Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document?

Hi :)  
Abiword is a lot lighter-weight than KWord and might be good for the first comparison
Regards from 
Tom :)  





----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> To: Girvin R. Herr <girvin.herr@sbcglobal.net>
> Cc: Michael Manning <michaelgmanning@gmail.com>; "users@global.libreoffice.org" 
> <users@global.libreoffice.org>
> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2013, 21:08
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] How to unprotect readonly parts of a document?
>
> On Fri, 17 May 2013, Girvin R. Herr wrote:
>
> >  Alan Stern wrote:
> >  <snip>
> >  > Here's another odd thing I encountered.  Moving the cursor one
> >  > character at a time (using the right-arrow key), I find what appears 
> to
> >  > be two hidden characters: one at the beginning of the readonly field
> >  > and one at its end.
> >  >
> >  > That is, start with the cursor just to the left of the blank space
> >  > before the "(9)" field.  Pressing right-arrow advances the 
> cursor to
> >  > the right of the space, leaving it on the left-hand edge of the 
> '('.  
> >  > Pressing right-arrow again doesn't move the cursor at all.  
> Pressing it
> >  > once more advances the cursor between the '(' and '9'.
> >  >
> >  > Alan Stern
> >  >  
> >  Alan,
> >  Did you try viewing hidden objects?
> >  Check the following:
> >  View -> Field Names
> >  View -> Nonprinting Characters
> >  View -> Hidden Paragraphs
>
> I have tried these.  They make no difference.
>
> >  Maybe one of those will make your "hidden characters" visible and 
> give 
> >  you a clue as to what it is doing.
>
> Nope.
>
> >  Another more painful option could be to unzip the file and look at the 
> >  text to see what is there at these "hidden" characters, 
> optionally 
> >  editing it out manually.
>
> Interesting; I didn't know one could do that.  The content.xml file 
> shows the following (the "..." part is where I erased a lot of 
> irrelevant material; I also wrapped a couple of long lines):
>
> Normal</text:span>
> <text:span text:style-name="T3"> </text:span>
> <field:fieldmark-start text:name="__Fieldmark__24_1596095481"
> field:type="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.UNHANDLED">
> <field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.code"
> field:value=" ADDIN EN.CITE &lt;EndNote&gt; ... "/>
> <field:param field:name="vnd.oasis.opendocument.field.id" 
> field:value="81"/>
> </field:fieldmark-start>
> <text:span text:style-name="T5">(9)</text:span>
> <field:fieldmark-end/>
> <text:span text:style-name="T1"> </text:span>
> <text:span text:style-name="T2">Normal again.
>
> I don't know enough to interpret all that, but clearly there is a field 
> of a sort that LibreOffice isn't ready to handle.
>
> Is there some way to get this information from within LibreOffice 
> itself?  I would that the field name and/or value should be accessible.
>
> >  Third, maybe another ODF processor, such as KDE's editor, Kword, may 
> not 
> >  support this readonly attribute and allow you to edit it normally.
>
> Maybe.  I don't see where in there the field is marked as readonly.
>
> Alan Stern
>
>
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