3.6.1 dictionary installs (.deb) fail & bork dpkg/apt-get

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Paolo Debortoli wrote:

in a message on facebook, somebody suggested that writer when first saving a document should copy a feature of m$ word: compose automatically the document name using the first vtwo words of the document itself, instead of naming it something like 'document without name'. it would be comfortable if you have to save multiple documents in one directory....

      Questions: How do you determine what a document's content is by looking at the first two words? Why would people save a file without giving it a name that makes sense to the author? What would happen if more than one text document has the same beginning two words? No, I think the best thing is to name each file when it is first opened by Writer.

--Dan

#22

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From: Dan Lewis <elderdanlewis@gmail.com>
To: "users@global.libreoffice.org" <users@global.libreoffice.org>
Sent: Wednesday, September 5, 2012 11:51 PM
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] file name suggestion

Paolo Debortoli wrote:

in a message on facebook, somebody suggested that writer when first saving a document should copy a feature of m$ word:  compose automatically the document name  using the first vtwo words of the document itself, instead of naming it something like 'document without name'.  it would be comfortable if you have to save multiple documents in one directory....

Questions: How do you determine what a document's content is by looking at the first two words? Why would people save a file without giving it a name that makes sense to the author? What would happen if more than one text document has the same beginning two words? No, I think the best thing is to name each file when it is first opened by Writer.

--Dan

no...  in case a documents starts like  'the teacher says...'  or  'dear john', when you save it for the first time you find the words 'the teacher' or 'dear john'  (or 'the teacher 2' or 'dear john 2' in case the file name would be already in use) instead of  'document without name'.  then:  if you like it or are in a hurry, you simply click 'save' without changing the file name, otherwise you change the file name and then click 'save'.  I sometimes think of it when I write quick notes or letters...  nobody would make file names obligatory, obvious.

#23

I always hated M$ to decide things for me. They usually got the name for the document to be something that did not work for me. I think they picked it from the first line of text.

I tend to make a file name be a short sentence of under 30 to 40 characters that describe the document or image. M$ could not do that easily.

#24

Hi :slight_smile:
I think the op was talking about the default name.  Of course the person saving the document can change from the default to something more sensible.

The default used by LO at the moment is very old-school.  Files called things like Doc1, Doc2, Doc3 are even less helpful than picking the 1st 2 words.  If it could be cleverer and choose the 1st 2 words of the first main heading that might be more useful.  Perhaps there might be some way using the contents of the Navigator?  Perhaps more than 2 words, such as using the entire 1st main title?  Perhaps adding the date in yyyy-mm-dd order to the end?

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

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