On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Wols Lists <antli...@youngman.org.uk> wrote: > On 28/12/10 12:54, Philipp Weissenbacher wrote: > > But I didn't know about that OOo bug. I'll need to learn styles, but yes, >> *me* learning styles is totally useless when it's *someone* *else* who's >> messed up *their* document (and expects me to fix it for them). > > I think that's *exactly* *the* use case: fixing broken formatting. > > Actually, no it isn't. It's a very useful use case, when I'm helping other > people ... > > But when *I* am creating a document in WordPerfect I nearly always have > reveal codes switched on. I *think* in markup mode, and the whole point of > reveal codes is it is a markup window that shows me what's going on. As has > been said, it keeps me in touch with what formatting is active (is the > cursor *in*side or *out*side the style selection for example :-) I actually > use reveal codes as my main working window, not the wysiwyg one.
At this point, use LaTeX. I mean, If you are evolved enough to be able to cope with tag, why no use the real thing ? (and add git for a perfect difference tracking system and multi-user editing) > Oh - and something Word can't do, dunno about Writer ... what on earth do > you do when you have two formatting objects one on top of the other? How do > you "click on the object"? It's easy to get like that with text over/under a > picture or stuff like that, but I said something Word couldn't do ... Writer suck at it too. I have a set of document that use a big dimmed logo picture as a 'background' and there are multiple element on top of it. It is impossible to resize the column of a table. I have to delete the picture, edit the table and put the picture back. Norbert > > Cheers, > Wol > > _______________________________________________ > LibreOffice mailing list > LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice > > _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list LibreOffice@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
