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On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 4:29 PM, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi :)
Errr, what happens if you do more than 3 of the - signs?  Might that help
Word to recognise them?



​I tried that, got the same result. But thanks for the idea!​




Regards from
Tom :)

On 24 September 2014 00:27, Tom Davies <tomcecf@gmail.com> wrote:


Hi :)
Pdf is the best route imo.  Note that the advantage LIbreOffice offers
here is that it makes uncompressed Pdfs fairly easily, or at least with
loss-less compression instead of making things a bit fuzzy.

You'll still probably need to use boring and over-used fonts such as
Times New Roman, Arial or for that wacky, friendly look the infamous Comic
Sans to fit in with whatever he/she is likely to have on his/her machine.
Students love dull boring old stuff don't they?

There is another neat trick if you are going to give him/her the files on
a usb-stick and be able to click a couple of things yourself.  The Portable
Apps initiative
http://portableapps.com/apps/office/libreoffice_portable/
It makes the programs/apps available without having to install them onto
the Windows machine.  Then when you unplug the usb-stick the program
becomes unavailable again.

It might be worth testing this before relying on it.  I'd want the Pdf on
the same Usb-stick and easy to quickly email in case her machine is tooo
locked down.

I'm not sure how to help with the fonts but maybe it's something to think
about next time.


Why does she/he "have to" read them in MS Office anyway?  I'd bet she
doesn't use MS Office to read Pdfs.  At some point people decided it was ok
to have 2 pieces of software to read documents.  Why not a third?  It is
possible for her to have both MS Office for her own use and LibreOffice to
handle documents from people who don't want to pay exorbitant fees for
malware infested vendor lock-ins.  Do all the students also 'have to' buy
into MS Office because the staff are given it for free?

Is it morally right for teachers to force their students to buy into
something in order to help ensure the staff get it for free?  (Sorry, just
trying to give you arguments but they are unlikely to win you any fans!)
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

On 24 September 2014 00:12, "J. Van Brimmer" <jerry.vb@gmail.com> wrote:


Thanks Cley,

I didn't think about the pdf route. That just may well work. I did try
sending an .odt to the secretary, same peoblem. When she opened it, some
of
the lines were missing. I'll try pdfs next.

Thanks!



On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Cley Faye <cleyfaye@gmail.com> wrote:


I don't know how well it transition to .doc files, but my approach to

make

answer lines is the following:
- create a new paragraph style (let's call it "Answer Zone")
- change the style spacing so that there is no extra space

before/after the

paragraph
- change the style border to be a single line at the bottom, and

disable

the checkbox that merge the borders between paragraphs

...after typing this, I just checked, and that's roughly what the

"---\r"

route is doing. Damn. The issues seems to be that the "Merge with next
paragraph" option either doesn't exist in .doc format, or isn't carried
over correctly. And no more luck with docx.

Some sort of solution for your issue could be to just send the odt

(recent

version of MS Office can read them, YMMV), or directly send the PDF,

which

is clearly the best option if the recipient of your document will not

have

to modify it, only to view/print it.

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Cley Faye
http://cleyfaye.net

2014-09-24 0:27 GMT+02:00 "J. Van Brimmer" <jerry.vb@gmail.com>:


I'm using 4.3.1.2 on Xubuntu Linux.

I am creating some lesson handouts for a class I'm going to be

teaching.

I

have to email them to our secretary, who has to read them in MS

Office

for

printing.
​
The ​documents are formatted in landscape mode.

In the document I enter a short text line, press Enter, then I type

in

three dashes, press Enter, and waula, I have a horizontal line for

the

students to  write their answers on.
​Sometimes I continue pressing Enter to automatically create as many

lines

as I need.
​
This works fine as ling as I stay in .odt format. But if I save the
document in .doc format, and then open the .doc file in LibreOffice,

some

of the horizontal lines are missing. I have tried everything I can

think

of, but I can't get all of the lines to "stick" from .odt to .doc

format.


I have read the "Help" page here:
https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Drawing_Lines_in_Text
​ .
But ​those tips don't work either.

​I am being forced to work in Win​broke using BS Word. Help!


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