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------- Additional comments from hamlet9...@openoffice.org Tue Dec 16 18:40:55 +0000 2008 ------- @loucrazy: "Due to the decision early on to use square wheels, it is now very difficult to implement tires on OpenCar." And then you wonder why I call OpenCar a joke. @absolution: "OpenCar has a 5-disc CD changer and chrome rims on its square wheels." That's nice. But it still lacks the most basic functionality of a car. This isn't just an issue of "Word has it and Writer doesn't" (although when you're talking about basic functionality, that is an issue). This is an issue of "every other word processor for the past 20+ years has this feature and Writer doesn't". @webnesto: Allow me to articulate what your girlfriend can't. The most basic functionality of any word processor is the ability to create text. Anyone responsible for actually creating large bodies of professional text can tell you that the page-level formatting of that text is completely irrelevant during its creation. Page View, therefore, offers no benefits during composition -- it is nothing but a large and significant distraction. In addition to being a distraction, it also poses a very real hindrance and obstacle by significantly disrupting the writer's work flow. Most experienced writers do not write in "stream of consciousness" -- they don't just babble out words. Instead, they're constantly aware of and checking back over what they have just written to see how the text is flowing. When you hit the end of a page in Page View, however, the flow of the text is artificially disrupted. On some screens and resolutions, you literally cannot see ANY of the text from the previous page. And even when you can still see some of it, your work palette is being routinely and senselessly disrupted. (This becomes particularly important during revision.) Imagine a paint program that, at regular intervals, changes the dimensions of the image you're working on or shifts the selected colors in your palette. It's not a perfect analogy -- but it's representative of the level of disruption OpenOffice poses to professional writers. So why can't we just use Web View, which lacks all meaningful formatting? Because while page-level formatting is nothing but a distraction, other formatting options may be useful and/or essential for a given project. As others have noted recently, for example, footnotes are particularly awkward and clumsy in OpenOffice. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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: issues-unsubscr...@sw.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: issues-h...@sw.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: allbugs-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: allbugs-h...@openoffice.org
