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Word collapsed paragraphs import

Collapsed paragraphs in words are the empty paragraphs that are hidden in nested tables. Those paragraphs are shown only when the cursor is inside them. When importing a Word document, OpenOffice.org Writer currently does some magic to remove these empty paragraphs in order to have a similar render to …

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Fixed an old kerning issue

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 …
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Internationalized 1st autocorrection

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 …

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Hackweek on OOEclipse

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 …

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Unzip bash completion for ODF and OOXML files

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 …

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GSoc: Hacking Writer's toolbars

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 …

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OOEclipse sources moved to git

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 …

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Better diff of XML files

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 …

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