On 13.11.2018 19:39, jonathon wrote: > On 11/13/18 6:04 PM, Dave AOO wrote: > >> I have seen this and similar comments on AOO lists before and I am genuinely >> interested to find out what these "things" are. > > I'm very slowly working on a document describing the differences between > the various versions of LibO & AOo. I might also include EO, and NO.
Hope you will publish your findings. >> A couple of examples or pointers might help me get a better understanding. > > Right off the bat, special character input in AOo allows words, and even > entire sentences to be entered in one swoop. LibO will only do glyph by > glyph insertion. The practical effect that for combining characters, > LibO requires at least twice as many keystrokes, and, for some obscure > glyphs in obscrube writing systems, up to five times as many keystrokes. I have never had much use for the special character function, but definitely a useful feature for anyone who needs it. Strange that the string buffer was removed from the dialog after LO 5.4.7 I don't understand the rational for changing that. > The more significant difference is with the extensions and templates one > uses. I don't have a current list of which extensions work better with > which product. N-Gram grammar checking was slightly faster with AOo, > than with LibO, using the same document. > > The OOo-SVN extension worked with early versions of AOo. I never managed > to get it to work with LibO. I am not familiar with that extension. However, it seems that LO changed something in the API and some extension authors had to produce two variants of their work. I have not yet encountered a template that works differently in in either program. The only time this might be an issue is if the template uses macros, that call on changed API functions. > jonathon Anyway, thank you for offering some answers to my question. Dave
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