "Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born!

Re: [users] [moderated]

2007-11-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
fe trying to figure out what the Hell you're talking about. -- John W. Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts" -- J. Michael Straczyns

Re: [users] Source code offer and distribution requirements

2007-11-23 Thread John W. Kennedy
the patent. Jonathon is, of course, correct. As long as Microsoft's gangsterism is permitted to flourish, /all/ non-Microsoft software is at risk. -- John W. Kennedy "Those in the seat of power oft forget their failings and seek only the obeisance of others! Thus is bad government born!

Re: [users] Re: KeyTweak: Keyboard Remapping in Windows (Freeware)

2007-11-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
ppear above. After 3 seconds if you haven't hit a key for the accent then the apostraphe finally appears on screen. I suspect that you don't have to wait three seconds if you hit the space bar. -- John W. Kennedy "Sweet, was Christ crucified to create this chat?" -- Charles

Re: [users] v 2.3 - how to place special characters faster e.g. quick key

2007-11-17 Thread John W. Kennedy
ly the same, except for inscription on the plastic, and have been at least since the mid-90s -- probably for as long as there have been two Alt keys. -- John W. Kennedy "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it h

Re: [users] Can not open .pps files properly

2007-11-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
What version of OpenOffice.org are you using? Are you sure you're using /any/ version of OpenOffice.org? There is a program called Lotus Symphony that is /based/ /on/ OpenOffice.org, but is not the same. By the way, this looks like you have done a replacement of some of windows modules.

Re: [users] Password

2007-11-13 Thread John W. Kennedy
have never heard of a password being required to update Java. Where are you getting it from Some operating systems require /their/ password to update /anything/. Neither OOo nor Java even gets involved in this process. -- John W. Kennedy If Bill Gates believes in "intelligent design", why

Re: [users] Open Office 2.1

2007-11-08 Thread John W. Kennedy
in intent only reading. -- John W. Kennedy Read the remains of Shakespeare's lost play, now annotated! http://pws.prserv.net/jwkennedy/Double%20Falshood/index.html - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additio

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
n this, they will also have a case against you and your employer for harassment and malicious prosecution. (Note: I am not affiliated with either Sun Microsystems or OpenOffice.org. I am also not qualified to practice as a lawyer in either the United States or Canada.) -- John W. Kennedy &quo

Re: [users] open office

2007-10-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
O3FBE-4492-4133-BBAB-421CD88ADA32 this is not 25 digits. Pls help This makes no sense whatsoever in the context of the OpenOffice.org program, which is distributed free of charge, doesn't come in a box, and has no "product code" in the first place. -- John W. Kennedy "But no

Re: [users] How to download open office!

2007-10-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
see a download option at all. Could you please provide a link to be able to download it via http. I see the option right there. Click on "Download OpenOffice.org". -- John W. Kennedy "Information is light. Information, in itself, about anything, is light." -- To

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 26 October 2007 14:49:28 John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: So, go ahead and sue. First you have to find a lawyer dumb enough to take the case. It's quite obvious this guy's a troll or a complete idiot. Also, here's his company&#x

Re: [users] untrustfull business

2007-10-26 Thread John W. Kennedy
nly one given on the site. It may be a one-man operation. He's quite mad -- he sent me back an incoherent and vilely spelt rant accusing me (insofar as I could construe it at all) of impersonating myself. -- John W. Kennedy "Information is light. Information, in itself, about any

Re: [users] Question about Copyright

2007-10-18 Thread John W. Kennedy
PT program, which first appeared on the CMS operating system ca. 1967. -- John W. Kennedy "Though a Rothschild you may be In your own capacity, As a Company you've come to utter sorrow-- But the Liquidators say, 'Never mind--you needn't pay,' So you start another c

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-10-14 Thread John W. Kennedy
27;s why TCP/IP provides two layers.) -- John W. Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 30 September 2007 18:57:16 John W. Kennedy wrote: I don't hear anyone complaining about OOo "stealing" the ODF formats. How is it that OpenOffice.org is stealing the OpenDocument Format? Just as much and in the same way as Symphony is. --

Re: [users] Legal but

2007-09-30 Thread John W. Kennedy
farewell to. But maybe I'll switch in the future. Let's see what happens. -- John W. Kennedy "Give up vows and dogmas, and fixed things, and you may grow like That. ...you may come to think a blow bad, because it hurts, and not because it humiliates. You may come to think murder

Re: [users] Re: WARNING: Do Not Install IBM Lotus Symphony (Beta)

2007-09-28 Thread John W. Kennedy
. On my Windows system, the uninstaller is in the usual place. (I really don't see what is so shocking about a program for editing ODF files setting associations with ODF files.) -- John W. Kennedy "Compact is becoming contract, Man only earns and pays." -- Charles Williams.

Re: [users] File format change in OO 2.3

2007-09-27 Thread John W. Kennedy
-created files. -- John W. Kennedy "Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the kingdom of idiots would fight a war on twelve fronts" -- J. Michael Straczynski. "Babylon 5", "Cer

Re: [users] OT freeware /open source image editing software??

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
Robin Laing wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: James Knott wrote: Lisa Hetherington wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a good open source/freeware image editing program?? http://www.gimp.org/ But buy the O'Reilly GIMP book. GIMP is very powerful, and it's user-friendly to

Re: [users] Re: Default Character Set or Encoding

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
Joe Conner wrote: This path will allow you to change Windows-1252 to UTF-8 if you wish to do so. TOOLS => OPTIONS => LOAD/SAVE => HTML COMPATABILITY => CHARACTER SET As far as I know, that only affects export and import of HTML files. -- John W. Kennedy "Give up vows and

Re: [users] [moderated] YOU MUST GIVE A SUMMARY HERE

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 21 September 2007 11:24:00 John W. Kennedy wrote: Diabolic Preacher wrote: On 9/21/07, John W. Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cheated?! not again! check out the threads on the wonderful freedoms of GPL/LGPL to allow vendors to charge...even for do

Re: [users] Re: Default Character Set or Encoding

2007-09-21 Thread John W. Kennedy
John Rotomano wrote: John W. Kennedy wrote: Thanks for the reply. I am currently using OOo 2.3, but previuos versions have had the same problem. I run Kubuntu 7.04 and 6.06. I download shop inventory from a suplier. The download is in .csv format and includes 20 or so columns of product

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