Re: Reveal Codes Query

2014-05-17 Thread Johnny Rosenberg
2014-05-16 20:38 GMT+02:00 japples : > Does a list exist for OO users to vote for proposed future > functionalities? I would like to vote for Reveal Codes. > > Reveal Codes is a very useful tool. It works independently of the "Style > rules" and does not require the user to take time to search "

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Doug Johnson
I agree with the "On the spot" need. Quite simply, Reveal Codes allows me to see what's going with a glance. With so many features, the interaction between them can make formatting unexpectedly difficult. Like salt and pepper, use when needed! On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 7:20 AM, Richard Detwiler

Re: OpenOffice mac

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
Peter Johansson wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:19 PM, Andrea Pescetti wrote: It is a purely technical choice we had to make to take advantage of 64-bit Mac OS X applications and avoid the dependency on now deprecated build tools. It was discussed at length on the dev list, since it was clear t

Re: Second attempt to send

2014-05-17 Thread Carson Chittom
art...@aol.com writes: > Dear Ms/Mr? Carson, (at car...@wistly.net) It's mister, for the record. "Carson" is a name of Norse origin from the words for "marsh" and "son." You'd think that with the word "son" actually in it, people would only use it for boys, but this turns out not to be the case

Re: Reveal Codes Query

2014-05-17 Thread Andrea Pescetti
On 16/05/2014 japples wrote: Does a list exist for OO users to vote for proposed future functionalities? I would like to vote for Reveal Codes. The link I've already sent https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=3395 is all we have, but it has this functionality. You can vote, you can co

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Richard Detwiler
What I don't understand, and I'm sure I must be missing something so please explain, is how come this discussion seems to suggest that it's either/or -- meaning, "use styles for all formatting" or "we HAVE to have "reveal codes" to not use styles". I've used styles a lot with Open Office and I

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Rory O'Farrell
On Sat, 17 May 2014 00:18:32 -0700 Bruce Byfield wrote: > On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: > > > My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to > > be because of some "style" that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix > > it, because__ > > __it's built

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Saturday 17 May 2014 12:32:43 AM Doug wrote: > My beef is that when you find something weird happening, it's likely to > be because of some "style" that you weren't aware of, and _you can't fix > it, because__ > __it's built into the "style." _ Are your experiences with styles with someone e

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
> On 05/16/2014 03:12 AM, mt wrote: > > To those who chimed in to justify styles: it is quite obvious to me > > that you are missing the point. For starters, it sounds like you don't > > really know WordPerfect, and imagine "Reveal codes" to be something > > other than it was. In my case, what i

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Catherine RIOBÉ
please dont send me emails any more. I am a particular person. Le 17 mai 2014 à 05:24, Bruce Byfield a écrit : > On Friday 16 May 2014 10:28:44 PM Julian Thomas wrote: >>> But more basically, OpenOffice is for people like Julian and me. If people >>> like me and Julian put forward a suggestion,

Re: Suggestion.

2014-05-17 Thread Bruce Byfield
On Friday 16 May 2014 11:35:46 PM James Knott wrote: > On 05/16/2014 09:29 PM, Bruce Byfield wrote: > > If people don't want to learn how to use Writer the way it was designed, > > they might be better off with some simpler tool. > > Notepad? ;-) :-) But I didn't say that to put anyone down.