WPS Office
Posted: 2016-12-28 Filed under: office | Tags: font, impress, MT Extra, office, Presentation, Spreadsheets, WPS Office, writer 1 CommentWith the latest SlackBuilds.org update, WPS Office was added to the repository. I decided to give it a try, as I have never been too happy with Impress.
The SlackBuild script just repackages the binaries provided from upstream. So far, the office suite seems amazingly good. Really. The interface is user-friendly, it is very fast and offers good compatibility with the file formats of MS Office. Upon start, a warning window appeared, complaining about a missing font:
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LibreOffice: start numbering at page 2
Posted: 2016-11-06 Filed under: office | Tags: libreoffice, numbering, title page, writer Leave a commentI have a text document prepared in LibreOffice Writer, where the first page should contain only title and table of contents. Page numbering should then begin on the following page. That’s it: page 1 should have no numbering, page 2 should be numbered 1, page 3 should be numbered 2 and so on… How to do it?
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Row to column in Gnumeric
Posted: 2016-08-30 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: Cell values, column, gnumeric, row, spreadsheet, transpose 1 CommentI have some spreadsheet data which I want to present in columns, instead of the rows that I initially entered. I searched a bit and found instructions for Excel here. The principle is the same, so here’s what I did for Gnumeric. Read the rest of this entry »
Visual CSL editor
Posted: 2015-12-19 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: CSL, references, zotero Leave a commentI type my text in LibreOffice and use Zotero to take care of the references. Zotero has a list of many different citation styles, which likely already includes the one for the journal you are submitting your manuscript to. Read the rest of this entry »
Disable automatic updates check in Zotero
Posted: 2015-09-10 Filed under: Academic, office | Tags: about:config, bibliography, zotero Leave a commentI have been using the Zotero biobliography manager, installed from SBo. Despite that I am the current maintainer of the program at SBo, I cannot immediatelly provide an update of its SlackBuild, when a new version comes out.
Annoyingly, Zotero would insist on showing a notification that a new version is available, offering to update the installation. Read the rest of this entry »
