Re: a couple of things about openoffice writer

[yan mistigri org (Yannick PLASSIARD)]

On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 11:42:12AM +0000, Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis wrote:
> MICHAEL WEAVER wrote:
> > I have a couple of issues as regards Openoffice writer.
> > When I am creating a document, if I were to make a mistake and press the 
> > Backspace key to delete it it just says "Backspace."
> 
> What would you like Orca to say?
	For myself, I suggest the same thing as it is done on Windows, 
i.e. after saying (if checked) the "Backspace" character, we can say the 
actually just-deleted char.
I think also that this should be an Orca default and general setting , 
i.e. all applications and scripts should inherit this by default.

Moreover, another thing, when we move char by char and we go to the 
end-of-line i.e. after the last char, Orca says the last character of 
the line, as Jaws for Windows says "Blank" or "Empty", which is better I 
think.
Example: Suppose a line "Hello World!" in OOO writer. If we do a right 
arrow until the end of the line Orca will say H e l l o "blank" W o r l 
d ! ! (it says the exclaim two times). 
It would be better to say W o r ld ! "empty" with maybe an extra 
"End of line" sentence if Verbose speaking is selected.

> 
> > Is this problem anything to do with my version of Orca which is the one 
> > that comes with Edgy by default or the fact I need to update Openoffice 
> > on my Laptop as when I installed Edgy on it I didn't get chance to get 
> > the latest updates which it was asking for when I first installed Edgy.
> 
> Running the following commands at the terminal should ensure you have
> the latest version of OpenOffice.org bundled with Edgy (2.0.4):
> 
> sudo apt-get update
> sudo apt-get upgrade openoffice*
> 
> Note the asterisk at the end of the second command (to match multiple
> OpenOffice.org packages).
> 
> There is now a newer release of OpenOffice.org (2.1) but it has not yet
> been packaged for Ubuntu.
> 
> > For some reason I can track what I am writing with the standard cursor 
> > keys and it is reading what I am typing.
> 
> What would you like to happen instead?
> 
> > Also how do you insert a date in a document?
> 
> In Writer:
> 
> 1. Put the cursor where you want the date to appear
> 2. Press alt + i to get to the Insert menu
> 3. Press d to select the Fields sub-menu
> 4. Press d to insert a date field
> 
> There are lots of other fields; some like Time and Page Number are
> available from the Fields sub-menu. But if you want to insert a more
> obscure field:
> 
> 1. Put the cursor where you want the date to appear
> 2. Press ctrl + F2 to open the fields dialog
> 3. Select your field of choice
> 4. Press alt + i to insert it
> 
> --
> Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
> 
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