You may remember one of my previous posts on a Vim script I wrote to quickly open an issue in the browser from the OOo sources. As the patches/dev300/apply file is containing issues numbers formatted differently (in the form i#XXXXX instead of #iXXXXX#), I decided to tweak …

From my previous job experience, I knew that there were some problems for EndNote users to read their documents in OpenOffice.org. I decided to found out a sample document and try to see what is wrong.

Here is the sample document I used: editstyle_sample.doc. There are two problems …

During the week I discovered an interesting issue around the kerning n#464436 and i#26519. After some time spent with Florian and Thorsten, we finally found what was going wrong. Here is a summary of the problem:

• If you have a non-printable character between two letters, no kerning is …

When one is typing 1st the 'st' is transformed to super script. This was only done for english text. Then when typing 1er in a french text, nothing happened, but typing 1st in a french text was running as fine as for an english text. I wanted to fix that …

As some of my fellow developers at Novell have already explained it: we currently had a week of Innovation time. As I was on holiday during the official hack week time, I had it last week... and worked on the ooeclipse integration. This was an occasion to make some old …

Everything is in the title: when you want to unzip an ODF or OOXML file, there is no bash completion for those documents types. I hacked the /etc/profile.d/complete.bash file of my openSUSE box to make it work.

Here is a first diff which can be improved …

These last days, I dived into the way OpenOffice.org toolbars are defined in Writer to help Maja on her problems (( See her blog post)). There are several points which were hard to guess, but the navigation toolbar is now nice and connected to the C++ code:

• As Maja has …

I have decided to move the sources of the OOEclipse integration plugin to an ooo-build Git repo. Call it a fork if you like, but my aim here is to allow other developers to contribute easily to the project without having to sign a SCA. The code is still present …

I needed to compare the FlatXML of two OpenOffice.org files. I usually reformat the XML files using xmllint and then diff those formatted XML files. However I couldn't properly see the differences between for those files because the attributes were on the same line with the element. In order …

Here are some hot news from the docx import front. I am currently working on the numberings and outline import. There were several problems:

• the outline styles weren't defined
• the numbering layout properties weren't properly set
• the suffix and the number of parent levels weren't correctly set.

As usual here …