On 20/12/14 03:34 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 3:25 PM, Lisi Reisz <lisi.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2014 20:05:43 Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 2:30 PM, Gary Dale <garyd...@torfree.net> wrote:
On 20/12/14 02:15 PM, Doug wrote:
On 12/20/2014 12:17 PM, Gary Dale wrote:
On 17/12/14 11:35 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
Who said anything about running windows?
The only windows I have are made of glass lol.
Although a virtual dos machine might be interesting if I find anything
over much to do with Linux.
Thanks for the giggle,
Kare
OK, but you can set up a UNIX virtual machine. Worst case would be
needing qemu to emulate whatever processor your WP51 version was set up
for.
Still don't know what you have against LibreOffice. It's almost
certainly superior to WP51 in every significant way.
At least she doesn't have to worry about "Styles." Most people do not
need a QuarkXpress or MS Publisher, and that's what LO is trying to be.
Just like those expensive commercial programs, anyone who uses LO (or
OO) will either have to read and learn a lot of instructions or find a
different solution. My solution is TextMaker from SoftMaker, which has a
free version for non-commercial use, and which seems to have just
about all the features of the paid version. (I have no pecuniary
interest in SoftMaker, a German firm.)
--doug
Funny but I never had to learn about styles. However they are handier
than applying individual attributes to common elements. And while
LibreOffice is quite powerful, it's not Scribus nor Scribus-like by any
stretch. It's just a modern, feature-rich word processor. That means
allowing people to use styles when they want to or ignoring them when
they don't.
By way of example, flush-right-with-dot-leader is trivial in WP8 (the
native WP for Linux), impossible in LibreOffice without a "style"
which is absurdly difficult to create.
What does that mean, and why would one want to do it?
It's often used in tables of contents, with the topic on the left,
dots to the right ........, page number at the far right. And it has
other uses. In WP8, it was achieved with a keyboard combo
(Alt-Shift-F8 if memory serves, which it probably doesn't). Creating a
style in Word, OpenOffice or LibreOffice is, as I said, absurdly
complicated, to do a very simple thing.
Patrick
That's just a matter of inserting the "." fill character between the
topic name and the page number. You can do it manually by entering the
topic name, tabbing over to the right-aligned page number using "." as
the fill character.
You don't need styles. You just need to format the paragraph that way.
You can automate it if you want, but probably not worth it if you don't
have a lot of topics to enter.
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