task, I would give them whatever advice they need.
Moreover, assuming it is up to editorial standards, I am sure that
Friends of OpenDocument would add the result to its Lulu.com page,
resulting in a small but steady return for those who did the work.
Anyone who is interested can contact me vi
LibreOffice, including indexes and suggestions from the
French translation team.
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or the end of a paragraph, say, or until one deliberately returns to
> >> the style, then it might become a more user-friendly environment.
That's what character styles are for.
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and 40 objects.
> (4) People do not know about the property "Follow text flow".
I just noticed that both OpenOffice and LibreOffice have "Follow text flow"
turned
off by default. This default may explain some of the problems.
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encourages them to join the
experiment.
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On Wednesday 21 May 2014 05:14:33 PM mt wrote:
> On 20/5/14 at 3:02 PM, bbyfi...@axion.net (Bruce Byfield) wrote:
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> >Sorry -- you're waa behind the times. The vast majority of
> >books published these days use a layout program -- sometimes,
On Wednesday 21 May 2014 09:22:08 AM Urmas wrote:
> "Bruce Byfield":
>
> Yes, manual formatting is available. But using it is kind of perverse,
> because
> it means doing more work than necessary
>
> Take any book from your shelf.
> The number of lines on each
d use the views in the Styles and Formatting window to find what you
want. Usually, too, the names of the pre-defined styles should tell you what
each style does. For example, Text Body is obviously the main paragraph style
in the document, and Title the name of the document.
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es that
can overcome the challenges of implementing it. You need to convince people
that the feature should have priority.. That's how free software works, and,
from what I have seen while reading mailing lists, OpenOffice is no exception.
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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
y with regard to list formatting [mixing
> numbered lists and bulleted subitems under the numbered items; this has
> always been a major hassle without styles].
Have you looked at the ODF Author's site? You should find some decent
documentation there.
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;t speak for anyone except myself. However, given that there is a lot to
do already with maintaining and cleaning the aging code, I doubt that
developers would make Reveal Codes a high priority unless there was a lot more
enthusiasm that has been shown so far.
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at LibreOffice:
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.documentfoundation.libreoffice.bugs/87075
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perspective as a user into consideration.
> Also, your comments do not address the main point in my message,
> which was about "revealing codes" for document options that go
> beyond plain styling.
I'm not sure what you mean here. Can you give an example of "optio
doing short, one-off documents, styles can save
you time and effort.
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and less efficiency that we should. Some tasks, like
going uphill, we don't imagine are even possible because of our limited view."
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style, then go to
the tabs to change it.
In other words, if you use OpenOffice the way it was designed to use, it
already
has a Reveal Code-like feature.
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with styles, and are
inefficient without them.
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Thanks, but since I *am* Bruce Byfield, I doubt it can teach me anything new.
On Saturday 12 October 2013 11:53:27 PM Martin Groenescheij wrote:
> Have a look at the article http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7733
> writen by Bruce Byfield
>
> On 11/10/2013 6:04 AM, Bruce Byfield w
months, and posting more polished
versions on the ODF Authors site.
I will post to this list (among others) when chapters are uploaded to ODF
Authors.
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bout watermarks and sideheads, but if you can
suggest a use that I haven't heard about, I'll credit you when the book is
published.
Thanks,
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hanks,
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