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[sabine <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx>]

Really sorry for this disconnected email, this is a second add-on comment
for my previous email: you may be interested to know, that as i tried out
different diacritical marks from the special character menu, there were
errors with other diacritical marks also. Quite a few of them are buggy.

Thanks!

On 9 December 2011 09:16, Sabine Hadgkiss <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> This is just an add-on comment to my previous email: While I am typing the
> documents, they look fine. It is after saving them and re-opening them,
> that they are suddenly scrambled. They also get scramble when they are
> being printed.
>
> Thanks!
>
> On 9 December 2011 09:11, Sabine Hadgkiss <a4a43959@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> 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?
>>>
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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
>>>
>>> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
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>>>
>>
>>
>

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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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