[libreoffice-marketing] Re: ideas for campaigns

users
#1

Hi :slight_smile:

There are some interesting tasks for people joining the Design Team, and the Marketing Team right now.  Anyone interested in getting involved or with a sketch or few they would like to share then please join the appropriate list and say hello.

As always the Documentation List is an interesting crowd to join in with and has tons of things to get involved in.

So, it's not all about coders and devs but they are always welcome too.  Many different people with very diverse skills do well here and it can be a good place to build-up a good portfolio.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#2

I would add a banner to my company's homepage. Depending on how a banner would like, I even imagine to have it on presentations (something like: This presentation is created using LibO....).

#3

I'm a huge proponent of paragraph styles, and I use them constantly in Writer. One frustration I have is that when I call up the Styles pane (F11), it typically lists the styles by "Automatic" by default. I then always change it to list the styles in a "Hierarchical" fashion. I would love to have the styles listed hierarchically by default, but I haven't found a way to achieve this.

Any ideas?

I'm using Libre on a dual-boot Windows 7/Ubuntu machine if that makes any difference.

Virgil

#4

I also use styles in Writer all the time. There are a few things that I do. I dock the Styles and Formatting pane (F11) on the left side of LibreOffice. I do not close it before closing LibreOffice. (I personally use "Applied Styles" all the time.) When I open Writer, this pane opens showing Applied Styles.
      I use the Debian LO download from LibreOffice. I do not know whether keeping the Styles pane open all of the time will make "Hierarchal Styles" the default value on a Windows OS. It does seem to work on Ubuntu.

--Dan

#5

I keep it open all the time as well, but it never comes back to "hierarchical" when I reopen Writer.

Virgil

#6

I take that back. I just reopened Writer, and it came back to "hierarchical" Weird, because I never seemed to do that in the past.

I'm confused. Sorry I bothered y'all.

Virgil

#7

Hi :slight_smile:
Intermittent problems are still problems.  If someone has a similar issue in the future this thread may give them ideas to try or may build into being part of a pattern that identifies exactly when/if the problem happens to make it easier to post a precise bug-report that is not so tricky to find&fix

So, good work and congrats :slight_smile:
Regards form
Tom :slight_smile:

#8

I discovered my mistake, and it is truly embarrassing.

I use both LibreOffice and Apache OpenOffice and, apparently, it is in the OpenOffice fork that the style box won’t come up in the “hierarchical” form. So far, it’s working just fine in Libre.

Virgil

#9

Hi :slight_smile:
Ahh, that is interesting.  Knowing how to fix AOO problems is not really helpful here but knowing that they do have problems, especially ones we don't have is good for my morale :smiley:

Fights and squabblings between the 2 projects often create a bad atmosphere that only helps MS so generally i think it's better that we just keep working together.  On the other hand a bit of friendly rivalry can be fun.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#10

The reason I use both programs is that, in some respects each has an advantage over the other.

AOO seems to work better with Linux Libertine G fonts, but, LibO properly hyphenates my U.S. English language, which AOO doesn't seem to do.

AOO loads faster, but LibO loads my "hierarchical" style pane.

And, neither uses the tabbed interface of Lotus Symphony, yet another fork I have installed on my system.

So, I switch between programs, all the while fantasizing that someday, someone much smarter than I will combine the best features of all three into one program and eliminate all bugs.

I'm not asking too much, am I?

Virgil