On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 8:54 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> Sad. This is yet another of those politically-charged distinctions
>> that, quite frankly, I have no interest in.
>
> I raised the point because you're giving advice to others on which
> software to use. If you have n
Michael Torrie writes:
> On 01/05/2014 04:30 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> > In short: Everything that was good about OpenOffice is now called
> > LibreOffice, which had to change its name only because the owners of
> > that name refused to let it go.
>
> Your information is a year or two out of date.
Apologies to the list for the noise! Should have replied off-list.
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On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:38 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> [OpenOffice v4] is mostly feature identical to
> LibreOffice 4, and even has a couple of features that LibreOffice lacks.
> They really need to merge back into one project again, but I suspect
> they won't either for ideological or legal rea
On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 3:45 AM, Michael Torrie wrote:
> I tend to add my own [styles]
> for quotes, captions, etc. After composing the document,
> then you modify the styles to set the spacings, fonts, indentations,
> border lines, etc. The workflow is very similar to using LyX, or even a
> plai
On 01/06/2014 08:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Yea, I think laying out a book with something like MS Word or
> LibreOffice is nuts. Depending on her formatting needs, a
> lighter-weight mark-up language (something like asciidoc) might suite:
I've laid out a book with LibreOffice and it actually
On 01/05/2014 04:30 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
> In short: Everything that was good about OpenOffice is now called
> LibreOffice, which had to change its name only because the owners of
> that name refused to let it go.
Your information is a year or two out of date. OpenOffice.org is alive
and well, u
On 01/06/2014 07:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
Yea, I think laying out a book with something like MS Word or
LibreOffice is nuts. Depending on her formatting needs, a
lighter-weight mark-up language (something like asciidoc) might suite:
http://asciidoc.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 2:53 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Yea, I think laying out a book with something like MS Word or
> LibreOffice is nuts. Depending on her formatting needs, a
> lighter-weight mark-up language (something like asciidoc) might suite:
>
> http://asciidoc.org/
> http://en.wikip
On 2014-01-06, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Right. I think shifting people to LibreOffice is an excellent and
>> realistic step toward imcreasing people's software and data freedom.
>
> Yeah. Which is why I do it. But the other night, my mum was trying to
> lay out her book in LO, and was having some
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 10:30 AM, Ben Finney wrote:
> Chris Angelico writes:
>
>> Maybe it's the better way, but like trying to get people to switch
>> from MS Word onto an open system, it's far easier to push for Open
>> Office than for LaTeX.
>
> If you're going to be pushing people to a free so
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