Whenever I talk to other technology users — including CTOs, CSOs and ICT managers, who in theory should have a certain level of expertise — I realise that most of them never consider standards when using applications, devices or websites. Users just want everything to work, but they don’t realise
por Italo Vignoli Los estándares abiertos no suelen ocupar titulares. En cambio, trabajan silenciosamente en segundo plano para definir cómo se crea, comparte y almacena la información. Sin embargo, a medida que los ecosistemas digitales se vuelven más complejos y centralizados, los estándares abiertos adquieren una importancia cada vez mayor.
LibreOffice is available in over 120 languages – but we want to do more! Jonathan Clark recently joined the TDF team to improve LibreOffice’s support for RTL (right-to-left) and CTL (complex text layout) scripts. In this episode, he talks to Mike Saunders about his work, and how users can help
Up earlyish, arranged chairs and tables for ~26 people
somehow. Added nails to curtain-rails for strings of lights,
glued candles into recalcitrant holders, arranged tables and
chairs.
Caught up with M. between times, as well as debugging an
annoyingly tough to reproduce Collabora Office / flatpak crash,
got some reproducer plans eventually.
More house cleaning, furniture arranging, guests
started to arrive - lots of interesting young people doing
good things - many of them engineers. Helped to serve food,
and gave a short talk about a lovely 21 year old daughter.
Games in the evening while we shunted crockery, tables
and chairs back to church; slept.
Early sync with Dave, customer call, plugged away
at slides. Out to Hills Road to give a talk with Skyler to
the CompScis there, dropped new CI hardware and Skyler
into the office.
Sync with Stelios, N&M arrived home for her
21st birthday party. Lovely to see them, much party plannning.
Open standards don’t make headlines. Instead, they work quietly behind the scenes to define how information is created, shared and stored. However, as digital ecosystems become more complex and centralised, open standards are becoming increasingly important. One of the best examples is the Open Document Format (ODF), the native format
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software. In TDF there are various bodies including the Board of Directors, Membership Committee, and the Board of
General Activities LibreOffice 25.8.4 was announced on December 18 Olivier Hallot (TDF) added a help page for Markdown in Writer, JSON in Calc, updated or improved help for View and Appearance options, accessibility options, sort criteria in Calc, file conversion filters, ODF versions, handling of empty cells in Calc, Data
Sync with Dave, poked at programming pieces, internal
mid-week TTT. Lunch. UX / design call with customer, mini sales
team catch-up with Alina & Moritz.
Really pleased to see the Collabora Office Hackfest announced,
at the Bedford hotel.
All Saints band practice in the evening for two weeks;
extremely cold.
Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last month of last year – click the links to learn more… At the start of December, we announced a new Code of Ethics and Fiduciary Duties for The Document Foundation’s Board of Directors. Also early
Probably the most simple presentations are just a couple of slides, each slide having a title shape
and an outliner shape, containing some bullets, perhaps with some additional images. Images are just
bitmaps, so let's focus on outliner shapes and their outliner / bullet styles.
What happens if you save these to PPTX and load it back? Can you toggle between a numbering and a
bullet? Can you return to an outliner style after you had direct formatting for your bullet?
If you pressed enter at the end of 'First level', then pressed <tab> to promote the current
paragraph to the second level, nothing happened. The reason for this was that our PPTX export was
missing the list styles of shapes, except for the very first list style. And the same was missing on
the import side, too. With this, not only the rendering of the bullets are OK, but also adding new
paragraphs and using promoting / demoting to change levels work as expected.
The second case was about this document, where the second level had a numbering, not a bullet:
We only had UI to first toggle off a numbering to no numbering, then you could toggle on bullets.
Now it's possible to do this change in one step.
The last case was about styles. Imagine that you had a master page with an outline shape and some
reasonably looking configuration for the first and second levels as outline styles:
Notice how the last paragraph has a slightly inconsistent formatting, due to direct formatting.
Let's fix this.
Go to the end of the last bullet, which is currently not connected to an outline style, toggle
bullets off and then toggle it on again. Now we clear direct formatting when we turn off the bullet,
so next time you turn bullets on, it'll be again connected to the outline style's bullet
configuration and the content will look better.
Note how this even improves consistency: Writer was behaving the same way already, when toggling
bullets off and then toggle on again resulted in getting rid of previously applied unwanted direct
formatting.
Got a label-printer from H. for Christmas; and
tried to get the new lino-printing roller press working
well with H.
Put up some shelving in the garage - another ~10m
of it - hopefully enough to make an impression on the
boxes piled around the place. Entertained by Radio 4 to
keep the cold at bay while doing it.
Por Italo Vignoli Para ser sincero, no pensaba publicar mi habitual entrada sobre ODF durante las fiestas, ya que la mayoría de la gente está ocupada con otras actividades y el formato de documento no es una prioridad. Los que trabajan se centran en el cierre del trimestre, mientras que
To be honest, I didn’t think I would publish my usual post about ODF over the festive period, as most people are busy with other activities and the document format isn’t a priority. Those who work are focused on the end of the quarter, while those who don’t work are
For years we’ve maintained LibreOffice Viewer for Android, which lets you access files in these formats on mobile devices: Open Document Format (odt, ods, odp, odg) Microsoft Office 2007–365 (docx, xlsx and pptx) Microsoft Office 97–2003 (doc, xls and ppt) Now LibreOffice Viewer is available for Meta Horizon OS –
Como obsequio de fin de año, el equipo de documentación presenta la Guía de LibreOffice Math 25.8. Esta publicación no es solo una actualización técnica, sino el resultado de un proceso de autoría, traducción, revisión y adaptación realizado íntegramente por B. Antonio Fernández, con el objetivo de poner a disposición
por Italo Vignoli La identidad digital se ha convertido en una parte integral de la vida cotidiana. La utilizamos para acceder a herramientas de trabajo y firmar documentos en línea, e incluso está reemplazando a las credenciales físicas de identidad. Sin embargo, la mayoría de los debates sobre el tema
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