Author: Merike

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OpenOffice Writer

I’ve been working on converting some word documents to nicely styled .pdf-s and Writer is a great help.

I’ve created my own paragraph styles, marked all paragraphs with a style and that really makes it easy. I’ve been struggling with table of contents, however. While setting all the options I managed to crash the program several times. It offered me a chance to send an empty error report as well. I went with doing a couple of changes, save cycle and so far all good. But I didn’t add a title page before table of contents and now I can’t figure out, how to. I can make the table of contents manually editable but I can only add a page break inside table of contents, not before it. Arghh..

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Rein Rannap & Taavi Peterson, Keila

I had tickets bought in advance but it wasn’t much of a use since we got there quite late and all seats were taken. In fact it was so crowded already that I believe they wouldn’t have let us in for the first concert if we didn’t have tickets bought before.

First part sounded just ok to me but not much more. Of course good music was played in a professional way, but I’m just not that much into more than couple of minutes piano music without any vocal part.

Second part was much more interesting. I haven’t heard many of Ruja’s songs, believe it or not. Sure, I know the most popular ones but there were so many more. So it was nice they picked those not-so-many-times-heard ones. Out of the ones performed I had heard less than half I think. But I definitely loved what I heard. Taavi manages to sing on the edge for me. There are some tones of his voice that I’m not so fond of but there’s still something that gets to me at the same time and keeps listening and waiting for more. Although it makes you fear that all those tones might not be healthy for his voice.

Overall sound wasn’t bad at all even in the back, though I was surprised of how much better the sound was just few steps more to the front. Need to remember to go earlier next time.

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CSS and IE

Those two certainly don’t make your work easy. Whenever you float a div inside another div and also use negative margin, IE thinks it’s fun to not display it at all, unless you add position:relative; to the floated div. Only the newest version can cope without that. I suppose they still make some progress when developing it :).

When you have a link and a list in another list’s element like so:

<ul>
…
<li>
<a…>
<ul><li…>…<li…></u>
</li>
…
</ul>

… then you have to tell IE that it should display a-tag as block or else they end up on the same line. But if I remember it correct then IE6 couldn’t tackle my menu hovering at all, whereas IE7 does it well with some tweaking.
Oh and if any one of you has an idea why 10em border and 10em sidebar don’t have equal width in IE and Opera, do share your wisdom.