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Re: A minimal relational database in Debian

From Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: A minimal relational database in Debian
Date 2017-03-03 12:50 +0100
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On 03/03/2017 04:15 AM, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
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> On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 08:45:00AM +0000, GiaThnYgeia wrote:
>> I will top-post as it is meaningless to comment specifically.
>>
>> I do have 5 and have not used base since I don't know when, on this
>> installation it was firsts.  I am made fun of having large fonts as I
>> refuse to wear glasses and my eyes get irritated trying to read small
>> print.  I adjusted the menus, the cells, and everything else I can find
>> straight out of the LibreB menu for fonts.  And that 130% was
>> ridiculously exceeded on purpose to HUMONGOUS.
>> So, I am clueless to what you are saying!  Maybe it is some desktop
>> environment that is blocking the adjustment of fonts?
>
> I'm not the office suite guy. I typically keep LO around for the case
> someone throws an Excel (or worse) at me, which I convert to some
> text format as quickly as possible.
>
> I tried myself (LO 5) and didn't find a way to change the menu font
> (at all). Then I did some research and found the links (all in the
> libreoffice.org namespace, so one might put some trust on them), which
> I repeat here for your reading convenience:
>
>>> Re the menu font: perhaps those urls are relevant:
>>>
>>>   https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/12658/libre-40-how-to-change-the-application-menu-fonts/
>>>   https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/8954/change-the-default-font/
>>>   https://ask.libreoffice.org/en/question/8954/change-the-default-font/
>
> If I understand things correctly, 4.x had some built-in functionality
> to tweak the menu's font (limited to the range 80%..130%) -- that
> seems to be Richard's problem, while 5.x (that's your and my case)
> delegates this functionality to the toolkit's theme machinery, which
> I assume to be more or less broken in my box (I don't care very
> much about that), but working in yours (you possibly do).
>
> So all is well, but given the links above, it doesn't seem the LO
> team is willing to change anything: "works as intended", and Richard
> either uses his magnifying glass or another software.
>

I suspect my problems revolve around still being on Jessie's LO 4.x and 
possibly MATE as my DE. As I have limited bandwidth that won't be 
changing until Stretch is released and I can purchase a set of DVD's.

As to the database, some research has shown that Tcl/Tk, which I already 
need, can handle my particular use case.

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A minimal relational database in Debian? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-27 14:20 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2017-02-27 14:30 +0100
    Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-02-27 15:20 +0100
    Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2017-02-27 15:50 +0100
    Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:40 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? James Allsopp <jamesaallsopp@googlemail.com> - 2017-02-27 14:50 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-27 14:50 +0100
    A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-27 16:00 +0100
      Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in  Debian?] Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-02-27 16:50 +0100
        Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-27 17:50 +0100
          Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in  Debian?] sunrise <sunrise@emypeople.net> - 2017-02-27 21:20 +0100
            Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-02-27 21:50 +0100
            Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:40 +0100
          Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-02-27 21:50 +0100
            Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-28 03:50 +0100
              Re: A cumulative reply [Re: A minimal relational database in Debian?] conover@rahul.net (John Conover) - 2017-02-28 04:40 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-02-27 19:10 +0100
  an answer plus minimal font size (was: A minimal relational  database in Debian? songbird <songbird@anthive.com> - 2017-02-27 20:50 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2017-02-28 01:10 +0100
    Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-02-28 04:00 +0100
  Re: A minimal relational database in Debian? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2017-02-28 03:40 +0100
    Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2017-03-01 00:30 +0100
      Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-01 00:50 +0100
        Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2017-03-01 09:10 +0100
          Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-03-01 10:50 +0100
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          Re: A minimal relational database in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-01 13:40 +0100
            Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-01 14:50 +0100
              Contributing [was: A minimal relational database in Debian] <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-01 15:00 +0100
              Re: A minimal relational database in Debian John Hasler <jhasler@newsguy.com> - 2017-03-01 15:10 +0100
              Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-03-01 15:20 +0100
              Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com> - 2017-03-01 15:50 +0100
              Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-01 16:10 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-01 16:50 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-03-01 17:40 +0100
          Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-01 13:40 +0100
            Re: bad LibreOffice font sizes (was: A minimal relational data...) Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-03-01 14:10 +0100
            Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Bob Weber <bobrweber@gmail.com> - 2017-03-01 15:20 +0100
              Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-01 16:00 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-01 21:40 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-03 09:50 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-03-03 10:50 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2017-03-03 19:00 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2017-03-03 22:00 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-03 11:20 +0100
                Re: A minimal relational database in Debian Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2017-03-03 12:50 +0100
        Re: A minimal relational database in Debian <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-03-01 10:40 +0100
        Re: A minimal relational database in Debian GiaThnYgeia <GiaThnYgeia@openmailbox.org> - 2017-03-01 10:40 +0100

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