-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 2015-07-02 12:05, Anton Aylward wrote:
I do note that many of the documents we 'converted' had been written by people more used to WordPerfect and used explicit line by line word by word formatting, which was a bitch of a job to convert and would not have been possible if we weren't using Perl.
I used wordperfect a lot, and I can tell you I never used nor saw explicit line ends, except at the end of each paragraph, as expected. I think that type of text must have been written by people that had been using typewriters all their life. On any wordprocessor you had to forget that: I learned the trick within minutes of starting work with wordstar the first time (well, maybe the first time I used it not for code, but for text. I did not have a printer at the time). I see that text "non-flow" when editing text directly in acrobat, though. LyX has a feature to import plain text, joining consecutive lines into a single paragraph.
OO/LO isn't exactly "obsessive" about style sheets any more than Firefox is. You can get by without them, but OO/LO is more consistent in their application than MS-Word is -- any of the versions of MS-Word, to my best knowledge.
I use styles in MS-W. I learned about the feature with Amipro, I think. I can't understand how people can work without them. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" (Minas Tirith)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAlWVEq0ACgkQja8UbcUWM1xX6QD/QMf17+fRNR3DEQEAhm4VhIYC 56etwlOKzyCvj4/rdvEA/RdWtbr14Qqn5M15Z5/sadStXND2HLKDUpykOZTrY243 =mlA5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org