mån 2011-03-28 klockan 18:05 +0300 skrev Cevad OZTUG:
Ok. Let me try to clarify. Please forget all the stories about my company and about different nationalities. The question is this: How you make libre office in any operating system to show numbers as: 123'456'789.00 Thanks again. On 03/28/2011 05:30 PM, webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote:On 03/28/2011 09:48 AM, Cevad OZTUG wrote:Dear Lorenzo, Thank you for your reply. I realized that I should make the problem more clear. 1. As an international office we have our own custom settings in between us with remote offices as well. 2. In our reports, presentations and documents, we would like to show our numbers as 123'456'789.00 .none of the predefined localization settings are showing this style (universal calculator appearance). 3. Windows and pardus are giving us the opportunity to make necessary definitions. But libre office is not referring to system definitions and also not letting us to define or use custom characters-symbols for thousand separator and decimal point. So we are looking for a solution not to go with pre-defined localization settings but to be able to define our set of characters.A clarification please: Are you talking about changing the "default" English setup, then installing the language and character sets needed for the localized needs? Is there going to be different version of the install files that would default directly to Spanish, French, etc., language instructions that are currently seen in English? [if it is seen in other languages, I did not know this since you have to download the other languages] I can see where there could be a problem with non-English speaking users if the install process requires English until the user installs the local language files for the menus. The problem could be in offering 40+ different install versions, one for each major local language. This "problem" will need to be resolved, but then the developers will need to create all those 40+ versions every time there is an update or upgrade. -- The one thing I do tell people locally, is if you speak one than English, you can install LibreOffice and write you non-English documents and use the 140+ language dictionaries to check your spelling. Or you can install the language packs so you have the options to have the menus in that other language. It does "seem" that you can switch back and forth between languages for your menus though. There are several people in my building where English is their second or third language. So this multi-language option for LibreOffice seems to me a big advantage over MS Office. You do not have to "buy" or download a whole new version of the package if you want to have a different language.Thanks again, On 03/28/2011 02:54 PM, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:Hello Cevad, Cevad OZTUG wrote:Dear Friends, I am using libre office on my both computers (win7x64_Eng and Pardus2011x64_Eng - a linux distro). (LibreOffice 3.3.0 - OOO330m19 (Build:5) - tag libreoffice-3.3.0.3) I am working in an office where there are people from several countries and where the company operates on many countries. So the problem is localization. Which format to use?I guess my experience is not as 'multinational', but I currently work a lot in two languages (English and Italian). Not using Windows here but Ubuntu installed in English with the Italian locale. For Libreoffice I installed both the language packs for English and Italian and often work on bi-lingual documents, not it is really easy to switch language settings (e.g for spell check) in the same document. In windows and MS office it was pretty easy to make custom settings for the date, currency and number appearances.In both operating systems when it comes to libre office, it is not referring to system settings and not letting me to adjust the settings for a custom set of definitions. To make it more practical: For instance we are using the decimal character and thousand separator like universal simple calculators 123'456.00 where the time format is 24 hours referring to Zulu.As for locale in general I imagine you're aware of the setting in the language preferences, but I don't much about number formats. Ciao, LorenzoIs there any suggestion to make those kind of settings possible for libre office also? Thanks in advance. Cevad OZTUG
Select the appropriate language (the language that makes use of that number format you are talking about) in your character settings in your styles and/or in your document. -- Best regards Johnny Rosenberg -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to users+help@libreoffice.org List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/users/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***