[tdf-discuss] Re: Re: Suppression of Blank Lines in Addresses inLabels and Envelopes from Data Base

"Alan Reeve" <techal@reeve36.plus.com> wrote in message 
news:4D52A8EF.7030604@reeve36.plus.com...
> On 09/02/2011 11:12, Alexander Thurgood wrote:
> > Le 09/02/11 11:49, Alan Reeve a écrit :
> >
> > Hi Alan,
> >
> > > As there has been no response, can I ask if I have put my request into
> > > the wrong forum or are there too many other organisational problems
> > > being addressed presently?
> > I would say, "Yes" and "Yes" to both those questions, whilst qualifying
> > the second as "too many other bugs to hunt down and sort out which are
> > not related to Base".
> >
> > The Base module has, as far as I know, and I would gladly stand
> > corrected, no specifically assigned experienced developer / programmer
> > which knows the Base module well enough to deal with these problems. Add
> > to that the fact that many of the current bugs are actually present in
> > OOo 3.3.0, i.e. introduced by the OOo development team, then it is
> > likely considered a waste of resources for the LibO team to deal with
> > something that may, possibly, get handled by Oracle.
> >
> > As to your bug correction request, you would be better off filing a bug
> > report at freedesktop.org, which is where TDF has decided that all such
> > reports should be filed, or even better still with Oracle.
> >
> >
> > Alex
> Hi Alex
>
> Thanks for your response.  So far as I can see, the problem does not lie in 
> Base but within the Text Document (Writer) modules.  The address line 
> suppression should form part of the "Print from Base"  window in Text 
> Document after you have inserted fields from your database.  The Writer 
> program responds  with the wording "Your document contains database address 
> fields. do you want to print a form letter?"  When you respond "Yes", then 
> a further box comes up with the database selected and just asks you to 
> confirm whether you wish to send the files to "Printer" or "File".
>
> I have hesitated to show this as a bug, because the program is not wrong, 
> it just does not do enough.  Is that a bug?
>
> Alan

It's not a bug in the software, it's a bug in the *design* of the software.

--
Harold Fuchs
London, England 



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