LibreOffice
Editable nested fields in Writer
Word fields are far more flexible than ODF/Writer fields - to most users, the additional expressiveness doesn't matter, but for some specialized use cases, Writer is limited. Writer had a rudimentary implementation of Word compatible fields for about 10 years, but it never worked well. We have added the ability to round-trip nested Word fields in RTF/DOCX formats, and fixed a bunch of long standing bugs along the way.
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LibreOffice was launched as a free office suite for Windows, macOS and Linux in 2010, by a large majority of OpenOffice community members. Over the years, the project has made a significant code cleaning and refactoring effort, and created a robust development infrastructure entirely based on open source software. Today, LibreOffice is available for the cloud and mobile platforms, in different flavours, optimized for community and enterprise users.
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Collabora Online (COOL) is a LibreOffice-based online office suite with collaborative editing. Time-to-start-hacking COOL has been lowered from ~a day to ~10 minutes thanks to integration with GitPod, a dev environment in the cloud, on its GitHub repo. We will try to share the story on and discuss these topics: - What was it like in the past - The search for ways to lower the barrier - Cloud dev environments - Setting up the repo for GitPod integration - Adapting the infra/CI for faster builds ...
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| 2/7/21 |
The LibreOffice buildsystem has support to create auxiliary files that allow easy integration with various IDEs. This talk will show you how to use it and how it works and where its limitations are.
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| 2/7/21 |
A consumer report
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| 2/7/21 |
Come and join us to hear about the ongoing porting effort, to get LibreOffice to fully run inside a web browser.
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| 2/7/21 |
Come and hear about the developments in LibreOffice that were triggered by a need in the Collabora Online. The most notable examples are the Notebookbar improvements, but there are other, like async dialogs in the core, new parameters to various .uno: commands that improve scripting capabilities, and many others.
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| 2/7/21 |
There have been many implementations of different object inspector tools for LibreOffice, most popular being xray and MRI, but they were only available as extensions. This is an invaluable tools to inspect and to better understand the structure of UNO objects, which is particularly useful for writing macros or extensions. The problem is that the existing object inspector tools are not so simple to use, because of their nature as an extension and in addition the user has to search and install it ...
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