History and some causes of LibreOffice bugs

He took the small bundle from Karlsson and held her tenderly in his arms.
"Don't cry, there's a good baby", he said.

Astrid Lindgren "Karlsson on the Roof"

You certainly know that the LibreOffice includes several modules, such as Writer, Calc, Draw... All these modules are united into one application and can not be installed separately. But most of all you can be confused by the various development (though, in truth, the abandonment) of these modules. In order to understand better why this diverse interest of developers to different modules grows, the appearance and correction of errors and the inadequacy of the documentation, I suggest first to dig into the history of the appearance of LibreOffice. And we will begin from the very beginning.

How to add Oxygen icon set to LibreOffice 5.4

For those who prefer to use the KDE desktop with the theme of Oxygen on their workstations, it was somewhat shocking that the designers of LibreOffice removed the theme of the Oxygen icons from the assembly. The decision they took a year ago, but the hands reached only now in LibreOffice 5.4. Why did they decide that if they do not use the theme, nobody should use it, I do not know why. But the fact is: they made a choice for us. It is not difficult to restore the theme now, it will be a little more difficult in a year, but it's not pleasant. A bit of theory and "practice" below in the article.

Variables and data types of LibreOffice Basic

I have promised for a very long time to start writing about the scripting language of programming Basic in LibreOffice and creating macros by this language. This article is devoted to the types of data is used in Basic and, to a greater extent, the rules of description and the possibility of using variables. As always, I will try to provide a maximum of information, and for this reason I hope that this simple topic will be useful not only for novice users. Separately, I would like to thank everyone who commented on the Russian article, gave their recommendations, and helped to deal with difficult questions.

Numbering of pages in LibreOffice Writer

If you have an experience of text document editing, you may skip the introductory remarks. I just wanted to say a few words to people who have just started to work in LibreOffice in order to they can understand about what the talk.