At 11:10 20/01/2013 -0500, Helen Etters wrote:
On Sun, 20 Jan 2013 07:42:46 -0800 (PST), Eric Fenster wrote:
What chance Open Office will offer "reveal codes" à la Word Perfect?
This is the reason I keep my old Word Perfect
program, as crash-prone as it is. The feature really helps control formatting.
I'm with Eric on this one. I've pined for that
Word Perfect feature for many years. I doubt
we'll ever get it, but I wish I still had a copy
of Word Perfect. The styles feature doesn't
replace WP's ability to find and delete a single troubling code.
The only reason you can have a single troubling
code is that the program is faulty. Wouldn't it
be more sensible to correct the program so that
this couldn't occur? The reason why Word Perfect
could have single troubling codes is precisely
because users were allowed to tinker with them and introduce mistakes.
Any word processor needs a simple way of
displaying the structure of a document, so that
the user can easily see why it is how it is, but
that does not have to be in the form of tags
before and after any item; in fact, there are
better ways. I'm not sure that OpenOffice Writer
lives up to this requirement, in fact - or
perhaps I haven't learned enough about how to use it?
No: styles do not replace the need to be able to
see how a document works, but they may preclude
the user making low-level changes as you wish to
do. Incidentally, it once was a well-known fact
in programming circles that people brought up on
low-level approaches find it difficult to
transfer to higher-level ways of
thinking. Persevere, and you will like the ways of Writer!
Brian Barker
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