Manpage "filename" enhancement request

[Charles Atkinson]

Hello :-)

The openoffice man page installed with 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1 describes filename as "filename... Files to operate on."

Please consider adding a description of their format which may, I believe, be a URL in which case it would begin with file:/// or macro:///. Maybe the third / is the beginning of an absolute path name; maybe it isn't. Maybe space characters have to be rendered %20. Relative path names may be relative to the user's home directory. Operating system pathname expansion (example UNIX/Linux "~" for home directory) cannot be used ...

Some usage examples would be nice, too.

Best

Charles

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

I'm pretty sure URIs are no longer supported now, with OOo 3.0/3.1, that I have disabled Gnome VFS and GVFS support.

[Charles Atkinson (7-launchpad-catcons-co-uk)]

Thanks for your attention Chris :-)

AIUI, URIs are supported by OOo, not by Gnome, so they work independently of both desktop and OS; the same syntax works on non-Gnome desktops and on Windows. If my understanding is correct then disabling OOo's Gnome VFS and GVFS support would not result in OOo no longer supporting URIs.

[Chris Cheney (ccheney)]

Charles,

Do you know of an easy way to tell if OOo 3.0/3.1 in Ubuntu still supports URIs after having disabled gvfs/gnome-vfs?

Thanks,

Chris Cheney

[Charles Atkinson (7-launchpad-catcons-co-uk)]

Hello Chris :-)

To answer your question I installed OOo_3.1.0_LinuxIntel_install_en-US (from http://distribution.openoffice.org/p2p/, so the generic .debs, not ubuntu-specific).

I was still able to run the following from the command line:

soffice "macro:///Standard.ModificationTime.SaveFileWithModificationTimePrefixOnName(/home/c/d/Temp/x.odt)"

Ignoring the specifics, this has the general format:

soffice "macro:///<library name>.<module name>.<sub or function name>(<full path to OOo documnet>)"

Hope this helps

Best

Charles

[Björn Michaelsen (bjoern-michaelsen)]

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There are no new official OpenOffice.org releases in Ubuntu packaging anymore => Won't Fix

If the problem persists, please mark this bug as "also affects project Libreoffice" or "also affects distribution Libreoffice (Ubuntu)" if that has not happened already.

Please leave references to upstream OpenOffice.org bugs in place to allow cross pollination.

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