http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user hourly 1 1901-01-01T00:00+00:00 http://gmane.org/img/gmane-25t.png http://gmane.org http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6815 <pre> On 05/24/2012 04:53 AM, Victor Sperber wrote: Just some ideas: 1. Using tabs? 2. In the Format menu,select Directional... left-to-right-text? 3. A combination of these two? ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Richard L. Dery 2012-05-24T13:35:59 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6814 <pre> Hello I'm a new subscriber and having difficulty. I type a sentence in Hebrew and want to insert a piece of English, say the title of an English book , in the middle of the sentence. I place the insertion point where I want the title but the title is placed at the beginning of the sentence rather than in the middle where I want it. The title looks OK in terms of the RTL/LTR direction but is misplaced. (I have had the same problem when using MSWord.) Any help with this very basic problem would be appreciated. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Victor Sperber 2012-05-24T11:53:39 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6813 <pre> Hello Mickael There might be a way to have Abiword handle folders with accented characters, or may be not. The answer might not be in Abiword, but with the Operating System. My message, here, is that I would NOT recommend to use anything above ASCII 127 in file and folder names. I knew times, when files had to be 8.3 (8 characters for the name, 3 characters for the extension) and a to z, 0 to 9, hyphen or underscore, especially NO space character. Today, I am not sticking to the 8.3 rule any more, but I am still sticking to the a-z, 0-9, hyphen, underscore, NO space rule. Even if file names containing spaces and several special characters may be accepted "more or less" in most operating systems nowadays, it is and will always be a source of problems. Even if you can teach your OS to handle files with accents well in most cases, problems will surely occur when you give your file to someone using a different OS. That's why I'm preaching since 30 years to stick to ASCII 127 and NO spaces when naming files. Sometimes, it seems that nobody dares to listen. Just imagine what happens when URLs are made of files containing spaces : one must call this URL with an ugly %20 instead of the space Or URLs with # &amp; ? in the file names, these characters have a special meaning in URLs and web browsers will be discombobulated. Mickael, I'm French too, but I never used accents, umlauts, cédilles, spaces, nor anything out of ASCII 127 in file names. I'm used to do so for more than 30 years. Life is easier that way. On Mon, 7 May 2012 03:47:23 +0200 Kouwrechev &lt;kouwrechev&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> T. Demand 2012-05-12T09:33:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6812 <pre> Hello. I wrote you a few minutes ago a message which was the following one: ----------------- Hello. I am writing you because I happen to encounter some problems with Abiword. I am running Windows XP and I associated the file extension .rtf with Abiword. When I try to double click on an rtf file present on the local disk (where is installed Abiword), it opens perfectly; only when I try this procedure with a file on my external drive, Abiword opens a blank file. Is there to your knowledge a manipulation that I can do to solve that? Thank you in advance. Mickael ----------------- I ask you not to take this into account, as I got into the details and I think that the problem is not a disk-related problem but a problem related with characters management. Indeed, as I am French, I use accents in the names of my files and folders and it turns out that it is precisely from a folder with an accent in his name that I found myself unable to load the file in question. I renamed the folder and it worked. I would therefore rephrase my question and ask you if you think that I can have Abiword handle paths correctly with accented letters. Thank you. Mickael ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Kouwrechev 2012-05-07T01:47:23 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6811 <pre> Hello. I am writing you because I happen to encounter some problems with Abiword. I am running Windows XP and I associated the file extension .rtf with Abiword. When I try to double click on an rtf file present on the local disk (where is installed Abiword), it opens perfectly; only when I try this procedure with a file on my external drive, Abiword opens a blank file. Is there to your knowledge a manipulation that I can do to solve that? Thank you in advance. Mickael ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Kouwrechev 2012-05-07T01:17:22 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6810 <pre> Simple question - Please inform me about how to change the default directory for saving files. I can't find any way of doing this. Thanks. Stan ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> S Godlovitch 2012-04-01T13:46:05 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6809 <pre> I am so tired of getting these mails constantly in my inbox, but every time I follow the directions and try to unsubscribe, the mail bounces back with "fatal address flaw." Please someone help me get off this mailing list-----please! -- Sincerely, Mark Chappel ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Mark Chappel 2012-04-01T12:07:20 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6807 <pre> On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Roger &lt;rogerx.oss&lt; at &gt;gmail.com&gt; wrote: I can't (no bidirectional support in Vi and derivatives). Moreover, is it really asking too much if I ask for the cursor caret to be visible on a dark background? I really don't understand why I should turn to another program instead. And it's not as if I were asking for a major feature to be implemented, and not even for a feature, in fact. I am simply asking for a bug to be fixed, since the caret should have been visible in the first place. ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> sergei karhof 2012-03-26T23:32:57 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6806 <pre> If it ties your panties up this much, just use VI/VIM/GVIM! Matter of fact, I do just this and save everything important as text. Saving important stuff in other formats seems cumbersome as everybody uses something different. Can't go wrong with ascii/text if you don't want to waste time keeping up with trends! As for the b/g and f/g color in Abiword, I think something like changing the colors can be restricted to the "Normal Layout" (ie. black b/g and white f/g), while "Print Preview Layout" will revert to normal colors shown when printing (ie. white b/g and black f/g). </pre> Roger 2012-03-26T22:33:30 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6805 <pre> Does anyone know if the bug 5252 (http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5252) has been fixed, or if some workaround is available? From the bug report page it appears that no solution has been found yet... :( What's the use of being able to change the document background (which is very useful in itself), if the cursor caret remains black and therefore invisible? It makes this color scheme totally useless! This is really frustrating! It seems that the color options of the GUI have been grossly neglected, since apart from the cursor caret color there are also other things (e.g. the screen-only color of the text) which need to be fixed. Really disappointing. Sergei ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> sergei karhof 2012-03-26T17:51:50 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6804 <pre> unsubscribe boriskor&lt; at &gt;boriskortiak.com unsubscribe boris&lt; at &gt;boriskortiak.com subscribe abiword&lt; at &gt;boriskortiak.com ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> boriskor< at >boriskortiak.com 2012-03-26T16:09:40 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6803 <pre> On 25/03/12 03:38 AM, Ingo Brückl wrote: Install gvfs then. Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Hubert Figuière 2012-03-25T16:13:44 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6802 <pre> Hubert Figuière wrote on Sat, 24 Mar 2012 22:02:02 -0700: I am running Gtk 2.16, but without gvfs. Thus, non-local uri schemes aren't supported. Ok, my bad. I tried to ensure that gvfs is available with Gtk to get support for uri schemes such as http://, but obviously I misunderstood the meaning of WITH_GNOMEVFS. My apologies. Ingo ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Ingo Brückl 2012-03-25T10:38:31 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6800 <pre> On 24/03/12 07:21 PM, Martin Sevior wrote: No this patch does NOT look ok. Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Hubert Figuière 2012-03-25T05:02:33 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6799 <pre> Hi, We do call gtk_show_uri() on gtk &gt; 2.14. If you don't run at least Gtk 2.14 (and are not on Maemo) then there is nothing much worth doing. You patch is broken because it wants people to have gnome-vfs (which I shall remind is deprecated for a very long time) to deal with gtk_show_uri(). This is just wrong. And yes we have fallback. I'm ok to add "xdg-open" as the first command to try. Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Hubert Figuière 2012-03-25T05:02:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6797 <pre>Hubert Figuière wrote on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:51:46 -0700: Well, and just in case gnomevfs of gvfs isn't present on a Gtk 2 build (guess on whose build it is missing ;-)) we should consider the attached patch which fixes the issue on both Larry Short's and my system. Any objections? Ingo </pre> Ingo Brückl 2012-03-23T12:43:51 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6796 <pre> On 22/03/12 01:32 PM, Martin Sevior wrote: [...] That is the fallback. In there there gnomevfs of gvfs (build time dependency, the later is likely present on any recent Gtk 2 build) then it will use that and likely launch the browser defined. Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Hubert Figuière 2012-03-22T20:51:46 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6795 <pre> Hi Larry, In the first instance abiword checks the content of the "BROWSER" environment variable to search for prefered installed web browser. If this is not set it then itterates through a list optential browsers and looks for each on the users system. The first one it finds it uses to open the help page. The list is: "sensible-browser",/* debian */ "epiphany",/* primary gnome */ "galeon",/* secondary gnome */ "encompass", "firefox", "mozilla-firebird", "mozilla", "netscape", "konqueror", "xterm -e w3m", "xterm -e lynx", "xterm -e links" If it fails to find any of these give up and you get the error you see. Cheers Martin On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 2:37 AM, Larry Short &lt;info&lt; at &gt;diddywahdiddy.net&gt; wrote: ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Martin Sevior 2012-03-22T20:32:07 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6794 <pre> I hope those of us unable to patch can endorse by supporting the feature here on the list and by testing out the new feature on various systems once it becomes available (if the developers decide it merits their time and effort). --Mark Richardson Hubert Figuière wrote: ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Mark Richardson 2012-03-21T16:15:02 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6793 <pre> On 21/03/12 07:53 AM, sergei karhof wrote: If you really want to endorse it, add a patch. Hub ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Hubert Figuière 2012-03-21T15:46:55 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.editors.abiword.user/6792 <pre> The items in the Help Menu start "your default browser" to display the help. How is that accomplished? I ask because it does not work for me. If I start Abiword in a terminal I get the message 'Warning: Operation Not Supported' when I click the Help menu -&gt; Help Contents. This is in Puppy Linux which is not standard in many ways--to get the Help working in one program, I needed a file named 'sensible-browser' to start the default browser. Thanks for any help. (Sorry if this is a duplicate--I sent one before I was authorized I think.) ----------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, send a message to abiword-user-request&lt; at &gt;abisource.com with the word unsubscribe in the message body. </pre> Larry Short 2012-03-21T15:37:53 Search the mailing list at Gmane query http://search.gmane.org/?group=$group=gmane.editors.abiword.user