Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 11:45:01 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >.but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the >components of libreoffice were pulled in - unlike the standard >libreoffice install >- if this make sense to all. Yeah, it does; Sh&t 'appens

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-19 Thread dmthompson
Hi, What happened, to install openoffice using dpkg, libreoffice was removed, along with various other packages, so when i came back to reinstating libreoffice (as part of testing) openoffice was removed, but I believe when I installed libreoffice-gtk3 not all the components of libreoffice were

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 15:38:23 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >OK, times change. {deleted for brevity} That's quite a tale of woes. For full disclosure, I've never used Base or Impress at all. I'm just aware they're available to me. The pendulum swings, I suppose. ;-) -- Regards _ "Va

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:39:21 + Joe wrote: Hello Joe, >A standard Debian stable installation will not include Base or Impress, Really? Because I see Depends: libreoffice-impress and libreoffice-base in testing. >It should certainly have included Writer. Agreed. -- Regards _ "Val

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:34:42 + dmthomp...@gmx.com wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >called Joe gave the hint, and i checked to see if swriter was installed >it was not so I installed it, and the was able to open a swriter doc in That makes it sound as though you may not have the package 'lib

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Its what I am used to doing, and my thinking seems to go that way, but you are right, at the end of the day. I looged back into Debian this morning, after the email I sent following this thread title/subject, and you are right, and i think the person called Joe gave the hint, and i check

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Hans
I believe, the original poster meant, if he clicks on an *.odt file, then he expects libreoffice to be started. This is a feature of the windowmanager he is using. To help him, we should know, which windowmanager (KDE, Gnome, XFCE whatever) he is using, as each wm jhas its own settings. Hans

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 18 Dec 2024 11:29:34 + wrote: Hello dmthomp...@gmx.com, >I just typed, to install libreoffice-gtk, one would expect for all >components of the suite to be installed - right;) No; Why would you install (for example) libreoffice-qt if you don't use KDE/Plasma? A rhetorical questio

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-18 Thread dmthompson
Hi all, Thanks for the reply, and help. I do not know the answer to the question, as yet. All i know is that unlike what I am used to, some kind of user interface comes up, where one part is a large box that incite dropping docs into to open - I tried that yesterday but still got an attempt to o

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread tomas
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Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread Joe
On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 12:54:49 + wrote: > Hello, > > Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian > is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with > wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online > help about this issue is

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-17 Thread dmthompson
Hello, Just followed your advice, but have to say that libreoffice on Debian is not what I was expecting; slow start-up, opens .odt documents with wrong application (chart when it should be a word-processor), online help about this issue is no help, cannot open word-processor directly have to go

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-15 Thread Christian Britz
Am 15.12.24 um 13:37 schrieb david thompson: > I am using xfce4 desktop, have Adwaita-dark, and xfce-duskm as well as other > themes installed. Please try libreoffice-gtk3

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-15 Thread david thompson
took the dark theme naturally - scratches head, On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 08:23:44 +0100 Christian Britz wrote: > Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson: > > I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice > > adopting the system theme - they wont do it. > > Th

Re: libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-14 Thread Christian Britz
Am 13.12.24 um 13:02 schrieb david thompson: > I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice adopting the > system theme - they wont do it. There are packages like for example libreoffice-plasma, libreoffice-kf5, libreoffice-style-breeze you can use for integration i

libreoffice/openoffice system theme

2024-12-13 Thread david thompson
Hi all, I am having some trouble getting libreoffice or/and openoffice adopting the system theme - they wont do it. I use a dark theme, due to my eyesight - it helps. Things is that on Devuan libreoffice/openoffice naturally adopts the system theme - why is that? This happens on LMDE as well

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 11:52:02AM +0100, local10 wrote: > Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > > > But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common conflict > > string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! > > > > > > May

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread The Wanderer
On 2022-11-06 at 05:52, local10 wrote: > Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > >> But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common >> conflict string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! >> >> >> Maybe libreoffice

Re: libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread local10
Nov 6, 2022, 06:47 by dev@yandex.ru: > But if i delete "openoffice.org-unbundled" from libreoffice-common conflict > string Apache OpenOffice install and work fine! > > > Maybe libreoffice-common not need "openoffice.org-unbundled" in conflict &

libreoffice conflict with openoffice

2022-11-06 Thread dev two
Package: libreoffice-common Version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3 Hello! I can not install lLbreOffice from repo and Apache OpenOffice from openoffice.org together Package "libreoffice-common" conflict with openoffice deb packages In libreoffice-common package INFO file (debian/control) confl

(solved) Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-18 Thread Li Wei
I have complete the task using galculator manually Thanks anyway! On Fri, 9/18/15, David Wright wrote: Subject: Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, September 18, 2015, 11:06 PM It was

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Li Wei (root...@yahoo.com): > I don't have Excel > I open the file with oocalc It was suggested in Carl Fink's posting https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/09/msg00743.html that the numbers that you are trying to sum are not numbers at all. Could you check that out and respond. It wou

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-18 Thread Li Wei
I don't have Excel I open the file with oocalc sort it and select part of it then copy/paste to a new file in oocalc On Fri, 9/18/15, Curt wrote: Subject: Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: F

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-18 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-17, Li Wei wrote: > I have not realized the problem is so difficult > I'd rather do manual calculation, it's one-time task > The file is paste from a Excel file I know how you feel. Have you tried opening the Excel file directly in Open Office Calc?

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-17 Thread Siard
Li Wei wrote: > I have not realized the problem is so difficult > I'd rather do manual calculation, it's one-time task > The file is paste from a Excel file Pasting from an Excel file looks odd to me, I guess it gives unpredictable results. Better open the Excel file with LO and paste it from ther

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-17 Thread Li Wei
I have not realized the problem is so difficult I'd rather do manual calculation, it's one-time task The file is paste from a Excel file Thanks anyway! On Thu, 9/17/15, Siard wrote: I can see it now.  N1:N8 do not contain numbers; they contain a

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-17 Thread Siard
Li Wei wrote: > I have attach the calc file, it's in Chinese, (sorry) > my question is how to display sum(N1:N8) in cell N9 I can see it now. N1:N8 do not contain numbers; they contain alphanumeric strings. If you select N1, then this is what you see in the formula bar: '-755.68 The apostroph i

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-17 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 14:13 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > Thanks to all those who reply! > > I have prefix equal sign, but it doesn't work > I have attach the calc file, it's in Chinese, (sorry) > my question is how to display sum(N1:N8) in cell N9 Hi, There are also mailing lists specifically for Libr

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 11:27:12PM +0200, Floris wrote: > What is your decimal separator? > > Go to Tools --> Options --> language Settings --> Languages > > Because when I replace the dots, with a comma the formula > =SUM(N1:N8) works Interestingly, on my system the items in those cells are no

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Floris
Op Wed, 16 Sep 2015 23:13:34 +0200 schreef Li Wei : Thanks to all those who reply! I have prefix equal sign, but it doesn't work I have attach the calc file, it's in Chinese, (sorry) my question is how to display sum(N1:N8) in cell N9 Thanks! What is your decimal separator? Go to Tools --

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 03:12:22PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 06:02 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > > I want sum of a column of values > > I enter "SUM(N1:N8)" in cell N9 > > but can't get cell N9 to display sum > > > > Thanks in advance!!! > > > > PS: I'm in China and can't use

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-16, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Wednesday 16 September 2015 16:26:58 Curt wrote: >> On 2015-09-16, Lars Noodén wrote: >> > Wouldn't that be "=SUM(N1:N8)" instead, with an equal sign? >> >> That works for me. >> >> I just hit that Greek letter (epsilon?). > > I don't know the actual thing, b

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 16 September 2015 16:26:58 Curt wrote: > On 2015-09-16, Lars Noodén wrote: > > Wouldn't that be "=SUM(N1:N8)" instead, with an equal sign? > > That works for me. > > I just hit that Greek letter (epsilon?). I don't know the actual thing, but it is much more likely to be upper case s

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Curt
On 2015-09-16, Lars Noodén wrote: >> > Wouldn't that be "=SUM(N1:N8)" instead, with an equal sign? > That works for me. I just hit that Greek letter (epsilon?).

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2015-09-16 at 06:02 -0700, Li Wei wrote: > I want sum of a column of values > I enter "SUM(N1:N8)" in cell N9 > but can't get cell N9 to display sum > > Thanks in advance!!! > > PS: I'm in China and can't use google to find answer Hi, See https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Calculating

Re: how to sum a column in openoffice calc

2015-09-16 Thread Lars Noodén
On 09/16/2015 04:02 PM, Li Wei wrote: > I want sum of a column of values > I enter "SUM(N1:N8)" in cell N9 > but can't get cell N9 to display sum > > Thanks in advance!!! > > PS: I'm in China and can't use google to find answer > > Wouldn't that be "=SUM(N1:N8)" instead, with an equal sign? Re

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-11 Thread Paul van der Vlis
gt; > infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a > successful > > case of open software use in the "real world" > > I do support for many of such firms. > > > But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep compl

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-11 Thread Ezequiel
en software use in the "real world" > > I do support for many of such firms. > > > But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining > > about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I > > change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe th

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-10 Thread Paul van der Vlis
rt for many of such firms. > But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining > about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I > change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that > version. > > The question is: Is there any w

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-10 Thread Joe
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 13:49:57 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > To be honest, I also thought that it was written in Java until > recently ( well, I think I discovered that in the beginning of the > year ), but someday I said that on a forum and was instantly replied > that it was written

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-10 Thread berenger . morel
Le 10.10.2013 10:24, Joe a écrit : On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:21:29 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 09.10.2013 23:04, Joe a écrit : > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:52:43 -0300 > Ezequiel wrote: > >> Thanks to all for your replies. I am actually pinning OO in order >> to use oldstable versi

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-10 Thread Joe
On Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:21:29 +0200 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: > Le 09.10.2013 23:04, Joe a écrit : > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:52:43 -0300 > > Ezequiel wrote: > > > >> Thanks to all for your replies. I am actually pinning OO in order > >> to use oldstable versions. I guess I will try to c

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-09 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 10/10/13, Ezequiel wrote: > Thanks to all for your replies. I am actually pinning OO in order to use > oldstable versions. I guess I will try to compile it an make my own repos. > You were very helpfull. > > I'm not giving up convincing my users, but I know it's a hopeless fight :P Never hopel

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-09 Thread berenger . morel
Le 09.10.2013 23:04, Joe a écrit : On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:52:43 -0300 Ezequiel wrote: Thanks to all for your replies. I am actually pinning OO in order to use oldstable versions. I guess I will try to compile it an make my own repos. You were very helpfull. Bear in mind that OOo and LO use J

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-09 Thread Joe
On Wed, 9 Oct 2013 12:52:43 -0300 Ezequiel wrote: > Thanks to all for your replies. I am actually pinning OO in order to > use oldstable versions. I guess I will try to compile it an make my > own repos. You were very helpfull. > Bear in mind that OOo and LO use Java for various purposes, and J

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-09 Thread Ezequiel
infrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a >>> successful case of open software use in the "real world" >>> >>> But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining >>> about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even compl

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that version. The question is: Is there any way of freezing OO version indefinet

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread berenger . morel
users keep complaining about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that version. The question is: Is there any way of freezing OO version indefinetly? I am currently using oldstable OO but I guess my time is g

Re: I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread Luis Bandarra
users keep complaining about OpenOffice migration to Libre Office. They even complain if I change OO from 3.2 to 3.3. I believe there were major changes in that version. The question is: Is there any way of freezing OO version indefinetly? I am currently using oldstable OO but I guess my tim

I have an Openoffice question for small business.

2013-10-08 Thread Ezequiel
Hi all: I am Sysadmin at a small business. We have a complete mail-web-vpninfrastructure and my boss is happy with it. I guess we are a successful case of open software use in the "real world" But -of course, there is always an issue- my users keep complaining about OpenOffice migratio

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice ...

2013-05-15 Thread George Langford, Sc.D.
Here's the URL for my OO posting: http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?p=536651#536651 This may be related to a problem I had years ago with the page format for a No.10 envelope. Once I got the working combination of Landscape/Portrait and other factors in synch between the printer and

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-15 Thread Brian
On Wed 15 May 2013 at 17:36:33 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > > > > > Here's a crossover problem. > > > > > > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left han

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 07:37:36PM +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > > > Here's a crossover problem. > > > > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image: > > Intriguing! > > > 1. On debian PC running squeeze

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-14 Thread Brian
On Tue 14 May 2013 at 11:03:14 -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > Here's a crossover problem. > > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image: Intriguing! > 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update. By design Squeeze is stable, so the

Re: Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-14 Thread Tom Furie
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:03:14AM -0400, George Langford, Sc.D. wrote: > Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image: > > 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update. > 2. On WinXPSP3 laptop, the same document prints perfectly with the > same p

Spurious letter appears in OpenOffice printed document

2013-05-14 Thread George Langford, Sc.D.
Here's a crossover problem. Document prints with a spurious letter in upper left hand corner of image: 1. On debian PC running squeeze, only since recent apt-get update. 2. On WinXPSP3 laptop, the same document prints perfectly with the same printer. Prints the extra letter whether on a No.1

Re: [OT] openoffice write auto-numbering turn off

2012-05-12 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 12 May 2012 18:26:58 +0800, lina wrote: > I have a file like: > > aaa > (1) morning > (2) noon > (3) afternoon > > when I press the return key "enter" to start a new line, I don't expect > it to be (4). (...) Check the suggestions here (mainly the #4 comment): [LibreOffice] Turn off a

Re: [OT] openoffice write auto-numbering turn off

2012-05-12 Thread lina
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 6:37 PM, wrote: > lina writes: > >  > Hi, >> >  > I have a file like: >> >  > aaa >  > (1) morning >  > (2) noon >  > (3) afternoon >> >  > when I press the return key "enter" to start a new line, I don't >  > expect it to be (4). >> >  > How can I avoid it. I turned the

Re: [OT] openoffice write auto-numbering turn off

2012-05-12 Thread paivakil
lina writes: > Hi, > > I have a file like: > > aaa > (1) morning > (2) noon > (3) afternoon > > when I press the return key "enter" to start a new line, I don't > expect it to be (4). > > How can I avoid it. I turned the numbering off still not work. so > weird, google told me I may try

[OT] openoffice write auto-numbering turn off

2012-05-12 Thread lina
Hi, I have a file like: aaa (1) morning (2) noon (3) afternoon when I press the return key "enter" to start a new line, I don't expect it to be (4). How can I avoid it. I turned the numbering off still not work. so weird, google told me I may try "Tools"-> "Outline numbering" -> numebr "None".

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-23 Thread Joel Roth
Thanks for those replies. I will try to probe the logic of the ruler and tab system, hopefully finding a practical way to repeat that fill pattern in some 90 lines. Regards, On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 05:08:39PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On 09/19/2011 05:16 PM, Joel Roth wrote: > >Hi Debianolog

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread Kent West
On 09/19/2011 05:16 PM, Joel Roth wrote: Hi Debianologists, Many word processors can fill to the right margin with a repeated character (often dot or underscore). I think the technical term is 'leadering'. Does anyone know how to do it in OOW? Thanks click on the ruler where you want y

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:16:17 -1000 Joel Roth dijo: >Hi Debianologists, > >Many word processors can fill to the right margin >with a repeated character (often dot or underscore). > >I think the technical term is 'leadering'. > >Does anyone know how to do it in OOW? Create a tab at the rightmost e

Re: Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread John A. Sullivan III
On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 12:16 -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > Hi Debianologists, > > Many word processors can fill to the right margin > with a repeated character (often dot or underscore). > > I think the technical term is 'leadering'. > > Does anyone know how to do it in OOW? > > Thanks > > -- > Jo

Openoffice writer.................................fill

2011-09-19 Thread Joel Roth
Hi Debianologists, Many word processors can fill to the right margin with a repeated character (often dot or underscore). I think the technical term is 'leadering'. Does anyone know how to do it in OOW? Thanks -- Joel Roth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org w

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-07-01 Thread John W Foster
I want to thank all of you who replied to my question. As usual I got many different viewpoints and as such have decided to install LibreOffice & give it a go. As for those concerned about my implied failure to do my own discovery...well that is exactly why I've been a participating member of the D

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-30 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
LibreOffice all along: LibreOffice is derived from go-ooo, which was the fork of OpenOffice.org that we were shipping. > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? Someone might see fit to package apache-ooo.org, but right now there is only LibreOffice (formely go-ooo) in Debian. Support fo

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-30 Thread Camaleón
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500, John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? I suppose because is a community based development and supported upstream. > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? OpenOffice is dead

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-30 Thread Darac Marjal
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:55:22PM +0200, Steven wrote: > On Wed, 2011-06-29 at 13:26 -0500, John W Foster wrote: [cut] > > > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > It is supposed to be faster, has more bugs fixed, and so on. It also > appears to m

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 01:26:39PM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > These questions are not i

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread Joe
On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:26:39 -0500 John W Foster wrote: > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? > 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? > > These questions are not intende

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread Steven
Office, which has gained quite a number of new developers, cleaning up the code. You should read up on why LibreOffice has forked from OpenOffice. A short history can be found on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History But I'm sure others can give a much more detailed explan

Re: OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread Leandro DUTRA
2011/6/29 John W Foster : > 1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few > days ago? Because the community has switched to LibreOffice. > 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? Perhaps by Oracle, the Apache foundation, IBM or whomever may be intereste

OpenOffice vs LibreOffice Questions

2011-06-29 Thread John W Foster
1. Why is Debian switching to LibreOffice, per the posting I saw a few days ago? 2. Is OpenOffice still going to be supported? 3. What makes LibreOffice better than OpenOffice? These questions are not intended to start a flame war! I have never even looked at LibreOffice, as I did not need to

Re: What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

2011-05-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20110509130418.15f3f873.jhsu802...@jasonhsu.com>, Jason Hsu wrote: >What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for it? Lenny should still be available from most Debian mirrors. Even when it is finally retired, it will be available in the archives. Finally, a

Re: What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

2011-05-09 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 09 May 2011 13:04:18 -0500, Jason Hsu wrote: > What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for > it? (...) It's there: http://packages.debian.org/lenny/openoffice.org And also in the snapshot directory: http://snapshot.debian.org/binary/openoffice.or

What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1?

2011-05-09 Thread Jason Hsu
What happened to OpenOffice 2.4.1? Where can I get the *.deb file for it? I know OpenOffice 2.4.1 is from Debian's Lenny branch, which is now oldstable. However, version 2 of OpenOffice is substantially lighter than version 3. I'm working on the creation of the new version (0.1.0

Re: Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 25 April 2011 16:25:40 peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > Definitely a sarcastic example; to accompany my remark > about the computer being a sorcerer's apprentice for > most users. Sorry, Peter - I always did take things too literally. The first French I learnt was "Vous prenez les choses au

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-26 Thread Lisi
On Monday 25 April 2011 12:01:58 Camaleón wrote: > Oh, well, if you put it that way... there is no need to make a document > for that, just send an e-mail or upload a new twitter ;-) Quite. Another poster in fact suggested email. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debia

Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-25 Thread peasthope
Camaleon & Lisi, From: Camaleon Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2011 11:01:58 + (UTC) > I took the above just as a sarcastic example... Definitely a sarcastic example; to accompany my remark about the computer being a sorcerer's apprentice for most users. At a social event such as an office party,

Re: Re (3): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 17:19:35 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:28:01 + (UTC) >> What you are getting is a common/documented error, don't worry. To >> solve it you have to edit the XML file and remove the line at the top >> that links the XML with a stylesheet

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-25 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 23:10:10 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: >> > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: >> >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: >> >> > MS invented docx.  Now when

Re (3): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 16:28:01 + (UTC) > What you are getting is a common/documented error, don't worry. To solve > it you have to edit the XML file and remove the line at the top that > links the XML with a stylesheet (XSL). > > For example: > > > > ... > > Just rem

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 24 April 2011 18:34:55 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: > >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: > >> > MS invented docx.  Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation > >> > Planning

Re: Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Sunday 24 April 2011 09:05:34 am peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: > I get that. But the function of a browser is to interpret > a text in an XML language, into a form for input to a human. > I just don't see how to make Iceweasel recognize the structure > of this document. The style is there but Ic

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:28:29 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: >> On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: >> > MS invented docx.  Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation >> > Planning Meeting.  Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00.

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 24 April 2011 16:38:23 Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: > > MS invented docx.  Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation > > Planning Meeting.  Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." he > > can send an archive containing a hierarchy of

Re: Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 09:05:34 -0800, peasthope wrote: > From: Camaleon > Subject: Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice >> No, indeed. To avoid that tell (instruct) "Mr. Doe" to deliver a PDF >> document instead and problem solved ;-) > > Or

Re (2): docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread peasthope
From: Camaleon Subject:Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice > No, indeed. To avoid that tell (instruct) "Mr. Doe" to deliver a PDF > document instead and problem solved ;-) Or send an email containing a message of about 82 ASCII characters.

Re: docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 08:27:33 -0800, peasthope wrote: (Uf... a very old thread, I've completely forgotten the full context :-P) > MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation > Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." he > can send an archive contai

docx; was Re^2: OTF conversion without OpenOffice

2011-04-24 Thread peasthope
MS invented docx. Now when John Doe wants to say "Summer Vacation Planning Meeting. Bring your coffee mug to the boardroom at 3:00." he can send an archive containing a hierarchy of a dozen or so files. Several kB in total. * From: brownh * Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:11:47 -0400

Re: Openoffice.

2011-04-06 Thread Camaleón
t; * umount the share > * try to connect again > * fine, gnome mounts the share without asking me the password again > * try to open a text file from the share ... No problem, gedit opens the > file > * try to open an openoffice file and the pop up appears asking me the > password

Re: Openoffice.

2011-04-06 Thread Camaleón
share/, it asks me the password .. > >> Any ideas? > > > > Every time? > > > > Maybe is Seahorse, the password manager for GNOME but it should provide > > options for storing the password (forget, remember for this > > session...) :-? > Its not gnome, the p

Re: Openoffice.

2011-04-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Apr 2011 12:24:20 -0300, Ezequiel Larrarte wrote: > Hi everyone, I ve reinstalled my computer with a fresh Debian squeeze > and now openoffice quickstart doesn't let me reboot my PC. I be been > reading that it's an openoffice bug, any news about this? Do y

Openoffice.

2011-04-05 Thread Ezequiel Larrarte
Hi everyone, I ve reinstalled my computer with a fresh Debian squeeze and now openoffice quickstart doesn't let me reboot my PC. I be been reading that it's an openoffice bug, any news about this? Another strange thing is that everytime I open a document from the my samba server using

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2011, Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and > > reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There > > define &

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 18:02:58 -0800, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 15 Feb 2011 19:30:47 + (UTC) Camaleón dijo: > >>Back on topic, Wikipedia holds up-to-date info about OpenOffice forks >>and its derivatives: >> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org#D

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 01:54:15PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Sid. After OpenOffice broke during an upgrade I purged it and > reinstalled, after which it returned to life as LibreOffice. There define "broke", please. Grüße/Regards, René -- .''`

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 07:12:02PM EST, Brad Alexander wrote: [..] > Honestly, I saw the writing on the wall when Elom was named CEO of > Nokia. It's ‘Elop’.. easy mnemonics:. rhymes with cop, flop, mop, slop, etc. cj -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a s

Re: OpenOffice has become LibreOffice?

2011-02-15 Thread Bret Busby
ch of Sun's open projects, but they have been doing good as far as I have been able to tell (the latest ver. of Virtual Box is awesome and yummy open source goodness... I'm afraid you missed a lot of news last weeks/month. MySQL, Solaris, OpenOffice (which now became to Oracle OpenOffi

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