Hi :) Virgil, is there any chance you you uploading your template or whatever to the Templates site? It sounds like something quite a lot of people could benefit from having. Regards from
Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> >To: Doug <[email protected]>; [email protected] >Sent: Sunday, 5 May 2013, 21:21 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles > > >Of course, everybody's work is different. From what you described you could >use Notepad and get the job done. > >However, as an attorney, I write legal briefs. They require a title page >with no page numbers, front matter consisting of a table of contents, and a >table of authorities with lower case Roman numerals, and then the main body >of the brief with Arabic page numbers. I will have headings and subheadings, >set in boldface or italics, which I need to keep on the same page as the >following paragraphs, normal paragraphs that are double spaced with the >first line indented, quoted material that will be single spaced with left >and right indented margins, and footnotes. I want to make sure I avoid >widows and orphans to keep the brief readable for the judge. > >When I began doing this with Word for Windows, I formatted all of this >manually, and it was a real pain. I found myself applying the same >formatting characteristics over and over again on different parts of my >document. After spending about a half hour setting up my styles, I can now >write and format my documents with great speed and know that my headings >will all be the same. > >Virgil > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Doug >Sent: Sunday, May 05, 2013 2:20 PM >To: Virgil Arrington ; [email protected] >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Paragraph styles > >On 05/05/2013 01:19 PM, Virgil Arrington wrote: >> Doug wrote, >> >>> I may be wrong, but it would seem to me that all this fuss about styles >>> is made by people who are trying to do desktop publishing. >>> That's fine, altho there are probably better programs to do that, even >>> available to Linux users. I'm not ashamed to say that I use >>> word processors as word processors, not as desktop publishers. I am very >>> happy to have this glorified typewriter--one which >>> can import whole paragraphs, move them, or existing ones around, correct >>> spelling errors without retyping, so some editing--all the >>> things I might have done on my typewriter, except now so much faster and >>> easier. Let the publisher of my document format it with >>> his desktop publishing app. He doesn't need a word processor, he needs >>> its big brother--but I don't! >> >> Actually, Doug, it sounds like you're using word processors as "text >> editors," simple programs that allow you to enter and edit text without >> worrying about final output. Most people using word processors are >> preparing documents to be printed, and if you're going to print a text >> file, you're going to have to format it. >> >> Styles provide a very effective way to quickly and consistently format a >> document. I agree, if you don't care about formatting, don't worry about >> styles. But, if you do care about formatting, and you want to do it >> efficiently, consistently, and quickly, then styles let you do that. >> >> Let's say you want to build a house. You can do it with a hand saw and a >> hammer if you want, but my guess is that a professional builder would want >> to take advantage of the most advanced power tools available even if s/he >> might need to invest some time to learn how to use them. >> >> Virgil >> >> >I write letters--where I have a heading saved as a file that I can >import--and I write occasionally for publication, in which case I write >double-spaced, >extra space for paragraph, and no indent. I don't need any kind of >"style" to do that--I can set the double space once per article--that is >no more >trouble than finding and turning on a preset style, which I could only >do if I knew how to create it in the first place. And I edit material >sent for a >newsletter of some 1000 circulation, for which the publisher uses >Pagemaker on a Mac to format it. I don't know, but I think any kind of >style >setting would go bonkers seeing the formats that come in and trying to >mold them into something consistent. I mold them fairly easily in a word >processor, by hand. And I save in MS .doc 1997~2003 format, because >everybody in the world can read that. And I write emails, and all I need to >do is fix typos, which styles can't do! > >I rest my case. --doug > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > >-- >To unsubscribe 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 > > > -- To unsubscribe 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
