Hi :) I have quite enjoyed a lot of this discussion. I think a lot of the issues can't be fixed by the word-processor without blocking us from being able to mess around with stuff to give it our own personal flair.
For example i tend to double-space at the end of sentences but if i was forced to do that and given no choice then i would resent it deeply. When i get on my bike to go home from work i could always turn left to go out across the fields and down to the river and maybe a pub and i quite fancy doing that but somehow almost always turn right and go home. If i was forced to always do one or the other i would resent it. It's having the choice that is important. LaTeX deals with some of these issues but by doing so it restricts people's possible choices. Another thing is that i tend to find that almost any "final document" produced by MS Office looks a bit shoddy and cheap. There is always something that has gone a little wrong that we just have to put up with. By contrast documents produced by LO just look so much more professional and polished that maybe we expect a bit too much from it sometimes. A tool that can blatantly never get the job done, like Word, is forgiven minor issues more easily than a tool that is almost perfect, like LO. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Virgil Arrington <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Wednesday, 21 August 2013, 1:01 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Can't find setting > > >On 08/20/2013 06:01 PM, William Wells wrote: >> While there is no ISO or equivalent, there are a lot of >> wannabe: >> >> In the US: The "real" expert (in the US) on this subject >> seems to be >> the Chicago Manual of Style. It sets forth what Publishers >> desire/want/will not accept unless it complies with >> regarding submissions. >> >> Brits have The Cambridge Handbook for Editors, Authors and >> Publishers among others, and the EU has its own Style Manual >> >> Oh, and for students, there is the "Elements of Style". >> >> >> There are Academic Styles, Styles for Medical writing ad >> nauseum. >> >> >> So, the devs could lose many hours sleep trying to >> generate a program to cover all eventualities. >> >> >> >> >I think there is a difference between a style for submitting a >manuscript to a publisher and a style for final publication. I >understand many publishers want manuscripts submitted in double spaced >type, which they would never use when actually publishing the book. Our >discussion has been more about good final product than initial submissions. > >Virgil > >-- >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
