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On 27/03/2011 15:19, James Wilde wrote:

On Mar 27, 2011, at 10:59 , Manfred J. Krause wrote:

Hi,

On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 09:50, James Wilde wrote:
I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.6. and have now upgraded to 3.3.2 since I discovered I was using 3.3.0 and 
thought my problem might have been fixed.

I suddenly noted that, when I was adjusting a style, the indents were in characters and the space 
before and after a paragraph were in lines and not in centimetres (I use cm for both).  So I went 
into Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/View and changed both values to centimetres.  Saved, went back 
to adjusting my style, found it was still characters and lines.  Went back to 
Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/View and right enough, it had reset to char and line.  So I set both 
to centimetres again, and the same thing happened.

I quit LibreOffice, removed my profile by renaming ~/Library/Application Support/Libreoffice to 
~/Library/Application Support/LibO and restarted LibreOffice.  Opened a text document, went into 
Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/View and changed char and line to centimetre, went into my open 
document and began to create a new style.  Sure enough, the indents were in char and not centimetre 
and the spacing was in lines and not centimetres.

Now I have upgraded, and the indents and spacing are at last in centimetres, but in 
Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/View it is still showing char and line.

Now I have to start rebuilding my profile, reinserting all the extensions and templates, and hoping 
nothing breaks.<sigh>.  But how do I get Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/View to show the type of 
value that I want - and for the moment have?

I assume that Asian language support is enabled
(Language Settings>  Languages>  Enhanced language support).

Go to
Preferences>  LibreOffice Writer>  General>
Settings
[ ] Enable char unit
(disable this option)

Screenshot:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/19264180/LibO/disable_char_unit.png

See also:
Bug 32684 - Ruler view displays in "char" measurement and always
reverts back to this upon restart
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32684

That works fine now with LibO 3.3.2 on WinXP.

Incidentally, having done all that, and changed the measurement unit also on 
Preferences/LibreOffice Writer/General to centimetres, I note that both the Grid page and the Table 
page still show values in inches and not in centimetres.  If I change them, they change back.  This 
won't bother me since I don't bother with those settings, but I thought it worth mentioning.

//James
I don't know what passes for an Administrator (Windows) or Root (*nix) account on a Mac but, when you try to change the units, are you logged in as one? Do you need to be? Is there something peculiar to your particular installation that requires that you are?

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Harold Fuchs
London, England


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