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Hi guys,

Bought an n810 recently, trying to do some straightforward editing of large/simple (20-30 page) documents. Gave up on Abiword (crashy, crashy) and OpenOffice (waity, waity) and hoping to avoid Google docs. This, as far as I gather, leaves me with two choices: Notes and Leafpad.

Leafpad Problem

The problem here is that when I try to bold (italicize, underline, etc.) a specific line of the text, the whole file becomes effected, rather than just the selection. Tinkered around for 40min with it today, no avail.

Notes Problem

It doesn't remember the spaces between the lines within the document. I tried various ways to save the doc, but still, every time I open it, the spaces between the paragraphs are gone and the whole doc is one big paragraph.

Any suggestions for either of these issues (or a better app)?

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I don't know about LeafPad, but there are bugs in the "wpeditor" component used by Notes. Personally I've downgraded to version 2.12 of that component. See https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3336

Thanks mate, very helpful. What I've come to like about leafpad tho, is the ability to go absolutely full screen (without that huge bar at the bottom of the screen). Leafpad/other-program suggestions anyone?

(Man such decent piece of hardware, can't believe software is this much of an issue, just silly.)

I've just had a play with Leafpad. I think your problem is a misunderstanding. Leafpad is a plain text editor (like Notepad on Windows), it doesn't support formatting. You can change the display font in menu Options, Font, but that just changes how the whole document appears - it doesn't change the data on disk.

Ah, thanks for the info, u r correct.

One more question. I just had leaf crash on me, erasing all the work i got done that hour and suddenly im a fan of notes (and the autosave feature) again I'm trying to follow the instructions in post 7 of the above link, but am unsure as to what this means:

and then as root use dpkg -i wpeditor0_2.12-0_armel.deb to install the new version.

I've downloaded rootsh and gain root access by typing a "sudo gainroot" command into a terminal. But what then? I tried plugging "dpkg -i wpeditor0_2.12-0_armel.deb" in as a command. Tried installing from file via application manager. I'm afraid im fresh out of tricks at this point.

thanks in advance.

You've downloaded wpeditor0_2.12-0_armel.deb from http://repository.maemo.org/pool/mae...ee/w/wpeditor/, yes? In the root terminal, cd into the folder where you saved the downloaded file. "dpkg -i wpeditor0_2.12-0_armel.deb" should then work. What is the output of that command, if it doesn't work?

ah, it was the cd'ing element that i was missing. I couldn't figure out the extension of the actual main computer folder (the one with the: images, vid clips, audio clips and doc sub-folders) in order to cd it. But knew how to find the internal card, so just moved the install file there, cd'ed it and ran the command. Worked like a charm, thanks. For future reference, what is the extension for the main computer folder?

/home/user/MyDocs. If you cd into there from Terminal and do an ls, you won't see all the subfolders you're expecting to because they are hidden (start with a dot), e.g. .documents, .images, .sounds. Personally, on the N810 I use the internal MMC (/media/mmc2) for all my data storage, because /home/user/MyDocs is in the 256MB limited rootfs.