On 06/24/2013 10:32 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
You'll have noticed, I hope, that I've anyway been corrected: you
*can* do this easily in Writer, using Format | AutoCorrect > | Apply.
Ummm, I had no idea you could do that, but I see that it works That
would have saved me at least one macro.
Hi,
Doug schrieb:
On 06/22/2013 10:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
/snip/
If the WP lobby feel so strongly about not having "Reveal Codes", why don't
they do something about it and write an extension to do just that?
Maybe it's because we're not programmers. We're people who just want to
us
At 09:38 24/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
On 06/23/2013 12:08 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly
quotes and apostrophes i
On 06/23/2013 12:08 AM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes
and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix all the
damned
2013/6/23 Rory O'Farrell :
> One tip: in many versions (all? I haven't checked) of OpenOffice it can be
> difficult (impossible?) to insert a curly quote into the Replace box from
> /Insert /Special Characters.
Compose >" → ”
Compose <" → “
Compose ," → „
Note that the Compose key should not be
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:17:07 -, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
One tip: in many versions (all? I haven't checked) of OpenOffice it can
be difficult (impossible?) to insert a curly quote into the Replace box
from /Insert /Special Characters.
inserting special characters into that box is availabl
At 06:17 23/06/2013 +0100, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:08:25 +0100 Brian Barker wrote:
At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly
quotes and apostrophe
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 06:17:07 +0100
Rory O'Farrell wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:08:25 +0100
> Brian Barker wrote:
>
> > At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> > At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> > >>Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 05:08:25 +0100
Brian Barker wrote:
> At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
> At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> >>Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly
> >>quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru a
On Sun, 23 Jun 2013 04:49:39 +0100
Brian Barker wrote:
> At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
> >Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes
> >and apostrophes in imported text?
>
> Good question.
>
> >If I remember correctly--I haven't looked at OO/LO in s
At 22:20 22/06/2013 -0400, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote:
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly
quotes and apostrophes in imported text? I have to go thru and fix
all the damned inch marks one by one by hand. WordPerfect ca
At 14:44 22/06/2013 -0400, Doug McGarrett wrote:
Now if OO and LO are so great, why can't they deal with curly quotes
and apostrophes in imported text?
Good question.
If I remember correctly--I haven't looked at OO/LO in some
time--they don't let you find and replace double spaces.
Meanwhil
On 06/22/2013 06:25 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
Actually reveal codes sound more to me to LaTeX which there are also open
source editors like LyX and also many people have developed some type of
extensions for this.
I don't see however how possible is to do this with extensions except more
c
Doug, I can provide a macro that does provide an ability to reveal codes
(not written by me), but, sadly, if you don't understand how styles
work, it might not be helpful because it shows things like "this style
begins here".
On 06/22/2013 02:44 PM, Doug wrote:
Maybe it's because we're not pr
On 06/22/2013 04:46 PM, Toki Kantoor wrote:
On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the feature
controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document text may require
both deep and wide modification of current code
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 5:21 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Virgil Arrington >wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't dream of going back to WP. I still have it on my computer to
> > read documents sent to me by others, and every time I load it, it looks
> > like a techno-dinosaur
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 9:15 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> I wouldn't dream of going back to WP. I still have it on my computer to
> read documents sent to me by others, and every time I load it, it looks
> like a techno-dinosaur.
>
> Reveal codes? Why? With a styles-based program, there are no co
On Sat, Jun 22, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Robert Funnell wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Toki Kantoor wrote:
>
> On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
>>
>>> Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the
>>> feature controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Toki Kantoor wrote:
On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the feature
controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document text may require
both deep and wide modification of current code.
On 06/22/2013 05:17 PM, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> Being able to surface some UI ability to reveal the sources of the feature
> controls that govern a point in the user-perceived document text may require
> both deep and wide modification of current code. That does not make the
> feature undes
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013, Doug wrote:
On 06/22/2013 10:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
/snip/
If the WP lobby feel so strongly about not having "Reveal Codes", why don't
they do something about it and write an extension to do just that?
Maybe it's because we're not programmers. We're people who
On 06/22/2013 12:27 PM, Ernie Kurtz wrote:
> What might it take to persuade the WordPerfect people to offer a Mac version?
/snip/
There once was a Linux version--back around 2002 or so. It used WINE,
I'm told, and it didn't have a decent font set of its own, and didn't
use TT fonts--maybe there w
On 06/22/2013 10:35 AM, Rory O'Farrell wrote:
/snip/
>
> If the WP lobby feel so strongly about not having "Reveal Codes", why don't
> they do something about it and write an extension to do just that?
>
Maybe it's because we're not programmers. We're people who just want to
use a word proce
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Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 09:27 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Codes
What might it take to persuade the WordPerfect people to offer a Mac version?
On Jun 22, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Eric Fenster wrote:
> Whoopee! The absence of reveal codes is up for discussion agai
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Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 07:35 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Codes
On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:57:42 -0400
"Virgil Arrington" wrote:
> Eric,
>
> I would fully agree with you if OO worked like WP, but they work entirely
> differently.
>
[ ...
SEEING where things happen and CHANGING them by deleting the codes.
>
> It is an ADDITIONAL convenience, not a requirement. Nobody is forced to
> display the reveal codes window.
>
> --- On Fri, 6/21/13, Virgil Arrington wrote:
>
>> From: Virgil Arrington
e
> formatting is handled at the paragraph level, not in a linear stream of text
> plus codes. Since learning how the program works with paragraph formatting
> and, especially, styles, I've never found any need whatsoever for reveal
> codes.
>
> Virgil
>
>
> -
tsoever for reveal
codes.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Eric Fenster
Sent: Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:24 AM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Codes
Whoopee! The absence of reveal codes is up for discussion again, and we
continue to have defenders of the absence of this great WP to
the reveal codes window.
--- On Fri, 6/21/13, Virgil Arrington wrote:
> From: Virgil Arrington
> Subject: Re: Codes
> To: users@openoffice.apache.org
> Date: Friday, June 21, 2013, 2:24 PM
> There *is* a "reveal styles." It's in
> the Formatting Toolbar,
7;t go back to rabbit ears for my TV.
Virgil
-Original Message-
From: Tamblyne
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2013 5:29 PM
To: users@openoffice.apache.org
Subject: Re: Codes
Hi, Patricia --
Of course, you're going to be told -- and I can see that you already
have -- that "you
Hi, Patricia --
Of course, you're going to be told -- and I can see that you already
have -- that "you're not doing it right." Use styles. Styles will,
apparently, take care everything, including promote world peace, as well
as fix all that's wrong with your document.
Perhaps if we asked f
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 19:54:50 -0400
Patricia Hickin wrote:
> Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)?
>
> I am having a problem with the following:
>
> I am preparing a list of books as follows:
>
> In a table of two columns, I insert an image of the book cover i
On Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:54:50 -, Patricia Hickin
wrote:
I have obtained the info from www.worldcat.org, compiled a list of the
books, copied the list into Notepad to strip it of formatting. Next I
copied the list into an OO text document and formatted it as follows:
try stripping off th
My experience has been that I have to start all over with learning
styles every time I start a new book. Especially since I rarely use the
same format for two in a row.
Dale Erwin
Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03
Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
http://leather.casaerwin.org
On 6/20/2013 8:15 PM,
Word Perfect has been a long time ago for me. When you say "reveal
codes" do you mean show the formatting codes? If so, just click on
theView menu and then on Nonprinting Characters.
Dale Erwin
Jr. 28 de Julio 657, Depto. 03
Magdalena del Mar, Lima 17 PERU
http://leather.casaerwin.org
On 6/2
Pat -
About Reveal Codes: I loved them in WP, and there's no reason why
something comparable couldn't be implemented in OO and in fact
somebody cobbled together a kind of demo at one point (in spite of
what people say about styles). But we don't have them.
About styles: Yes, that's the elega
Thanks, Alexandro, I think I'm dense -- I look at each of the urls but I
don't see how any of them applies to my problem.
Pat
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 8:31 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
> Please learn to use the stylist, we have the document on our wiki and
> download on ODT and PDF here:
>
> h
rg
Subject: Re: Codes
On 06/20/2013 07:54 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote:
Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)?
We went thru this a couple of months ago. The short answer is NO! You
have to use something they call styles, which will change your whole
document, no
Please learn to use the stylist, we have the document on our wiki and
download on ODT and PDF here:
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Introduction_to_Styles
Specifically creating styles
http://wiki.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_G
On 06/20/2013 07:54 PM, Patricia Hickin wrote:
Is there any way to reveal codes in OO (the way you can in WordPerfect)?
We went thru this a couple of months ago. The short answer is NO! You
have to use something they call styles, which will change your whole
document, not just the particular
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