I recently had occasion to put horizontal lines into an OpenOffice.org Writer document. I discovered a couple of surprises.
What I wished to do was insert a simple horizontal line across a page under a heading. As is my habit, I rummaged around in the menus looking for the feature I wanted. There is, indeed, something [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2009
Vagaries of horizontal lines in Openoffice.org Writer
October 31, 2009
If a pizza is sliced in the forest…
October 27, 2009
If nobody’s eating the pizza but you, it doesn’t matter how you cut it. No one will complain about the relative sizes of the slices, and no one will criticize their shapes. You don’t even have to make the first cut (or any cut) go through the centre. I missed a creative opportunity here, but [...]
Panasonic DMC-LX3 firmware update with Linux
October 25, 2009
Well, I took a chance just now. I saw today that there’s a firmware update (v2.1) available for my camera, a Panasonic DMC-LX3. I saw mention of better white balance performance, which looked useful, so I wanted to go for it. I hesitated some microseconds, though, because there were downloads for Windows and for Mac, [...]