Hi :) A big +1 to that.
Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Felmon Davis <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, 3 May 2013, 17:41 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles > > >On Fri, 3 May 2013, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > >>> I never even try to share documents between different programs, such >>> as Word and LO or OO. >> >> I never even try to share documents between two users using both the >> same program *and* the same document template, if the program is Word >> (or LO /OO). With these applications, the re-use of content is >> exclusively limited to raw, unformatted text. Trying anything else will >> drive you up the walls. > >your walls must be very adhesive. I share documents with people all the time >because a couple of committees I've been on had me as the 'master of >documents', that is, I would take other people's work and bundle it together, >edit and produce drafts for them to work on, then I would do up the final >report. they almost always are using some version of Word. > >sure, there are problems but my walls are pretty footprint-free. but I think >this goes to show not only are there different standards of tolerance for >problems, there different magnitudes of problems, thus, if I were dealing with >100 people instead of six or seven, it might be a different issue. > >of course I'm not denying there are other solutions which are technically >superior in some way. but for many of us the situation is not as dire as you >paint it, walls and all. > >F. > >> > If you need collaborative authoring, you need something that >> *imposes* a pre-defined document structure (such as e.g. an XML >> schema, LaTeX document classes unfortunately are not as restrictive) and >> thus absolutely locks out *any* possiblity of "finger-painting", and >> preferrably something that also provides seamless integration for >> revision control systems such as e.g. Subversion. >> >> With LyX/LaTeX, structured XML authoring applications (or some document >> processing applications like Worperfect or Framemaker, provided the >> authors are perfectly disciplined), collaborative authoring is >> possible to a certain degree. >> >> With Word (or LO/OO) it is strictly impossible at any reasonable >> degree of efficiency. >> >> If there was a way in LO/OO to imperatively re-strict the user interface >> for a certain document to the application of styles defined within the >> document, this might improve things, but given how styles are >> implemented in LO/OO, I doubt that it would really work. Besides that >> styles don't hold structure information anyway, since templates aren't >> schemas in LO/OO. >> >> Sincerely, >> >> Wolfgang >> >> > >-- Felmon Davis > >You'd like to do it instantaneously, but that's too slow. > >-- 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 > > > > -- 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
