Initial commit: HPR Knowledge Base MCP Server

- MCP server with stdio transport for local use
- Search episodes, transcripts, hosts, and series
- 4,511 episodes with metadata and transcripts
- Data loader with in-memory JSON storage

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

hpr_transcripts/hpr1445.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+Episode: 1445
+Title: HPR1445: 22 - LibreOffice Writer Other Frame Styles
+Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr1445/hpr1445.mp3
+Transcribed: 2025-10-18 03:03:32
+
+---
+
+Whoo!
+Hello, this is Ahuka, and welcome to another exciting episode of Hacker Public Radio.
+And we're going to continue our Libra Office series.
+And we've got a few more programs to do on Libra Office Writer before I then move on
+to Libra Office Calc.
+So let's get going shall we?
+Now in the last episode, we looked at the frame style for text.
+Confusingly, it's not called text, it's simply called frame.
+But you know, that it is what it is.
+Well, this is a very common use of frames.
+You can use frames for any number of things.
+It's a very powerful technique.
+So we want to take a look at some of these others.
+But to start with, let's get back to the basic concept of objects.
+Libra Office is an object-oriented program.
+And you should keep this in mind when dealing with this software.
+A piece of text can be an object, and it can contain other objects.
+Paragraphs, sentences, words, characters, or it can be contained within other objects.
+Sections, chapters, document.
+In the case we are looking at, a frame is an object.
+In turn, it contains other objects.
+And in turn, it is contained within larger objects, such as a page, a section, or a document.
+Depending on the objects being contained, the frame styles can be different.
+And that is what we need to look at now.
+First, let's take a look at the formula frame style.
+This style is for objects created using the formula application,
+which in earlier versions of Libra Office was referred to as math, but that was a little bit confusing.
+This application is not for doing calculations.
+You would do that in Calc, but it is intended primarily for educators and academics
+who want to create proper formulas to embed inside of documents.
+So it's really just creating a visual appearance of how the formula should look.
+It's not actually doing anything other than that.
+So the subject of using formula will be explored later on, because that is, in fact, an application within Libra Office.
+But for now, if you go to insert object formula,
+it will open the formula editor, and you can create your formula.
+When you click Save, the formula will be entered into your writer document,
+with a formula frame automatically added to hold it.
+If you check the frame properties for this frame, you will see that it is automatically sized to fit the formula.
+If you double-click inside the frame, the formula editor will open again, and you can make changes, including the font size.
+And when you save it, the frame will resize again to fit the object.
+One thing to note is that by default, the formula frame is anchored as a character,
+which means it is designed to be used in line in a sentence.
+Because it automatically resizes all of the size settings are grayed out,
+and other options in the style properties are like what we saw for the text frames.
+Now, the next one we're going to look at is the graphics frame style.
+As you might expect, this holds pictures. They could be photos.
+They could be drawing objects created in the draw application.
+You first have to have the picture or the drawing or whatever the graphic is.
+But once you have it, you can insert it into writer.
+And when you do a graphics frame is automatically created to hold the object.
+Now, if you want to do a draw object, one of the things you can do is go to insert object,
+OLE object, and that opens up a window of options.
+And when you do this, this may trigger some thought, oh my goodness,
+I could also embed a spreadsheet, a chart, a drawing, a presentation, or a formula.
+I'm not going to leave it at that for now.
+At some point, we may want to get into object linking and embedding,
+which is what OLE stands for, and understand it some more.
+But that's a very deep topic all in itself, and we've got to keep moving here.
+So the next one is the label frame style.
+Now, this is intended for use with sheets of labels.
+And according to the Libra Office documentation is not really intended for users to work with.
+Libra Office writer is set up to use these internally when you create a document for printing labels.
+Essentially, if you've ever worked with sheet labels,
+you know that the manufacturer has put a identifying part number on each type of sheet label that they do.
+And most of those, you already have all of the definitions embedded into Libra Office writer to begin with,
+so you can just select that and start printing.
+That's all I'm going to say on that subject.
+Next is the marginalia frame style.
+This creates a frame next to the left margin, which can be used to add comments on the rest of the text.
+It's also used commonly to create subheads in technical writing.
+To do this, you need to have actually two frames, one marginalia frame for the subheads,
+and one text frame called frame, remember, for the body.
+Then there's OLE, which is, as we discussed a moment ago, object linking and embedding.
+This takes an object from one source and embeds it in another object.
+For example, you can create a chart in Libra Office Calc and embed it in a writer document.
+But writer remembers what kind of object it is.
+And if you double-click the object, it opens up the original application so that you can edit it.
+Again, a false discussion of OLE is beyond the scope of this particular tutorial.
+And last one is watermark.
+As the name suggests, this style is replacing a watermark on the page.
+This would be a background graphic, and it would default to being what's called a through wrap,
+if you remember our discussion of wrapping options.
+And that means that the text passes over the frame and anything that's in the frame.
+Now, you should take care that the graphic still allows the text passing over it to be readable.
+This can also be used to create a draft marking in the background.
+One thing that you might want to consider is a possibility.
+You can either create a work with this watermark style and create a variation on it
+that has already got draft as part of it.
+Save that as a style and put it in your default template.
+Or you can create a template to use for drafts.
+Whichever way you go, remember that any style that you're going to use over and over again
+must be saved in a template.
+So I would say creating a draft page style and saving it in a template is an excellent idea
+so that you don't have to start from the beginning every time you need to do this.
+So that, I think, concludes our discussion of the other kinds of frame styles.
+So this is Ahuka signing off for Hacker Public Radio and reminding everyone to please support free software.
+Thank you.
+You have been listening to Hacker Public Radio at Hacker Public Radio.
+We are a community podcast network that releases shows every weekday on day through Friday.
+Today's show, like all our shows, was contributed by a HPR listener like yourself.
+If you ever consider recording a podcast, then visit our website to find out how easy it really is.
+Hacker Public Radio was founded by the Digital.Pound and the Infonomicum Computer Club.
+HPR is funded by the Binary Revolution at binref.com.
+All binref projects are proudly sponsored by Lina Pages.
+From shared hosting to custom private clouds, go to LinaPages.com for all your hosting needs.
+Unless otherwise stasis, today's show is released under a creative commons,
+attribution, share a like, free those own license.