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Regex in LibreOffice

Posted 05-24-2016 at 05:06 AM by HMW

Although I prefer to work with text in editors, and not in word processors, I sometimes have to. Today I faced a massive editing task in a formatted .rtf document. I had to iron out some "bugs" in the text. Such as no space after a dot:
FOOBAR.Foobar.

Now, going through this massive text and look for these occurances manually clearly wasn't an option. I'd rather eat a cactus. Had it been "normal" - not formatted - text, I could have used regular expressions...

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How to set up SQLite database as a (read-only) bibliography database in the LibreOffice/OpenOffice

Posted 10-24-2013 at 02:49 AM by Yury_T

Tags bibliography, libreoffice, sqlite

Folks have not-so-positive experience with the LibO/OOO default bibliography database, what with it being effectively either of HSQLDB or CSV text type, for one. One would want to have more choice as to the database type, and to have it storaged more effectively, and in single file, preferrably. Also, there are many popular tools for other database engines, and HSQLDB seems somewhat isolated in this aspect, restricted to all-Java projects, too.

E.g., you might want to have two sets...

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Libreoffice needs change

Posted 07-07-2011 at 12:11 AM by William (Dthdealer) (Whaling the FOSS)

Tags libreoffice, office, openoffice, styles, user-interface

OpenOffice.org and LibreOffice are massive ( and possibly monolithic ) suites of software. In some ways this makes them just as bad as Microsoft office, but they gain back their credit for being designed with user priority over commercial priority. I love being able to use a fully featured office suite that is more than a match for Microsoft Office, but most of the time I try to avoid having to use the suite because it is large, slow and sometimes unwieldy.

My first and foremost...

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