Please excuse this intrusion. I have been using OpenOffice (now 3.4.1)
on my Mac (now 10.6.8) for a couple of years, at the recommendation of
a physicist/programmer friend (who, however, uses OO on a PC).
As experienced on my Mac, OO is absurdly defective. I would happily
pay for an hour of time from someone knowledgeable to see if there's
some obvious thing wrong or if I should get another word processor
(the only OO function I use).
OO font size changes spontaneously, e.g., from 12 pt. to 10 pt.
Sometimes I Save in 12 pt., and when I Open the file, it's 10 pt.
The font changes spontaneously, too; or rather, certain points in the
document turn out to have different fonts associated with them. I'll
be working in Courier New and will put the cursor at a point where I
want to enter some new material; and it will appear in Palatino or
another font that's not Courier New.
Text does not 'flow.' That is, there are gaps many lines long that
don't fill up automatically with succeeding text.
Many things are unintelligible. Help function is useless. (No, I do
not participate in forums for such things.)
For what it's worth, I have a BA in math, and was a programmer in the
'60s at Hughes Aircraft, System Development Corp. and Owens-Illinois.
I taught at Caltech for 30 years, including supervising many student
projects involving programming. I mention these things just to make
clear that, while I'm not technically up to date, I'm not a dope about
programming, either. But I have never seen an application that is so
opaque as OO, and so exhausting to work with. It just *can't* be the
case (I say to myself) that the developers find this behavior acceptable.
If you can point me to someone really knowledgeable, I'll happily pay
that person for 30 or 60 minutes of phone consultation.
(So what word processor *have* I liked? Hands-down, WordPerfect, which
I used from ver 4.1 to 5.2, giving it up only because I switched to
the Mac. The lack of WP is the one thing I don't like about using a
Mac. I have written a novel in MS Word on the Mac, and consider Word
shockingly bad. It is for "creating documents," I supposed; whereas
WordPerfect--at least as I experienced it for years, including writing
a short book and much else--is for Writing!
Yours,
James Boyk
Los Angeles
www.JamesBoyk.com
www.performancerecordings.com/
for information only
At California Institute of Technology
Pianist in Residence 1974-2004
www.its.caltech.edu/~boyk/
Lecturer in Music in Electrical Engineering,
Founder/Director of Music Lab, 1979-2004
www.its.caltech.edu/~musiclab/
IN CONCERT
Debussy "Reflets dans l'Eau" 6:20
http://tinyurl.com/77abuhq
Beethoven Seven Bagatelles, Op. 33 21:24
www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_GXgvpGfok&feature=relmfu
Prokofiev Sixth Sonata: Finale 6:47
www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQyaM2hzhuI
TEACHING Int'l Keyboard Institute & Festival, 2011
Piano Teaching-Moments 4:44
http://youtu.be/W7wRxkzi36I
What I Wish I'd Been Taught 4:54
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iEJDEiZWGo8&feature=relmfu
For Gifted Young Pianists 4:39
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bdTjmWS3TU&feature=relmfu
TEACHING Calif. Inst. of Technology
with 'Cellist 2:02
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g-9eHdAhMs&feature=relmfu
with Violinist 4:45
www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ7hB95zj-M&feature=relmfu
with Pianist 1:37
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uotNrUtNtdY&feature=relmfu
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