LibOCon in Aarhus, Denmark, has been a really nice meeting especially for the L10n/NLP communities with a large workshop on the day before the opening of the conference. Even the whole afternoon was too short to discuss all the topics we had on the agenda. Around 40 persons from all over the world were attending the meeting.…
22 Dec 2015
Behind the scenes at TDF: NLP/L10n
22 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #21
LibreOffice offers a large number of dictionaries for spell checking documents and presentations. They are available from the Extensions website, and can be searched by using one of the pre-configured selections (as shown in the picture).
Dictionaries can be recognized by the OXT file extension.
Once downloaded, dictionaries must be installed with the Extensions Manager (menu Tools > Extensions Manager).…
21 Dec 2015
Behind the scenes at TDF: marketing and PR
Marketing and PR at TDF are a very demanding task, as we are covering the entire world from a single point in Europe. It is a challenging role, and also a very rewarding one (because we continue to increase the project visibility with each announcement, and this is a testament to the quality of the software).…
21 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #20
LibreOffice is the best free office suite ever, and is available thanks to the combined effort of a large global community, which is also providing professional and volunteer support to LibreOffice users.
LibreOffice enterprise users can obtain professional support services from certified developers (Level 3 Support for feature development or bug/regression fixes), certified migration professionals (project management for migrations or large deployments), and certified trainers (basic, intermediate or advanced trainings).…
20 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #19
LibreOffice Calc allows to show quite easily the top 10 values in a spreadsheet column with the AutoFilter function, which is activated with the menu Data > Filter > AutoFilter (image on the left). Once active, the function shows a down arrow in the first cell of each column, which opens a drop down menu with different options (image on the right).…
19 Dec 2015
LibreOffice: Advent Tip #18
LibreOffice allows to select the language to check the spelling of a document – or a paragraph – by clicking on the language area of the status bar. The action opens a menu with different options: first, the available dictionaries for the document, and then other choices from disabling the spell checker to choosing a language for a paragraph.…