Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-23 Thread Gene Young
John Kaufmann wrote: In a message dated 2009.09.20 12:52 -0500, Gene Young wrote: Am just transitioning to Writer from other word processors.? Altho I clearly need to learn to more efficiently use Writer's styles, my vote is for a "reveal codes" option to identify when I have made some mistak

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-23 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.09.20 12:52 -0500, Gene Young wrote: Am just transitioning to Writer from other word processors.? Altho I clearly need to learn to more efficiently use Writer's styles, my vote is for a "reveal codes" option to identify when I have made some mistake and to help me corre

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-23 Thread Robin Laing
jonathon wrote: On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:40, John Kaufmann wrote: makes the task predictable rather than frustrating, and quick rather than time-consuming. I'd argue that the task is very predictable, and easy, _if_ one pays close attention to what one is doing, and where one is doing it

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-21 Thread 71234 . 3514
Thank you, Lars. I will try one or both of the XML / HTML readers you suggested. Bob

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-20 Thread jonathon
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 23:03, John Kaufmann wrote: > As I asked before: Do you have the slightest evidence or documentation for Did you bother reading the release notes? jonathon - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@ope

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-20 Thread Lars Nooden
71234.3...@compuserve.com wrote: > Hi Jonathon, > > > Am just transitioning to Writer from other word processors.? Altho I > clearly need to learn to more efficiently use Writer's styles, my > vote is for a "reveal codes" option Hmm. OOo is quite different from WordPerfect in that it doesn't l

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-20 Thread Gene Young
71234.3...@compuserve.com wrote: Hi Jonathon, Am just transitioning to Writer from other word processors.? Altho I clearly need to learn to more efficiently use Writer's styles, my vote is for a "reveal codes" option to identify when I have made some mistake and to help me correct it.?? The pro

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-20 Thread 71234 . 3514
Hi Jonathon, Am just transitioning to Writer from other word processors.? Altho I clearly need to learn to more efficiently use Writer's styles, my vote is for a "reveal codes" option to identify when I have made some mistake and to help me correct it.?? The problem is worst when I have impor

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-18 Thread John Kaufmann
jonathon, Again, though I'm uncomfortable continuing to discuss another word processor on this list, I just can't let this go unchallenged: In a message dated 2009.09.18 18:18 -0500, jonathon wrote: Inasmuch as it was the wordperfect developers that admitted that reveal codes was forced on t

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-18 Thread jonathon
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 21:46, John Kaufmann wrote: > that I was *quoting* (admittedly with a sense of recognition) from page 20 of > the Writer guide 0208WG3-WorkingWithGraphics.odt, that "the positioning of > graphics is often rather time-consuming and may be very frustrating for > [even] ex

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-18 Thread John Kaufmann
jonathan, In a message dated 2009.09.18 02:14 -0500, jonathon wrote: makes the task predictable rather than frustrating, and quick rather than time-consuming. I'd argue that the task is very predictable, and easy, _if_ one pays close attention to what one is doing, and where one is doing i

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread jonathon
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 05:40, John Kaufmann wrote: > makes the task predictable rather than frustrating, and quick rather than > time-consuming. I'd argue that the task is very predictable, and easy, _if_ one pays close attention to what one is doing, and where one is doing it. I"ll grant ti

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread John Kaufmann
In a message dated 2009.09.17 18:56 -0500, Andy wrote: Check out chapter 8 of the OpenOffice.org users guide at http://www.oooauthors.org/english/userguide3/writer3/WG3_published/0208WG3-WorkingWithGraphics.odt/view It has very good detail on working with graphics in Writer. Thanks, Pete!

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread Andy
John Kaufmann wrote: A procedure document, with lots of pictures and associated text, is proving difficult to format properly. Pictures that are supposedly anchored to a paragraph wind up on the next page, with lots of whitespace between associated text and pictures. How should I go about fi

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread John Kaufmann
Hi jonathan, In a message dated 2009.09.17 14:29 -0500, jonathon wrote: How should I go about finding the hidden constraints causing the pictures to be removed from their text (or is it vice versa)? You'll have to look at each picture, and see what it is anchored to, and how it is anchored

Re: [users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread jonathon
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 08:09, John Kaufmann wrote: >How should I go about finding the hidden constraints causing the pictures to >be removed from their text (or is it vice versa)? You'll have to look at each picture, and see what it is anchored to, and how it is anchored to whatever it is an

[users] Finding hidden formatting problems

2009-09-17 Thread John Kaufmann
A procedure document, with lots of pictures and associated text, is proving difficult to format properly. Pictures that are supposedly anchored to a paragraph wind up on the next page, with lots of whitespace between associated text and pictures. How should I go about finding the hidden const