Re: [libreoffice-users] System-wide document template?

On 02/20/2014 03:37 AM, nicolai.rostov@gmail.com wrote:
> On Thu 2014-02-20 05:08, Dave Barton wrote:
> > I thought that Regina had helped you resolve this issue, but...
> >
> > Yes, there is a global default template, but it is hard wired (coded)
> > into the software. That is what the user's default or any other template
> > overrides.
> >
> > Unless there is something extremely abnormal about your plain text file,
> > the user default or any other template used definitely will format plain
> > text as set in the template. So the question is:
> > Are you setting the default template as described here?:
> > https://help.libreoffice.org/Writer/Changing_the_Default_Template
> > and in chapter 10 of the Writer User Guide here:
> > https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Documentation/Publications#LibreOffice_Writer_Guide
> >
> > I am cc'ing you with an example template (the list server normally
> > strips attachments). You do not have to install or do anything special
> > with it. Simply open it in Writer and then use the "Insert -> File..."
> > menu option to insert any plain text file. Your text should appear in
> > some ugly blue font, with double spaced lines centered on the page.
> >
> > Please write back to the list and let us know if this works for you.
> >
> > Regards
> > Dave
> She did help me a lot. I'm happy with my macro and the shortcut assigned to
> it.  Your method also works. But it doesn't preserve the filename, though.
>
> I was just wondering why my default template is ignored when opening plain
> text. After all, a plain text obviously doesn't come with a style. My
> default template was supposed to take over and provide a style, right?
> I thought so.  But this doesn't happen.
>
> This might not be an issue. It's just counterintuitive. Again, I'm fine with
> workarounds.
>
> If any one of you think this can be an issue, here is how to reproduce it.
>
> 1. Create an empty OpenDocument Text.
> 2. Modify its "Preformatted Text" style to double-spacing and serif font.
> 3. Save this ODT as a template.
> 4. Make this template your default.
> 5. Create another empty OpenDocument Text, and you will see that the
>     "Preformated Text" style rightly conforms to your modifications.
> 6. Close your empty OpenDocument Text.
> 7. Open any plain text file.
> 8. This plain text file will not be double-spaced nor in a
>     serif font. The "Preformatted Style" will not conform to your default
>     template. It actually goes back to the hard-coded one.
>
> Thank you all for your helpful suggestions.
>
> nr
>
> ps: There is nothing abnormal about my plain text files. They are just prose in
> LaTeX that I want to edit using LibreOffice Writer. Writer is just great for
> writing prose. Text editors are limited to single-spacing and monospaced
> fonts, which is awful for prose writing.

Yes, I use LibreOffice for plain text, or encoded text, on many 
different types of projects.  For all the others, I use "Kate" on my 
"default" Ubuntu system.

Beyond the "plain text file" question, there is another question here, 
if I read the posts correctly.

You asked how to use your template "system wide".  What do you mean by 
"system wide".  All users on a single PC, or all PCs [Windows, Mac, or 
Linux] on a network?

If on many networked PCs, were you intention to manually set up the 
network PCs, or to have the template on a network server and each LO 
package go out to the "networked drive" for that default template.

I know that there are a lot of business networks that want each user's 
computer to have the same packages on it and maybe even use the same 
templates for their documents.  This is an important question for LO to 
be part of a business network.  Can you change the 
"Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Paths>Templates" to a networked drive or a 
file server?  If so, how is that done, with examples?  I do not remember 
if there are any references for this type of thing in the "guides" or on 
the wiki pages.  Since this is one of the business "options" that may be 
required to deploy LO to their network, we need to have some good 
documentation for this, and other network deployment, question[s].

Since I do not use a networked drive or file server, I cannot test out 
any examples that I might be able to give.





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