Useful Plugin for Forum Users -- LibreOffice

[clarjon1]

Hey forum users!
Have any of you written up a howto for the forums in say OpenOffice, or LibreOffice, and then had to go and re-do your formatting because it didn't convert to BBCode properly?

Well, have I found an extension for you!

http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/en/project/BBkode

This extension allows you to quickly and easily convert your text to BBCode, which is the 'standard' markup method for many forums, including our own.  It can handle the usual suspects, bolding, urls, image placement, and so forth.
To be a lab rat, I've written this up in LibreOffice before pasting it in – as is shown in this screenshot:

http://img413.imageshack.us/i/plasmadesktopq26423.png/

To use after installing, go to Tools → Addons → BBcode. Then select what you wish to have converted, then click the “Reload” button.  It's as simple as that!

Hope someone finds it useful!

[Neal ManBear]

Your font is too small. Please increase its size.

[clarjon1]

What do you mean? Where is my font too small?

[r1to]

 
like Sheldon from 'the big bang theory' would say:

'Was that Sarcasm?'

[Aradalf]

like Sheldon from 'the big bang theory' would say:

'Was that Sarcasm?'

 

[Neal ManBear]

What do you mean? Where is my font too small?

Never mind. I fixed it.

Many of our forum members have a hard time reading smaller fonts.

[Bald Brick]

What do you mean? Where is my font too small?

Never mind. I fixed it.

Many of our forum members have a hard time reading smaller fonts.

Thanks Nea Coffeelis Drinkamus Allottacus! Finally a post that I can read without touching Ctrl and the wheel on my mouse!

And you changed the font to Times New Roman too! You should edit all the posts!

[Neal ManBear]

What do you mean? Where is my font too small?

Never mind. I fixed it.

Many of our forum members have a hard time reading smaller fonts.

Thanks Nea Coffeelis Drinkamus Allottacus! Finally a post that I can read without touching Ctrl and the wheel on my mouse!

And you changed the font to Times New Roman too! You should edit all the posts!

No, I didn't change the font choice. I only increased the size to a readable level.

[rubentje1991]

No, I didn't change the font choice. I only increased the size to a readable level.

OK, I do not need glasses during next years (surely not with this size-policy  )
I someone comes complaining about the size now....  => how big is it now? 16pt? 18pt?

[Aradalf]

I someone comes complaining about the size now....  => how big is it now? 16pt? 18pt?

16pt

[Neal ManBear]

No, I didn't change the font choice. I only increased the size to a readable level.

OK, I do not need glasses during next years (surely not with this size-policy  )
I someone comes complaining about the size now....  => how big is it now? 16pt? 18pt?

Times New Roman 16pt is roughly equal in size to 12pt in the forum default font.
12pt Times New Roman is roughly equal in size to 9pt in the forum default font.

A small font is hard to read for some of us. A request not to use a smaller font is not unreasonable.

[rubentje1991]

No, I didn't change the font choice. I only increased the size to a readable level.

OK, I do not need glasses during next years (surely not with this size-policy  )
I someone comes complaining about the size now....  => how big is it now? 16pt? 18pt?

Times New Roman 16pt is roughly equal in size to 12pt in the forum default font.
12pt Times New Roman is roughly equal in size to 9pt in the forum default font.

A small font is hard to read for some of us. A request not to use a smaller font is not unreasonable.

Yes, but it's just funny - I saw the thread the first time with big font, and I thought... what kind of idiot...  ( , no don't take it personally    )

But it IS better readable than something small 

[Archie]

Oh geez... thanks to this thread I remembered I haven't copied the openoffice.org extensions I saved before installing LO. I gotta try thos and see if they work.

[pags]

No, I didn't change the font choice. I only increased the size to a readable level.

OK, I do not need glasses during next years (surely not with this size-policy  )
I someone comes complaining about the size now....  => how big is it now? 16pt? 18pt?

Times New Roman 16pt is roughly equal in size to 12pt in the forum default font.
12pt Times New Roman is roughly equal in size to 9pt in the forum default font.

A small font is hard to read for some of us. A request not to use a smaller font is not unreasonable.

Really?


...
There's got to be more to it than just font size...I haven't made any customizations (that I can recall  ) to my forum setting...

Just wonderin'

[Neal ManBear]

Really?

Yes. Really. I do not think it unreasonable to ask that fonts be of a size that is readable for the majority of users.

I made no screenshot. However 12pt Times New Roman was too small. That is why I changed to 16pt; i.e. to make it a readable size.

I made a request. There was no response. I took action.