Syntax highlighting

Posted: 2019-08-04 | Author: | Filed under: office, system | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I’ve been writing a text document, where I want to paste an excerpt of a shell script. I want to put it in a frame as a separate “figure”, referred to in the text as “Box ##”. To make it clearer to the reader, I want to have the appropriate syntax highlighting. How to do it?
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WPS Office

Posted: 2016-12-28 | Author: | Filed under: office | Tags: , , , , , , , | 1 Comment

With 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 | Author: | Filed under: office | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I 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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