General Glossary

This glossary includes explanations of some of the most important terms you will come across in LibreOffice.

Use the glossary to look up unfamiliar terms found in any LibreOffice application.

ASCII

Kratica za American Standard Code for Information Interchange (Američki standardni kod za razmjenu informacija). ASCII je skup znakova za prikaz fontova na osobnim računalima. Sastoji se od 128 znakova: slova, brojeva, interpunkcijskih znakova, i simbola. Prošireni ASCII skup znakova sadrži 256 znakova. Svakom znaku pridružen je jedinstveni broj, koji se naziva ASCII kod.

In HTML pages, only characters from the 7 Bit ASCII character set should appear. Other characters, such as German umlauts, are distinguished by way of a separate code. You can input extended ASCII code characters: the LibreOffice export filter performs the necessary conversion.

Bézier Object

Bézierova krivulja (Pierre Bézier bio je francuski matematičar) matematički je definirana krivulja koja se koristu u dvodimenzionalnim grafičkim aplikacijama. Krivulju određuju četiri točke: početni i završni položaj, te dva međupoložaja. Bézierovi objekti mogu se modificirati pomicanjem tih točaka uz pomoć miša.

Complex Text Layout (CTL)

Languages with complex text layout may have some or all of the following features:

• The language is written with characters or glyphs that are composed of several parts

• The text direction is from right to left.

Currently, LibreOffice supports Hindi, Thai, Hebrew, and Arabic as CTL languages.

Enable CTL support using - Language Settings - Languages.

DDE

DDE stands for "Dynamic Data Exchange," which is a predecessor of OLE, "Object Linking and Embedding". With DDE, objects are linked through file reference, but not embedded.

You can create a DDE link using the following procedure: Select cells from a Calc spreadsheet, copy them into the clipboard and switch to another spreadsheet and select the Edit - Paste Special dialog. Select the Link option to insert the contents as a DDE link. When activating a link, the inserted cell area will be read from its original file.

Direct and Style Formatting

If you format a document without Styles, it is referred to as "direct" formatting. This means modifying text or other objects, such as frames or tables, by applying various attributes directly. The format applies only to the selected area and all changes must be made separately. Styles, on the other hand, are not applied to the text directly, but rather are defined in the Styles window and then applied. One advantage is that when you change a Style, all parts of the document to which that Style is assigned are modified at the same time.

You can remove direct formatting from your document by selecting the entire text with the shortcut keys +A and then choosing Format - Clear Direct Formatting.

Docking

Some windows in LibreOffice, for example the Styles window and the Navigator, are "dockable" windows. You can move these windows, re-size them or dock them to an edge. On each edge you can dock several windows on top of, or alongside each other; then, by moving the border lines, you can change the relative proportions of the windows.

To undock and re-dock, holding down the key, double-click a vacant area in the window. In the Styles window, you can also double-click a gray part of the window next to the icons, while you hold down the key.

Docking (AutoHide)

On any window edge where another window is docked you will see a button which allows you to show or hide the window.

• If you click the button on the window edge to show the window, the window will remain visible until you manually hide it again (with the same button).

• If you show the window by clicking the window border, but not the button, you activate the AutoHide function. The AutoHide function allows you to temporarily show a hidden window by clicking on its edge. When you click in the document, the docked window hides again.

Formatiranje

Formatting refers to the visual layout of text using a word-processing or DTP program. This includes defining the paper format, page borders, fonts and font effects, as well as indents and spacing. You can format text directly or with Styles provided by LibreOffice.

IME

IME je kratica za Input Method Editor (Uređivač ulaznih metoda). Program koji korisniku omogućuje unos složenih znakova iz nezapadnih skupova znakova preko standardne tipkovnice.

JDBC

You can use the Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) API to connect to a database from LibreOffice. JDBC drivers are written in the Java programming language and are platform independent.

Kontekstni izbornik

Number System

Brojevni sustav određen je brojem znamenaka koje su na raspolaganju za predstavljanje brojeva. Dekadski sustav je, primjerice, baziran na deset brojeva (0..9), binarni sustav na dva broja (0 i 1), a heksadecimalni sustav na 16 znakova (0..9 i A..F).

ODBC

Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) is a protocol norm with which applications can access database systems. The query language used is Structured Query Language (SQL). In LibreOffice, you can determine for each database whether to use SQL commands to run queries. Alternatively, you can use the interactive help to define your query by mouseclick and have it automatically translated into SQL by LibreOffice.

OLE

OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) objecti se mogu vezati za ciljni dokument, a mogu se i ugraditi. Ugrađivanjem se kopija objekta sa svim pojedinostima polazišnog programa umeće u ciljni dokument. Ako želite uređivati objekt, jednostavno aktivirajte polazišni program dvostrukim klikom na objekt.

Objekt

Objekt je element zaslona koji sadrži podatke. Može se odnositi na podatke aplikacij, kao što su tekst ili grafika.

Objekti su neovisni i ne utječu jedan na drugoga. Svakom objektu koji sadrži podatke mogu se pridružiti određene naredbe. Na primjer, grafički objekt ima naredbe za uređivanje slike, a tablični kalkulator sadrži naredbe za računanje.

OpenGL

OpenGL represents a 3D graphics language, initially developed by SGI (Silicon Graphics Inc). Two dialects of this language are commonly used: Microsoft OpenGL, developed for use under Windows NT, and Cosmo OpenGL made by SGI. The latter represents an independent graphics language for all platforms and all kind of computers, even usable on machines without special 3-D graphics hardware.

Osnovni ključ

A primary key serves as a unique identifier of database fields. The unique identification of database fields is used in relational databases, to access data in other tables. If reference is made to a primary key from another table, this is termed a foreign key.

In LibreOffice, you define the primary key in the design view of a table, by choosing the relevant command from the context menu of a row header for the selected field.

PNG

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a graphic file format. The files are compressed with a selectable compression factor, and, as opposed to the JPG format, PNG files are always compressed without any information loss.

RTF

Rich Text Format (RTF) is a file format developed for the exchange of text files. A special feature is that the formatting is converted into directly readable text information. Unfortunately, in comparison to other file formats, this creates relatively large files.

Relacijska baza podataka

A relational database is a collection of data items organized as a set of formally described tables from which data can be accessed or reassembled in many different ways without having to reorganize the database tables.

A relational database management system (RDBMS) is a program that lets you create, update, and administer a relational database. An RDBMS takes Structured Query Language (SQL) statements entered by a user or contained in an application program and creates, updates, or provides access to the database.

Dobar primjer relacijske baze podataka može biti baza podataka koja sadrži tablice Kupaca, Narudžbi i Računa. U tablici računa nema stvarnih podataka o kupcima ili narudžbama; međutim, tablica sadrži reference u obliku relacijske poveznice, ili relacije, na odgovarajuća polja u tablicama kupaca i narudžbi (primjerice, polje s ID oznakom kupca iz tablice kupaca).

SQL

Structured Query Language (SQL) is a language used for database queries. In LibreOffice you can formulate queries either in SQL or interactively with the mouse.

SQL Database / SQL Server

An SQL database is a database system which offers an SQL interface. SQL databases are often used in client/server networks in which different clients access a central server (for example, an SQL server), hence they are also called SQL server databases, or SQL servers for short.

In LibreOffice, you can integrate external SQL databases. These may be located on your local hard disk as well as on the network. Access is achieved through ODBC, JDBC, or a native driver integrated into LibreOffice.

Saving Relatively and Absolutely

In various dialogs (for example, Tools - AutoText) you can select whether you want to save files relatively or absolutely.

If you choose to save relatively, the references to embedded graphics or other objects in your document will be saved relative to the location in the file system. In this case, it does not matter where the referenced directory structure is recorded. The files will be found regardless of location, as long as the reference remains on the same drive or volume. This is important if you want to make the document available to other computers that may have a completely different directory structure, drive or volume names. It is also recommended to save relatively if you want to create a directory structure on an Internet server.

If you prefer absolute saving, all references to other files will also be defined as absolute, based on the respective drive, volume or root directory. The advantage is that the document containing the references can be moved to other directories or folders, and the references remain valid.

Sljubljivanje

Sljubljivanje (kerning) znači povećavanje ili smanjivanje količine prostora između parova slova, kojim se poboljšava izgled teksta.

Tablice sljubljivanja (kerning) sadrže informacije o tome između kojih parova slova treba više razmaka. Te su tablice obično sastavni dio fonta.

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Točno registrirano

Register-true is a typography term that is used in printing. This term refers to the congruent imprint of the lines within a type area on the front and the back side of book pages, newspaper pages and magazine pages. The register-true feature make these pages easier to read by preventing gray shadows from shining through between the lines of text. The register-true term also refers to lines in adjacent text columns that are of the same height.

When you define a paragraph, Paragraph Style, or a Page Style as register-true, the base lines of the affected characters are aligned to a vertical page grid, regardless of font size or of the presence of graphics. If you want, you can specify the setting for this grid as a Page Style property.

Veza

The Links command is found in the Edit menu. The command can only be activated when at least one link is contained in the current document. When you insert a picture, for example, you can either insert the picture directly into the document or insert the picture as a link.

When an object is inserted directly into a document, the document size increases by (at least) the size in bytes of the object. You can save the document and open it on another computer, and the inserted object will still be in the same position in the document.

Ako umetnete objekt kao link, umetnut će se samo oznaka imena datoteke. Veličina datoteke dokumenta povećava se samo za oznaku staze i ime datoteke. Međutim, ako taj dokument otvorite na drugom računalu, da biste vidjeli objekt u dokumentu, vezana datoteka mora biti na posve istom mjestu zapisanom u oznaci.

Use Edit - Links to see which files are inserted as links. The links can be removed if required. This will break the link and insert the object directly.

Widows and Orphans

Widows and orphans are historical typography terms, which have been in use for many years. A widow refers to a short line at the end of a paragraph, which when printed, appears alone at the top of the next page. An orphan is, in contrast, the first line of a paragraph printed alone at the bottom of the previous page. In a LibreOffice text document you can automatically prevent such occurrences in the desired Paragraph Style. When doing so, you can determine the minimum amount of lines to be kept together on a page.