LibreOffice offers an AutoText feature which can be accessed from the menu Edit > AutoText, which opens a simple dialog windows. The example shown in the image on the left is the well known Lorem Ipsum pseudo Latin blurb, which can be used to mimic a document layout, but the feature offers a number of pre-defined standard strings (for instance: 1st Reminder, 2nd Reminder, etcetera), plus several Business Cards layouts, plus a number of template elements (for instance: Header Brochure, Header Newsletter, etcetera). In addition, you can import a document to create your own AutoText elements. To insert the AutoText, you can either recall the dialog window or type the shortcut for the AutoText entry, and then press F3.
The Document Foundation (TDF), the charitable entity behind the world’s leading free office suite LibreOffice, seeks a Documentation Lead to start work as soon as possible. The role, which is scheduled for 20 hours a week, includes amongst other items: Mentor and train new members of the documentation project: how we do things, how to use the tools, and writing style as needed Guide and coordinate work: what needs to be done when, set priorities Set standards and templates Maintain Contributors Guide, which includes Style Guide Improve and enhance the online help, including building and mentoring a community to work on it Research, write and edit, as needed to fill gaps when volunteers contributions are lacking Publish chapters and full books Identify requirements for books and formats (ODT, PDF, ePub, HTML, other) Develop a vision, a plan and a strategy for documentation, to include things like version tracking, workflow, scheduling and recruitment Identify other forms of documentation that we should do, either in addition to, or instead of, the user guide books we’ve been producing Liaise and coordinate with marketing, translation, other user support, Help The role requires the following: Experience using LibreOffice and other open source tools (such as
LibreOffice 5.0 will be announced next Wednesday – August 5, 2015 – at noon UTC. It is our tenth major release, and the first of the third stage of LibreOffice development. To show the impressive amount of new features added to LibreOffice since version 3.3, released in January 2011, we have compiled a summary of all previous announcements. LibreOffice 5.0 will add 64bit Windows builds to already available 32bit Windows, 64bit MacOS and 32/64bit Linux builds, and will be compatible with Windows 10. A pre-release of LibreOffice 5.0 is available on the download page at the following address: http://www.libreoffice.org/download/pre-releases/. LibreOffice 3.3, January 25, 2011 – LibreOffice 3.3 was the first stable release of the FOSS office suite developed by the community. In less than four months, the number of developers hacking LibreOffice has grown from less than twenty in late September 2010 to well over one hundred in January 2011. This has allowed to release LibreOffice 3.3 ahead of the aggressive schedule set by the project. LibreOffice 3.3 highlights: The developer community has been able to build their own and independent process, and get up and running in a very short time (with respect to the size of the code base and
Sophie Gautier has been a member of the OpenOffice.org project since its beginning, and then a founding member of The Document Foundation and LibreOffice. She is extremely active in the Francophone and international community, and is a staff member of The Document Foundation. She takes care of the French translation of LibreOffice (interface and help), is a member of LibreOffice certification committee and is a leading member of the quality assurance project. 2015 is more than ever a year packed with exciting projects and ideas around LibreOffice and The Document Foundation, so we want to continue our behind-the-scenes series, to share achievements with our community and our generous donours, to whom we’d like to express our sincerest gratitude and thanks for their incredible and wonderful support and their invaluable contributions! The localization team has been very busy translating for the 4.4.x version, a lot of dialogues have been modified, so thousands of strings were touched, moved and need to be translated and validated again. The L10N team had an important discussion on the workflow and the current workload due to changes on the sources, whether they are needed or purely cosmetic, which resulted in several decisions. The first is that the teams willing to
The user interface has been improved in a significant way Interoperability with OOXML file formats has been extended Improved source code quality based on Coverity Scan analysis Berlin, January 29, 2015 – The Document Foundation is pleased to announce LibreOffice 4.4, the ninth major release of the free office suite, with a significant number of design and user experience improvements. “LibreOffice 4.4 has got a lot of UX and design love, and in my opinion is the most beautiful ever,” says Jan “Kendy” Holesovsky, a member of the Membership Committee and the leader of the design team. “We have completed the dialog conversion, redesigned menu bars, context menus, toolbars, status bars and rulers to make them much more useful. The Sifr monochrome icon theme is extended and now the default on OS X. We also developed a new Color Selector, improved the Sidebar to integrate more smoothly with menus, and reworked many user interface details to follow today’s UX trends.” LibreOffice 4.4 offers several significant improvements in other areas, too: Support of OpenGL transitions in Windows, and improved implementation based on the new OpenGL framework; Digital signing of PDF files during the export process; Installation of free fonts Carlito and
With the beginning of 2015, a new year packed with exciting projects and ideas around LibreOffice and The Document Foundation, we today finish our behind-the-scenes series, to share achievements in 2014 with our community and our generous donours, to whom we’d like to express our sincerest gratitude and thanks for their incredible and wonderful support and their invaluable contributions! I’m Alexander Werner and I am responsible for the infrastructure of The Document Foundation on a contracted basis since March 2014. I have been with the project since its foundation in 2012, and been a longtime supporter of free and open source software. As a volunteer I helped setting up and maintaining our first server and optimizing it to handle the load of the first days. The infrastructure is one of the most important things The Document Foundation provides for the community. As long as every part is working as expected, it is basically invisible. It is my job to make sure that this is always the case, mostly by orchestrating the different services on our growing number of virtual machines. When the LibreOffice fork began, we started with only one server where all services were located – mailing lists, both
