> Do you use styles? The point with OO/LO is that unfortunately, like Word, its style concept does not allow to work in the "structure markup" way.
So, even if you tried to use styles consistently, you wouldn't be able to benefit from it the way you can with e.g. LyX/LaTeX or document processors like Wordperfect or Framemaker (or any other document processing application that I know of - except LO/OO and Word). Just look at the official documentation (which would be supposed to be a showcase of how to work with LO) and try to work with it. For example, to make the documents actually readable, try something as simple as replacing the body text typeface with one actually made for readable text. In any document processing application with a well-implemented style concept, this would require the change of one single definition in one style. With LO/OO, just like with Word, you're in for a whole day of work. Because you'll have to modify each and every style individually and besides, due to invisible (and incorrectible) "bugs" in the formatting parts of the documents will still require manual re-formatting. And once you're done with that, besides a seriously strained wrist, you still have an unstructured spaghetti document. This is why I wouldn't use LO to teach what structure markup (e.g. "styles") is about in the first place. And why I don't use it for *writing* documents. Only for generating them from databases. Sincerely, Wolfgang -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
