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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Dec 24 06:42:07 +0000 2007 ------- I have to concur with everyone else here. It literally blows my mind that OO has no normal/draft mode. I've been using a word processor in one form or another since around 1984. I can't think of a half decent word processor that lacks this feature. WP 5.1 was pretty different than Word 4.0 on the mac. But they both had draft modes, so it was relatively easy to jump from one to the other. Even jumping from Wordstar to another program wasn't too hard, because the metaphor of a continuous scroll of wrapping text remained the same. So let's be clear. This isn't a Microsoft specific feature. Call it anything you want. Just put it in there. I know this is only one feature. But it speaks at a very basic level to the entire writing environment. As others have said, this is the one feature above all others that keeps me from investing more than a few minutes into using OO. Could I get some basic writing done in OO if I had to do it? Probably. But would I choose to invest time really digging into it to see everything it can do? Not at this point. It would be pointless, because I would never work for any extended period in a program that doesn't have a normal/draft mode. I'm simply not going to draft a 30 page article or contract in page layout mode. It would be a truly annoying exercise. I don't pretend to understand every nuance of the software development process. But if there isn't some really specialized technical reason why this has not yet been implemented, I just can't understand how a project like this could be heading into version 3 still lacking this most basic of features. There is so much about the open source/free software model that is commendable. But it's things like this that underscore its problems and limitations. If I sound a little bitter, perhaps I am. I would love to dig a little deeper into the world of linux as a full-time computing environment. But without a usable word processor, I can't even begin to look at linux seriously. OO Writer seems the best candidate to be that word processor. But without normal/draft mode, it is simply not a usable word processor. It's like a car with a fancy, fuel injected engine, six speaker Dolby surround, and levers where the steering wheel should be. Maybe in time one could learn to steer with the levers, but why should one be forced to do that, when it seems like it would be so easy to give people a choice of interface. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
