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[sabine <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://www.languagegeek.com/font/fontdownload.html      This is the
Language-Geek website.

I am mainly using the Aboriginal Sans. A couple of weeks ago, a long time
after using this (as I explained earlier, I am using macros to put special
characters into my writings) these macros suddenly crashed and disappeared
from LibreOffice and I had to reinstall something again. But the problem
with the scrambling even occurred long before this happened. (I believe,
the offending character may have been the one that will be listed under
"Diacritical marks" after the download of the font in the special character
settings under the number U+0312) As my macros also disappeared lately, I
reinstalled a slightly different character for the same purpose, trying out
if this would make a difference. I am not sure about this yet, as it has
only been a few days.

I do not have good copies of the files that were scrambled, no matter where
I get them from, even back-ups, certain files show up scrambled. Some files
from way back when are all-right, and some files are not. It seems to be
related to some version changes in the software. (I had problems with
version-changes before, i.e. in impress, where the" insert movie and sound
feature" suddenly stopped working -still works in the original files before
the break occurred-, and I had to do things differently to  play sounds
with the files. But this is a different matter, that also has never been
fixed.)

Sorry to not have the original files unscrambled, they are wrecked now.

I am attaching the previous document again, AND I have highlighted what I
believe to be the offending character (the comma or accent on the top).
This character goes all over the place, some of them are even entirely off
the document, see attached screen-shot.

After downloading the font, I chose the two characters I need to combine
with the letters and record a macro with the fantastic macro-recording
feature, which seems to be working again. (It was going well for years
without breaking. The recorded characters just worked, and the documents
were just fine.)

After recording the macro, I went into the customization features and
assigned the F3 and F5 key to use for insertion of the accent. (I use F4
for Accentuate). [So I had three macros running: Accentuate, and the two
special characters, one of which crashed and caused the scrambling. The two
self-recorded macros were the ones that disappeared and the accentuate one
was still alive, when this part crashed. But that was much later than the
scrambling.]

I also experienced system crashes. At the time I had Firefox and
LibreOffice running, and an update manager notification showing up, and
VOILA it logged me out. I don't know if this is related or something else.
This is on Kubuntu 11.10. On Unity it was even more buggy, Libre-Office
constantly crashed in various ways. It was not compatible with work.

A while ago, I also opened Libreoffice in Terminal, and it gave me an error
message, which has now disappeared. I am also attaching the Java error file
for your information (I don't know if this has anything to do with this, or
is another issue.)

I tried many different things, for week I have been combing the Internet
now to figure this out. I also installed everything JAVA, that I could find
in Synaptics, and found a new version 7. Now, at least, I am not getting
JAVA errors any more, at least so far. I also uninstalled KDE-integration,
as this was recommended at one bug-reporting website.

I hope the scrambled documents are not beyond repair, but I fear they are.
I also hope, that whatever is causing this will not continue and be fixable.

I just experienced a SYSTEM-Crash again! Maybe there are more bugs to
report. Do you think it is advisable to do a fresh install (I have been
trying to avoid this, because it means days and days of work, and putting
me behind in my other work.), because this is Kubuntu on top of multiple
upgrades and Ubuntu 11.10? Would that fix things, or does it not matter?
It appears to be mostly the UPDATES, which are crashing the whole system.

I thank you for all your efforts at figuring this out, it is greatly
appreciated. I also apologize for being so difficult to work with, most of
the underpinnings of the software are unfamiliar to me.

Thanks again for all the support and for working on this problem,

Sabine


On 9 December 2011 03:14, Christopher M. Penalver <
christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> sabine, could you please answer the following questions:
>
> + I am typing in Secwepemctsin (or shuswap). I downloaded aboriginal
> font from language geek"
>
> Could you please post a direct link to the specific font file you
> downloaded?
>
> + While you attached the file that is already scrambled, we also need a
> copy of the file before it has been scrambled and step-by-step
> instructions to reproduce the scrambling. Could you please attach this
> file?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896
>
> Title:
>  scrambled words in LibreOffice
>
> Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
>   Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
>  I am running Kubuntu (switched from Ubuntu 11.10). I am preparing
>  school-work and learning-materials in Libre-Office (formerly
>  OpenOffice.org). I have countless hours and years of material.
>
>  Lately certain special characters, which I have to use for the
>  aboriginal language I am writing in, appear to scramble my words, and
>  they become unreadable and documents are unusable.
>
>  I do NOT know WHAT is causing this or which program is causing this,
>  but it happens in LibreOffice documents (writer).
>
>  HELP, PLEASE!!!
>
>  I need to get this fixed in order to NOT loose a lifetime of
>  documents.
>
>  I am NOT a computer expert, so I do not know what else to do., or even
>  how this is properly reported.
>
>  THANK YOU in advance!
>   ---
>  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
>  Architecture: i386
>  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
>  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386
> (20100816.1)
>  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
>  Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
>  PackageArchitecture: i386
>  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
>  Tags:  oneiric
>  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
>  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (52 days ago)
>  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax lp lpadmin netdev
> nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare
>
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** Attachment added: "intransitive verbs for bug-report.odt"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896/+attachment/2625958/+files/intransitive%20verbs%20for%20bug-report.odt

** Attachment added: "hs_err_pid12941.log"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896/+attachment/2625959/+files/hs_err_pid12941.log

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/901896

Title:
  scrambled words in LibreOffice

Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I am running Kubuntu (switched from Ubuntu 11.10). I am preparing
  school-work and learning-materials in Libre-Office (formerly
  OpenOffice.org). I have countless hours and years of material.

  Lately certain special characters, which I have to use for the
  aboriginal language I am writing in, appear to scramble my words, and
  they become unreadable and documents are unusable.

  I do NOT know WHAT is causing this or which program is causing this,
  but it happens in LibreOffice documents (writer).

  HELP, PLEASE!!!

  I need to get this fixed in order to NOT loose a lifetime of
  documents.

  I am NOT a computer expert, so I do not know what else to do., or even
  how this is properly reported.

  THANK YOU in advance!
  --- 
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100816.1)
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  Package: libreoffice 1:3.4.4-0ubuntu1
  PackageArchitecture: i386
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic-pae 3.0.6
  Tags:  oneiric
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic-pae i686
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-17 (52 days ago)
  UserGroups: adm admin audio cdrom dialout fax lp lpadmin netdev nopasswdlogin plugdev sambashare

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